the evolved wii mote + nunchuck I have in mind is shaped like a pro controller but divides in two halves. so, it renders a pro controller useless.

Truth be told, maybe there's just a more fundamental issue at play here ...

Ultimately the mass market decides what direction they prefer by voting with their wallets.

And I think it's been largely shown the last 20 years that people overwhelmingly want a system that is more of a electronics device (rather than a toy/family aimed product ala the gaming scene in the 80s/early 90s) and has all the major third party support. We had this referendum during the PS2-GCN-XBox era, and people overwhelmingly chose Sony's approach.

The Wii is the only console ever to have mass market success for a few years without benefit of great third party support, and that was more of a flash in the pan, not a sustainable business model going forward (and if it was ever sustainable, Nintendo sure as heck doesn't know how to to do it, which renders it moot).

I don't think many casuals were upgrading their Wii ever, it didn't really matter what Nintendo did.

People have a fairly set idea of what they want in a console today, and you either provide that or your system is not going to sell past 20 million or so at best. Doesn't matter how many wonderful Mario or Zelda games it has.

I'm still shocked Nintendo went up against such a brick wall, far worse than Sony/MS with the casumobile market. I guess they were in denial about Wii's future as a brand and product overall. But now, Nintendo has no where to run, except back to its  foundation.   I wonder, when Iwata made this statement...

https://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/nintendo-says-open-merger-acquisition-220715429.html

 In a talk with Japanese newspaper The Nikkei, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says he's open to mergers and acquisitions, a dramatic philosophical change for the company.

"We should abandon old assumptions about our businesses," he said. "We are considering M&As as an option. For this reason, we'll step up share buybacks." 

...if he was talking about mergers with companies like Panasonic.  The potential is great with these two. Nintendo seems like the missing link in panasonic's portfolio, and (unlike Sony, for ex.) they would not interfere with Nintendo's ideaology very much. Panasonic would obviously take care of the HW and give Nintendo and its devs a "bigger canvas" to create their magic w/o worrying about costs.  We saw a glimpse with the Panasonic Q (gamecube DVD player), but now they'd have blu ray, TVs and other products. 

This was published over a year ago, but it was true.  Nintendo went on to buy a company or two if I'm not mistaken.  I doubt they would ever take on a supplementary role by merging with a larger company.

i would go a step further and people just stopped playing and buying a bunch toward the end. Just look at the difference in sales between PS360 and the Wii in the last few years

My love for Nintendo has FAR from blinded me, I am just tired of the same recycled games over and over. CoD is a joke now, after playing every iteration up through Ghosts it is old and tired, yeah Advanced Warfare changed some things, but it's basically now Call of Titanfall. Let's take the example of GTA, what's even the POINT of that game? You steal shit, you get chased by cops, you shoot random bystanders, you get chased by cops, you blow up buildings, you get chased by cops, and then you blow up the cops. There is a story there as well, but seriously, the games that people find "fun" and "original" are far from it. Nintendo does release titles with the same characters over and over, but rarely the exact same GAME or game play. They switch up the story, they switch up the game play, they even switch up the worlds. CoD changes time periods, that's about it since CoD Modern Warfare, they slap some gadgets and perks in and call it good. GTA takes their gameplay and switches cities and adds more cars to steal, and lets you have sex with hookers, wow great "upgrade" there guys, awesome game!

I'm a fan of Destiny right now because of the community aspect of the game and the progression combined with leveling. I'm a huge fan of the Batman games, I love Forza, Battlefield, the Master Chief based Halo series...I'm not blinded by Nintendo, they just know what they are doing. Unfortunately, people like yourself are blinded by mega-hits rather than legitimately good games. Games are meant to be fun, and inviting, Nintendo games are just that, and it's a shame that people are starting to move away from having fun and moving purely to either shoot everything that moves, or reach the top of the Leaderboard.
I think Nintendo deserves A LOT more credit than the mainstream media as well as the mainstream gamers are giving them, they're definitely doing things the right way.

what you are tired of is irrelevant which is my point. PEOPLE love COD and they love shooting things. Its fun to them which is why the series sells so well and GTA 5 has far exceeded sales of a lot of games. Again we are on a sales site so im not sure what you are trying to prove.

Ninty doesnt deserve anything if they were doing things right they wouldnt be in the position they are in. The MARKET decides who is doing what right and right now they are saying it isnt Ninty. THe same goes for any of the other two. To say otherwise is ignorant and sounding of a bitter old man. Tell me what Ninty has put on this gen where they switched up gameplay? cause we are on our eighth MK, fourth Smash and God knows how many Marios

Except that cod marketer already said thay market the game to brainwash people into liking it.

Your logic about nintendo not deserving more is completely flawed. Did you forget we leave in a world where many get undeserved praise/hate. The market merely shows what is selling better, not whom is making games the right way. Also, you're showing a lot of ignorance by calling nintendo games the same because of their... number entry? Why don't you compare the gameplay of each installment before saying such a thing?

Couldnt one say the same about any big popular game? And what of stuff like GTA that also puts up big numbers were they also brainswashed. It seems people will find any negative reason to hate on a game they dont like doing well. 

The market decides what they want to play period. Your logic is flawed because you are attaching emotion to it. THeir is no hate for Nintendo from MOST people, they put out a product that people simply didnt care about. It's taht simple. So im showing ignorance but people who say every COD is the same isnt? THat sounds bias, and whats funny is that people have yet to tell me im wrong. What is the big differences between say the NSMB games? How is that any different than the CODs and ACs or any other sequels in the world?

I actually don't think they could've have done anything since they almost completely dropped support for the Wii during the last couple of years before the release of the WiiU. Had they supported the Wii more and marketed the WiiU more more clearer as a successor, they would have had more success.