I say let's give Nintendo another chance next generation and see if the market responds more positively. If they give it their best and end up making little to no profit, then maybe they should reconsider their role as hardware manufacturer.

I personally don't care where Nintendo games end up as as long as they're still high quality and the box that plays them isn't ridiculous like the Apple Pippen or the PS3's $600 price launch. Thank goodness Sony didn't try to pull that again even though they ended with 80 million plus sales last generation.

I like your sarcasm, if it is ._.

Nintendo could easily survive by just developing handhelds. I don't think they even consider going third party. Maybe they get rid of their home consoles, but handhelds will definitely stay.

Again, as Ka-Pi said that is revenue, you can have a huge revenue stream and not make any profit at all. Just to give a short example, last year Sonys biggest division in terms of revenue, with 1630.1 bln Yen, was their mobile division, which still lost 75 bln Yen. On the other hand their Financial Service division "only" had 993.8 bln Yen in revenue but made 170.3 bln Yen in operating income.

It's not all about the size of the revenue.

Ka-pi sadly you don't seem to understand!Lets stop the discussion...

If Nintendo would do that, that would be pretty good. In my situation for example: there are some Nintendo games that I would love to play, Mario Kart 8, Legend of Zelda ... , but I don't want to buy a WiiU just for some games and to be honest I think millions of others are in the same boat. I understand why so many people find this a horrible idea, but I personally would love it.

They just need to stay the hell away from cheap micro transaction infected tablets.

You got that right. Nothing good is free.

Everytime you see a Nintendo player say oh I wish I had X Y or Z on the system (i.e. RE5 and RE6 is a good example).  Sony and Microsoft fans say go buy another console to play the game. Yet they don't realise that people wanted those games on Wii because of the motion controls that RE4 added to the game.

Then when games liek Bayonetta 2 are annouced as exclusive and peopel go threatening developers lives and their own if they don't get it on their system and you happen to say "Why not buy a Wii U" you get abuse because the hardware sucks.

Yet in this thread people are talking about "who cares about hardware it's all about the games" If they truely belived that statement they would go buy the systems that the games they want to play on. Hell I bet most the people on the internet whinging about console prices being too much are the same peple who replace their expensive iphone every 6 months.

It is true. Will be obsolete, but there is time to change that.

Since Nintendo only deals with video games, handhelds, consoles and nothing else. Well, people losing interest in their console is major problem and eventually if things don't change, they'll have to stop making consoles to stay profitable and relevant in the video game market.