Pavolink on 19 January 2016
Illusion said:
Part of being a true Nintendo supporter is understanding that the company is struggling right now more so then they have any other time in the past 30 years. Now, that doesn't mean that they are at risk of going out of business but it does mean that their current business model (aka. dedicated consoles) is in a tough spot right now.
Unfortunately, people on both sides of this argument take extreme views that simply aren't true. The Nintendoomers insist that Nintendo needs to throw in the towel and go 3rd party ASAP (which is convenient since they would probably line up to buy the first Nintendo game that came to Xbox One). On the other side, we have the unabated Nintendo apologists who insist that nothing is wrong with Nintendo and that they should just keep supporting the Wii U indefinitely. Both of these views are harmful to Nintendo as they ignore the reality of the situation and are really just based out of selfishness (ie. "I want to buy Nintendo games without having to pay for new hardware").
People need to realize that Nintendo's stock is down because the company is in a tough spot. Just because a company is turning a profit doesn't mean that their business is necessarily healthy. Nintendo's portable market is losing ground to smartphones and the Wii U has been a commercial failure and thanks to it kids are no longer growing up with Mario and Link as household names. Shareholders know this, but the good news is that Nintendo can start to turn the ship around depending on what they do in 2016. I just hope that Nintendo fans will do their part by not exploding the internet when Nintendo announces NX for a 2016 release and buries the Wii U.
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People prefer to throw words like "perception" and "rush" as arguments against reality, when the current Nintendo "perception" is terrible and they don't have any proof of any "rush" hardware.
