If this has to be debated, the metric of success, then this website serves no purpose.
Its sales of hardware and nothing else is more relevant. Look at the Guitar Hero eg. Wii is smashing the competition because of hardware numbers.
But then we can talk about other factors, variety in genre, variety in user accessability, etc. Nintendo still wins.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
