@Cobalt Investors. The problem is what gamers want and what investors want are two different things. The investors are very interested in the big wide market money that is mobile and the "Wii" market. Lets face it, that wide mobile market is overall worth more than the entirety of PS+XBox+Steam combined. IF you're in it for the bullion, you're going to focus on that market. Iwata was a gamer and kept Nintendo centered. Kimishima is a banker. And Furukawa....seems to be a "go along to get along money guy." The pull to the wide market with Switch, the talks of outselling Wii, etc....I think overall, unlike Wii, they will still give enough to keep gamers engaged, but nobody should be under the illusion they're not chasing that 'blue ocean" in favor of going head-on against Sony/MS for what's essentially a smaller market they're already outsiders in. For gamers it I expect the proposition is a lot more favorable than Wii, but it'll be no "for the fans" WiiU either.

Personally I think it will still end up my favorite system of all time. The form factor and the big games it does get (unlike disappointing Wii) will more than make it worthwhile. But I do also think my PS/MS backlog will be considerably larger.

Keeping in mind the big Japanese 3rd parties just got into gear a year ago and it's 2-4 years turnaround on games. There will be a glut of real third parties at some point (if you like Japanese games...and if not...why buy a Nintendo at all? )

@Fake-E-Lee Too many video games to pick from isn't really going to cause problems (well, ok, bad indies might ), I'd rather have more than I can play but want to than nothing that interests me. But on the broader topic, the rush to cram everything in, not just entertainment but the expectation to keep up with everyone else with unreasonable expectations where life isn't life but a data-metric based time scheduled checklist, the fact that anyone who doesn't keep up with the pace of unreasonable expectations is considered diseased and needs to be "cured" by being drugged into superhuman ability to keep up with said pace and expectations (not keeping up isn't just a personality trait, it's a disorder to cure! Faster, faster, faster, everything must go faster! Can't be stressed by it, must be happy! Be energized! Move the needle! Motivate for success! The drugs will keep you focused, energetic, happy and performant, you'll thank us later! You'll be so happy (unless you ever try to stop the drugs....) ) It's a wonderful world for those who thrive in that environment, and a dystopian nightmare for those that don't. But every few years populations double. More people, more competition, they're all your enemy! And we need synthetic foods through the mircacle of science because there's not enough food for the ever growing, ever faster moving population!

An ever growing population competing over ever thinning resources, with ever more disparate groups feeling slighted by other groups, with a rise of automation making the competition ever more life and death as most humans are rendered devoid of all value beyond being kept as, essentially, pets.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out how it all ends. It's not a matter of if or even when but what incident(s) will set off the reaction. Which I suspect everybody knows and pretends they don't, which is why the obsession with apocalyptic wastelands in entertainment, both film and games. It's in the minds of the masses most of the time anyway. We all know it's coming. The fantasy stories of it give everyone chances to not have to pretend they don't see it.

But hey, at least there won't be a glut of indies when we're all eating each other!