I would even start playing more nintendo games.
Now I mostly play the mainstream franchises.

That's what I was getting at.  It would probably be branded as a Nintendo console exclusively in Japan for maximum effect.  I just feel like each companies strengths and weaknesses complement each other better.  (and I say this as someone who probably prefers Sony to MS.)

Another one of these, eh? And of course, the obligatory "Yeah I hope that happens!" people wander in. lol

It's not going to happen, and you're dealing purely in hyperbole and hypotheticals. Wii U's situation isn't great, by any stretch of the imagination, but it's also hardly "dire" yet, and it is also not the worst first year a home console has ever had, so no, it's not "setting records".

This has been repeated, by me and others with a rational mindset like me, over and over and over again on forums like this. But the problem Wii U has is LACK OF GAMES. That's it, that's all. It needs more games. Mario 3D World will certainly help. Pikmin gave it a small boost, Zelda gave it an even bigger boost. The price drop and bundles are helping sales, not in STAGGERING amounts, but they've improved. The holiday stretch should still see a decent finish to the year for Nintendo. And next year brings bigger "must have" titles like Smash, Mario Kart, and for some folks, X, as well as a slew of other nice exclusives. And if they can manage to ship the new Zelda by the end of the year, that would be another feather in the cap.

But for fuck's sake, enough of these "the sky is falling" threads. We all know 2013 has sucked donkey dick for Wii U, and we all know why. So let's kindly stop with these never-ending "Is Nintendo going to abandon Wii U/Put out a new console/Go portable only/Go Third Party" threads. They're honestly not productive, and it's just the same things said, over and over.

Best hardware with what many people think is the best software (not me but I do love Nintendo's first party)? Who the hell would say no to this?

I hope it doesn't happen. I was just asking... In case it happened, what would you do? Would you follow Nintendo to the PS4? I wouldn't, and I think it will never happen. It's just a what if scenario! Most of my threads are what if scenarios xD.

Why wouldn't you follow them exactly?

Is it because it makes your worst fears arise that you don't like these kinds of threads? That the WiiU goes bust is not outside the realm of possibilities at all. In fact, there's a good chance that happens by 2015. Nintendo has played a lot of cards already and none of them helped even remotely. If after the Holidays sales keep on struggling, considering everything they have done and that HW sales are bringing in losses (SW sales as well since they are abysmal) you will have to admit that WiiU being phased out soon will be one of the possibilities you'll have to deal with. Believe it or not, nothing lasts forever, in your pipe dream world perhaps you believe that Nintendo has a magic spell for happiness and wellness and that all of a sudden things will be alright. But reality hits hard and is hitting Nintendo VERY hard this time.

They will still have the handheld business to themselves, but they are on the verge of becoming irrelevant. The "Wii" brand is as weak as ever, thanks to the past 3 years of Nintendo misaction and abandonment with its home console.

The M&L Bundles have bombed, the Zelda WW bundle merely generated a small spike, Wii Party U has tanked. Nothing is working, and want it or not, shareholders will no doubt about taking their money away if they see the forecast is dark. Speaking of which, of those 9 million that were forecasted for the end of March, Nintendo wasn't able to sell even a million, so go figure if things aren't looking as terrible as ever.

Perhaps people who don't want to see a company that's been in the home console business for 30+ years go the way of Sega, that's who. Believe it or not, there are people out there who actually do like Nintendo systems and prefer Nintendo to keep on making their own.



@Anfebjous

I honestly don't know. I've been rather fed up with the overall state of the games industry for many years, certainly this last gen really did it to me. Part of the reason I liked the Wii, even though I also own a PS3, is the fact that it had so many games that were still more focused on gameplay and the gaming experience, and not trying so hard to be big budget "playable movies". One of the reasons I like Nintendo as a company, is that they still maintain a sense of "old school" game design philosophy that I value. Look no further than Super Mario 3D World. I'm the kind of gamer that prefers 2D gaming to 3D, and sprites to polygons, anyway. But if I'm going to play 3D games, those are the kind of 3D games that I want to be playing. That doesn't mean I haven't had fun with big "open world" romps like Skyrim (even with all it's goddamn bugs), or certain more linear, story driven games. But by and large I don't prefer them. I love a game to have a good story to tell, but not at the expense of gameplay that's actually fun to be playing.

