That's the joke he's making.

This won't happen unless the new console plays wiiu games

The Wii launched in all regions a little less than a year ago...

If u stay on this site u will learn that 99% of the time hes being sarcastic.

Nintendo doesn't need Steam. I thought maybe a collaboration with Valve would work, but honestly Nintendo just needs a chip from AMD which can run Wii U games but also modern PC games, and honestly I don't think AMD would have too much trouble with such a task in a couple of years. GPU tech is advancing rapidly every year, Nintendo could quite easily probably have a solution that runs Wii U games perfectly fine and also smokes the PS4/720 which can't cut the mustard for 1080P standard. 

So I think there's an oppurtunity for Nintendo there to move in and get people who were expecting more from the XB1/PS4. 

Valve really isn't needed. Nintendo has distribution, marketing, etc. that reaches far beyond what Valve brings to the table and an already established relationship with AMD. 

They would never do that, and would be fools to risk such a dumb, Sega-like suicidal move.

Developing video game console takes a lot of time, they can't release another console in next 5+ years (at the best)

Is this thread creator want Nintendo to pull a freaking "Sega"? o.O >_> -_-* (idiot)

Wii U as a console is being underrated and it is a beefy console for what it is, 528GFLOPS of compute power in a tiny box and 3rd party developers intentionally hold its power back when comes to games since they don't want it to make better than Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 eg catering to Sony and Microsoft as hiphopgamer in interview for GNTechTV said that.

Sega's issue was they dropped support for their consoles after like a year and a half, lol (in the US anyway) also a host of marketing, pricing, and other issues. 

People are fine with 3-4 years of support for a console, the original XBox got that much and the 360 has sold more than triple the units, so no brand loss from XBox to the 360.

The Game Boy Advance also only had roughly a 3 year life span ... but that didn't negatively impact the DS in the long run either.

You guys are still thinking under the ancient 1980s/90s paradigm of "new console = old console is completely obsolete and has no software". That comes from a dated sensibility when there where no online networks/digital distribution nor could chipset architectures scale up or down the way they do today.

Give the Wii U it's full 5 years of software support, nothing needs to change there. Two 3D Marios, 1-2 new Zelda games, a 2D Mario, a Mario Kart, a DKC, a Pikmin, Wii Fit U/Sports Club, Bayonetta 2, Xenoblade 2, a Yoshi platformer, Super Smash Bros. U, Bayonetta 2, some Pokemon titles ... I'd like to see an F-Zero, Star Fox, and Wave Race at some point too. Nothing needs to stop any of that.

It's time to change the way hardware platforms are released, the console business IMO is still way behind, companies like Apple and Samsung are on the right path, though that may be too many hardware upgrades, but the industry is no long a bunch of 12 year old boys who need their parents to buy them everything either. It's grown up as a business. 

Cross generational software is the future too IMO, the idea that all old software goes down the toilet once a new console releases or you can't make a game run on two generational platforms is tired and outdated. 

The difference between Sega and Nintendo is that the Saturn when being axed in favor of the Dreamcast still had a favorable market in Japan, (outselling the PS1 there until FF7) and a somewhat decent amount of 3rd party developers to piss off, the Wii U doesn't have either of those factors.

So yeah, I do think Nintendo could get away with it, I'm a little skeptical if they'd do it correctly right now though, I think they're better off taking the Gamecube route, bite the bullet, and see the rest of the generation through.