Little argument needs to be had, and contending/defending the <2 million units shipped/sold a year after launch and during the busiest holiday period constitutes as absolute madness at this point. Nintendo's hardware relevancy in the home console space has diminished significantly, and anybody with an interest or emotional investment in the entertainment they provide should have their fingers and toes crossed that the company intends to implement significant, company wide changes that steer development collectively towards a more positive, progressive, and profitable future.
Looking forward to tomorrow.
While I completely agree with this statement, there's the lingering fear that the entertainment I enjoy is becoming increasingly unprofitable and that the business models employed by the companies whose work I have loved is no longer sustainable. And this goes for far more than Nintendo.
Japan's businesses thrived due to a beneficial dollar to yen ratio that hit its peak in the 90's and early 2000's. These companies could take risks because they could make a decent profit selling just about anything abroad. It all began to decline when the fiat bubble finally burst in 2008, and now it's clear that most japanese gaming companies are woefully under equipped for the global market and are suffering losses across the board. Those that failed to globalize management in some part, like say, Son y(although they have more than enough financial problems of their own to worry about), now face a market that has completely left them behind.
It's an issue of wondering whether greater forces than just individual business decisions have more sway over the long term viability of game industry as it was. Shit changes, markets turn. I don't fear change, but I do fear that my tastes are no longer in the target of where the industry is going.
(Disclaimer: I'm hugely generalizing all of the myriad of market factors at play here. There are countless reasons why the Japanese gaming industry is hurting, but I'm pointing out the ones that are major)
