Scapegoat? Ha! Nintendo simply failed to realize that launching a fad is something that never lasts forever. If so many were able to see that the novelty of Wii was simply novelty why couldn't the folks at Nintendo do the same? You think a console that's played by soccer moms and old people will always be the "in thing"? Those folks are fad shoppers who go out and buy anything that they're told is cool.

When the prediction thread had WiiU at about 80 million sold at this point compared to PS4's 10 million no one was all "woe is me" about Nintendo. I think the only real scapegoat in this post is the OP trying to scapegoat everyone else for Nintendo's failures. After all, people crapped on PS3 when it was going badly and people are crapping on Xbox One as we speak. Who's the scapegoat for that?

You'll never succeed with this argument no matter how much validity there is to what you're saying. 

So true. Nintendo could have been so much more. they just lacked the balls and guts to try actually do it. 

Well, even if I want to buy a PS4 in some time, I wouldn't say Sony had balls. PS4 is just another PS1/2/3 with more power, and that's it; and I can't think of a bold move from them. I think they play very, very safe, not saying that's a bad thing, though. 

And that's the problem. People who think it's not "cool" that these people play videogames. The elitism in some "hardcore" gamers is spectacular. 

Exactly. They made a good hardware at a competitive price and asked developers to have a varied catalogue. That's Sony's sucess, they played smart. But that's nothing to do with having balls or boldness. They played safe, but they played great. Nothing bad about it as I said.  The path of innovation is hit and miss, depending on the public's reception. Nintendo suceeded with the Wii/DS and failed with the WiiU, that's a risk that comes with trying to do things a little different (at least, hardware-wise). And, well, the marketing was beyond awful. I saw commercials in my country marketing the console: "New Wii in HD". I know about people who think that it's not even a new console lol. 

Say what you want, Victim complex and all that shit, but me and a lot of people I know have been seeing this for years, every generation Nintendo is the favourite punch bag of gamers, always, I still remember the amount of mockering and shit "gamers" gave to Nintendo on the GC era. Now that same people says GC was incredible but they continue today saying the same shit.

I think Nintendo, like Apple is held to higher standards and expectations. Since so many treat them as the brand that can do no wrong, they are scrutinized for everything that goes wrong. For example, many younger gamers have been socially conditioned to accept that having broken games on launch day is a norm that has to be expected. Yet, whenever one glitch, one bug is found in a Nintendo game, they might be criticized by the very same people who are willing to give EA or Ubisoft a pass. Also, we see a new Call of Duty game every year, a new Assassins Creed, and a new Madden. Yet, it's Nintendo who seems to get the most criticism for releasing something that has Mario's face on it every year even though they're hardly the same game and in most cases aren't even part of the same genre.

In many ways, this is Nintendo's fault. They are one of the few companies who brag about quality and use the word innovation more than anyone else.They are very protective of their IP's. They are a Disney-like company who's consoles can survive entirely off of their own IP's. They are different and they promote this. So many people, fans and haters alike will treat them like they're different.

Completely fresh and innovative new IP is one thing and just fresh games are totally different things. I will prove you are wrong if you name me those 80 games. :)

Thats yours very subjective opinion, but objectively for instance every 3D Mario game or 3D Zelda is having more new staffs and mechanics than half of new IPs on market, I will not even mention games that have sequels or yearly releases.

Yet everybody praises the GC today, when it was " a cube for kids with no games" back in the day. Its only problem was not being a cheap DvD, because other than that GC had it all.