Is it game over for Nintendo?

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WindyCityHeat said:
It's not gameover, but nintendo is in a bad place. The nintendo brand at this point is associated with Toys-R-Us more than it is with actual gaming. Hardcore fans left years ago for Playstation/Xbox, casual gamers don't seem to be very interested at this point, gaming websites use "nintendo" as a punchline for their jokes, and Sony and MS are just better suited to compete in the ever changing industry, post smartphone revolution.

I think after this upcoming next-gen, probably towards the end of the next-gen, developers will be very "eager" to jump ship and drop support for nintendo completely IF the sales are struggling against PS4/720. It's getting to the point of no return, you can almost see a nintendo future where the console is only purchased for one or two nintendo exclusives and nothing else. (That's somewhat the case as of now)

Nintendo's strategy has crippled them as a competitor. Remember how nintendo years ago began saying nonsense like "We dont compete directly, we do our own thing." That would be Nintendo's reality now, don't expect anything else. If you think ANY nintendo exclusive is going to save the wiiu....get real. (It's the Marketplace that's changed)

I don't know about first paragraph, since I am not american.

For second paragraph, I agree. When best selling third party game which also happen to be heavily bundled does only 330k within holiday period, there will be little incentive to develop those exclusives for Wii U. When it comes to multiplats, all you need is to compare CoD on PS3/360 to Wii U. Wii U version has sold 150k, which is literally nothing compared to other versions. Not encouraging at all.

If the gap on power is high enough, Wii U will be skipped just like Wii was when PS4/nextbox come.