Ahriman

This is why so many people will leap on the Wii-U and why it will claim a strong market share early during the next gen race

@Vic Fontaine

The Wii-U will :-

Be the first new generation console out of the gate and if rumors are to believed only marginally less powerful than the other contenders.

Allow Nintendo to combine their first party prowess with the HD era, provide stronger online features and true third party collaboration like in the SNES days.

Still retain the broader audience it has acquired through Wii-U and coax both types players with the ability to play a game running on the console remotely with the Wii-U pad.

@TwEE

Yes, I know that but she was VP for marketing so although she didn't drive the direction they took, she was the outward facing picture of how Nintendo wanted to be seen.

Your angry teenage boy definition is why I put the word in quotes. Targeting a broader audience worked well but there was no reason to do it at the expense of AAA third party titles or making sure games like skyward sword were released well before they were. Wii was always crying out for a new Star fox title, a luigi's mansion title or something like that.

I don't really know why you are arguing the point, since the 2011 E3 conference shows you that they realise they were mistaken and are now trying to claw back that market that they threw away needlessly.

Wii-U will be the best of both worlds.

This is the result of the "Cammie Dunaway" era of targeting the "casuals" and also having that ivory tower mentality to their hardware. They were not working closely with the third parties and this is what happens.

On the plus side Wii-U looks like it will change all of this! So I have high hopes for Nintendo in 2012

Sorry Obisidian, in my eyes you now have a track record of this:-

Neverwinter Nights 2 -

"The most common criticism of the game was its numerous technical glitches"

Kotor 2

"...the game was criticized for being incomplete due to a rushed deadline"

Gears of War is overrated IMHO and ever since BulletStorm, Bleszinski gets more and more on my nerves each time I read something he has said , like in a Cammie Dunaway sort of grating fashion.