You have no idea what other people can be intrested in, you can guess, perhaps even look at the media or w.e, but intrest is based on preferneces and theire are 7 billion people on earth each with preferences that tailor to their own desires. Furthermore, its really naive to think that interest and habits can't change and thus can be used to determine what games one would get over another.

Someone who has never played an RPG wouldn't have intrest in it unless they tried it out or it was suggested to them.

Nearly all serious AAA games made for a grown up generation are not released on a Nintendo platform and so Nintendo is nearly non-existent for the serious gamer. Where is Skyrim, GTA, Dark Souls, Final Fantasy? You can only loose without those and many other 3rd party games.

I have no clue what you are talking about.  What does this have to do with anything at all?

Look, I will explain this as simply as possible.  If SYSTEM A has 10 games and SYSTEM B has 20 games, the chances are higher that more people will find more games that will appeal to them on SYSTEM B.  What that has to do with your last post, I really have no idea.  

Who exactly is everyone?

Underpowered is not quite right. The games on both systems are amazing.

A corvette is not as powerful as a ferrari, but I'd still enjoy a corvette... and I would never call it underpowered.

Your assumption is that all consoles require the same power levels to be good. But that is only important for 3rd parties who need to build games accross them all. While I like some 3rd party games, last gen I bought a PS3 and this gen I'm deciding to just forget them if they are not on WiiU or possibly PC.

If Nintendo lost its hardware, they'd have to define their games around other hardware that they can not control, could not be perfect on (at least not in the first couple year's), and would have to greatly increase their dev teams to accomodate differing SDKs/engines etc.

Now they can create harmony between their hardware and unparralelled software.

I bet you're like 16 huh?

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You said: all that really matters is the total number of quality games they have the opportunity to play.

And qualified with: Personally, I doubt many people are buying consoles for games they have no interest in but I could be wrong

the point is quality is irrelevant to the average consumer, thats what I am disagreeing with, not the fact that more games = higher percentage of games somebody would consider quality games.

The difference is subtle but it is more than just semantics.

Nintendo is used to doing thing their way. They use custom hardware, custom engines, and working under MS/Sony would not help in retaining freedom. Why should Nintendo be the one to throw in the towel after one mistake? That didn't stop MS and Sony when they made heavy losses and that one mistake won't force Nintendo to go 3rd party.

I wholeheartedly agree. Nintendo is the only company that can sell me hardware with only what they make. I don't want them making games for anyone else. To me, the idea of Nintendo paying Sony, or Microsoft, to make games for them is laughable. They make the best software for their system, and if people want to play them, buy the console, simple as that. It makes the perfect secondary system, primary handheld.