Nintendo's next step. Thoughts?

[UglyJoe]

I don't think third parties are going to go back to Nintendo, regardless of the specs.  It seems like the AAA crowd has been a distant second audience for them for a long time now. 

I think Nintendo will try once again to recapture the Wii's magic, but using some kind of brilliant console+mobile combination.  They're great at coming up with really fun and different ideas when it comes to gaming.  They just need to make that more marketable.  The Wii U is great and Nintendo Land was a great pack-in, but the console cost too much at launch and their marketing was awful.

[aitsu124]

I agree with the original statement. I'd love to see new sequels to retro games, as well as them reproduced. Think about it. With the technology available today, they could improve arcade ports and add in Famicom Disk System expansion sound to NES games, just to name a couple possibilities.

Another option, similar to what you were saying about the Everdrive thing, is to do that but do it more like the FDS's Disk Kiosks, where you could write new games to disks or, in this case, an SD card or something. If you got bored, you could just write a new game. It was a really cool idea that never left Japan, but should now and not on floppy disks prone to various problems.

[FamicomRetroGamer]

Each day that passes I become somewhat less interested in Nintendo because all they ever focus on is Amiibos, Pokémon, Zelda and Mario as if that's all there is to it. Yeah sure, Zelda:BotW looks pretty cool but making the entire E3 only about Zelda (a small portion was about Pokémon but who cares) was super boring because I was hoping to see more games as a sort of surprise. Nope, they weren't kidding around.

I'll buy Zelda:BotW but if Nintendo doesn't up their game I think I'll just stick to what they've released in the past then. I'm not very happy with the Wii U either.  

I don't think third parties are going to go back to Nintendo, regardless of the specs.

And who's fault is that? Nintendo and their fanbase refusing to support 3rd party games with the mentality of "Nintendo consoles are for Nintendo games".

The Wii U is great

Okay sure, in your opinion.

Nintendo Land was a great pack-in

Nintendo Land was nothing more than a tech-demo that had small replay value unless you have people locally to play with and even then.. there's much better games than that crappy compilation of tech-demos.

marketing was awful.

"Wii U" still gets people confused as to what the heck it is exactly and if it's an add-on for the Wii or if that the GamePad can play game cards like a 3DS can. Nintendo can always be trusted to come up with great names.  

[UglyJoe]

Nintendo Land was nothing more than a tech-demo that had small replay value unless you have people locally to play with and even then.. there's much better games than that crappy compilation of tech-demos.

Okay sure, in your opinion.

[BaconBitsKing]

I agree with the original statement. I'd love to see new sequels to retro games, as well as them reproduced. Think about it. With the technology available today, they could improve arcade ports and add in Famicom Disk System expansion sound to NES games, just to name a couple possibilities.

I'd love to see them do this with the VC. While they're at it, they should also fix the brightness for VC games on their next console.

[P]

Not sure if that is a problem though. They might try to make it look like it does on a real Famicom where it won't be 100% white either. It's different on different TV brands. Emulators just make a palette that looks right, but there's no correct palette for Famicom.

Each day that passes I become somewhat less interested in Nintendo because all they ever focus on is Amiibos, Pokémon, Zelda and Mario as if that's all there is to it. Yeah sure, Zelda:BotW looks pretty cool but making the entire E3 only about Zelda (a small portion was about Pokémon but who cares) was super boring because I was hoping to see more games as a sort of surprise. Nope, they weren't kidding around.

Nintendo don't show up much on E3 lately. I think it makes sense that the focus on their most popular franchisees though.