Hi guys.

Well, you all know that the marketplace has drastically changed since the SNES era. Gone are the days when Nintendo had to compete with smaller contenders such as Atari, Neo-geo and Sega. Gone are the days where you sold your consoles at profit, and gone are the days where Nintendo can sell a console at 300$ (today's value given inflation) and still be the #1 seller with competition around. Gone are the days where selling 50m units makes you the market leader.

So, with the latest entrants in the console race (Sony and Microsoft) both being big companies that can buy 3rd party support and sell their consoles at a loss to please companies like Epic, and with a Nintendo that looks for added value to please its extended market (wiimote, U-tablet), is it possible for Nintendo to have Wii-like success and have HW-parity in one same console.

If so, how? Would it require loss-leading? Would it be possible for Nintendo to win the extended market without these value-adds (extra tablet, new input method like wiimote)?

So, anyone? Opinions, thoughts? The poll's been popular but not the topic :P

i want it to happen...
i want nintendo to have another edge leading to that console-handheld hybrid....

It COULD happen, but it wont.

Nintendo needs to be different than the competitors. They can get by with limited 3rd party support.

Seeing that Super Ghouls N Ghosts cover brings back some terrible memories of broken controllers.

The OP reads as if it was written in 1999.

Do you guys think that if Nintendo made a HW-parity console that, after getting Wii-success with a Wii strategy, that 3rd parties would make their games multiplat?

Hypothetical question for yall.

@mutant. That's because I'm old-school

All comes down to the launches of the other systems, and of course the prices of them. We don't know them yet, so it's too early to call.

Here's a better way to phrase this. If Wii had parity, do you believe 3rd parties would approach Nintendo differently?