$4.99 for a new game would be stupid of course :D

If they hired us, Nintendo would rule the world ;)

Never going to happen asshat

haha

True, we are very knowledgable beings. Anyone who hired us would surely rule the world be it MS, Sony, Ninty you name it.

I stopped reading when you said Smash Bros sold only 481k in 2 days globally. The game just came out in Europe yesterday, and is not even in Japan.

I agree. Been saying for awhile that Nintendo's biggest problem is perception. There is just this ridiculos rhetoric that its for kids and the others consoles are just more popular based on peer presure. There are too many people saying that the game pad is trash, a gimmic, or its stupid and they haven't even used one. All based on rhetoric.

Sorry, but Nintendo tried to catch lightning in a bottle twice. They lucked out that they started a craze with the Wii mote and were able to release a deliberately underpowered consoles. They tried it again with the Wii U thinking everyone would jump at it because it has a touch screen and a weak console. Lightning didnt strike.  Nintendo will limp along a few more years and really faces a dilemma what do do.  There is nothing they can do fast.  Only thing I think they can do is release a new state of the art console in 2017 or 2018 when Sony and MS will not be even considering new consoles.  Ok one other thing and the most sensible thing.  Stop making consoles all together and do what Nintendo does best and just make games.

Totally. Its what i use the most on my Wii U. At night in bed i can play something or more importantly go on the internet with the awesome browser. I often come here on VGchartz at night on my Wii U.

This wouldnt be possible without the gamepad. I would have to suffer through the Vita's now slow and almost unusable browser (for heavy pages like VGC).

To answer your questions:

The reason people are buying either system is because it's clear that both of those systems are technically more capable, both are easier to develop for, offer much more resources for developers, they also come packed with far bigger hard drives as standard, they have major 3rd party support and both offer better online features.

The online is about the only factor that can be improved as far as the benefits both PS4 and Xbox One have over the Wii U, without building a new console or updating the Wii U's hardware. Nintendo are stuck with the platform they have as far as CPU, GPU and RAM goes, they could offer a free HDD and a USB cable with all Wii Us going forward. They can drop the price of the Wii U, get rid of the 8GB model and say offer the 32GB model for much closer to the price of the 8GB system. Make a model of the Wii U with better storage capacity or even a model with a built in bigger HDD.

Nintendo needs to offer a more diverse line-up of games that people can't get on PS4 or XBox One. If they can't handle the workload internally then create better relationships with external studios and have them work on a set of new IPs. Nintendo doesn't have many mature action games, nothing like Uncharted, God of War, Gears, they miss out on the likes of Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, Bioshock, so they need to make games like those, to cater to that crowd of gamers, only unique to Nintendo, so they can claw that audience back to their platforms. They loose on all of the sporting franchises on a regular basis, they don't have anything like Gran Turismo or Forza.

Nintendo's line-up is always to the extremes, either deeply family oriented, very casual or extreme mature, there's very little the fits in between. It all takes itself too seriously IMO, which is fine for the audience that buys Nintendo's systems, but it doesn't let Nintendo branch out.

Major hits take too long too be released, so Nintendo has very little to fill those gaps in the line-up when they need those kinds of games. Nintendo has a lot of IPs they should also milk more on their home consoles, like Pilot Wings, Star Fox, Metroid and F-Zero. They've never done a home console version of a huge open world Pokemon game, even though it's clear it would sell like hot cakes.

There's such great potential in a Kingdom Hearts style Nintendo universe game, especially with Amiibo now.

As a side point I never understood why Nintendo never tried to make a load of movies based around their major franchises, a Zelda film, made in a similar style to Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings would be awesome, a CG mario movie, Live Action Metroid film. Hell Nintendo could have been as big as Disney if they had tied a movie studio into the company and maybe built a theme park, holiday resort. These kinds of business decisions would only serve to boster the game business because the audience would be much larger as a result and way more Nintendo home consoles or hardware in general would sell.

Nintendo has missed so many opportunities that are clear too me. They could still make such things become a reality and expand the business gradually, by creating a few new IPs this gen, the likes of Splatoon are a start, but Nintendo needs to do more in the way of their game line-up to fill the gap they're missing.

They need to start listening to the wider gaming community, maybe run a survey to anyone will to comment and actually take that feedback to heart.

surely not, are u changing your phone every launchday too?