Nah. Even in financial trouble Sony is too big a ship to sink fast. They can sit out a gen with a console that sells like WiiU.

And it even took a long time for ps360 to catch up in software.

Were you even serious when you wrote it?

I see that you ignore donkey kong, bayonetta 2, hyrule warriors, zombi U, monster hunter, lego city, rayman...

And that's without mentioning how wrong it is to refer to those games as "the same game over and over again". Especially when cod, fifa and AC are what sells on other consoles and those can actually be called "the same game over and over" (every year).

Releasing a new console will always affect the competitors.

Nintendo has virtually zero impact on the other console manufacturers so it makes very little difference to Sony or Microsoft whether or not Nintendo makes a comeback.

Now prove they are the main, and even exclusive audience, like you claimed so many times.

I did not intentionally ignore them, but had no purpose to mention them, as they almost all still cater to the exact same prepubescent audience, with the exception of Bayonetta which was bought by Nintendo when they still thought that they can compete with real consoles, and the result was its failure, and Monster Hunter that for some unknown reason sells well in Japan and nowhere else.

Playstation and subsequent XBox were the ones that brought gaming to mainstream, and the result is that those consoles now enjoy success (large or moderate) as consumer electronics devices, while Nintendo still clings to their defeated strategy of selling a gaming console as a children's toy.

- M, Carl

The numbers prove the gamecube got way less multiplats. And don't forget the many ps2 exclusives that should have been multiplatform, like final fantasy, devil may cry and many rpgs.

Agreed, especially about the handheld market part. The thing that worries me is that Nintendo came into this generation completely unprepared for HD development, and that the last 2 years of the Wii's lifespan was pretty barren for 1st party content. 2007 - 2010 was great as a Wii owner (got it in 2007, when they were available again in Canada), but they didn't have much presence in the home console market in 2011 and 2012.

I don't blame Nintendo's current actions for everything though; the Wii U was a risky gambit from the get-go. It either succeeded like the Wii (revolutionized gaming and got away with being weaker, like the original Wii got away with being SD) or it failed as rendering technology advanced (partially resident textures/clipmapping/"MegaTextures", global illumination and physically-based rendering all come to mind). What worries me is that Nintendo is extremely successfun on their own terms, but when they are the ones in control, they're a fish out of water. If Nintendo isn't willing to stick it out with the Wii U, I don't see there being light at the end of the tunnel. It's not a PS3-like situation where all they have to do is cut the fat (Sony was losing a minimum of $300/sale of the launch SKU), cut the price and push out exculsives to recover their brand. It won't cost as much (say low $100 millions vs. billions), but the way forward isn't as clear. IMO, Nintendo either goes $249 companion console or they compete head-on with Sony and Microsoft. As the Wii U shows, there is no in-between.