Nice attempt. And nice rampant assumptions. I don't like these kinds of threads because they're silly, because they're pointless, and because they bring out the trolls hardcore. But hey, you go ahead and pretend that it's actually because they "bring out my worst fears", as if I'm that pathetic of the gamer archetype who has nothing left if my gaming is gone. If that's what makes you feel warm and nerdy inside, have at it.

I like how you use all of these (what I'm sure you think are) terribly clever phrases like "In your pipe dream world you believe that Nintendo has a magic spell for happiness". What are you, a wannabe journalist? You assume a pretty great deal, and it makes you look all the sillier for trying to put words in my mouth that were never there to begin with.

Nintendo doesn't need a magic spell. They just need fucking GAMES. Plain and simple, and all the trolling in the world isn't going to change that fact. You say the Mario and Luigi bundle has flopped, which is hilarious because you literally haven't even had time to see it's effect yet. And while the Wind Waker bundle didn't have as big an impact as some had hoped, it IS just a remake of a Zelda game that not even all Zelda fans were equally a fan of. I know I certainly wasn't big on WW. What other "cards" have they tried, exacty? The price drop has already had a positive effect, and will continue to do so. Bundles like M&L and Skylanders will no doubt have larger impact than the limited edition WW one did. And the release of Mario 3D World, coupled with that Black Friday-Christmas stretch, ought to help a lot more than peope like you seem to want to think.

The truly "funny" thing about your rant, is that you try very hard to imply that people like me are just delusional Nintendo fans who can't let go, yet it's blatantly transparent that you just might be one of the folks rooting for them to fail, which makes your faux-intellectual argument all the more disengenuous. You could have tried to make your point a lot more effectively and intelligently, without trying to insult my intelligence or "talk down to me". That doesn't usually bear the best results, but then again, internet trolls rarely ever concern themselves with things like civility and intelligent discourse.

So have fun with that attitude of yours. And even if you're not rooting for Wii U/Nintendo to fail, the nature of your post still betrays a rather ignorant and naive world view on your part, if you don't mind my saying so. Mario Kart and Smash Bros., two of the hottest franchises, and certainly bigger than anything Wii U has gotten thus far, are coming next year, along with potentially this big new epic Zelda we've been waiting for. Nintendo isn't stupid, and they most certainly aren't done turning this ship around. It might never have crossed your mind while you were so terribly busy thinking of terribly clever ways to insult my apparently delusional Nintendo fanhood, but perhaps Nintendo realizes they don't have a whole lot of hope at drastically impacting the launches of PS4 and XBone this year, and thus are waiting to make a stronger push when they'll "have the stage to themselves" early next year and beyond.

In the future, if you want to have conversations with people that actually go well and get somewhere, you might want to drop the shitty attitude. Cheers.

I dont get it. Youd quit nintendo games if they released on superior hardware? Nintendo has always been about their games, not hardware imo.

Same here. I still haven't forgiven Microsoft for the atrocity that was Crackdown 2.