Personally, I have to agree with the original post. No offense to the well-made points about market values and sales numbers, but Nintendo is indeed failing. The fact that last year they posted their first ever year of losses is NOT a good sgin. Clearly, numbers are down. No matter how many or how few times that has happened before, it's not good. I agree. My gameboy color taught me to read through Pokemon Blue. My sister taught me to be a gamer through Star Fox 64 and Mario Kart 64. I came into the gamer community through my gamecube. Now, what has Nintendo done for us lately? Blatant grasps at former glories in the Mario and Zelda series, never quite reaching the level of even respectable. They've all but abandoned the series many old fans grew up loving, like Metroid, Star Fox, F-Zero, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, etc., or handed them over to 3rd party developers who don't know how to carry on the plots or gameplay. Now we're promised a new system that still only confirms more Mario (honestly, I'm sick of he being the only character they market; yeah, he's "Mr. Nintendo," but 10 terrible Mario games a year is unneeded and stupid) and little else. Oh, we've confirmed a new Pikmin and an Assasin's Creed installment. Unfortunately, it's too late. In America, at least, the fan-base, speaking from one who desperately wants the company to succeed and held-on to the "hope boat" as long as I could, is tired and disinterested. The controls on the systems keep regressing to mere gimmicks, the games lack originality, and Sony and Microsoft are just better at making games now. I wish it wasn't the case. But those that say Nintendo is fine didn't grow up only on Nintendo, and aren't the ones who are most upset to see it ignore its fans while marketing bad new entries while asking you to remember the glory days.
