I am neither the best analyst nor do I have any information. But I am going to comment on this mainly because, having owned almost everything they released and

I am neither the best analyst nor do I have any information. But I am going to comment on this mainly because, having owned almost everything they released and because I have a lot of great memories from its games, I am really emotional about Nintendo. They have been in the industry for almost 40 years: started distributing Magnavox in 1974, made huge success with Donkey Kong arcade in 1981 and released their first consoles in the beginning of the same decade (Game Watch and Famicom-NES). No company has made it that far, no company has been so innovative and no company has had the lows of Ninty (Sony is probably having a bad era with PS3 but that's their first bad release -handhelds excluded- and Microsoft has been doing fantastic with all XBoxes). Furthermore, no company managed to even come close to Nintendo in the handhelds. As much as I love Apple (and can even consider myself kind of a fanboy) I just can't stand it when they try to involve it everywhere and explain everything as a result of its success. Nintendo is Nintendo's prey, they dug the hole that they fell into. The 3DS is not selling bad because people are buying Angry Birds instead of Super Mario. It's not selling well because, well, what is there to sell? It's unbelievable that Nintendo released a handheld with such a weak launch-titles line. Tell me one game that will make you want to buy 3DS. You don't buy a console and then wait for games to come out. You want the games there. Unless it's something really major, like the Wii, when you can see its potential and you can do with games like Wii Sports for a while. But the 3DS is a handheld, I am not going to buy it just to spend 10 minutes on a Piccadilly line ride playing mini games and waiting for a few major games to come out, when they come, with the quality they come out, etc.. I can compare that to playing Doodle Jump and Doodle Jump wins easily. What I can't compare to Doodle Jump is a Zelda/Mario/AAA game on my 3DS. It's not about Apple vs Nintendo, nobody will buy an iPhone to play video games. And it's not about whether Nintendo can do well as a iOS/Android/WebOS games developer. Of course they can and I hope they do if they get in such a bad position. What it really is about is whether Nintendo can help handheld gaming keep its value. Also, it's not hard to see that they are going to fall into another hole if they don't do MAJOR things with the WiiU. So I am kind of glad that the 3DS release wasn't successful, I can hope they are getting a few messages..