... another NX thread.

It's no secret that Nintendo plans to unveil a new console, and they want it as soon as possible to replace the WiiU and possibly the 3DS too. THat will make it compete with a PS4, that will not only be at the peek of the 8th gen, both in hardware sales and in software library, but also will be at a price of 250$ or less. How can Nintendo compete in price with the PS4? Will it sacrifice power to make it cheap, make it cartridge or digital only, take a huge loss to push the console...

its only 50$ price-cut in the west if we get one, in japan ps4 was always cheaper

So that would make the console around 350-300$ in the west and 250$ in Japan. My point still stands, the NX will have to compete with a machine that will have a huge hardware lead, a huge library and probably will be cheaper.

NX will have one big advantage; Nintendo software.

If they release the right games then they will do just fine. It needs consistent releases though.

The nx will be cheaper then ninti wants to make the nx attractive for costumers

I'm hoping this is not going to turn into a repeat of "It has Mario, Monster Hunter and Dragon Quest in launch period.  How can it NOT succeed?"

(I know you said consistent releases, it just gave me a shudder of deja vu).

NX launch games are going to be amazing, that's the only way to compete.

This is true too, but the PS4 is also becoming a black hole that absorbs more and more japanese third party games and makes them exclusives. Either Nintendo steps up its game and doubles its software output to compensate, or it will have to make deals with every possible developer on the horizon and hope they don't pull a Rayman Legends (exclusivity broken) or an EA (outright boycott) on them.

Not sure... they can't give up on power or we will never hear the end of it - they can't give up on price or this will be the end of it...

Make the platform as powerful and as cheap as possible and hope Sony takes the bait.
Desperately make your system as attractive as possible to third-parties, like cutting your share of the revenue from third-party sales to well below that of PS (they're more or less a first-party software juggernaut, anyway, so any lost revenue would be most likely negligible)
Hope the gimmick works.

But, ultimately, pull off a bid to make Sony release a PS5 by 2018.
Nintendo needs to make Sony burn through its cash haul, and fast. Nintendo can't burn through its cash forever.