If the Wii never existed, what would the market look like?

[Avinash_Tyagi]

That Guy said:
how here's a crazy question:

What was your opinion when Iwata said that the console market was on the brink of dying? (I think he said this somewhere near the middle of the GCN generation)

I remember saying wtf, Nintendo, you guys are crasy, the game market is doing fine! I don't think anyone really believed him. Also, I remember reading a bunch of news articles saying that Nintendo was just being stupid.

Another question goes along the same lines:

What was your opinion when Nintendo said that games were getting too complicated and hard and instead they wanted to focus on "simplier" games? I remember saying basically the same thing: "wtf Nintendo, you guys are crasy." At that point I wanted more in-depth games with better graphics. Now I understand what Nintendo was getting at. But when they said that 3 years ago, I seriously thought that they completely lost touch with the Videogame market.

 Anyone who paid attention to the rising costs and the stagnating growth and the wave of mergers could see it, its just that Sony and MS marketing had them blinded, even today many are still blinded.  Notice how talk of the industry was always in revenue growth, never in profits.