SEGAs probably looking at Nintendo and shaking their heads

Well that's essentially the problem.. people keep buying their products expecting Nintendo to have learned from past mistakes. But there's a point where child-like naivety and Japanese cultural differences crosses into poor corporate management and continued market ignorance.

To me it feels like the Switch pricing is trying to make up the lost revenue from the WiiU by fleecing accessory prices and not including a game in the base system package. When it releases I plan on sitting back in a recliner sipping some tea and reading reviews and opinions.

Yes and that is a huge problem.

After the first reveal trailer seeing a very solid hardware and seeing them go a route that I predicted well over 2 years ago I was happy to see them going that route and I was even happy to see how they were executing it.

What was worrying me was on the business front and clearly on the architecture and the hardware itself.

Now clearly they're going to have specific limitations in regards to power based on the device needing to be a portable first and foremost.

But my biggest problem regarding this is that Nintendo has not use this towards their advantage they instead began targeting Home console in their marketing and messaging.

Did they forget that the Wii U failed?

So not only are they targeting in install base that is about 14 million of their own fans there now targeting a demographic that is the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in PC to be compared to to no end?

Oh boy, this is just pure and utter stupidity.

What I would have done was simply announced the switch as their new handheld that has the ability of playing on the television in simply begin calling it a hybrid.

Second you jump into calling it a Home console you are now begging for comparisons by stronger devices in the problem this is your showing people how empty the glasses and not helpful it is I could never understand the stupidity of a company to seriously do this.

I think the switch reveal Woulda went off without a hitch if they simply just called it a handheld and then begin showing the evolution of the Game Boy series and then begin letting people know that this is more powerful than the 3DS and the PlayStation Vita because that is the audience that I believe they should be targeting considering the 3DS outsold the Wii U in the comparisons to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One would not be valid.

Did you see people comparing the PlayStation 3 to the 3DS?

Nintendo has essentially just marketed their platform to die based on their own incompetence I can't even begin to understand why a company would do such a thing especially if they understand the majority of their install base is actually handheld.

There's probably going to be lots of Gamers that are assuming another handheld is going to release so they might hold off on even purchasing this with the belief that they're just going to get another handheld this is a terrible thing and it's mixed messaging.

In my personal opinion Nintendo should have just come out and stated that the switch is going to replace the Wii U and the 3DS and 100% of their developers will be working on the device.

This at the very least brings all their install bases on board to understanding that there is nothing after the switch that anything after the switch is simply going to be the next switch so to speak.

Bye then having one foot in and one foot out they may have just hurt this platform.

When PlayStation 4 was announced it had 1000 plus teams working on it.

the switch was announced to having 80 teams working on it.

But consider folks this comparison would have never been made if Nintendo would not have been trying to message this as a competitor to the PlayStation 4 people will now continuously look at what PlayStation 4 PC and Xbox One is getting and they will clearly minus that the switch is not receiving this.

"It wasn't until Wii that Nintendo intentionally started developing underpowered consoles."

Or until when Iwata finally took the reins. I don't want to imply anything bad regarding his death, but he was all-out bad for Nintendo... Whereas Yamauchi took a more power-centric approach, all Iwata ever did was revel in (short term) thinking that led to the gimmick-era Nintendo.

I was hoping that with Kimishima taking the reigns would prove to be a blessing, where he would be more like Yamauchi... but alas, he's like a compromise between Yamauchi and Iwata. A back to basics approach, with a gimmick still tied in.

100% agreed the GameCube was Nintendo's last actual effort of trying to take over the console Market regards to raw power.

it is unfair to call people that analyse the situation right 'idiots' the gamecube did not fail because he was powerful... it failed because he used gimmicky mini cds and was not able to play DVDs.

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Let me be clear. This is sarcasm