fistfulofmetal said:It's also easier to fuck up when you're in the lead. You make dumb choices and stupid mistakes. Hell, they've already made one blunder (Wii Music). They're not infallible gods. Eventually they WILL fuck up.
That's a given, but the important thing here is not to go by the assumption that they will fail by the time they release their 2nd post-Wii system, just because the N64 and the PS3 "failed" (not saying you implied that, I don't remember what you said exactly).
That, and two more things: first, a failure is just a failure, so maybe they can be successful afterwards, and second, they're, in all likelihood, trying to have an environment in which they can come up with the next big thing. Not saying they will, but that's something new for Nintendo. From the get-go, they're supposedly thinking that the Wii and its values will eventually bore people (not this gen or next gen, if you ask me) and that they must come up with something new and appealing before someone else does. Their strategy implies trying to innovate in ways that don't seem to make sense at first. Just as the Wii didn't make sense as a console that's barely above last gen in terms of hardware and has a remote-shaped controller.
Will they succeed? I don't know. The point is that they're very much aware of themselves and the industry, something that was a bit lacking just a few years ago.