Why?  They misread the market, they are money losers, and they underestimated their competition, those mistakes don't help you win marketshare

Nintendo practically never aimed for a huge chunk of the market self-proclaimed "hardcore", how can they "deserve" to win? They get what they want and have been healthy for more than any other company would dream of in this tough industry.

Nintendo deserves to be on top because it is on top.
They earned the right to be better, by the virtue of being better.


If Nintendo would have made the Gamecube 2 and be at third place, or forced to go third party, I wouldn't say that they deserve to be first place, because they wouldn't.

Nintendo deserves to be on top this gen because they had the better ideas, they understood the market well...probably the only thing wrong this gen is the ps3 at last place, but that happened because x360 launched 1 year before and because the ps3 was too expensive...

Last gen both GC and Xbox deserved better sales, but that didn't happen...it's life :)

Nintendo don't deserve anything as far as I'm concerned. They've lost me as a customer. They do not cater to my needs. I owned a Wii, and I sold it. It looked a blurry mess on my HDTV and all the games I played felt constrained by the technology and, in general, very PS2. The Wii is an inferior console to the competition with one saving grace (as far as our household was concerned): Wii Fit; but that was not enough to keep it.

I really wanted to love the Wii, but didn't. Fortunately, I made a profit on the machine, so I'm not complaining.

I'll be waiting for an HD version before I consider buying Nintendo again. Hopefully they have a decent online service by then, and a wider range of good games.

Hear hear!

Although Microsoft and Sony have done their respective bits for gaming... but then again, Sony undoubtedly played a part in the demise of Sega.

I'm so glad Nintendo is back on top.

Yes and No.

reason I say that it because Nintendo left a HUGE gap for them this year to release quality games which would not be competing with anything from Nintendo, but forgot to like talk to developers. But they still refused to make games. They need to through some bucks and work with building relations better just like microsoft and sony do.

Hell even the N64 had better games from 3rd parties and there was sweet all support compared to ps1.

This big gap has caused a drought on the Wii of quality games. Now they are all coming at once and will be competing with each other for customer $$. In the mean time a fair few Wii owners went out and baught other console to fill the void.

+1

Sony's arrival in to the gaming business was the start of the "corporate" era of console gaming.

It wasn't about how good you were, it was about how much money you had.

It's always been like this. Let's take music as an example. It was one of the greatest forms of art, but with the rise of the contemporaneous era, it's boiled down to who has the clip with the most hot chicks or who's more of a bad girl and so on, and the more money you have, more people like you, because north-americans ought to be represented by rich good-looking people, rather than them-selves. Anyways, in today's art scenario, cash is what counts, quality is secondary. I mean, how do you think the new Bionic Commando was so overrated and sucssessfull? 

And this is why I support piracy. 

Artists are supposed to be starving!