Has there ever been a worse time to be a Nintendo fan?

[Louie]

Voted no.

I grew up with Super Mario Bros, Ducktails, and Chip & Dale on NES. I loved my N64 and even the Gamecube before 2005 but I've always been the Wii and DS type of gamer. I vividly remember playing Wario Ware Touched and Nintendogs on DS thinking "wow this is awesome!". The first time I played Wii Sports was magical and I'll never forget that. Gaming has always been a social activity for me. Wii Sports, Pokémon (trading), Mario Kart, Wii Play, Wii Sports Resort, etc. have brought me way more fun than any epic single player adventures.
I will repeat this till the day I die: If Nintendo actually made another Wii they would sell 100m consoles. The people who bought a Wii certainly don't play on smartphones today. That's like saying "Oh people stopped driving BMW, they buy washing machines now".

Right now is the worst time ever to be a Wii / DS kind of Nintendo fan. No new Wii Sports in more than 5 years (and Wii Sports Resort sold like 30m copies before it got bundled with the console) and no mass market, social games in general. 2D Mario is being treated like a second class IP. It's just Mario Kart and Smash but that one's too hardcore for the mass market. So yeah, to me this is the worst time ever to be a Nintendo fan.