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

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Nuvendil said:

Probably not the worst. There were patches of the N64, GameCube, and especially the Wii that were pretty bad. It's the lack of certainty of the future that's hurting right now, but I'm going to just wait and see what happens. Seriously, people need to calm the heck down. But maybe I'm just more patient. I am an Elder Scrolls fan, our patience has been tried by fire more than once.

The Wii U is probably the worst console to be an early adopter of. But that's why I don't early adopt unless games I desperately want are on the platform *at launch*. I don't care if it's a PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, whatever. I buy only when it is worth it. Which is probably why I am quite content with my Wii U and 3DS. Which I got in 2015 and 2014 respectively.

Exactly. I think this year is a good time to buy a Wii U. Many great games to play and My Nintendo coins to use.

But for me, an early adopter, that's awful...

I'm not going to buy NX before it gets cheaper and full of good games to play. Wii U was the last generation I fully supported Nintendo home consoles.

Soundwave said:
I think this is the toughest era in the sense this is the least relevant Nintendo has probably ever been since the NES took off.

The GameCube at least was still like a valid platform with a lot of third party releases ... the Wii U has been abandoned by third parties since like mid-2013 and is selling far worse than any of the three consoles. GCN at least was close to the XBox and still getting third party titles in 2005.

3DS is going to sell less than the GBA despite having double the life cycle.

GC seems to be an spectacular console when I how Wii U is doing.