A console with great 1st and 3rd party support..last time nintendo did this was SNES and I think they should try to do this again.  Nintendo handhelds have always been this way (best 1st and 3rd party compared to competition) that's why they have the biggest market share every handheld generation

Usually the most vocal people on the internet dissing Nintendo "telling" them that they need to do this or that would never buy a Nintendo console.  Nintendo should ignore these people like they do. 

Cater towards families and children is what they should continue to do.  Who gives a fuck what some teenager or someone in their early 20s thinks?  Most are poor and rely on their parents. 

Nintendo 64 is not a flop and people that are saying that are delusionql/weirdos...

Gamecube could be considered a "flop" yet it was really profitable and only real flop thqt Nintendo had was Virtual Boy. The problem is that people are used to play trash and nothing more... Gaming nowadays is utter trash compared to past.

Nintendo does not care, why would they care for audience thqt wanst lower quality games that caters to manchilds that want to reassure themself that they are adults and I am sick of people talking trash about cartoonish games like Zelda, Mario, Donkey Kong, etc... Just because it is childish since they lack brain cells to comprehend difference between cute and childish, by their logic all anime and hentai is for kids because it is cartoonish eeven M rated stuff since they are simply R and go FR all the time. Its normal for them...

They are just pigs in human clothing... They do not know what real games are...

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But somehow it bothers them very much that they can not enjoy Nintendo games.

I like how some people argue that because the N64 and GC "flopped" (I wouldn't call the N64 a flop btw... it sold almost as many units in NA as the SNES did, and outsold the Sega Genesis worldwide for example, which nobody considers to be a "flop") and because the Wii was such a runaway success, therefore Nintendo should only cater to families / casuals and Nintendo fans and not even bother with "core" gamers who generally ignore Nintendo.

Did any of you stop to think WHY those consoles "flopped"? *hint: it wasn't because Nintendo was trying too hard to appeal to the "core" gaming segment.

Sony and M$ at least try (and generally succeed) at appealing to non-"core" gamers with their multimedia features and stuff like Kinect, and do a far better job at advertising their products not only to their fanbases, but to everyone in general. I can't even tell you the last time I saw a Wii U related commercial on TV, but I've seen tons for both PS4 and XB1. And who do you think those commercials are designed to appeal to? "Core" gamers only, or just about anyone who has a passing interest in gaming and technology?

The problem is this market doesn't exist. 

In a vacuum sure, maybe there is some magical family where kids stay 8 years old forever, but Nintendo loses these kids by the time they hit 11/12/13 because they want to play "Calladooty" more than the teenager/20 something even. 

More kids grew up with a Playstation 2 than a GameCube, and just as many have a PS3/360 as a Wii. 

Parents overwhelmingly choose a Playstation or XBox, not because they give a damn one way or another, but if I'm a parent and I have a 13 year old and a 8 year old, and I know my 13 year old specifically 'must have an XBox or PS4' or whatever and will throw a fit if he doesn't get one, whereas the 8 year old doesn't really care as long as I throw on any game with LEGO/Spider-Man/Skylanders/etc. on it ... Nintendo loses that "family scenario" every time. 

As a parent I'm buying the Playstation or XBox, so 13-year-old can have their COD, and the 8-year-old gets Skylanders, and he's happy too, and my wallet is happy for only buying one console, because there's no damn way I'm spending nearly $1000 on some videya games that my kids play way too much to begin with anyway. 

This is part of the reason why Nintendo's push for the family demographic, especially last holiday with a ton of family oriented ads yielded nothing for them. 

The other problem is the casual/family market is extremely unreliable and have little/no brand loyalty. At least with hardcore gamers, once you get them, you tend to have them as lifers, casuals and families have abandoned Nintendo in droves this generation. 

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Nintendo screwed the advertising. Still no one really knows what the wii u is. I have to explain it to every one who sees my kid on the gamepad. Two people however have or are going buy one as they were impressed with what they saw

There is a problem with society then.  By the way... CoD is available on Nintendo consoles. 

I'm not going to lie though...  I did play Wolfenstein 3d, Doom and Duke Nukem 3D when I was in my early teens.  However, one thing different between those old school FPS games and new ones...  You didn't have voice chat and hear people talking shit constantly.