If that even did happen, which it won't, it wouldn't be on PS4 most likely anyways. They're not going to abandon ship after one year. They likely wouldn't after 2-3 years. But to answer your question, "Would I play Nintendo games on a Sony console", if that WERE to happen? I don't know. There's always the chance. But if Nintendo dropped out of the console business, I might just give up on mainstream gaming altogether, and just stick with smaller indie titles, get a "Steambox" or something along those lines (NOT Ouya, I've tried it, it's garbage).

One thing that a lot of champions of "Nintendo going third party" seem to ignore, is that if that were ever to happen, ALL Nintendo would likely produce from that point forward, would be Mario, Zelda, Mario Kart, Pokemon, Smash Bros, MAYBE something like Metroid, the odd "Wii ____" type of "casual" fare. But that would likely be it. No more Mario & Luigi, no more Punch Out, no more Fire Emblem, or Paper Mario, no more Excite ____ or any chance of Star Fox, or Wave Race, or F-Zero, perhaps not even any more HAL Kirby games. Certainly very likely no more new franchises, or oddball entries like FlingSmash or EctoPlankton or Elite Beat Agents or Rhythm Heaven or Xenoblade. And that, to me, would be a pretty damn bleak picture.....

I think if that happened the quality of their games would go down considerably. Asuming the quality is the same I would go to the PS4.

I wouldn't get a PS4 though in a long time, the wall that prevents me from getting one is the US$1130 price tag here in Argentina.

Nice attempt. And nice rampant assumptions. I don't like these kinds of threads because they're silly, because they're pointless, and because they bring out the trolls hardcore. But hey, you go ahead and pretend that it's actually because they "bring out my worst fears", as if I'm that pathetic of the gamer archetype who has nothing left if my gaming is gone. If that's what makes you feel warm and nerdy inside, have at it.

I like how you use all of these (what I'm sure you think are) terribly clever phrases like "In your pipe dream world you believe that Nintendo has a magic spell for happiness". What are you, a wannabe journalist? You assume a pretty great deal, and it makes you look all the sillier for trying to put words in my mouth that were never there to begin with.

Nintendo doesn't need a magic spell. They just need fucking GAMES. Plain and simple, and all the trolling in the world isn't going to change that fact. You say the Mario and Luigi bundle has flopped, which is hilarious because you literally haven't even had time to see it's effect yet. And while the Wind Waker bundle didn't have as big an impact as some had hoped, it IS just a remake of a Zelda game that not even all Zelda fans were equally a fan of. I know I certainly wasn't big on WW. What other "cards" have they tried, exacty? The price drop has already had a positive effect, and will continue to do so. Bundles like M&L and Skylanders will no doubt have larger impact than the limited edition WW one did. And the release of Mario 3D World, coupled with that Black Friday-Christmas stretch, ought to help a lot more than peope like you seem to want to think.

The truly "funny" thing about your rant, is that you try very hard to imply that people like me are just delusional Nintendo fans who can't let go, yet it's blatantly transparent that you just might be one of the folks rooting for them to fail, which makes your faux-intellectual argument all the more disengenuous. You could have tried to make your point a lot more effectively and intelligently, without trying to insult my intelligence or "talk down to me". That doesn't usually bear the best results, but then again, internet trolls rarely ever concern themselves with things like civility and intelligent discourse.

So have fun with that attitude of yours. And even if you're not rooting for Wii U/Nintendo to fail, the nature of your post still betrays a rather ignorant and naive world view on your part, if you don't mind my saying so. Mario Kart and Smash Bros., two of the hottest franchises, and certainly bigger than anything Wii U has gotten thus far, are coming next year, along with potentially this big new epic Zelda we've been waiting for. Nintendo isn't stupid, and they most certainly aren't done turning this ship around. It might never have crossed your mind while you were so terribly busy thinking of terribly clever ways to insult my apparently delusional Nintendo fanhood, but perhaps Nintendo realizes they don't have a whole lot of hope at drastically impacting the launches of PS4 and XBone this year, and thus are waiting to make a stronger push when they'll "have the stage to themselves" early next year and beyond.

In the future, if you want to have conversations with people that actually go well and get somewhere, you might want to drop the shitty attitude. Cheers.