Gotta put in my two cents here.
I've always found the DS to be Nintendo's strongest system. It has a fair amount of variety, and some of the games are seriously fun to play. Thing is, Apple basically stabbed it with the App Store, giving people inexpensive AND good games. That ruined Nintendo's niche of making good games for when someone is on the go.
On the other hand, we have this ball of cruddy motion controlled thingamajig called the Wii, which has to compete with the much more well thought out PS3 and XBox 360. The Wii wasn't the greatest system to start with. We have graphics that need a LOT more polish, gameplay that is decent on some games, but absolutely awful on others. ( Don't get Need for Speed Hot Pursuit. The game looks decent on the other consoles, but the Nintendo version is complete garbage. ) On top of all this, the other systems have decided to one up Nintendo by adding their own motion sensors to their consoles. This leaves the Wii in a terrible position. The final nail in the coffin is Nintendo's inability to make a decent new game. We still have Mario, we still have Legend of Zelda, we still have Metroid, we still have Kirby, but they're just getting stale. It's not like we really want to go save Peach from Bowser AGAIN.
I don't think that Nintendo is killing itself so much as stomping on it's feet while its rivals take turn shooting it.
I've always found the DS to be Nintendo's strongest system. It has a fair amount of variety, and some of the games are seriously fun to play. Thing is, Apple basically stabbed it with the App Store, giving people inexpensive AND good games. That ruined Nintendo's niche of making good games for when someone is on the go.
On the other hand, we have this ball of cruddy motion controlled thingamajig called the Wii, which has to compete with the much more well thought out PS3 and XBox 360. The Wii wasn't the greatest system to start with. We have graphics that need a LOT more polish, gameplay that is decent on some games, but absolutely awful on others. ( Don't get Need for Speed Hot Pursuit. The game looks decent on the other consoles, but the Nintendo version is complete garbage. ) On top of all this, the other systems have decided to one up Nintendo by adding their own motion sensors to their consoles. This leaves the Wii in a terrible position. The final nail in the coffin is Nintendo's inability to make a decent new game. We still have Mario, we still have Legend of Zelda, we still have Metroid, we still have Kirby, but they're just getting stale. It's not like we really want to go save Peach from Bowser AGAIN.
I don't think that Nintendo is killing itself so much as stomping on it's feet while its rivals take turn shooting it.