Perhaps they should consider advertising their new product...

Yes i agree they need to advertise more

It was called a c stick, and was so small and unusable that devs avoided it whole sale. Ever play Geist? Unbearable. Hell, even Retro passed on it for Metroid Prime. Why couldn't Nintendo have just gotten with the picture and made two full size sticks? Oh, that's right, gotta be "different". Well, different is 1 for 4 at this point as far as home consoles go. Maybe it's time to try the SNES approach again? Innovative software, standard hardware and controllers.

SNES being more powerful is debatable. It displayed more colours, but the Genesis actually had the more powerful CPU. Start adding in Sega CD and the 32X expansions and the SNES certainly wasn't the most powerful of its generation, even if we kindly ignore the Neo Geo.

Also, I think it's a little odd to call the SNES controller a "normal" controller, given that the D-pad was only a generation old and the SNES controller featured twice as many buttons as previous generation and contemporary rival controllers. It certainly wasn't a standard compared to four generations of controllers with dual thumbsticks, a D-pad and four face buttons.

And finally, although the SNES beat out rival game consoles of the same generation, it failed to exceed the success of the NES in both absolute units sold and in marketshare. Hardly signs of a successful strategy. More the signs of a mediocre strategy executed from a position of dominance. Now you want Nintendo to do that again from a position of weakness?

That 'normal' snes controller is only 'normal' because everything that followed was based on it.  Before their consoles, the 'normal' controller was a joystick. 

Those 'normal' controllers were very different and a major change for gamers at the time.  Of course, I don't remember gamers getting out their pitchforks and attacking anything that resembled change back then.

I also believe sega master system was also more powerful than nes and nes still won.

Anyway i hope Nintendo starts marketing big for christmas.

I don't care what it's called.  It was a right analog stick and if funtioned the way right analog sticks function.  I never played Geist but I played TimeSplitters 2, XIII, and Goldeneye plus any number of games that used the right analog stick to control the camera.  Anyway, wasn't trying to fight you.  Just saying that the Gamecube had an analog stick....and it did.

*edit* Oh, and SNES wasn't the last time Nintendo made the most powerful hardware/normal controller.  Just saying.

It took him this long to understand that? They still haven't sold their initial 5 million end of March forecast, after about one year on the market.
I disagree with his comment in one way though; he should rather have said; "We have failed to design a console that is a worthy successor to the Wii."

yes for me the right analog stick worked perfectly for golden eye.. my memory is not the best i always forget about those things.

I also wouldnt call SNES a failure, it was super successful i believe the system and the games were also more expensive than the nes. but then again i dont actually know the Nes prices so good.

In germany for example there were many places that charged over 100 Dollars for some games. I know in the usa the prices were really cheap but in germany they were expensive and everyone without exception loved Zelda and Mario for Super Nintendo.

Not to mention Metroid or F Zero or Mario Kart

How about have some compelling software within the first two years of launch? That would help. As it stands now, only die-hard Nintendo fans are really excited about what the Wii U offers.