Soundwave on 29 July 2013
| chapset said: one bad handheld gen would be enough to cripple Nintendo, it's their bread and butter console gaming is just the icing on the cake |
Nintendo's long term survival isn't really tied to one console or even handheld.
Mario and Link will still be around 100 years after their creation in some way, the same way as Batman or Superman would still be around even if the comic book business went extinct or Mickey Mouse is still around even as traditional animation has changed dramatically.
Character IPs on the scale of what Nintendo has created tend to stick around for a long, long, (looooooooong) time.
The age of the "game console" in itself may not have much longer to go, in 20 years I think the "traditional game console" as we know it will be more or less gone.
