I've noticed that all these "Nintendo is evil and doomed!" threads have lots of opinion, but next to no evidence. I'm sure you've made lots of sensible arguments over the course of the thread so would you mind adding them to your OP? For the moment, you've made no argument as to why you think Nintendo has abandoned their audience, you just said they have. Well, except for the part about Galaxy and Other M. I can agree to Other M (or, God protect me from fans here, Metroid in general) being a rather worthless venture, but Galaxy isn't (and I'm not fanboyishly defending it - I detest Galaxy, personally). You see, Nintendo can't just come up with 20m IPs whenever it wants and, they'll ruin NSMB's or MK's appeal by making too many of them in the same generation. Galaxy, whilst not their most successful venture ever, is good enough in terms of sales to serve as filler work for their development teams while they think of the next 20m-selling IP or wait till it's been enough time since the last installment of NSMB or something.
“These are my principles; if you don’t like them, I have others.” – Groucho Marx
