Nintega

[DanneSandin]

RolStoppable said:
An accurate description for the author is "idiot".

1) Nintendo has better financials than Sega.

2) Smartglass and Sony handhelds are even worse things than the Wii U Gamepad. That's actually so pathetically desperate that this has to be a joke article. In that case I would take back my opening line.

3) The nature of video game systems is that the cycle resets to 0 for everyone every few years. So the implication of a Wii U failure is the same that the GameCube failure had: It won't matter for the following generation. A centralized cloud-based PC thing isn't going to put an end to Nintendo's run, because it can easily be one-upped by a different controller standard. Nintendo would have the games to sell their own hardware while the PC thingies could only have an additional peripheral that developers wouldn't use due to low market penetration, thus making the whole retaliation a moot point. Nevermind that Nintendo has the most valuable portfolio of IPs in the business. There's nobody that can compete with them, the biggest threat is Nintendo destroying themselves by trying to make another port machine like the GameCube or Wii U.

Right now the only company that is on its way out is Sony in the handheld market.

Agreed. Bad article is bad. 

If Nintendo wanted they could probably buy Sega, release a new console (with all of Segas IP's backing them up as well - and remember that Sega recently bought Atlus as well) and STILL have money left in the bank.

I'm also willing to bet that there will ALWAYS be a (niche) market for console games, no matter how big the smartphone/tablet market grows. In its current form there's just so many things mobile devices can't do, and that's what will save (a portion) of the conole market, at the very least.

Nintendo's strenght (and arguebly its weakness as well) is that they don't depend on 3rd party as much as MS and/or Sony - which means they're kinda existing in their own little bubble. MS, Sony, Apple, Google, EA and Activision won't be able to bring down Ninty for quite a few years more!