yeh, you know your in trouble when your loosing first party developers/publishers. it looks like the money pile is always bigger on the other side. i can see nintendo losing theyre next gen console and just sticking to handhelds. maybe even developing/publishing for xbox/ps3 (they may be too proud for that)

but its exactly what happened to apple. they were making their software for their hardware. they didnt leave for modding/customisation, it was all or nothing. the competition was open-ended and apple nearly collapsed.

as a publisher, nintendo are amazing, and have such a high quality of first party releases, they just dont have the money for harware performance and game innovation/development. no one does. so when it comes to sales, people want to go bigger and faster, and impulse buy. nintendo still have a strong public relations with the core gamers, but i feel theyre not "trendy" enough to keep the new wave of casual gamers.

so what do u do?