Seriously, Nintendo is not THAT Important

[theRepublic]

BeElite said:

theRepublic said:
If we are just talking about the big 3 hardware makers, Nintendo is easily the most irreplaceable. Sony and Microsoft are so similar that they could easily replace each other in the event one of them goes out of business. Third parties would pretty easy replace the content they make.

Who replaces Nintendo?

Heres the thing, would anyone care if its replaced or not.

Ninty is irreplaceable only to a very small numbers of gamers, to most they are irrelevant.  

I tend to think people would care about one of the biggest software publishers and only relevant player in the handheld space going away.

And how many would care if Microsoft or Sony went away?  Wouldn't most of those people just switch to the other and go on playing mostly the same games?