no, they were pretty much the only gaming company to exit the last generation in the black as opposed to everyone else who encountered massive losses in one form or another or outright went bankrupt. People keep bringing up this "it tainted their image" argument, but we all know that's a lie. People were more than gleefully eager to launch smear campaigns against Nintendo even before the Wii. They did it with the GC and they tried and failed to do it with the DS. Same thing happened with the 3DS; gamers and the press tried to rail against for universally petty reasons, milked drama for all it was worth, and then proceeded to act like they never did after the 3DS reminded people why Nintendo dominates the handheld scene and has a damned tombstone collection in its backyard.
And then we must get into the BIG one. The fact that nobody likes to admit: that the "casual" audience is nothing new and outnumbers the "hardcore" by a vast margin. Seriously, does anyone seriously think that any games console has succeeded solely due to the "hardcore"? Because that is foolish. The SNES, the PS1, the PS2, 360, Wii, Game Boy, GBA, DS, NONE of these became successes due to the "hardcore", that is too small of a population to bank your future on, especially when it's been shrinking. And the fact that so many companies aren't interested in expanding the audience isn't good. It's like how American comics imploded due to not trying to get new readers in and became a very insular, elitist industry with no real future. They're doing the same thing gaming and are holding it back by not trying to expand the audience. I don't know WHY they keep doing it despite it being the logical thing to do, but they refuse to. And it's going to end up biting them.
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