[quote name='bmulligan']
Nintendo ... will instead seek to survive by concentrating on the market for children".
This is what is killing them in the first place.
I bought a Cube specifiocally because it's targeted to children. I have a 4 year old son who loves Kirby, Pokemon, Mario, and Fox. I know many an old-skool gamer with kids who bought a Cube for the same reason. Every 5-15 year old I see waiting in an airport, doctor's office, DMV, or restauraunt seems to be spending time with a GBA in hand. Somehow I don't think marketing to kids is Killing Nintendo.
Quality 3d party games is, and the fact that they only develop 2-3 big in-house titles a year. Yeah, Mario cart and Metroid sell a lot of copies, but when that's all you can release in a year, that leaves a lot of extra cash for people to pick up 5-10 PS2 blockbusters a year. Just look at the game wall in any game store. There are 4 times as many games for the PS2, twice as many availible for the Xbox.[/quote]
What I meant was that by focusing on only one part of the market, you're hurting yourself. Parents are the ones who buy games for their children, and even then, I'm guessing that they will only buy a few games a year for their kids, like my parents did. People in their late teens to even early thirties are perhaps an even larger market, and since they control their money, they are more likely to spontaneously buy more games per year. Hence why the PS2, with more adult titles, is the current reigning champ.