When is Nintendo going to surrender?

[NightDragon83]

Anfebious said:

It's the question I keep telling to myself. We all know of the Wii U and 3DS problems, I'm not here to talk about that. I am here to talk about a deeper problem, something that has been going for years and is currently hurting Nintendo more than ever.

The media. The industry. Whatever you want to call it, but it seems there is a portion of the gaming world that it's against Nintendo and it's pretty clear but no one dares to talk about it because it's wildly accepted that it's all in "Nintendo fans minds", or "It's just a conspiracy theory".

Well I'm here to tell you it's not a conspiracy theory. In fact there is plenty of evidence about it. You need to check articles from the N64 era or the Gamecube era, heck even on the Wii era we had negative news about Nintendo. 

Don't you remember guys about this?

Seem pretty obvious they where talking about Nintendo. But let's not stay with that only! Don't you remember the backlash that the gamecube recieved because it looked like a "kids toy".

I will post this article: http://www.dromble.com/2014/01/07/dolphin-tale-story-of-gamecube/ I think I already posted it once in these forums but It won't hurt to post it again for anyone who missed it. There is a whole section about the "kiddy image" of the Gamecube.

Well you get the point guys, it's just a little research and BAM! you can find all sort of negative articles about Nintendo. And over the course of the years, that weakened Nintendo. That, coupled with an incredible apathy from third party developers to publish their games on Nintendo platforms, have sunk the Wii U to new lows. And with that Nintendo now sinks to new lows.

So how long is Nintendo going to keep making games and creating hardware? Is the QOL their way of saying "We surrender, at last!"? How long is Nintendo going to try to go against an industry that seems to be against it?

That was a paid advert by Sony who published FFVII in North America.  They had similar attack ads around that time too, probably the most (in)famous of all being the Crash commercials with the mascot outside Nintendo HQ with a bullhorn.  No big deal.

SEGA did the same thing with their "SEGA does with NintenDON'T" advertisements in the early 90s, but back then Nintendo actually had balls and got the last laugh with this gem...

And people had every right to criticize Nintendo's choice of design with the Gamecube... did you know the original name for it was going to be the Star Cube before a backlash by American partners and distributors forced Nintendo to change the name before its official unveiling at Spaceworld 2000?   Yeah, let that sink in for a bit... Star Cube.  As if the GC wasn't "kiddie" enough.