THIS!!! I find it funny how Wii fans are now saying that Ninty shouldnt try to cater to the "hardcore", when these were some of the same people who were crying for years about this or that game not coming to WIi or why does the HD version crap all over the Wii version. And all of a sudden you dont care???  BS! Blame 3rd parties all you want, but the fact is they NEVER tried with WIi, the only time they actually did was with MH, where we see Sony and MS throwing money and BJs at those guys right and left, tripping over themselves to do so. and the end result, their consumers got and still receives games by the buttload.

As for core gamers will never play on a Ninty system?? BS I for and a few of my buddies would love to play on Ninty systems, they just have to HAVE games for me to play, I dont want just WiiSports and Just Dance, I want GTA, SF, Tekken, FPSs that dont suck. etc. GC had a much better library for what a "core" gamer would want to play

I did say "moving forward" in regards to the 3DS, a movement towards breaking-even and a strengthening lineup with better all-demographic appeal, and so long as Nintendo keeps things on solid financial footing, the Wii U should be fine however it fares on sales levels.

I must stop listening to fanboys in regards to the financial results of the other two. I had assumed they were on strong footing from what was being said.

^Listen to this man.

Unfortunately I think that this is exactly how Nintendo looks at things.  They seem to concentrate on going after either the casual or the core and never both at the same time.  It's unfortunate since I think that if they try to go after JUST the core gamer like they did with the Gamecube that we know how that will probably wind up.  By the time that they do try to get the "expanded market" back, they will have gone on to something else.

Thankfully I am not a Nintendo stockholder.  If I were, I'd be worried about now.

This is true, but the system will only have one tablet controller included and we can only imagine how much another will cost.  The Wii was all about getting a group of people together playing and having fun.  With the Wii U, two people will be able to experience the awesomeness of the controller if you have a lot of money.

Mortimer and Randolph Duke would tell you to sell now.

You might as well hold your stock for now. Probably for the next few years. Selling now is simply not very smart investing (selling stocks when they're low unless the company is some kind of imminent danger of bankruptcy or something, which Nintendo obviously is not). There's a reason why they say "sell high, buy low", not the reverse, lol.

Seems to me with Wii U they are trying to go after both. Wii U is hardly a "strictly core gamer only" console. If Nintendo was interested in that, it wouldn't be called Wii period and Iwata still reiterated in the same financial report that they are developing something they hope to be the equivlanet of Wii Sports for the machine. Not to mention it's getting a New Super Mario Bros. game. And who are we kidding it's going to have games like Just Dance and a new Wii Fit at some point too.

Nintendo just is just going to make sure they have enough core content upfront though.

Just for the record too ... I think the GameCube probably would've done pretty well had it come out a year ahead of the other two consoles and Nintendo didn't make the blunder of making the primary console color purple (way too Fisher Price). They also totally mismanaged Mario and Zelda that generation ... SMS was not the Mario game people wanted, cell-shaded Link really wasn't what the mass market wanted either.

I think they should've seen the end of the N64 era coming a little sooner and moved Perfect Dark (this barely ran on the N64 anyway) + Conker's BFD + Zelda: Majora's Mask to the GameCube and launched in 2000, rather than waiting for 2001 to roll around.

It even looks like we're only getting 1 padlet for certain graphics intensive games.

But even then, the thing about the WiiU is that you'll be able to hook up 4 wii-chucks and 1 upadlet, that's 5 controllers in total on a system, with the possibility of a 2nd padlet on graphics-loose games, so a total of 6 controllers. You can also pass the padlet around during a play session giving everyone a chance to try the unique experience, as well as the traditional one. It really meshes well with the deeper and wider vision of the system, even from a physical, controller layout standpoint.

Why is this a complaint? You only get one Xbox controller, one PS3 controller, One Dreamcast controller.

Most systems only come with one controller. When did that suddenly become a major issue.