Nintendo needs to realize that their heads are buried in their own collective assholes. All they are doing with their consoles is coming out with shit that is flat out based on Gimmicks. The success of the Wii and failure of the Wii U was mostly because the Gimmick worked, but only for a short period of time. The Wii was cool because it came with a solid game. The Wii U sounds way too much like the Wii which still inspires waves of confusion that the two consoles are different. Dont even get me started with the Wii U controller. What a piece of fucking dog shit.
But what is innovative for one game can not be transferred to another. For example, motion controls for throwing a bowling ball does not translate int a good role playing game. Their biggest problem is they are trying to force every developer, both first and third party, to incorporate these gimmicks that only work on one game. I have a Wii, but never bought a Wii U. And of the handful of games that I did buy, they all felt like they were trying to tack on the gimmick of Wii Bowling into their mechanics. Even Metroid 3 felt weird. Dont get me wrong, the first person aspect was definitely a plus for that situation, but not every game is supposed to use either the Bowling or First Person Shooter mechanic without actually detracting from the gameplay.
There is really only about three games on the Wii that actually held my interest. Sports, Metroid, and Zelda. Zelda I just preferred the GameCube version. Metroid, well, it was good, but not much replay and my arms get exceptionally tired always trying to point the fucking controller at the screen. Then we have Sports. Dont get me wrong, there are redeeming qualities about Sports, but of all the games it had, and its later Sports release, the only one of those Sports games that was worth two squirts of piss was Bowling. Yet, not a single developer had half the insight to make a standalone Bowling game.
Nintendo is held back by its own innovation because not every game is going to be succesful because of a motion controller or a touch screen addon, which holds back every single game developer as well.