"Slow to Adapt" is pretty much Nintendo's company slogan by this point. It basically sums them up for the last 20+ years. 

Was it or not (as I said) a Nintendo doom & gloom thread, as soon as it took of with all the usual Nintendo haters on board, OP left the building to damage control... it was cristal clear from the beginning sadly...

Nintendo is having a crap generation yet their 3DS + Wii U puts them in a competitive spots hardware sales total wise next to Sony overall

the fact that Nintendo is still not far from the top, again handheld + home console combined, says a lot about their relevance and that they haven't really dropped off the map much

and then when you look at software sales no company comes even close (Sony's in-house IP software development and sales are laughable in comparison, third parties are what push their consoles)

Nintendo will be fine

the Wii U was just marketed terribly and conceptually poorly done. what would be concerning would be if Nintendo had put out a GREAT system and marketed awesomely and it still did poorly. but that's not the case. pretty much everyone (Nintendo fans included) agree that the Wii U has shortcomings in terms of its name and its Gamepad (and the lack of good use of said gamepad)

Nintendo just needs to go back to their roots and make a more hardcore system without gimmicks and sales will pick up to an extrem amount

I sound like a broken record but the fact that the Amiibo's so universally sell well to consumers says a lot about Nintendo's relevance and the draw that their characters have. as soon as their toy line was released it became one of the top lines up there with Infinity and Skylanders out of NOWHERE. they have the most valuable gaming IP on the planet (maybe bar Grand Theft Auto)

These kinds of threads really are sensational in design, because there's no in between position painted for Nintendo to be in according to this poll. The WiiU is currently Nintendo's worst selling homes console and the company has still been profitable under extreme circumstances. So I think there's another chain of events that could happen with the NX that many aren't considering here. They don't have to dominate hardware sales to be viable in the video game business and most here just completely choose to forget that Nintendo has other ventures to earn money from in the works.

How did that work for them with Gamecube and N64?

If NX is some kind of fusion system, you can bet people will say that it only failed because it was a gimmick. Yet no one was calling the wiiu pad a gimmick when it was revelead. It became a gimmick when it stopped selling well.

As people have stated several times; they do not need to 'win' the race in order to survive. Nintendo has a safe place in the market for now, their strong software sales make up for the poor performance of the Wii U and the Wii U is not doing much worse than the Gamecube or the original xbox, in fact it will probably end up with about the same lifetime hardware sales but higher software.

This is not a doom thread.  And OP was busy.  

All they need is reall third party support and a system with modern graphic capabilities.  From what I have heard, this wont be a problem.  

Then, selling 30-40M it's a comeback after the disastrous 15M of the Wii U.

He had no valid arguments to defend the current financial mess that was Wii U, so he went for the easy way: call this another doom thread and keep living in denial.