Is Nintendo going to be mainstream again?

[wombat123]

Soundwave said:

I think Nintendo should just continue making the games they make, *though* I would add with the caveat in the 90s they did quite well having a mix of Western and Japanese games (Perfect Dark, Conker, Killer Instinct, Star Wars, Ken Griffey Jr. MLB, Kobe Bryant NBA Courtside, Starcraft 64, Banjo-Kazooie, GoldenEye, Jet Force Gemini, etc.).

I think I would implore them to not make the NX too toy-like. Make the same games, but keep the platform almost separate from the games, in the sense  that the NX shouldn't be a "Mario box". 

One of the problems I think Nintendo is running into is they're too prone to their toy-roots and are making toy-like game machines, and that just doesn't fly in this day and age. Keep the games the same, but "NX" I think it would be better for Nintendo if it was almost like a third-party platform (of course Nintendo still makes it) that just happened to have all the Nintendo games as an exclusive.

Since this is the first time Nintendo has really failed, I hope that they'll reassess the way they approach things in a way like you're suggesting.  They never really had to before because anytime anyone tried to criticize them about low console sales, bad marketing, not enough games, lack of software variety and so forth they could just point to their annual billion dollar profits and award winning games and tell them to shut up.