Their current leadership team is responsible for the massive success they had with the Wii and DS, and the one that managed to turn the 3DS around and stay competitive against smartphones, something most of the industry considered impossible. There's evidently nothing wrong with the team or its mindset - a single dud doesn't change that. Nobody gets it right 100% of the time.
You mean two duds. Two massive duds. You don't get to sweep 3DS' disastrous launch under the rug here, especially since what they had to do to save it severely undercut their profit projections and likely lead to the situation they're in now with being unable to properly support the Wii U (i.e. Nintendo's biggest failure in their history as a gaming company).
So there is something wrong with the mindset of Nintendo's current leadership. Absolutely wrong. And not just because of where it's landed them this gen, but because it's hard to see how they're going to come back with such a conservative, backward-thinking mentality. The latter is the damning thing.
Here is the Problem, your statement shows: Sony have done everything right with the Vita. Perfect Market research, perfect everything, but the markt don´t accept it.
We do not need a third MS/SONY, so Nintendo has his own needs to find his spot and that Place will never be a copy & paste of Sony & MS.
While I'm not disagreeing with you in principal, I don't think Sony did everything right with the Vita. Saying Sony did "everything right" would be like saying Sony created this
perfect product that makes everyone's lives better in a quantifiable way and people didn't buy it "just because."
The Vita is very much a flawed product, and it's biggest flaw is price. Vita (and the original 3DS launch price) serve as undeniable proof that 250+ is simply more than what the average person is willing to spend on what is perceived to be "just a portable gaming device."