Nintendo making a super powerful console is the wrong strategy. The market can't support 3 'hardcore' consoles. They need to do what they did with the Wii and provide a cheap alternative secondary console. A cheap, low-mid powerful console with an unusual controller is the winning formula. This is talking strictly from a business standpoint.

They just tried this again and it didn't work
isn't that pretty much what the WiiU is?
What is the Wii U then?I wouldn't put the Wii U in that category.
I wouldn't put the Wii U in that category.
Tablet controller, $299 launch price, specs were much weaker than PS4 and XB1 which launched a year later. Sounds exactly like what you're talking about.A cheap, low-mid powerful console with an unusual controller is the winning formula.
if anyone is interested, here is a 2 part podcast on the history of Nintendo:

if anyone is interested, here is a 2 part podcast on the history of Nintendo:
with them. That, and the fact the certain members of its leadership and stockholders were arrogant meant that when Sony came around with the Playstation the 3rd parties went
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.https://arcadegirl64.wordpress.com/2...3/so-about-nx/
After speaking to seven different people this week, I can say with confidence that this is false. NX is not using x86 architecture like PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The NX has special, custom-made chips and the overall design of the hardware is very modern. The chips are industry leading because they are very modern chips, but having modern chips doesn’t necessarily mean Nintendo is aiming to create the most powerful hardware on the market. Furthermore, any NX rumors on “Polaris chips” and “Polaris architecture” are all wacky. There’s a good reason why those rumors are wacky.
In terms of raw power, numerous sources tell me that NX is much closer to Xbox One than PlayStation 4. Even that might be stretching it a tiny bit. Anyone who is claiming that NX is “two times the power of PS4 GPU” is being misled by their sources. Based on what I’ve heard, I don’t believe the NX will compete directly with PS4 (Neo) / PS4K in raw power.
There will be plenty of debates over the NX’s specs because it’s not simple to directly compare two apples (with x86 architecture) to an orange (that doesn’t use x86 architecture). But everything that I’ve heard (so far) indicates that NX isn’t going to blow away any of the consoles on the market today…except for Wii U.
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told youCD Projekt Red - "NX Will Be Fantastic"#1
Video in German here.
Full translation here: http://www.nintengen.com/2016/06/cd-...astic.html?m=1
Host: What do you know about NX?
Fabian: It will be fantastic. As developer [CD Projekt] you get access to the hardware and everybody [at CD Projekt] is looking forward. We know things.
Host: Are you lying now?
Fabian: No, no.
Host: Sometimes I cannot tell if you are telling the truth or not.
Fabian: No, no! It was like this in the past as the Wii prototypes came in, back then called “Revolution”. It was so funny that in Japan they were all very excited at the developer studios of SEGA, they thought it was very good. The Europeans took a little longer. Like “Well, maybe this doesn’t work”, you know, because it was technically just a GameCube. It was not much more. But NX what you hear [of the developers] about NX is all very positive.
Host: But the hardware will be much worse than the new Xbox.
Fabian: I think this will never again be the main emphasis in the future [for Nintendo]. Can it [NX] be better than the new Xbox? Take a realistic point of view: is Nintendo able to build a console that has got more power than Xbox?

