Nintendo's financials, and the Wii U sales in particular, actually was "breaking news" on IGN, Kotaku, and most gaming publications this morning following Nintendo's release of said financials.

Nintendo sold just 10k Wii Us outside of the US and Japan last quarter. In the age of platform democratization, Nintendo increasingly looks like it won't have a global platform in the next console generation. But of course the future can only be brighter than this last 6 months! :P

Well THATS embarrassing.... :P

Pull a 3DS out at a bar in a metropolitan area and see what people say. It's a kid toy. And yes, I've played Fire Emblem. On my kid toy.

But the worst for 3rd party devs? lolno. If that were the case, the Wii wouldn't have had any games

Don't take my word for it.

Yeah, cumulative from 1981 makes a lot of sense too, especially since Sony didn't enter the market until 1996...

What a shocker that new consoles and new software is outselling 8 year old consoles and nothing, respectively, over a one week time frame...

Appreciation for history is great, and Nintendo made all the favorite consoles of my youth. But... I have a healthy appreciation for the history of NASA, yet don't believe they have much of a future in the space business either (now that they have no funding). See my point?

The major breakthroughs of the last console cycle were not laser pointer controllers, but the integration of digital distribution and online communities into console games, and a democratization of distribution (PSN/XBLA). Possibly also the integration of the console into the family room as a multimedia center.…

What outlandish nonsense. Name an artistic, third party game that came out on a Nintendo system. Nintendo uses their hardware to sell their software, and is certainly the worst platform for third-party developers (see the very article we are commenting on for one piece of evidence).

I didn't make a comparison to Sega, but I know it's what the Nintendo fanboys have nightmares about based on the responses here :)

I've only heard of 2 of the games you listed... Also, half of the quotes from the kotaku article you note are from the last 2 years, where Nintendo has posted losses. So pretty salient, actually. The fact that analysts have believed Nintendo should move to pure software for nearly a decade doesn't hurt the argument...

Hey look, I've owned every Nintendo system (except for the DS and 3DS). I'm agnostic when it comes to where I play my games and I'm lucky enough to have a job that supports my hobby no matter how many systems I need to do it. But the Wii U is a total dud so far and Nintendo has posted back-to-back operating losses.…

Nintendo has about $16bn in cash or equivalents, and posted a $500m loss and $300m loss in consecutive recent years. Certainly they aren't in imminent danger of folding, but it doesn't take too many years of consecutive failures for public companies to start rethinking their approach.

How many years until Nintendo becomes a pure developer? I hope the Wii U could be the death knell to their hardware business.

Chris G cant win Marvel at EVO and now AGE blows up? Justin Wong must be behind this.

Chris G cant win Marvel at EVO and now AGE blows up? Justin Wong must be behind this.

Journalistic trope #32: Using "unbelievable" to describe something that is actually pretty easily believed.

Good call, I missed DiosX with Storm. Didn't see that he made 9th either, which is a great showing for him (after winning that warmup tournament in california the week before evo). DiosX probably plays 'most like' Justin if that's fair to say - less of a reliance on mixup setup -> kill ->mixup setup and more of a…