Only 2 things I want to comment on, I hate long posts xD

Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
You said in your post that what Nintendo's thing is "pushing attempting to do what the other's dont." The only thing they are pushing is exactly what they have been pushing since the 70's.
What I intended by this post was that Nintendo pushes for innovation where the others don't. The last console, the Wii offered motion controls, and both the PS3 and Xbox 360 adopted similar practices. Motion controls are not interesting anymore, so Nintendo moved to having a tablet interface on top of games. They've yet to do anything interesting with this hardware yet, but I am interested to see what the tablet inface will hold. If it turns into just another party game gimmick then I'll renounce the Wii U as a console. (from what I know, the only function the Wii U controller functions as in Mario Kart 8 is a horn. That could have been assigned to any button and provided the player with a map or something). The DS was also an innovation by offering a 2 screens, as well as a touch screen. 3DS updates the top screen to have a 3D effect. Nintendo pushes for innovated changes in the hardware. Nintendo do rely on a few franchise to be cash cows, which is why they can take risks and try and offer Variety. It is however, why they are miles behind the other hardware. That being said though, people are debating the other two next gen consoles abilites when Mario Kart is 1080p 60fps, while watchdogs is only 792p 30fps on Xbox One.

Hell even things like the Gameboy and Virtual boy were innovative. Virtual boy flopped hard but at least they attempted something weird and new. They are doing the same thing with the Wii U, which is also failing consider Wii U units are still selling at a loss per unit sold.

Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
Regarding the second advantage - the exclusive titles mean little to someone who a) hasn't heard of them and b) has no Nintendo fanboy blood... exclusives are only good when you also have the games that are released on the other consoles, otherwise you're not so much a console of exclusives, more so an excluded console...
They could do much better with the promotion of their games. It's strange to me that someone does not know What Metroid and F-Zero is in 2014, but it's understandable as Nintendo have done nothing to advertise them in recent years (to my understanding. I tend to ignore advertisements anyway). Funny thing is, Nintendo have gone and released one new IP for the Wii U so far, called "The Wonderful 101". Only thing I know about it is that you control 101 superheroes to fight for justice and each member of your team has special unique abilites that when combined can turn into things like giant swords controlled on the touch screen. I seem to have missed all if any advertising for this game, so I cannot actually comment if it looks good or not before playing it. Suppose that's another issue with Nintendo's Draconian polices.