Why wont they increase hardware sales you think?

Because they seem to be too much of a gimmick.

If they make a game that uses the amiibos in a unique way that no one has seen before, then it might increase the hardware imo.!

Gimmicks can be great if theyre done right. I think this will have an impact on WiiU sales. Especially for kids.

They see the toy, get the parent to buy it and find out that they can be brought to life on the WiiU. That kid will make it his life mission to get his parents to buy him a WiiU now.lol

Perhaps the N64 where they owned the competitive shooter crowd on consoles with games like Goldeneye & Perfect Dark? Or the Gamecube where they secured Resident Evil exclusivity, greenlit Eternal Darkness, published Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes and localized Tales of Symphonia? Or on Wii where they secured Monster Hunter Tri as an exclusive? Or maybe the Wii U when they funded games like Bayonetta 2 & Devil's Third which would have been scrapped otherwise?

Also during those times created hardcore games like Smash Bros, Wave Race, 1080 Snowboarding, Pikmin, Fire Emblem, Geist, Advance/Battalion Wars, Metroid Prime, Wonderful 101, etc.

It will have zero or negative impact on the Wii U.

Oki and ?

N64 was a hell of a system that Ninty them selves crippled by greed and arrogance.  N64 with Cd and pro 3rd party mentality would have been PS2 just a gen earlier.  N64 failure had nothing to do with focus on core or hardcore.  

"Lolol Nintendo are so stupid for not having everything ready 20 years ago. Such idiots! LOL"

Ok. Have fun with that. I like turtles.

Im not fond of turtles...unless theyre teenage mutant ninjas of course

u asked when has Nintendo focused on the hardcore, i responed with a list of things they have done over the last 20 or so years that focuses on hardcore gamers?

I'm sorry, I was under the impression that you paid attention to the videogame industry and as such had a rudimentary grasp of how this generation started. Since you don't, I suggest using the wonders of Google and search for how Nintendo was positioning the Wii U before and at launch. Nintendo's tag line back then was that the Wii U would be a deeper wider experience than the Wii, and what they meant by that was that they had designed a machine that would carry over momentum from the Wii and also appeal to the core market (that is what 'a deeper experience' meant). The direct result you can easily verify by looking up the games available at launch for the Wii U.

Nintendo launched without a single of these Mario spinoff games you pretend is dominating the platform, instead it was flodded with third party 'core' games that predictably were as shit as third party games usually are. This was calculated move from Nintendo, aimed to let third parties take advantage of the new platform and the payoff was that people didn't buy that shit, and didn't want the Wii U either once they realized there wasn't much Nintendo software to get for it. It was stupid to try to go after the core market and they are still trying to recover from it.

Trying to appeal to the core market is not a good idea for Nintendo, what the hell could they possibly stand to gain from it? The 'core' crowd moves in a herd and they have no insentive to move to Nintendo. Nintendo's own software shits up and down anything any thrid party has ever created both in sales and revenue so it would be absolutely retarded to abandon that to chase a hostile market. What Nintendo shoudl do is deliver their particular flavor of gaming and try to expend it to as many people as they can, blue ocean and yes 'core' gamers if they can be bothered to stoop down to the baby level of gaming that puts emphasis on fun. What they shouldn't do, and I mena ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT DO, is throw their hat in with the turdfactory that is know as the 'AAA' game producers and try to squeeze out marketshare from the people who goes after that kind of experience. There is no way they can win with that strategy. No way.