I’m sure you have some smart ass answer for this too.

Nintendo can definitely survive a failed generation. Do you seriously think they can lose $10 billion that easily? The only way they could is if they go all out with a console PS3 style, and even then they’d have to be trying their hardest to waste their money. If Nintendo’s management fell into such a state that they’d go bankrupt due to one flop… I can’t even finish that sentence. It’s just a stupid thing to say.

The problem is, they are pushing the new controller and the single player experience. This is one time they should follow their competitors and develop a real wireless network of their own, while also enhancing their software. Wii’s issue was that they could not garner third-party support, because their controller interface was so foreign and the GPU was inadequate. The Wii U will only fix the GPU component.

VR

Nintendo like Apple has built its reputation on innovation, UI, and design. The only way for Nintendo to compete is to INNOVATE. Create something that doesn’t yet truly exist in the gaming medium. A Virtual Reality console platform is the next logical evolutionary step for motion capture and hardcore-gaming. The technology at this point is there, unlike in the early 90s in the days of the Virtual Boy.

PS  Not,and never will be interested in 3D.

no it wont be the same online marketplace.  They have said this time and time again, its one of the main reasons why other than its hardware capabilities that it is attracting much more attention from 3rd party developers.  No friends codes, no sloppy wii style online.. its taking the best of xbox live, psn, steam? etc

At the time it was first announced, the 3D feature of the 3DS alone seemed to make it an easy sell given all the 3D buzz at the time, but arguably it was one of the few times Nintendo relied overly on technological hype rather than gameplay experience to launch a system and it ended up disappointing them despite the launch actually being stronger than the launch of the original Nintendo DS.

Nintendo’s problem with Wii U is that aside from the guaranteed Nintendo fanbase sales, Nintendo has to market this system to “hardcore” gamers whose needs have already been met on the HD systems they’ve owned for more than half a decade and invested hundreds of dollars of games and equipment in, and to casual gamers who owned Wii as their first console, aren’t used to the idea of 6 year console cycles, and won’t easily be convinced they need to replace their Wii when it isn’t at all broken.

If they don’t shit something up, having WP + W8 laptop and/or tablet + an xbox720 in some ways integrated with each other is mighty appealing to me. I’ll probably skip xbox since it seams ms will have a steam-like games app store. the prospect looks amazing.

No matter how much i love mario and zeld, that is not enough. especially when there are completely working emulators and free ISO’s to download  if i choose so :)

Mobile gaming is teaching consumers a new gaming habbit. These consumers will begin to regard, and they probably allready are, nintendos products as being too expensive, or too clunky, or not offering the services they are used to on their phones or ipods or ipads so they seem restrictive. Nintendo was also all about disposable income, but now disposable income = buying an ap for $1 and its what the casual consumer is getting used to. Nintendos whole marketing model for the wii has been taken out from under it by an industry that is better poised to cater for that markets needs.
It’s almost like nintendo is trying to be hard core by following traditional business strategies that hard core gamers buy into but their product says casual gamer. You end up with a product that is in the wrong position for the intended market. Thats where all this doom and gloom is coming from I think. Nintendo needed to transoform and reposition themselves once again, like they did with the Wii, but instead they have failed to see the market shift or forsee the markets future. The need for the 3ds price drop is evidence of this. And rumours of what the Wii U will cost is further evidence nintendo has lost touch with the casual market. What is interesting is how MS and Sony would ramble about the life of their products and the long term and we all laughed because of nintendos epic sales and thought MS and Sony didnt have a clue. But now the tables really have turned and its obvious MS and Sony actually did have a clue lol. To compete with the Wii U they dont even have to release new consoles because the market will not perviece the Wii U as being ‘next gen’. Especially when iphones are playing games on TV with apple TV and PSVs are conecting to PS3s in the same fashion as a Wii U. And why create a tablet looking device when the market is so heavily dominated by ipads? There is just so much nintendo is doing that shows people like me (who follow the industry and companies strategies) that they dont know what they are doing with the Wii U.

No single studio does what Nintendo does.

The PSV will conect with the PS3 to do exactly the same thing, but it will use both the power of the ps3 and the PSV so expect great things to come from that.

By the time Wii U comes to the market the concept of playing things on a touch screen tablet on TV is going to be around a year or more old (depending on the Wii U launch date). Nintendo has gone from introducing new ways of playing games to following. Not only will the hardware be outdated by about 7 or so years but the interaction will be outdated as well.

The next generation wii is straying from this successful motion model. Nintendo needs to further expand on intuitive motion as a controller for games. For example, combine xbox’s kinect concept with wiimote+nunchuk (or even something strapped to the wrists)… imaging playing a fighting game where your motions are realistically reflected in the game.

The 3DS will never be a success by Nintendo’s standards. It’s simply not possible. It won’t end up as another GameBoy Micro, but that isn’t saying much. And if 3D was Nintendo’s best idea to get things going, it’s unlikely they’ll come up with something better. About the best shot they have is a few years from now doing a 3DS overhaul with dual analog and much better battery life. If they can get a handheld with battery life that exceeds what the average smartphone can provide, while being a reasonable price they’ve got a shot, but it’s really only a shot to keep surviving until they come up with something really good.