What can Nintendo do to bring you back to them?

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JayWood2010 said:
Seeing as how the DS is the number one selling console of all time and the Wii is number one of this gen consoles I dont believe they have lost to many people. They have actually gained.

Then there is Microsoft who has also gained with the help of third parties and XBL

If you are going to make an article about this stupidity do it with a company that has lost a lot, AKA PS3 vs PS2.

Sounds about right. Nintendo more or less maintained its fanbase through handhelds during the dark ages of the N64 and GameCube and came back to the Home Console table when the Wii came out. While I thought GameCube was fairly pathetic, I did love Gameboy Advance SP.

I don't think many current Sony or Xbox fans were originaly Nintendo fans, most PS3 fans seem to have started gaming with a Sega or Sony console, and most Xbox fans were/are PC gaming fans. I don't know many people who had an NES or SNES besides me and a few friends - and all of us have Wii and DS.

I think as well, Sony Microsoft appeal to the single male gamer (especially Xbox, even the name of it sounds like the Internet handle of a single male gamer) in the 10-24 age range, whereas Nintendo appeals to children, women, and the gamer who is in a commited relationship. Just go into a store and look at the people who are looking at games, single guys mostly. So maybe it is just that gamers grow out of Nintenso, and then grow back into Nintendo later.

I also don't see people who started with GameCube (and therefore GameCube fans) as true Nintendo fans; they don't want Nintendo to be like Nintendo, they want Nintendo to be Sony Junior.