This post is very interesting to me.  It's honest and understandable.  It's also interesting that I started from the same place and went in a very different direction.

I also grew up with Nintendo, the NES and SNES.  Subscribed to Nintendo Power and everything.  However, starting with the PS1, how I felt about Nintendo gradually changed.  People were making new gameplay experiences, they were making games with complex plots and characters, games with darker themes and more imginative worlds, and Nintendo ... wasn't.  Nintendo was doing the same thing it always had.  It felt like Nintendo had this arrogant position where they felt they owned gaming and they didn't HAVE to do anything new or different.  It annoyed me because it felt like Nintendo was letting me go without a struggle.  And that's what happened, FF7 finally pushed me to the PS1 and an entire new world spread out before me, one that I realized I liked better than Mario and platformers.

They're the ones who act superior because, for some incomprehensible reason, they think liking Nintendo games makes you a better human being.  They're the ones who stupidly rail against everything else as being for "violent teenagers".  It's these people, more than anything else, that make me struggle with feelings of negitivity toward the Nintendo fan-base at times.

Can't say I've ever witnessed this.

This is true. But how awesomesauce would that be? Here's my idea:

Game is on 3ds for visuals, but does not support 3d play. Still a top down classic Pokemon game, but with improved visuals/sound. Multiple servers that have like thousands of people on each. It encompasses the Kanto, Johto, and Hoen Regions at first with another expansion coming out in the future with the regions from Diamond/Pearl, Black/white and X/y.

You can choose boy or girl, starters blah blah blah. You can also choose what role you are. For instance: you can be a hero (the guy you always play as in Pokemon), you can be a member of Team Rocket or other evil organizations, You can be a gym leader, you can be a regular trainer, a Pokemon breeder, ect. Different roles have different paths but you can also just make a new character. The different roles make up the community and make it interesting. You have a friends list of trainers. You can call them anytime and chat via the packed in 3ds headset and battle them. 

I actually should start a thread with all the ideas I have for this.....

Why 3rd party publishers hate Nintendo if Nintendo monopoly is better?

Because they're morons and have no idea what they're doing.

monopoles are always bad for the consumer.

Standard Oil has proven this,microsoft also and nintendo treated 3rd parties like shit with their(almost) nes/snes monopole-forcing 3rd parties to produce the cartridges  by nintendo selling their games to higher prices than nintendo.

that's why square turned away from nintendo,that's why codemasters sued nintendo.

that's why nintendo games are a lot cheaper now than they were in the 80ies and 90ies though developing costs exploded,beceause there is no more nintendo monopol

Without monopol i can choose  between  candy style ugly graphics/ great gameplay,bad hardware,no dvd,bad internet(nintendo) or great graphics /great gameplay(not nintendo)+blu ray +great internet infrastructure,and 3rd parties can sell their games and earn money on other systems as nintendo fans are incredibly ignorant and only buy nintendo stuff(great rayman 3ds sold 10k,mario 3ds =5mio )

btw-i hope Wii U will survive.If Nintendo moves to other plattforms they may wipe away most 3rd publishers and the only games left on ps360 will be:shooters,candy style games and ea sports games.