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To conclude, ultimately one cannot turn a whore into a housewife, and a leopard doesn't change its spots. Wanting Nintendo to fundamentally change its archaic business philosophy (and break from age old traditions) is probably asking too much of the company. And in the end, it's not as if the gaming market doesn't offer options. After all, in a free market economy, if consumers don't like something, then they'll happily seek out viable alternatives (which offer better value in terms of software and money). Nintendo needs to realise this and stop trying to dictate as to what gamers should be enjoying, and instead try to anticipate consumer demand and offer exactly as to what the market wants.
Part of this would be to adopt the same strategy as what Sony (and Mark Cerny) did with its own R&D efforts for Playstation 4, and liaise with developers so as to be more inclusive and figure out exactly as to what it would take to make developers want to develop for their machine(s) again. Nintendo also has to be willing to swallow its pride and allow others to come up with better software. Both Sony and Microsoft allow this, and their cons...