Haha j/k ing of course =)

Hahaha yea I see what you did there... it's also a possibility.

Only if their hardware suddenly stopped doing so well... and I mean if it took a drastic turn for the worst.

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Again, it is comparing wii u to ps3 and 360. Wii u will already have the advantage in japan so it has nothing to worry about there. All the big wigs will be staying in nintendo's court. For the western market you assume developers will start boycotting the system because you think they can't make games for the gamepad. Firstly, as I pointed out earlier, there is a lot of flexibility in development options on wii u. A developer can choose to completely ignore the gamepad and put all the power to a game using the pro controller. Also you are ignoring that nintendo has had a big influence on the way forward this time. Kinect will likely be boxed in the next xbox as standard. So what about that?

Another major thing to note about the gamepad is Iwata said long ago they have built the gamepad to compete with apple. Nintendo are seeing a shift in market to smart phones and tablets. Epic have talked about developing for tablets so they would have absolutely no gripe with wii u. You might not like to accept it here but these controllers you claim nintendo is making for themselves are becoming the driving force of the market now. There is no reason the traditional controller can't exist with them but the casual market is worth big money and none of the big three will ignore that. in fact I expect sony to try something big to enter the casual market in an effort to regain their former glory. Nintendo's move with the wii proved that there is huge money to be made expanding outside gamers. So if you think nintendo are going to be the only ones using funky controllers that aren't suited to third party's needs next gen, your mistaken.

As a minor edit here, the problem isn't them not meeting third party needs. It is the consumers. I have heard a lot of developers complain about the limitations of dvd storage and microsoft's online not being flexible enough. Yet they get their heads round it because there is money to be made and money is the bottom line. Like I said before. Get consumers complaining to buy their games on nintendo when they are given the option and third parties won't care.

As a matter of fact, some of those people are indeed businessmen who know how to run a company. Even better, some of the people calling for Nintendo to make iOS games are actually Nintendo shareholders, and therefore Iwata's bosses. They, of all people, should have the clearest idea of how the company should proceed, seeing as how they literally own the company!

Hedge fund managers, investors, people who make games, people who critique them for a living and therefore are experts in the field... EVERYONE thinks Nintendo should make iOS games. It's sheer stubborness that's keeping us from enjoying Mario on our iPad. You can't even say controls are an issue, since this is the same company that shoehorned touch-only controls into Zelda, and who created an entire console dedicated to the wildly-inannacurate concept of waggle.

WiiU seems to be Wii all over again where 3rd parties will make bad games and shoddy ports from 720 and PS4 or they'll get ports from current gen initialy made for 360. You can read on WiiU spec threads especially the Digital Foundry one that people will get a WiiU specificaly for first party games mostly... anyway, Nintendo should stop... me too by the way hehehe...

Oh please.  Three days on the market and everyone's already writing WiiU off as "Wii" all over again?  Just a first party machine and nothing else?

This.  Thread.  Is.  So.  Mindnumbing.

Nintendo has survived NEC, SNK, Atari, and Sega just to name a few. They aren't going anywhere any time soon. It's more likely that Sony or Microsoft leave the market before Nintendo does. Nintendo has proven several times that they can support a console on almost 1st party alone. Sony and Microsoft 1st party games are great, but they just wont keep a console going on their own.

Edit: Opps forgot about Magnavox, Coleco, Mattel, and the 3DO Company.

Except this time Nintendo DOESN'T want to have its first party software carry WiiU alone.  Maybe this time they can defy their recent track record.