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Nuvendil on 26 July 2016
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JWeinCom said:
jason1637 said:

That was just PR talk.

Nintendo isnt going for the core crowd. Core Nintendo fans will buy the console regardless if it has good Nintendo games. It seems their trying to get the casual market that went over to tablets. If Nintendo can get this console at a $250 price point it would be cheap enough for a mom dad to see that it has kid friendly games and it coulod be played in road trips while they can watch their netflix on TV.

Core Nintendo fans are the ones who bought the Wii U.  If you hadn't noticed, there aren't that many of them.  And those core Nintendo fans would have bought a pure handheld or a pure console. Probably both.

What exactly does this offer the casual gamer?  Why would mom and dad pay 250 for something to play during roadtrips when tablets run as low as 50 dollars?  $250 is not cheap for a handheld.  

Fans can try to defend this, but it's just not a good idea.  It fixes very few of the problems the Wii U had.  Hopefully, Eurogamer is completely wrong about this, or explained it in an awful way.

Well Nintendo has also sold almost 60mil 3DSs so there's that crowd.  So this machine could very well see success in the tens of millions, 50+ mil with ease and potentially far more.  But the question is whether they would GAIN anyone or just merge their secure handheld and console audiences while sacrificing any double-dipping sales.