The Wii, no? Unless we're limiting the pool of folks whose opinions count, anyways.

Thinking on it again, I don't think scapegoat is even the right word. Ninten isn't taking the blame for all the things wrong with the industry, only the things it does wrong, and people don't hate on it because it is cool to hate, but because of the questionable things they do.

and thats still not a large amount of people doing it, you guys take the internet way too seriously sometimes. And even if it was a LOT of people, so what? Sticks and stones, we're all adults here. (i think)  Is someone bad mouthing Ninty really killling your enjoyment of a product you spent your hard earned money on? ignore it.

you dont have to do anything you dont wan to do. Like buy a console that looks like a lunchbox.

the original PS didnt have colorful gameplay centric games? HA! Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Parappa the rapper, Rayman and that was in addition to all the mature games and the ones that never even made it to N64 and being cheaper, THATS why N64 got stomped.

Wiimote, anyone with common sense and wasnt blinded by their love of Ninty knew how that whole thing was going to play out. "Never lived up to its full potential"? Whose fault was that? It cant live out to its potential if the HW sucks and lets be honest the wiimote was inaccurate as crap. and the motion+ thing barely got supported by anyone including Ninty.

Wii was a fine console for what it was. Personally I hated playing a lot of games aiming with a Wiimote. But I had a blast playing some games that opt for a standard gamepad.

My gripes with the DS are kinda the same. I was annoyed by games that crowbarred touchscreen into the experience. Still had great games though.

My issue with the Wii U is forcing an expensive tablet on us to play games that work fine with a standard gamepad. A Wii U with no tablet control would have been significantly more successful.

If there is an opinion involved, then another thing would be negatively attacked

It goes for every console, every company and every game.. Nintendo isn't the only company that has been bashed before and it definitely won't be the last either

Rivalry is good and bad, and since Nintendo has been competing against other companies from the beginning, it will have a long history of these negative things

Wait you are not the OP, who the hell was I replying toconspiracyaway!!!o.

On topic I think it's unfair how gamers are threating Nintendo, they are after all the innovator of the gaming industry but Sony fans and microsoft fans keep conspire see against them. We need to stop and accept the fact that Nintendo is a gaming company and produce games that are meant to be sold.

Even though the Wii was the leader in sales overall for its generation I really don't think it was the most popular.

Thats sounds dumb but as well as the Wii sold its sales fell in later life and got overtaken by both 360 and PS3 on a weekly basis, that doesn't happen to the most popular console. Wii wasn't the legacy system of its generation.

Imo the most popular consoles have been:

• Atari VCS
• NES
• SNES
• PS
• PS2

Last gen its hard to say, I'd go for PS3 although its close with the 360. They've both been supported longer and have higher software sales than Wii.

They're simply 'cooler'. Its common in pop culture for the Wii to be made fun of, after a huge 3 years it became a bit of an embarrassing joke.

I feel sorry for you too! Ha!

No, it was the Wii. Simple as that. Don't look for excuses. Just as the Wii U is the least popular succesful console ever in Nintendo history (VB I know), Wii was their most popular and the most popular console last gen.