Short answer: I'll forgive a company of a lot when they can't pay their bills.
Long answer: What etecoon said.
I'll add that Nintendo is having trouble leveraging what should be their advantage as a vertical player. Their software doesn't do enough to take advantage of opportunities offered by Nintendo's hardware. Or perhaps those hardware opportunities simply aren't panning out in development.
Either way. Nintendo will never get ahead by becoming just another OEM for the major publishers, they need to offer unique value. Nintendo's hardware and software teams need to work more closely to craft new, unique experiences that rival hardware can't offer because they're chained to the PC-with-thumbsticks paradigm. This may lead to future failures, but the successes will be worth it.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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