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Wii 2 (Wii Too, GENIOUS!)
moar games in first years.

Maintain same price for Deluxe Set, include 64gb SKU, Nintendo Land & New Super Luigi U pre-installed. And a hard copy of Super Mario 3D World. 

Bunching their highest selling franchises into a release isn't a good idea either. Nintendo needed more and better games at launch, I agree. But they couldn't have gone with those titles.

Change the name and make the 32GB version the default one for $300. That should be enough.

But you wanna know what baffles me? A bunch of nerds that only have gaming as a hobbie have all suggested the same things to help the system (change the name, the hardware, the price, etc). But Nintendo, a company which has gaming as a living, was unable to think/do any of this stuff.

For fuck's sake, Nintendo. For fuck's sake.

Nintendo is in a strange but familiar situation and they are paying for their innovation. Sony nor Microsoft can ever say their game consoles are as innovative as Nintendo's consoles. And with Wii and DS, it payed off. For Wii U, the gaming world is no longer amused with motion(Wii) and Touch(DS) with the exception of 3DS as the Wii U is just a Wii+3DS essentially. I think Nintendo can approach this a couple of ways.

1.) Add a SKU without the GamePad. Oh, I know you guys will say "No Ljink, that ruins the Wii U's purpose." and it does. But Nintendo needs to get their head out of those smiling clouds in Mario Land and see that innovation costs money. The GamePad costs more than the console itself. If Nintendo can just advertise a Wii U that doesn't use the GamePad but instead the Pro Controller it would nearly halve the cost of a Wii U and it would still have 3D World. Mario Kart 8,and Smash Bros. and none of the games mentioned above use the GamePad in an extraordinary way. Yes, I understand Off-TV play. It is a Heaven-sent idea but it doesn't fully justify Wii U's price. So 1, toss the pad for Pro or a Wireless Gamecube Controller redesign... I would love that for Smash Bros.

Well, I hope Nintendo's next console just goes back to the basics. It would save Nintendo time and money to go back to the good ole' SNES days when a console had a traditional game controller. I hope, except for DS or whatever the next handheld will be called, Nintendo has that Wii out of its system because it is out of mine. PS and XB are doing just fine without some fancy schmancy controller. I appreciate Nintendo's will to innovative but they are taking it somewhere they don't know yet. Maybe they will prove me wrong but I'll just wait for that then.

Maybe they should have just ditched the Wii name, or kept the Wii brand centered around the existing console for beginner gamers.

I'd call the new system The New Nintendo Entertainment System (New NES) or New Family Computer (New Famicom) in Japan.

I'd bump the specs so they're a reasonable generational leap beyond the 360/PS3.

I'd probably keep the tablet controller but push the living room functionality of it, it's not a bad idea, but Nintendo needed to make it work with more devices (PVRs and what not) better. Maybe they should've partnered with Google.

I'd have changed the priorities of the New Super Mario Bros. project too -- raise the production value and make sure the game satisfies the hunger of Nintendo fans to have a "big" Mario or Zelda game around launch. They were too lazy with the game, considering they had 3 years to work on it. Cheap midi music and recycling environments and art assets from past games for your "flag ship" launch title just sends the message that you're not willing to put in the effort with your new console, so why should consumers?

5770/6770 is 1.36 TFLOPS GPU (though it doesn't really show, due to how inefficient it is - 7770, which is around the same FLOPS is 25% faster) - I went with 5750 (1TFLOP GPU), considering Nintendo initially picked old tech, but if they went Sony/MS route, I'd say 7750 for about the same performance as 5770/6770 but less TDP would be great pick.

Yeah that would work. Wouldn't be that expensive either.

1 of 2 things, A) Don't change a thing but make a crap ton of games that actually use the idea of assymetric gameplay and include a pro controller in the box. B)1 gig internal memory for updates only, (keeping in mind you can always buy a 3rd party hard drive), Make it more powerful so that you can at least be close enough to the competitors to get multiplats, and ditch the wii-pad all together making it as cheap as possible to sell. A nintendo console with guaranteed multiplatform games would probably be my sole gaming machine. For me the only non-nintendo 1st party franchises out there that interest me are halo, the ico series of games, god of war, and twisted metal. Twisted metal seems to be all but dead, and ico games will probably be no more now that the head has left sony. Halo and god of war are the only ones left after that and i refuse to pay for online gaming so i don't own a 360. I always say i can't afford a console 350 or over, but if it meant it were the only console i'd buy for a generation i might save up and fork out the cash. Metroid, zelda, smash, mario, mariokart, silent hill, metal gear, army of 2, castlevania, Assassin's creed, and dead space all on one console? yeah, i'd probably pay for that. Only other thing to add is that wii-motes need to stay backwards compatible, although a redesign for the wimotes with buttons that make sense (look at the move) would be cool.