1. While their reasoning for not showing Devil's Third in any form is a mystery, they did have Fatal Frame at the Treehouse Live event. Also, the family audience still does exist. Look no further than the Super Mario games and the other franchises with Mario's name on it. Look at the sales for Mario Party 10. They were amazing, and I doubt most the people who are buying Mario Party 10 are a bunch of 30-something year olds who are going to be playing the game with other people their age. That game was probably sold to people in their 30's who got the game for their kids.

2. Nintendo started using less expensive hardware because competing in an arms race got them absolutely nowhere. They also need to make money on their hardware. Thie major problem right now are the third parties. They either need to make hardware that'll be powerful enough to appease the third parties or completely switch to the x86 architecture which even if it's an underpowered system, it would still be easier and less expensive for third parties to port their games to.

3. Nintendo is secretive by nature. That's who they are and that's how they've always been. My hope is that they can find out what third parties need but without having to show them everything. Even though it's a disadvantage sometimes, being secretive has also been one of Nintendo's greatest strengths. 

4. They've probably got the hang of HD development by now. It was in the early days when they had trouble with that. When you look at their Wii U games, they look great. So I think HD development will be less of an issue for them in the future.

5. Going back to the GameCube, they tried to compete directly with the competition and it did nothing for them. The problem is there's no room in the console for three consoles that are alike. At least one of them has to branch out and do something different. Sometimes it works like it did with the Wii and sometimes id doesn't work like it did with Wii U.

The big problem with determining wether Nintendo is ready or not with the 9th generation is that we don't know what they're up. We don't know what NX is. We just don't know anything yet.

Yeah but in the end of the day they are the same games, nintendo doesnt get more games out of thiws. Its the same situation like with the vita, ps3 and ps4 ports from japan. And we all know that handhelds are slowsly dying. Not to mention they would have to use flash cards as a medium which would scare away many other third parties.

I don't have any proof but its not it's not hard to understand that Nintendo consoles, just like MS and Sony ones, do need third party support from Western publishers. Nintendo can't rely on Japan only, and for it to attract customers in the west, they need to make their consoles just as powerful as the PS4 and X1, and they need third party games. After that, they can focus on differentiating their console from the other two, but Nintendo exclusives and Japanese games won't be enough for the NX to do well in the west. 

Nintendo will get a more substantial flow of software on both devices. That's the crucial thing to sustain momentum for hardware sales.

The only handheld that is dying is Sony's and Nintendo has a strategy to reverse the decline. All those hand-me-down smart devices will have access to Nintendo's mobile games which allows Nintendo to have a continued presence in people's minds. From there it isn't a big step for kids to put Nintendo hardware on their wishlist for christmas or birthday. Adults could see the benefits of signing up for Nintendo's account system that extends beyond Nintendo hardware; once they are in, it isn't that difficult anymore to sell hardware to them. The initial hurdle is to get people to download the mobile games, but Nintendo and their IPs are incredibly big names, so they'll move to the top downloads fast and will stay there because the download patterns make popularity feed further popularity.

I have no idea why you think that flash cards would scare away third parties. Mass production is cheap and storage capacity is sufficient. Additionally, the third parties Nintendo will bank on are already used to making games for cards.

In the past Nintendo has already committed the mistake that you suggest them to make again. If they design their console for third parties first and then try to differentiate themselves, they'll only end up with an unappealing system; system doesn't sell, third parties abandon ship. The GC was easier to program for than the PS2, more powerful and cheaper, but none of that helped. So what Nintendo really has to do is make a system that sells, because that's the only way that they can hope to get third party support.

But really, the importance of third party support will decrease with Nintendo's new strategy, because their own software will release at a more constant rate. All of that software will be exclusive. Additionally, it won't hurt Nintendo if people buy PS+NX or Xbox+NX due to the absence of certain third party IPs on NX, because they get their sale regardless. The utmost priority for Nintendo is to make a system that sells, and if you look at the sales of multiplatform games on previous Nintendo systems, then it should be absolutely clear that first party software and exclusive third party software is much more important than multiplats. Therefore your suggestion to design the system for multiplats first is... well, it's nonsensical.

That's my point exactly. lol. You've been conditioned to think that since it's been generations that a Nintendo console had healthy third party support. So you mean to tell me if Nintendo released a console on par with the PS4 and X1 powerwise that had all the games that the other console had it wouldn't move systems? Of course it would.

next gen games need 25-50 gb with blue rays. They wont certainly getting 8gen games on the NX. Yes handhelds are dying, nintendo needs to carve in their remaining user base to compete or why else they decided to mix now both together.

They went from 120 million gameboys and 50 million SNESs to 50 million 3DSs and 10 million WiiUs. And i dont think this number will increase with the NX, they can be lucky remaining 60 million.

What Nintendo tries to archieve is allready reality for sony with the vita ports, so i dont think the vita is going anywhere its powerfull enough to handle the NX ports.