Nintendo has the highest profit per employee of any large company (100 employees or higher) on the planet.  And they've had 121 consective fiscal years of profits.  Another fact that no other large company on the planet can boast.

A company killing off Nintendo is a concept with as much plausibility as BP fixing the oil leak in the next 10 minutes.

Just noticed all this talk about R&D at Sony and Nintendo. Face it, it's not how much is being spent but what it is being spent on and Nintendo really know how to manage their money much better than A Sony that plough billions into R&D then realize afterwards their ideas are not wanted by mainstream

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Anyone who say's Nintendo cannot fall is just silly. If Nintendo had lost both their console and their handheld market, then by default they would also lose their software market because no one has the hardware to play the software on. Nintendo could probably take 2 hit's, I'd imagine that even Sony and Microsoft could walk away with another one, but it doesn't make them unstoppable. 

Any company can pull a stupid move, management may change, deadlines aren't met, lack of interest from the general public, over saturation and the list goes on. Nintendo only need a combination of a few big negatives and it could go under. 

Nintendo have been lucky in the last two generation's, without the Gameboy they would have had a much harder time coming into the current generation. It's not like Nintendo never had financial problems, hell in 1964 their stock's dropped to 60 Yen and they nearly went under. 

Anything could happen, we've seen plenty of multi billion dollar corporations disappear and Nintendo aren't shielded from failure.

Nintendo survived Japan's economy of the 1990s and put Sega out of the console business to boot. For a refresher, imagine the world economy of 2008 and 2009 lasting for a decade. Nintendo not only survived but thrived.

The only way Nintendo could fail is by falling in love with the short term profits their owners demand and putting out an overpriced console with blu ray with an entry point of $499 and $599. Ouch! Mean hit on Sony and the PS3.

Seriously, until Nintendo confirms Luigi is a homosexual and Wario is a dirty bear who likes to grease up his hairy chest and play with leather, I do not see them failing.

No one could ever "kill" nintendo.

It will live on in our hearts.

as will sega, atari, sony, microsoft, apple, and all the other influential entities.

"you can kill the revolutionary, but you can never kill the revolution"

Nothing is impossible, far weirder thing's have happened in the world. Nintendo aren't a miracle brought to Earth in the form of a game company so that they may develop game's in God's image, they are a business, businesses have failed before.

There is two different ways to reply your question.

The short way.

-No.

and the long way.

-Nooooooooooooooo.

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Looking for the next generation, I doubt Nintendo will die that soon. They have plenty of cash to back up and their 3DS just look it will have the biggest 3rd party support ever on a Nintendo console.

I think Nintendo was dealing with the problem all that time. Now, they have to deal with something else. They have to both catch the gamers' attention (which has been done with titles like Resident Evil, Metal Gear, Paper Mario, Kid Icarus) and also the mainstream (Mario Kart, Pilotwings Resort) and they have to make third party games sell. If third party games sell on the 3DS like those evergreen Nintendo titles, be sure Nintendo will live for another 50 years.