Just sticking your nose in there to stir up some venom? I can respect that. I am going to assume you know what you were doing, and in that case: Well played, sir. I found it funny, I hope other people see it as well.

I would scoff if those people really thought it would happen, I can understand that part.  But just dreaming about playing Zelda and then switching over to Killzone?  That's not such a bad thing to imagine.

The core of it, I think, is if those guys were really hoping that Nintendo would crash and burn.  I bet if you asked most of the, they'd say no.  Some of them probably even have friends who work for Nintendo.

Of course Nintendo won't go 3rd party, they rather die completely and try something else than becoming a laughable, once great company like Atari & Sega.

What really bothers me is that people want Nintendo to stop making consoles when they are the ones making the most profit of all gaming giants, it seems Sony and especially Microsoft are the ones that will have to quit the industry sooner or later unless they shift their primary focus on something other than games which is exactly what MS has been doing all these years.

without japanese companies the gaming industry would be fucked (just look at Microsoft)
We still don't know what Sony planned before the Xbox One reveal but atleast they aren't dickheads.

I just want to ask right fast, but where is the irony?  I don't really see it.  If DietSoap was a console manufacturer who didn't take his console seriously, that would be ironic, certainly, but I don't get it otherwise.  I admit to being somewhat puzzled.

Bingo. No way in hell am I paying $500 + $60/year for a box that forces me to buy every game new and make sure I pay for Internet service as well just to be able to use it. Couldn't see myself paying $400 for a system that's mostly hardware upgrades either.

I'm not sure about these Spike TV people (lol, Spike TV). But here are my thoughts.

Nintendo has certain strengths.

Some of those strengths, specifically, are their old IPs. Zelda, Metroid, Mario. Beyond that every now and then they do come up with quirky new game ideas. As a single heavy 3rd party game studio you couldn't ask for more.

Another strength is sometimes their hardware ideas. Lately their hardware is a little too out there or at least too pushy about it. The wiimote wasn't a bad idea, it was just too much the center of _everything_ for the Wii. The game pad isn't a bad idea, its just too much the center of the WiiU.

Nintendo has certain weaknesses.

Their 1st party games are basically, for lack of a better way to put it. Rate E for Everyone. Wii Fit, Wii Party, Mario Kart, etc. You don't expect cinematic or mature (as in teen-adult rated games, not talking about lol mature games vs casual) games out of Nintendo. For those kind of games you are forced to look on either other platforms or 3rd party developers.

Nintendo hardware lags behind the competition. This isn't necessarily bad but when you look at it from the view point of those people that want games like Killzone, Halo, Uncharted, Final Fantasy XX, etc. You end up with a deeply divided segment of gamers.

This is all fine and well when Nintendo makes money selling their hardware at a profit or near enough for _their_ software to sell well. Because at the end of the day, its not the Nintendo hardware gamers care about, its the software. So when the WiiU is causing Nintendo to post annual losses for second year in a row (since like 30 years+) you start to have worries.

You start to wonder if maybe it'd be better if those games were on different hardware, multiplatform even, that it could reach a larger audience. Of course you also start to wonder how Nintendo would be able to do some of things that are actually cool on their quirky hardware.

Sometimes people don't want to spend $300+ bucks on one console and then $400-500+ bucks on another console to get all the relevent game _genres_ they want.

There's PC, you know. Everything's better on PC.

Hmm it you take it from that point of view, I rather thought it had more to do hardware side of the consoles (the DS example fits perfectly here)
I don't know enough about the Wii U to  know if that's true, and that's a software service, but it may be essential to the overall package. As for the WiiMote, well I don't know. The same could be said about the other two and their ways of controls in reference to their games, but maybe here comes the "soul" part.

Overall and still not totally embracing the idea of it, as I think it's not a exclusive trait to Nintendo, but fair enough :P

I don't get this. There were plenty of games from Nintendo that sound like they would be right up your alley on Wii, and plenty coming for Wii U (FE x SMT, SSB, X, Bayo 2, DKC). Why do people get butthurt that every single game ever to be published isn't made specifically for them? I mean damn, have we forgotten about Kinectimals and the Wonderbook already?