well said CGI

I can't imagine there's much to debate, unless you want to get into unscientific measures like "personal opinion". Their sales speak for themselves: strong across the years, consistently so, with their biggest hits hitting far harder than any other company's. They have the "wallet vote" for best company for games, and that's the only vote that counts for anything when your continued existence is determined entirely by the availability of money.

Sure you're still with Sony.

money doesnt show what company is the best in the world. Going by that logic MS and Sony are both better than Nintendo because they have more money and Coca Cola and Google are the best companies in the world

^Businessweek already confirmed Nintendo as the best company in the World

yes, and greenpeace think its the worst company in the world and sony is the best, your point ?

Business Week actually does research while greenpeace are a bunch of lazy bums who give scores based on nothing?

^^now your just hating

There is the idea, that is rather plausible, that Nintendo did not grow with their audience. The ex-Nintendo fans are generally so not because Nintendo has changed, but because Nintendo has stayed the same in certain respects while they and the industry grew (though i have a theory that the focus of the industry has remained fixed squarely on the NES generation, since the kind of games they put out, and the kind of focus that each generation has had, has been in relation to the growth of that one generation of NES kids).

Despite the innovation of the Wii and DS, Nintendo themselves really haven't changed (indeed, it's really more of a revival of their original values, than them breaking fundamentally new ground). For better or worse, Nintendo has stuck with their classic formulas because they have continued to work, but in the process they continually lose touch with the industry (though that's not necessarily a bad thing at all)

^When the industry seems overly concerned with used game sales and DLC and Digital distro, Nintendo's probably right to not be in touch with them