So amazing that the majority of console owners and gamers in general remain completley un-interested.
The numbers don\'t lie. Nintendo fans love Nintendo games, consoles, and they are a loyal bunch, but a minority in the overall gaming community.
Most gamers are not sucking on the Nintendo teet, and most of us don\'t really see what makes Nintendo games so great for die-hard Nintendo fans.
For the last 10 + years I haven\'t been able to figure out why Nintendo still has console fans.... I honestly just do not see anything that really stands out over the competiton.
I still think nintendo should stop trying to make consoles and stick with hand helds and being a multi platorm game developer, but with their new low cost Wii they might have carved out a profitable niche in the console cellar.
i agreed with everything you stated up until the part about nintendo not makin\' consoles,...i\'ll admit when i go and check out games for gamecube,..there isn\'t any games that interest me on that platform,...i\'m not a mario or zelda fan,..and those cart games to me are bulls**t,..but my son and his friends love it...and that is one of the aspects of nintendo that i know i can always count on...games for the younger set. they are already dominating the handheld mrkt for reasons mentioned earlier, and lastly i just have alot of respect for them..they really do take care of their franchises,..and even when any of their 1st party games aren\'t that strong..*mario sunshine*<----i\'ve played that, they produce high production values to their games....mario has come a long way and is still the mascot for nintendo, while both sonic & crash bandicoot have sold their souls and have gone multi-platform...
in the last days of the trash talking mascots i can still remember that classic commercial where crash bandicoot was out in front of nintendo headquarters callin\' out mario..
...ultimately tho mario had the last laugh...so at the end of the day there still and always will be a place for nintendo in the console market,..while sony and microsoft continue to throw bombs and kill each-other tryin to be the all in one,..i think nintendo will continue to chugg along through the smoke of ms and sony and consistently continue to make quality games for their audience.