[Mr. Weasel]

Nintendo as a videogames company has made many error long before the SNES, they made quite a few in the NES era as well and it's not just the Game Boy and Pokemon that's keeping Nintendo afloat. Nintendo is the only one of the three hardware companies that is VERY successful with its first party titles. Mario sells, Zelda sells, Metroid sells, Kirby sells... etc etc, and they have a lot of those first party franchises to fall back on. And yes while Pokemon and the Game Boy series are both very strong, just letting you know that it's more than that.

You don´t have to remind me of the fact that Nintendo has many popular franchises, I am playing them for 20 years now
But to be honest the gamecube sold very bad in germany, in total 800.000 GC´s were sold here until december 2005 while during the Christmas-sales 2005 Nintendo sold 520.000 DS. So they sold during a few weeks nearly as many DS as they sold GC´s in all the years before. The PS2 was sold 3.4 million times in germany until december 2005. So even if a first party title from nintendo is a big hit on the gamecube it doesn´t sell so many copies as the system itself is not so wide spread. I think nintendo makes 80% of their sales in germany with the gameboy advance/nintendo ds and the games for them. Of course the numbers do only stand for germany i don´t know how good or bad nintendo does elsewhere, perhaps they got a better marketentry with the gamecube in australia. and i do think that nintendo is an innovative company, exspecially when it comes to creating new game concepts, but in germany they have the same problem that sega had - good and innovative game titles but the hardware is sold badly. So the handheld-sector really keeps them alive here. I hope nintendo has learned from their mistakes in the past and gets more third party companies to develop games for the Wii.
That name really irritates me, Wii sounds similar to the german "wie" and that means "how?"