I think Nintendo winning Japan will matter a whole lot more in the next 3 years, firstly because of the handheld market fracturing overseas, and secondly because we just don't know what Nintendoland and NSMBWU is going to do.
They've got a good shot of taking Japan early with the Wii U, and Sony's delay on the PS4 will be a major issue a year from now.
“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.
