That's gotta be one of the most epic pics I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing!.

You're stalling. The OP says it all; since they joined the console biz, has there ever been a worse time to be a Nintendo fan than now, and if so, when?

The worst time is still ahead of us,
Inevitably there wil be a time, in quite possibly a close future, when Nintendo as we know it will not exist. Maybe because they found their fortune in mobile gaming or that Miyamoto and his old colleagues retires or that they run out of money.
Either way they will not be replaced by other developers doing similar games. No Kart games, no Animal Crossing lookalike, no AAA-platformers (2D or 3D), no "graphically challenging" adventure games ( just dark, gritty & realistic ones), no "collect 'em all".
Light, color, fantasy and joy will be allowed in three indie games a year.
This will be the worst time for Nintendo fans.

Retro could become the new Rare, but Nintendo needs to invest a lot more in them and give them more freedom.

The final years of the Wii was the absolute worst, I don't think the WiiU has gotten that bad yet!

I love all my times with nintendo except with wii u. No new zelda games. Yeah i know we had tww hd and tp hd. But i already play it on gc and wii.

The problem is that no one is failing to acknowledge 3DS, but rather, that it doesn't matter if you acknowledge or not. No home console owner should have to endure the narrative of "just play on your 3DS", because they didn't buy a WiiU to play 3DS games. Similary with the Vita case. You just don't go and say a Vita player to "get a PS4 for first-party games" because they want to play first-party games on the Vita and don't really care if PS4 gets more games than it.

People saying "3DS guys! Games on 3DS! Play on 3DS! Everything is wrong because we're not taking 3DS into account!" arguments doesn't help because they indirectly suggest that, indeed, WiiU has such lack of support that you'd need to add the 3DS into equation to make things brighter. Which shouldn't be the case in the first place, hence why it's a really bad time to be a [home-console] Nintendo fan.

I know the OP worded poorly, but he's talking mainly about Nintendo's home console these past four years.

I would say the Wii era was the worst time to be a Nintendo fan: the gimmicky motion controls made even the best Wii games in my opinion undesirable. The Wii was the only Nintendo home console that I didn't buy since I got into video games. Since I got a Wii U, the only Wii games that I have bought are the Virtual Console games that use the Classic Controller. I was happy that Nintendo found success with the Wii, but I really felt that they threw their hardcore fans under the bus and hid behind a gimmick that was kind of just a mediocre fad.

The Wii U era has actually had some amazing games. Yes, the quantity is low due to the lack of 3rd Party support, I am also disappointed that there is no Metroid. That said, the games that Nintendo has put out on the Wii U have been some of the best that I have ever seen from them: Mario Kart, Smash 4, Splatoon, 3D World, Woolly World, The 3DS has also been putting out some amazing games and is probably the best console ever for localized JRPGs.

Yes.

It was worse around 2010-11 when I believed Nintendo had all these great games I would like in the pipeline but was just being secretive about them (Metroid Prime, original style Paper Mario, hub-world 3D Mario). Which, of course, they didn't. And what they WERE doing was making tons of money, so there was no chance of a course change.

Three things are different now. One, people out there are making the Nintendo-like games I want now. Yooka-Laylee, A Hat In Time, Undertale. Two, Nintendo's financial situation is a lot worse, so they're under pressure to make a change. Three, I've realised I need to wait out all the current staff retiring and bringing in new people who have some ambition like Splatoon.