PixlBit

Hate to say it, but while there are games that may make me but a Wii U down the line, Xbox and Playstation have become the synonym for games Nintendo used to be and this has been the case since the first Playstation was released. The Wii was kind of its own thing.

I remember being in the nerdy minority in middle school for wanting a Gamecube. The popular kids were bigger Xbox fans.

I still love nintendo ... but am secretly rooting for them to become a third-party developer so I can play Zelda on my PS4 and not need another console ... not gonna happen, and I was faithful to Nintendo up until Gamecube and DS, but y'know ... change n' shit.

I work with this father and son and the father still calls all video games Nintendo. It makes sense though because his son was born in the 90s. Had he been born in the 2000s, he might call all video games Playstation or Xbox.

I think Nintendo will always stay alive with it's own console because of it's core 1st party games you can't get anywhere else and which have such a huge following. It's just sad that there's so little outside of that these days. 3DS however is a different story. I still have a lot to look forward to there.

Wait, you're saying you want Miis from little kids?  

I don't know how the wind is blowing for Nintendo.  My kids have tablets, but they use them to watch youtube videos, which is mostly of some people playing Minecraft.  When they are playing games, lately it's on the XB and PS.  Sometimes they play games on the Wii and DS.  Funny thing is they watch a lot of youtube on all those systems too.  They watch videos of people playing games on video game consoles. 

Mainly I'd like to see kids playing 3DS because that solidifies the future for that system.

Yeah, that's what it's going to be in the future, people watching other people play games. 

I really need to start bringing my 3DS with me again. The only places I've been getting any Mii's are in the mall and at GameStops. I think more adults are the ones who collect the Mii's.

It seems like Nintendo is very late to the party when it comes to innovations. The Amiibo's would have been huge the same time Skylanders dropped. Their library alone, combined with a system like Disney's Infinity would have moved a ton of consoles, and I would be a current WiiU owner because of it. 

As soon as Skylanders got big, I thought of Nintendo doing the same thing. How long did it take them? Three years. THREE YEARS!

I was buying Mario Kart 7 for my son and the kid behind me with his mum pointed at it and asked if he could have one too.

I don't think kids have forgotten about Mario at all. I know there are now some full RPGs and such for Android and iOS but kids playing on phones and tablets are usually only playing mindless cut the rope, Candy Crush or Angry Birds games. comparing them to a fully fledged Mario game is an apple and oranges thing.

Phew! Thanks for that. I wanted someone to say Nintendo was still relevant.

Also you have to look at how the 3DS is doing for them. They've sold over 50 million of them world wide and sales are still strong relative to other systems with them sitting in #2 position behind the PS4 and ahead of Xbox One.

Then there's the Amiibo thing that seems to have taken off well. Toon Link and Mega Man are in the top 10 on Amazon.com. In games Majora's Mask checks in at number 3 on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca's top 5 looks like this:

So Nintendo is doing just fine even without the Wii U where it should be. Probably if you turned all the people who keep saying they are going to get a Wii U into actual customers they'd be doing way better. LOL

I wonder how 3DS and Vita compare to phones and tablets. Maybe a slightly unfair comparison, but it's what they are competing with now that so many people play games on those things. I think my entire store was playing Trivia Crack today.

But those things are one dimensional time wasters not games. They're played largely by people who would never consider buying a hand held game system. I hear the competing with smart phones and tablets all the time but I don't consider Candy Crush Saga to be the same thing as Super Mario 3D Land.

It's like saying people aren't reading books anymore because they're reading comments on facebook using their phones. Apples and oranges.

Well, those casual games are influencing stuff on the gaming systems. Pokemon Shuffle just came out on 3DS and it's a free-to-play, match-three game, just like you see on phones. And yeah, lots of people who never play games are doing the casual stuff. Granted, they are fun for a minute or two, but I need something deeper.

I have played a few games that had no point to them but I keep thinking why the hell am I doing this instead of playing a game that had a story or an actual goal.

Nope.

But more to the point, I still don't see Nintendo calling it quits. Last year the Wii U had its best year, even surpasing temporally the Xbone and if VgChartz isn't wrong, the 3DS is second in best sold consoles so far. Call me positive, but it's better than the hate mongering ala Polygon (they are really hating on Nintendo lately), and I see Nintendo holding up well if not being the king thanks mostly to a dedicated fanbase and sales around the holidays.

As for the kids, I would say it mostly has to do with them probably not knowing about Streetpass or not caring. Like Peter also said above me, I also don't think they have forgotten about Nintendo and if I have to say something, it may depend where you are.

Cool. I want Nintendo to do well. A three console generation is a good thing. Keeps variety high.