Nintendo catering the casuals = D0000MMMM11!

Nintendo catering the hardcorez = D0000MMMM11!

Seriously what the hell....

While it is true that Nintendo's fortunes have waned for the seventh generation, they are in fact in the best position to seize the eighth generation.  Microsoft is only now close to breaking even on their investment for the XBox 360, taking an abnormally long generation to do so, and Sony has lost so much money that they've managed to wipe out all the gains they've made with the PS2, the most successful console of all time.  On the portables front, Sony shot itself in the foot with the PSP Go, and the NGP has given the 3DS a head start of an entire year.  As for third parties, they are just about bled dry, having witnessed a generation where record losses in the face of record revenues was the norm.

To put it simply, forjust about everybody except Nintendo, the seventh generation has been an unmitigated catastrophe.  Many practices that became prevalent in the seventh generation, like taking losses on hardware as a matter of course, and moneyhatting developers for exclusives, won't be repeatable in the eighth.  To top it off, Nintendo's competition is financially trapped in the seventh generation due to sunk costs, and the need to recoup expenses, as I alluded to earlier.  If Nintendo moves up the launch timetable, they put Microsoft and Sony in the uncomfortable position of having to choose between abandoning their sunk costs, or handing Nintendo a huge head start on the eighth generation.

I am aware that Nintendo has substantial challenges in attracting third party support and repairing their reputation with 'core' gamers, but this is meant largely as a dissenting opinion in terms of just how d0med Nintendo is.

Oh another Malstrom thread nothing to see here!

Really the Playstation brand is stronger than ever!

Nintendo is doomed yet the made more money this quarter then both the rivals. Hell Nintendo made more money during the Gamecube era than Sony. Sony sold over 140 million PS2 to Nintendo 25 million Gamecubes. 

Now in this same post we have quotes from Patcher, and David Jaffe. This is very well thought out Troll thread! Good job on tricking the internet.

Microsoft is financially trapped ?

That's news...

After working for 10 years on it they have finally build a gaming division that is profitable.

Without a doubt they are the one coming out of the gen in the best shape ( Nintendo had a crazy success but demonstrated it was totally unable to manage it...).

As for moving the launch table, Microsft and Sony can just ignore that move as long as they agree with each other and transform the Wii2 into a HD port console just like that..