Just saw this, after I opened a thread. Meh XD

yes but where wil it end then ?
if the mobile games make more money nintendo ceases to be as an entity
nintendo has always clutched on to their own identity with their own hardware
they now stand to possibly become the next sega

and see how well that turned out for sega
hey now the cube was decent
i have one and it plays quite niceley with the wavebird i picked up for a fiver
again the cube was a good machine ;p

the wii had cube controller support for a lot of games

nintendo just thought they could bank on the wii's name with the wii U
but things had changed by then

Knowing DeNA, the only games we will get are Pokemon Match-3 and Mario infinite runner.

I'll care about 5 years after Nintendo stops bullying YouTubers like desperate assholes.

You absolutely cannot derive a general principle from a single case. Yes, Sega certainly went downhill since they ceased to have their own hardware, but that absolutely does not mean that ceasing to have their own hardware is the primary (or any) reason for their decline.

By that same logic, the WiiU should have been a smashing worldwide success, seeing how making a motion control based console worked so well the first time. It wasn't, because the Wii wasn't a smashing success because it had motion control, it was a smashing success because it was a new concept with a lot of novelty value. The WiiU wasn't.

Nintendo's greatest strength is their IPs. Restricting those IPs to their own hardware platforms has also restricted sales of their games to the people who happen to like their hardware platforms. As the popularity of their hardware platforms declines, so does their potential target audience, unless they are willing to use their IPs on other platforms.

Could this spell the death of dedicated Nintendo hardware? Certainly. Would this automatically mean the death of Nintendo? Not by a long shot. I'm pretty sure most of Nintendo's customers are in it for the games, not the hardware. Likewise, I'm sure lots of people who are not currently customers would actually like to play some of their games, they just don't want to buy an additional hardware platform to do it.

Yes well, let's just say they suffer from recurring idiocy.

Gamecube was rather nice, I agree.
If they'd make the WiiU play all the Gamecube and Wii games in HD with native gamepad support, that would have been a killer selling point.

They don't understand YouTube, and so they're afraid of it. If they understood it, they'd happily give their blessing for anyone to use their games in their videos.

Well now i cant wait to get to play Angry Yoshi , Flappy Kirby, Prince Peach vs Zombies and Luigi's Mansion Defence.

or just allowed the wii U to play all cube games with out hacking it would be a good selling point too

Lol, welcome to the future.
You're real-life childhood heroes are all dead (Leonard Nemoy, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, etc...) and you're fictional childhood heroes get raped at every occasion (comic heroes, video game characters, etc...).

And then there is this of course.

They've already got Pokemon Shuffle as a match 3 game, but I don't think a Mario endless runner makes much sense?
No chance they stop bullying youtube or the invincible rom sites. They're way too outside the ideas of even general culture and far too deeply rooted in their own bizarre ideals. Too bad their attempts at shows sucked too.

I want my Metroid Prime 4 or Remake for WiiU or a Super Mario Galaxy 3.

For f's sake, what is people's obsession over Nintendo making games for smartphones? All that will happen will be companion apps as a form of marketing. That has already been announced months ago.

Overall situation has been wisely summed up by Wishbone IMHO

I have no idea of the quality of Dena's games so I've no idea if this is crazy or not, but plenty of people would like to see more Nintendo partnerships with companies that mostly share their vision. Nintendo characters on Disney Infinity for example...
(maybe there are some somewhere but I haven't seen them.)