2005 - 2006 was a pretty bad time to be a GameCube owner. 2005 just gave us RE4, and Fire Emblem. 2006 was just Harvest Moon, and a delayed Twilight Princess (Which is more of a Wii game than a GC game.).

Nothing beats 2016 though. Mirage Sessions was the only good game for that entire year.

Read these magazine articles from the 90's

https://www.gamespot.com/forums/system-wars-314159282/its-fascinating-to-follow-nintendo-ultra-64-develo-33377190/?page=1

For me personally, as a nintendo fan, it felt worst in 2011 after the 3DS came out and the Wii U had been announced. Add to that the fact the Wii had become a tiresome console in the sense that once people got over the motion control craze the Wii's sales dramatically slowed down around this time.

I think 2011 was the first time neither Nintendo's next gen home or handheld consoles appealed to me and I was really worried at the time that both were doomed to fail - the 3DS eventually managed to turn it around with an epic library so fair play but the Wii U was never able to do that.

These feelings were felt by Nintendos shareholders as well because around half way through 2011 the share price dropped and reached its lowest value in recent years in summer 2012:

Completely agree, lowest stock price in the companies 129 year history.

In 1963, Yamauchi renamed Nintendo Playing Card Co. Ltd. to Nintendo Co., Ltd.^[6] The company then began to experiment in other areas of business using newly injected capital during the period of time between 1963 and 1968. Nintendo set up a taxi company called Daiya. This business was initially successful. However, Nintendo was forced to sell it because problems with the labor unions were making it too expensive to run the service. It also set up a love hotel chain, a TV network, a food company (selling instant rice) and several other ventures.^[11] All of these ventures eventually failed, and after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, playing card sales dropped, and Nintendo's stock price plummeted to its lowest recorded level of ¥60

Such a string of failures! NINTENDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM'D before any of us were born.

Fairly crazy to think that in relative recent history there was an attack on 2 cities which killed nearly a quarter of a million people in 2 blasts, 75x more death than 9/11 around 10% of whom were military and the other 200k or so were civilians and children.

That's just 74 years ago... anyone in their 90s today was a teenager when that happened, it's not lifetimes ago. Scary stuff.