No, the point is that Nintendo fans think that.  Not 'some', 'the mayority', 'certain', no he used Nintendo fans as a generalization.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure we (PAL regions) got the SMS and NES the same year?

It "aint to every Nintendo fan. But alot of them."

C'mon man, pay attention!

I think Nintendo popularized the trend moreso than smart phones and tablets. The DS did come out before the original iPhone.  Of course, they did have their influence, but the DS' influence, I think, was greater.  

Of course, you're not wrong about many of the things you said.  However, I would argue that Nintendo did many things right with all of those things.  It was through the use of great implementation (especially the motion controls one).

Bullshit. "The Wii is killing gaming" was all over the place at the start of last generation.

Death is an exaggeration, but I do believe that without Nintendo, or a company like them, gaming will stagnate. Why? Because other hardware manufacturers don't lead, they just do what the publishers ask them to do. And the publishers only want hardware to evolve in ways that make their job easier, distilling down to the publisher dream of the One Console, which happens to look an awful lot like a PC.

If the publishers get their way, only software innovation (where publishers add value) will be permitted, hardware innovation (where manufacturers add value) will be forbidden. And since hardware demands software, only an integrated hardware/software approach to gaming has a chance of bucking the One Console trend.

Microsoft and Sony have the resources to theoretically take an integrated approach, but Microsoft is more interested in adding value through services than hardware, and Sony simply doesn't seem to be able to integrate all its resources. Out of the big manufacturers, Nintendo simply has the best record at advancing hardware innovation in video games.

Nintendo leaving the games industry would cause a massive revolution in the games industry. First of all, the huge vacuum left by Nintendo in Japan would cause their industry to shrink tremendously and force a lot of devs into the mobile market which would of course burst by the influx of new developers causing a crash in Japan. Nintendo also controls a significant portion of the rest of the world's market so the market would shrink worldwide with more focus on the Western AAAs which with their ballooning budgets are already on the path of destruction. You never want a major player leaving any industry. Other large changes would occur if any other platform holder left or even major publishers

The insutry can survive without Sony.

The industry can survive without MS.

If more than 1 leaves the market then the industry will fall, or become a horrible monopoly.

Well played.

Nintendo has a secret stockpile of nuclear weapons. If they ain't in the lead, nobody can be in the lead.

Can't believe some of the people I'm seeing in this thread complaining about being generalised.