To me the problem is having the same people on the same IP for 10-20-30 years, not just one person in the whole company.

How are you supposed to have fresh idea when you do sequels of sequels for so long ?

Monster Hunter was a 3 year old port, previously released on Wii and 3DS. Dragon Quest a 7 month old port and an MMO which typically dont sell a lot. And Zelda a remake of a 10 year old game. Not bad games but certainly not big guns.

There's nothing to "Get". It's a regular game controller. With a touch screen, that also acts as a second gaming screen. It's literally no different in concept or ultimate function than the DS. And people nor developers were not "confused" about the DS. It was a smashing success. And big surprise, it had a lot of great games that pushed console sales. Developers shouldn't treat the GamePad any different than the DS. It's the same damn thing, just implemented in a home console. Also, Wii U isn't "Freefalling". It had started a decent recovery in the last few months of 2013. People were thinking rationally and recognizing that fact before the goddamn Japanese financial report came out. Because Nintendo themselves set their sales estimates too high, their net profit forcasts tanked.

But in reality, they're NOT in that dire of straights, and with a steady flow of games like DKC and Mario Kart leading the way in 2014, things will level out just fine.

Or, if you prefer, the sky is falling, you'd better duck.

Actually, IP means Intellectual Property.  So if Nintendo bought the company, then it becomes Nintendo's IP.  Xenoblade is made by monolith soft, but Nintendo had bought them out so that makes it a Nintendo IP.

Zelda oot was a 15 year old HD port and was the tipping point for 3DS success.

There was a Dragon Quest port of an old game for 3DS as i remember and it sold very good.

Mario2D was somehow recycled from the 3ds version but you call it big gun?well than Monster Hunter is.

just port the 3 year old monster Hunter game on vita and it'll become the best selling vita game 24 hours after release.

Wii fit was a big gun on Wii u no longer.

I think there are only two big guns left:no matter how wether i am wrong or right.That's mario cart and ssmb.

Nintendo is still making one huge mistake again and again and again.The same mistake Sony did with uncharted on vita.

They are releasing IP's for Wii u that have already been released for 3DS.The momentum for this game has already gone.

A Ninzendo Fan who can chose to buy mario cart for Wii U  or a new game for 3DS will buy a new 3DS game.

If he wants to play mario cart on Wii U he has to pay 300 bucks(console+game)and he will jist get a game he already has been playing all the time

If he wants to play mario cart on 3DS he has topay 0 as he already has this game.He will use the 300 bucks to buy 7 new 3ds games.

If you release all the great ip's first on 3DS you'll subvert the Wii U.Nintendo must stop favouring 3DS and start releasing big guns first for WiiU and not treat it like the reddeaded stepchild

Problem isn't Iwata or Miyamoto

Problem is simply Nintendo reputation and the way Wii turned out for core gamers, it just wasn't a console that received sufficient parity in support from the 3rd party.

The "casuals" have moved on (iOS / Android Tablets), the core are happier on other consoles. The irrational Nintendo isolationist core of gamers are just too few.

 MS had to fight very hard to gain their traction into the market and it took Sony really fumbling with having a $600 PS3 at launch that for first 2-3 years had inferior ports of many of the 3rd party AAA games, for MS to become market leader with X360 in the US core gamer market.

Nintendo meanwhile was content to say we don't compete with MS/Sony for those core gamers, cause we got these casual cow gamers that take any kind of shovel ware if it is even mildly entertaining. Unfortunately those cows moved on to iOS / Android Tablets are aren't coming back to waggle-ware shallow games.

Now maybe Nintendo realizes the core of gamers is all thats left interested in console gaming and none of their "gimmicks" (Wii Sports Club or Wii Fit U) are attracting the casual cows back. Not for a $300 machine that the casuals don't even know about... and certainly not to replay and get bored with "games" that they already got bored with. If they do, then how do they compete with MS and Sony in the 8th gen race without having the parity in support from 3rd parties... when their Wii U system is significantly under powered for 8th gen 3rd party games.

Wii U is basically a Nintendo exclusive game machine of which there are few each year... and you gotta have one of the other consoles for the vast majority of other games that will come out each year.

It's not a 'regular game controller'. It is EVERYTHING Nintendo banked on for Wii U's success. It was their trump card and people didn't care for it. Yes, sales picked up recently because the price cuts were massive with great bundles, but now it has gone back to slow sales.

The gamepad is different than the DS because with DS you can manipulate two screens at the same time whereas Wii U you either look up or down. So development considerations change because of this.

DKC, MK may bring some attention back for a very limited time. They cannot carry this console. You need original thirdparty ideas that really bring the best out of the gamepad or else you will continue to have the attitude among consumers that the gamepad is not all that. Nothing is more detrimental to the sales of Wii U than people not taking the gamepad seriously.

The author has opinions. He's paid to write about his opinions. The only problem I see here is the level of rebutals such as yours. Half of the posts here didn't even go beyond name calling and poisoning the well, or meaningless "you don't get Nintendo" posts. I hope you do realize that way you wouldn't last a second against him if you were in a courthouse, or a round of academic debate.

Ocarina of Time was not the tipping point for 3DS. Go back and look at the weekly charts, 3DS was averaging about 70-80k then Ocarina gave it a boost to 100k for a few weeks then sales went back to 70-80k. The $80 price cut caused to jump to 350k then level out at 175k. Mario Land+Mario Kart were able to give it a strong holiday as well as Monster Hunter in Japan (first time this game was on handhelds).

3DS was already selling extremely well when Dragon Quest released. Had Dragon Quest X been Wii U exclusive and a traditional RPG instead of an MMO it would have been considered a big hitter.

NSMBU is a big hitter because its an original entry in a series that consistantly sells extremely well. Not a port/remake/spinoff

People not buying the system, or not buying it yet, does not equate to "oh they just didn't like that controller".

Also....yeah, it kind of IS a regular game controller. Know why? D-pad, 4 face buttons, start and select, 4 L/R triggers, two analog sticks. That is the basis of the modern "regular controller". It functions in every single way the same way ANY other normal controller does. It just so happens to also have a big touch screen in it. Looking at it any other way is really reaching to try to make some kind of point.