how it's their best handheld they made yet.

I think that they should ditch both and go back to making card games.

Eventually. Maybe two generations from now when even a handheld can have insane power and no one even cares to have it higher (at least not on a Nintendo platform), I could see them making a handheld that can hook to your TV and support extra controllers. There will come a point when having two separate machines won't make sense anymore. Having an all-in-one system would be pretty awesome.

We could get close to that next generation, anyway. A handheld that can run Wii U games at half the resolution, with a home console serving as an integrated environment (storefront, crossbuy on all possible titles, make all possible titles dual-platform, give a discount for buying handheld and console together).

I think nintendo still has room for one last console attempt. Where they basically make a console that is as powerful as the PS5/XB2 and lobby heavily for 3rd party support and release parity like sony/MS. That is the one thing they have not done since the GC. If they fail again even doing that then they should just become a third party publisher.

I feel nintendos biggest problem is that they aren't taking themselves or the industry as seriously as they should. I am all for them wanting to focus on innovative gameplay and gaming experiences, but they should cover all their bases first and at least make competent hardware and not exclude itself from competing with sony/ms consoles by defualt of being underpowered. Its not like they haven't got the money to pull that off. After their wii/ds success they have a rumoured warchest of around $40B+.  They should put up or shut up.

Nope I want both... Two SKUs are better than one and they have proven time and time again that they are able to provide separate and exclusive experiences for both

NEVER.

"Their" software may not be the problem but their "hardware"  is. Having significantly weaker hardware literally limits their market to only the nintendo faithful who will buy their console even if it was powered by peanuts. It also means that theer will be little to no third party support. And if the GC and now wiiU should have thought them anything, its that you can't succeed off your first party alone.

A dev considering making a port of a PS4/XB1 game to the wiiU is basically faced with porting their game over to hardware that is around 8 times less powerful and lacks the install base incentive to make that kinda ort worth it. Just imagine if the WiiU was at least as powerful as the XB1 this gen, got all the multiplat games that will come to the PS4/XB1 and also had all their great first party titles. And also had an online service on par with both. It would be a very very very different conversaton we are all having now about nintendo.

Nintendo are just not competeing on so many different levels. 

Nintendo would probably not get ports even if they had a machine as powerful as that...

They would. If they are willing to play ball. Sony did it with the PS1. MS did it with the 360. Nintendo has got to be willing to do it with at least one of their consoles.  On their part, if they had a console that is as powerful as say the PS4/XB1 this gen (since that is outta the question now so lets say the PS5/XB2), they woul dhave at least taken out the obvious support hurdle.

Next step, money hat the hell outta third parties. Get AC/COD/destiny/NFL...etc on the console, even if it means you footing a $30M bill to cover their development costs. Its all about money. And its something they only have to do once.