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nintendo will catch up when they release the next console, this will be a growing pain time for them this time around. they will be fine eventually, just not anytime soon, since the next console release is at least 4 years out from now.

And this is why you shouldn't read gaming articles written by non-gaming websites. The tech websites are by far the worst, because of their ridiculous six-year-old delusion that the iOS App Store is going to kill traditional gaming because Angry Birds 27: Shrove Tuesday Edition is going to stop people from wanting to play GTA5 or Zelda.

Great! Now i have a headache after reading that article. Thanks Obama Sethnintendo. 

He is right, smarthpones will take over the world. Soon we will be taken over by them, the film industry, the music industry, everything will end. The only thing that is going to exist is the holy smartphone industry.

Sure this is the worse article ever made about the issue. You´re right.

There´s so much discrepancy and distorted ideas about everything the states that it´s just really hard where to start adressing all his wrong points. Seems that the author doesn´t know much about the videogame market and actual Nintendo financial situation and wrote that on things that he "just heard about somewhere"

I just can think that this article was written under a (probably well paid) lobby request.

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Nothing makes me facepalm like these articles and posts about the death of Nintendo.

Sure, they're not making as many sales or as much money as they did in the Wii's prime, but really, absolutely NO company right now is making that much money. The Wii sold ridiculous amounts.

But c'mon, just look at the hardware and software sale numbers for this week, for example.

For Hardware (Across all their platforms):

Sony (PS3, Vita, PSP): 203 774 units
Nintendo (Wii, WiiU, 3DS, DS): 195 191 units
Microsoft (X360): 78 126

Then for software (Across all their platforms)
Microsoft (X360): 1 756 423 units
Sony (PS3, Vita, PSP): 1 746 826 units
Nintendo (Wii, WiiU, 3DS, DS): 1 349 811 units

There's a HUGE difference between making LESS money than before and making NO money and being in financial trouble. And the numbers show that Nintendo is still making TONS of money.

So just freakin' relax, wash the sand out of your man-ginas, and just enjoy playing games on whatever platforms you choose to own.

Why do the worst articles always come from the supposed fans?

He's right.

Nintendo has always relied heavily on kids to play their systems and all their games (except maybe Metroid) are kid friendly. While they might loss the teen/young adult audience to Ms/Sony, parents have always felt safe letting their kids play Nintendo consoles. Those kids are tomorrows Nintendo die-hards.

But todays kids aren't playing Mario, they are playing Angry Birds. A hand me down smartphone/tablet is so much easier and cheaper for parents to do and they never have to worry about going to the store to shell out $60 for the latest game. The kids have endless games, mostly for free.

Nintendo has also abandoned their 'casual' market - the soccer moms, lapse gamers and mature audience that Wii/DS pulled in. They lost the 'core' ages ago.

Nintendo has awesome IPs but if no one wants to buy their hardware, it's not getting played.

I'm not supportive of Nintendo developing for mobile, but I think their back catalog ought to be on mobile (it is anyway, they just aren't making any money off it) so new players discover Mario, DK, Link, etc.

What Nintendo should have done was the exact opposite of WiiU. They need to make a device that allows you to play in fun, accessible ways that you can't possible do on PS4/XB1 or any mobile device. Just like DS and Wii did in their day. If it's fun, people will buy it. What WiiU is doing looks like a poor man's HD system or poor man's tablet. Except it costs too much. Still.

I believe Nokia's downfall started around the time they released the N Gage (10 years ago).  N Gage was crap, sold like shit, and probably caused them a decent amount of losses.  After that failure Nokia seemed to not take anymore risks or very few and were left in the dust.  They are trying to crawl out of obscurity now and look to be headed in a better direction than Blackberry at the moment. 

Does this article raise a few issues?  Sure it does just like all the other articles stating Nintendo shouldn't sell hardware and go 3rd party.  I believe the smartphone/tablet gaming as a small threat compared to what some people believe.  Do smartphones and tablets take away some consumer purchases of dedicated hand helds?  Sure but the 3DS is still doing pretty good and is doing really well this year (will finish up YoY) with the help of a solid software lineup.  Releasing Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Zelda, Fire Emblem, and a few other decent Nintendo titles in NA/Europe (along with good indie and semi decent 3rd party support) have insured the 3DS to have a wonderful year in sales.  Not to mention MH4 releasing in Japan soon...

So the 3DS is fine for now.  Nintendo will release another dedicated hand held after the 3DS.  The doom cycle can begin again then for the hand held section.  The only thing in trouble is the Wii U and Nintendo's software lineup for the end of the year is decent (has a few system sellers being released) and there are a few mega hits coming next year (Mario Kart and Smash).  Wii U will make them money in a couple years.  3DS is probably turning them a profit now (especially software sells).  I fail to see Nintendo fucking up completely or becoming totally irrelevant in the near future in gaming.  Nintendo has IPs that sell their hardware.  They won't stop making hardware just because some major third party companies shun them.  Nintendo will leave the hardware market once their IPs can't support selling systems.