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Teeqoz said:
The Wii U is profitable? Since when? Do you have any proof of that? Nintendo as a whole is profitable, but I've got my doubts about the Wii U itself.

It's been known since May 2014's Investors meeting that the Wii U is no longer sold at a loss...... http://gimmegimmegames.com/2014/05/nintendo-wii-u-longer-sold-loss/

Also, Nintendo not only being profitable, but by a fairly decent margin in the green also indicates this (although no specific numbers for cost vs profits were given)

http://www.polygon.com/2015/5/7/8564943/nintendo-profit-fiscal-year-2015-financial-results

Financially, everything is set up nicely for Nintendo to take the next crazy step.



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More dev teams (buy, expand) = more games please.

That is all.



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spemanig said:
Mnementh said:

They should follow Segas example and alienate their hardcore fans by early dropping it? Disagreed.

They wouldn't be alienating anyone after 4 years. It's nothing like Sega. More like Xbox to Xbox 360.

It hasn't been 4 years yet though. Heck, it hasn't even been 3.



curl-6 said:

It hasn't been 4 years yet though. Heck, it hasn't even been 3.


By the end of 2016 it will have been 4 years. No one's saying the NX is coming out tomorrow.



spemanig said:
curl-6 said:

It hasn't been 4 years yet though. Heck, it hasn't even been 3.

By the end of 2016 it will have been 4 years. No one's saying the NX is coming out tomorrow.

It seemed implied when your response to "what do you want them to do now" was "drop Wii U". ;)



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More games. If they cannot get third parties on board and they have to go at it alone whether it's due to bad relations or because 3rd party games simply don't sell well, then they need to step it up. Try to make it more than a secondary system which you really only turn on when once every few months an exclusive comes around that interests you. This might include buying up or partnering with more developers, coming up with new ips(which to their credit they have been doing), and /or hiring more people to to step up production.

Now that they are profitable, they might also have room for a price cut to 250 this year and 200 next year which might make the difference between it selling 16 - 18 million lifetime and 22 - 25 million lifetime.

I have a pc and wii u for the record. I follow my heart when I buy Nintendo stuff and it's probably the only company that I still will pay a full 60 or pre order for games, but I game on a pc as a pure pragmatist because there are just too many games you would be missing if you don't have another system.



curl-6 said:

It seemed implied when your response to "what do you want them to do now" was "drop Wii U". ;)


I didn't read the title that way. I read it as "Now that the Wii U is profitable, what would you like to see Nintendo do." Reading it that way, there's no immediacy.



spemanig said:
curl-6 said:

It seemed implied when your response to "what do you want them to do now" was "drop Wii U". ;)

I didn't read the title that way. I read it as "Now that the Wii U is profitable, what would you like to see Nintendo do." Reading it that way, there's no immediacy.

I see. Well, 4 years wouldn't be a problem; GBA and the original Xbox got that much.



spemanig said:
curl-6 said:

It seemed implied when your response to "what do you want them to do now" was "drop Wii U". ;)


I didn't read the title that way. I read it as "Now that the Wii U is profitable, what would you like to see Nintendo do." Reading it that way, there's no immediacy.

So basically you want them to continue with business as usual. 



Imo, a partnership with LEGO would be a huge deal for them. A lot of possibilities for crossover games, licensed game kits and bundling.