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Yes.

Now I love Nintendo but within the last few years, they have loss sight of how to properly market their hardware and in some cases their software. Grant the Nintendo directs are pretty good but to the mass market that doesn't already follow Nintendo news online or on their consoles this doesn't really help them much.

It isn't just that they are not appealing to the traditional Western gamer, it is that they are not moving in a way that inspires loyalty or diversity among the audiences and potential developers. Falling back on traditional cash generators is fine but not to the degree that Nintendo took with the Western markets in the final years of the Wii.

They also do appear to have become a joke among the Western developers mainly due the fullfilling prophecy that they can't compete with Mario or Zelda and the fact that Nintendo hasn't been making their consoles with the latest chipsets that those working for the larger companies are expecting.