The portable and home console markets are very different, equating one to the other is false. It would be like saying "well Sony should beat Nintendo with handhelds one of these days because they have no problem beating Nintendo's consoles". Which I'm sure you'd claim "no" to even though it's the same logic you're trying to push. These are different markets. 

And Sony has not just beaten Nintendo, they've quite frankly WHUPPED them in the console arena. Nintendo hasn't even made them sweat, I mean the PS1, 2, and 4 are going to run away from their Nintendo counterparts by a country mile and not even look back. 

The console market is more driven by older consumers in the household (usually the teenager of the house is the one who makes  the console choice IMO, the little 8 year old is just happy with anything that they can play LEGO/whatever on). 

Sony's been in the console business for basically 20 years now, and really they've had no problem dominating Nintendo here for basically 16-17 of the 20 years. The only blip on the radar was the 2006-09 spurt from Nintendo. This is not a "coincidence" anymore, this is not "Nintendo just needs to fix a few things" ... this is consistent domination. 

I'm sorry, but there's no way else to put it, the way the PS4 just sprinted past the Wii U like it was nothing just hammers it home even more. 

The portable and home console markets are very different, equating one to the other is false. It would be like saying "well Sony should beat Nintendo with handhelds one of these days because they have no problem beating Nintendo's consoles". Which I'm sure you'd claim "no" to even though it's the same logic you're trying to push. These are different markets. 

And Sony has not just beaten Nintendo, they've quite frankly WHUPPED them in the console arena. Nintendo hasn't even made them sweat, I mean the PS1, 2, and 4 are going to run away from their Nintendo counterparts by a country mile and not even look back. 

The console market is more driven by older consumers in the household (usually the teenager of the house is the one who makes  the console choice IMO, the little 8 year old is just happy with anything that they can play LEGO/whatever on). 

Sony's been in the console business for basically 20 years now, and really they've had no problem dominating Nintendo here for basically 16-17 of the 20 years. The only blip on the radar was the 2006-09 spurt from Nintendo. This is not a "coincidence" anymore, this is not "Nintendo just needs to fix a few things" ... this is fairly consistent domination on Sony's part. I mean these console cycles aren't even *close*, it's not like the N64 sold 85 million and the PSOne at 100 million or GameCube at 90 million and PS2 at 150 million. PS4 is doing the same thing to the Wii U, blowing past it's 1 year lead like it was nothing. 

Nintendo really isn't much in the way of competetion for a Sony console the majority of the time. Whatever Sony's philosophy is for making a home console, it simply resonates with a global audience a heckuva lot more than Nintendo's vision. 

COnsidering this is the only 4th home console generation for Sony, and they won 2, lost 1, I don't think it's a good enough sample to claim "every generation". Plus, their handheld systems have failed against their rival Nintendo offerings. So out of 5 existing systems, they won 2. Far from "every generation". Heck, they were desperate when they even went as far as to copy Nintendo and make their failed "Move" controller. That was a true low point for Sony.

It's been a 20 year sample now almost (Playstation launched in Japan in 1994). Of those 20 years, Nintendo's had really 3 or 4 years where they've been the dominant console maker, the rest of the time they've been beaten fairly soundly. 

Do we need 50 years to declare that Nintendo has problems competing with Sony home consoles? 

The N64 and GameCube weren't even competetive with the Playstation 1/2, and the Wii U looks like the same exact story. 

Years don't matter when talking about generation sales. Simplified to the amount of console generations that have passed, we are talking about 3 generations. 2 of 3 home consoles, Sony dominated, no question there. Handheld systems, Sony couldn't compete at all.  Current generation is still new, we can discuss when the NEXT generation comes along.

The Wii U isn't horribly behind the PS4, granted they are moving systems at a slower rate. Yet with the flagship Mario Kart released today, that gap may shrink. A lot of people have been waiting for games they wanted. Heck, I waited until Ocarina of Time came out before getting a N64, and that was in 1998 (the N64 released in 1996). With another big title, Super Smash Bros coming out later this year, I believe that sales are going to pick up to be competitive.

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Wii U is not even going to sniff PS4's LTD. N64 at least was competetive with the PSOne for a little while, Wii U is just another GameCube, Mario Kart will maybe let Nintendo enjoy PS4-size sales for a 2-4 week period and then sink back down, Smash Bros. will do even less, after that what else does Nintendo have? *crickets*

I like Nintendo games but objectively looking at their market chances here, they're not good. NSMBU and Wii Fit U should've done a lot more if there really was any momentum carried over from last gen. Fickle casuals come and go, that's the problem with relying on them. 

By that you mean 40% of all sw sold on any nintendo platform is 1st party? And you don't see that as basically the biggest reason for the lack of support of 3rd parties?

So let me get it... 3rd party support is secondary for Nintendo platforms (I do agree with that). So how to explain that N64, GC and WiiU never done great on the LTD of HW (altough the N64 and GC had a healthy sale on the SW side for nintendo)???

N64 have more Nintendo games sold than Snes and even tough it done worst in general... Your whole point revolves around Wii doing good... But its average is close to the other less selling console... actually nintendo doing 40% shows that it depends 60% on third parties (less than PS and even less than Xbox) but still depends to do "great".