@EmployeeAMillion  
I’m suprised that they haven’t been bought out by Disney yet.

@chaotic-7  
Don’t worry, whenever I’m feeling mixed to negative about Nintendo, I remind myself that nobody’s had as many ups and downs over the years as Disney.  
1921-1928- Starting Point (hard to judge)  
1929-1941- Ups  
1942-1949- Downs  
1950-1966- Ups  
1967-1985- Downs  
1986-2002- Ups  
2003-2006- Downs  
2007-present- Ups

@EmployeeAMillion  
I hope I wasn’t coming off as cynical or biased towards Nintendo, it just pains me to see a company with such a rich history in gaming culture fall so far due to half baked ideas.

@chaotic-7  
Amen to that.

After everything is said and done though I don’t think Nintendo will ever truly fade, worse case scenario they’ll most likely wind up like Atari or Sega.

Who can truly say for certain? For all we know the Switch could very well be the saving grace Nintendo needs to pull their reputation out of the dumps. That and if guys like Reggie Fisame can quit counting their chickens before they’re hatched.

@EmployeeAMillion  
Well yeah, but considering how many people are claiming it’s dead already it seems like pre-orders are now considered part of the lifespan.

@Background Human  
Speaking of which I’ve been hearing rumors that they’ve been secretly trying to get back in the console game, but again rumors are rumors.

@chaotic-7  
The thing that scares me is that we’ve seen this before. This feels almost exactly like Sega’s death spiral.

I’m not bashin’ the switch or anything in fact Super Mario Odyssey looks pretty sweet. But if you take a look back at…let’s say the past ten years of Nintendo’s consoles.
 
The Nintendo 64 was considered by most to be a bit of a mixed bag (don’t get me wrong it had some great games like Mario, Zelda, and Banjo-Kazooie to name a few.)
 
Fast forward a couple of years and we were introduced to the Gamecube and of course before it was released Reggie Fisame was boasting during an interveiw at E3 that year about how the Gamecube was just going to dominate the console market beacause of it’s “cutting edge” technology. Again the system had some great releases but in the end just ended up falling short due to lackluster marketing and because they were mostly targeting the younger generation of gamers (I say this mostly because most of the people I’ve talked to often refer it as the “kiddie” console.)
 
“Okay”. Nintendo says. “Back to the drawing board!” and we were introduced to the Wii. Again we have Reggie Fisame talking about how this new system is going to “revolutionize” gaming as we know it by making the games more interactive. Sounds pretty sweet right? Being able to interact with the game, like your really in it? Well naturaly everyone had to have one. Thus makin it one of the highest selling consoles in Nintendo’s history. Only what games can you say you can use the Wiimote in that did’nt involve simply shakinking your arm up and down? (and yes we have one in our household to.)
 
Soon after the WiiU is introduced and again Reggie Fisame is saying the exact-same-thing and what… within a couple of years after it’s release it’s discontinued? That almost puts it up with the Virtual Boy in terms of shortest life cycle of a console.
 
And now we have the Switch. Look I understand that I went off on a tangent here, but the point that I (think) I’m trying to make here is the more Nintend tries to re-invent the wheel, the further they get behind. Now as far as handhelds go they have that market lock-tite.

@Background Human  
“The Nintendo Switch: Because it worked for the Wii.”

The Nintendo Switch: even we don’t know what we’re doing anymore(TM).

Also I think Reggie Fisame is a fuckin’ meat-head.

To be fair the original wii did have more than it’s fair share of “shovel-ware” titles.

@A-T-S  
By “a little early in the lifespan” you mean “before the lifespan has even begun”, right? Remember, this might look different if I remade in, say, 2020 or 2021.

I think it’s a little early in the lifespan to have a generic looking Switch box.

@CastorOil  
That’s the one I’m doing next, but I’ll take a break for the rest of the day.

Why is there none for the Virtual Boy?