By now, we have all come to realize that the Wii U is Nintendo's Dreamcast.
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=155649&page=1
That got me thinking.... if Nintendo is now Sega, who is Nintendo? The obvious answer is Sony.
The PS3 is a system that woefully underperformed compared to its predecessors, which were the two best selling home consoles of all time. They failed because of arrogance, because of an expensive proprietary format they chose to use, and because a new multi-national company that had very little to do with the home console market established itself as a viable competitor by having more money and attracting many of Sony's former third party exclusives (Microsoft get's to be Sony now, Durango=PS2?) The PS3 did manage to have a respectable run though, largely due to a renewed focus on quality first party titles.
All of these things could also be said about the transition from SNES to N64... and how did Nintendo respond? By trying to get more hardcore (Resident Evil exclusives) and by releasing the most powerful system on the market at the time (the Gamecube.)
Discuss.
