If Ninty focused on 'hardcore' gaming, they'd have lost millions like the 360 and the PS3 did.

What if Nintendo focuses on hardcore?

Well, I can't speak for other people (frankly, no one person can), but for me, I'd be a Nintendo owner again. I was a Gamecube owner.

Two things I find wrong with your response, first alot of companies in japan that make second party games for nintendo  are partaially or owned buy nintendo.Brownie Brown-makers of Mother 3 ,alpha Dream- makers of Mario and Luigi,Noise makers of Custom Robo,NDCube-makers of F-zero maximum velocity,Hal Laboratory-makers of Smash Brothers and Kirby and others are companies eitherfully owned or partially owned by Ninitendo.

Second problem , this is just probably a misunderstanding between us but you don't need billions to buy controlling shares in small companies, I say for some companies 100 million would be enough to buy 50-60%  of shares of most small companies.Nintendo only owns two western based developers companies , adding one or two more wouldn't cost more than 300 million.

If they focused on the hardcore, I'd happily own an HD Wii with a traditional controller, playing a new Earthbound!

I dk, Ask the people that benefit the most, your parents, girlfriend, wife, daughter, etc.

I might not agree with it all but it's obvious video games would be boring shit without nintendogs, brain train, wii fit, etc. This is a company that innovates while others stay the same.

I don't want Nintendo to be focused on either one... It's a gaming system, not an exclusive party system, or an exclusive hardcore system, and i definitely don't want ever again to see that crazy-ugly-Sarah-Palin-wannabe on any Nintendo keynote (No disrespect to women, they can promote like hell, only this one was completely out of her league); Next press conferences, i want people that can promote all kinds of games (casual, hardcore, softcore, etc.), not showing their son's messages and doing pep talks for the boss...

You mean what would happen if they focused more on hardcore gaming. The console would basically be the PS2. It had tons of games for every crowd, and that's why it sold a load of consoles.

it went well last generation

and it was the best generation ever in my opinion, the wii its getting too much shovelware VS quality titles.

thats the main problem, even nintendo is releasing their share (nintendogs, wii music)... but thats its because they loaded all their big games fast,

brawl, kart and galaxy.

great they are bringing "new" gamers and making money but "hardcore" even their own core are getting tons of games from the ps3 and 360 side.

i bought the gamecube and the ps2 each gaming games, used gc for multiplayer ps2 for my single and exotic JRPGS and both got games that stand out.

other problem its the third party, the main problem the wii hardware its too weak to handle games ps360 has... if nintendo really wanted  they could made the wii abit more powerful so it could handle port of 360 games.

tonned down but with the huge market share it would get them like the ps2 did.

they simply step aside and decided it was a better idea to make profits than getting the third party main games.

Wow, even games with an 85% on gamerankings are shovelware, now!  The bar has been set WAY too high!

Fanboys put way too much stock in their own wallets. If pandering to the "hardcore" was worth a good god damn then Nintendo would be struggling now and PS360 would be kicking the **** out of them. That's not reality, though.

Nintendo is much better off doing their own thing, and getting hits with the hardcore audience when they do and enjoying their millions when they don't.