What are you talking about? How can you say that graphics aren't innovative?

Are you going to tell me next that the Wii wasn't a fad? Pah!

Your post sums everything up. Don't forget that with better graphics, we'll need games with more shades of brown and grey and blood. Much more blood. Price isn't a problem, since we need better resolution to handle 4K games and everything, since that's the most important thing to have. Also, Nintendo's been skipping on hardcore controllers, drop everything that isn't what we had for 10 years or so in controllers and make one with that. Nintendo could learn with those chinese 3rd party companies on how to make nice controllers based off existing ones.

As a Nintendo fan myself I can say that 1080p at 60fps simply isnt good enough when we see what the true next gen systems are capable of.

I want experiences like Ryse and Knack on my Nintendo consoles.

Nintendo is a great company, they really are. But for too long now they have held graphics back. While Sony and Microsoft entered the HD era in 2006 and 2005, respectively, it took until 2012 before Nintendo finally caught up. And even then, only to be left in the dust again only one year later. So now we have the Wii U and get to see Nintendo games in HD for the first time, but it's not quite enough. We need moar graphics.

Since the casuals are gone anyway, I propose that Nintendo caters to us, and us only. They should just drop the Wii U and move on to the next console as soon as possible. Holiday 2014 would be great, but 2015 is probably more realistic. Finish up the Wii U games that are close to release and launch them as planned, but move the rest to N7 right away.

Such a drastic shift in strategy will obviously come at a price. With Nintendo focusing on the Nintendo hardcore, an adjusted business model will be necessary in order for Nintendo to continue to provide the level of quality that we expect and demand. It's simple economics: If the volume of sales is drastically lower, the profit margin on each individual unit must be higher to make up for it. Since there aren't more than a couple of million of us (and that's a very generous estimate), this is a necessary measure. The console will launch at $/€600, games will go for $/€200 a piece. Either that or Nintendo sells out and goes third party.

Seriously? Those consoles aren't nearly hardcore enough, man. You know, XOne comes with Kinect and PS4 has a touchpad on its controllers. Hardcore gamers never asked for those cheap gimmicks that only makes consoles expensive! To be hardcore enough, they would have to stop doing anything new outside of hardware improvements and make those features add-ons, so all of the money could have been spent on making the GPU and CPU inside better. 1080p isn't enough. 60 FPS isn't enough. We need 4K and a bare minimum of 240 FPS.