How should Nintendo drive it's market leader position over the next generations?

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160rmf said:

You may have a point on Gameboy, but you put yourself nowhere better than OP by arbitrary labeling Switch as 8 Gen:

Many new generation consoles have competed with previous gen before the release of their generation counterparts. Ex: Dreamcast and X360 

You talk about graphical capabilities yet put Wii and Wii U respectively as 7 and 8 gen consoles.

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Coincidentally, I consider...

• the Wii an extention of the 6th Gen, especially since the Wii uses basically overclocked GC hardware and the Wii-Mote was originally an unreleased GC accessory
• the WiiU a late entry to the 7th Gen
• Switch is the successor to the 3ds -> either 4th HH Gen (if tracked seperately) or a "Wii U Pro" (extension of the 7th Gen) for those who believe in the Hybrid

BTT:

Nintendo should actually do quite a few things:

• Invest into more studios (new ones / purchases of small ones)
• Invest into more franchises (revive dormant ones / create new ones) and target groups (games for children / teenager / adults )
• Make sure that "every* big 3rd party multi-plattform game skipping Nintendos System" doesnt happen again
• Price games appropriately: As the development costs is earned back, games should naturally get cheaper. Profit is merely money made without a return
• They shouldnt cheap out on hardware: the optimal point is where [ marginal costs = marginal performance gains : E.g. different battery = +30% time, but only +20% associated cost -> must be done / +20% time but +30% associated cost -> must not be done]
• Nintendo should offer way more storage on their devices (akin to 8gb wiiU vs 32gb), as they have options to save money where consumers dont, and Nintendo could pass these saving on (fully/partially)
• ...