Now the rumors can finally stop: NX is a home console, and not a "fusion/combination" device

[zorg1000]

MoHasanie said:

zorg1000 said:

I'm sorry but I hate it when people just brush off the success of Wii as nothing more than luck, it's honestly such an ignorant way to downplay it, they came up with a sound strategy and had strong execution.

I'm not denying that Nintendo did a great job making and supporting the Wii, but if you look at the trend of Nintendo's console sales, the Wii was kind of an outlier. If you exclude it, there is a clear downward trend in sales. And the Wii was the most different from all of them, trying to target casuals. 

None of that had anything to do with luck.

"success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions", that is the definition of luck and that does not describe the Wii.

At E3 2005, Iwata talked about how there were many demographics not being catered to in the video game industry and that they were going to make a console that was for everybody. He also mentioned how with rising development costs many studios would go under and that their console would be a place where developers could create games that don't need to sell in the millions to be profitable. Nintendo read the market and came up with a strategy accordingly. That is literally the opposite of simply getting lucky.