Great OP. I have to agree with the majority. I may disagree with a few points here and there, it is nothing to go start pulling straws over.

Honestly, all this "Doomzed" stuff is getting old. Neither Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, Apple or Google have the ability or talent to release a single product to take one of their competitors out of the market entirely. The best they can do is siphon consumers away like a leech and over time bleed one of the others dry to the point where they are not able to compete like they used to. We have not seen this yet.

Most would point to the collapse of Sega and the Dreamcast. Well, there were a number of failures on Sega's part before they collapsed. The Dreamcast was years ahead of it's time and is a great console, but it had to pay for the failures before it (Sega Saturn and Sega CD) along with not being able to sell itself doomed Sega.

Sega's collapse was just as much the product of years of bad decisionmaking from upper management in Sega as it was the onslaught of Sony and Nintendo's competition.

TL;DR: Nintendo is fine. No video game company can single-handedly take out another. The collapse of Sega was just as much the fault of Sega as it was the competition.

As the only company that has been positive for the last 20 years, and still competitive in terms of profits by Sony's Entertainment division. Also they dominated the handheld market.

This article is primarly concerning itself with handhelds.

However, that 20yr remark was directly referring itself to Nintendo's software dominate with games like Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon. No matter how you slice it, Nintendo's games have always been the biggest and best in terms of sales and/or revenue.

Just look at the top ... what 15 or so top sellers of all time. All Nintendo.

Good read. Nice to see well thought out arguments. That being said, people will still say the 3DS is doomed, no matter what. The best way to un-Doomz it is by buying it and enjoying it, just like i've done with every nintendo handheld since the original Gameboy.

True.  It is much more likely that one of those companies would take themselves out by making poor decisions.

about time someone spoke out against all the boring, redundant doom and gloom crap. It hasn't even been a MONTH since the 3DS launched in NA and EU, let alone a year. Heck, big name titles like Mario or Zelda haven't touched the system yet. I bet when the OoT remake hits you'll see a huge boost in sales. The real deciding factor is going to be the holiday season and judging by how the 3DS is looking to have a HUGE lineup by the time the holidays roll around I think Nintendo will be just fine

bookmarked... the nintendo is d00med thing is getting really boring, reading something like this for a change is very nice...

There never was actual negative analysis, because no analyst logically constructed any argument.

NPD will reveal all. If its 500k be worried, if its 750k the market will recover.

I dont think most people are worried about Nintendo they just want some first party games.

nice to see someone that isn't just calling 'D0med' on the 3DS