That's not how the world of finance and business works, but sure: if Nintendo does nothing but lose a quarter billion per year, it will take decades to deplete their reserves.
A publicly traded company can only take so many years of losses paired with shrinking revenue before the stock price drops to near worthless, making it a prime target for acquisition, even if for nothing other than their IP portfolio.
Nintendo could buy back their own stock to retain a controlling interest, but that would deplete their cash reserves while failing to address the problems of falling revenue and magnifying their annual losses.
Nintendo needs to tap into new markets, pure and (not so) simple. They're exploring medical entertainment, presumably not within the consumer space (everyone still remember the E3 Wii biometric sensor that never went gold?) so there are other markets but it remains to be seen whether Nintendo can capitalize on them.
If not, they're better off selling their IP rights to other hardware manufacturers and opening up a Nintendo Savings and Loans branch to become an investment firm with all that surplus that's currently keeping their toy business alive.
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