We get it Ian, you feel betrayed by Nintendo because you're not running the company and deciding which decisions get made. You've made this point before.
I'll tell you something though: you need to stop parading yourself as the public figure of Nintendo fans. It's getting annoying.
"I became a Nintendo fan because they were the best damn game maker in the world and they rarely made cookie-cutter junk. Nearly everything was essential and every sequel greatly improved on it's predecessor."
Funny, I became a Nintendo fan because they were the best damn game maker in the world. Even back in the NES days they made some cookie-cutter junk though. But you know what? I don't care, I'm not a perfectionist when it comes to other people's work... so long as they make the best games in the world to go along with them, I'm satisfied.
This "EVERYTHING Nintendo does has to be for ME" attitude of yours is something you really need to work on.
"Now it's like Nintendo fans are Nintendo fans because they're Nintendo. Like we're all blind fanboys who follow them everywhere. Well I'm not interested in shallow non-gamer junk. The Nintendo I became a fan of wouldn't shoehorn a franchise character into a glorified mini-game with no depth. By targeting non-gamers Nintendo is altering their games to fit this new market."
Yeah, it's not like Nintendo fans are Nintendo fans because Nintendo still makes Nintendo games... that would be logical and would go against your point. So tell me Ian, what "glorified mini-game with no depth" are you talking about here? Kirby Air Ride? Because that's the only one I can think of, and Nintendo more than made up for that one with the next Kirby game... on the non-gamer portable you hate so much, no less. Of course, you wouldn't know.
You're not interested in what you call shallow non-gamer junk, but other gamers are. Did you somehow miss all the glowing Nintendogs reviews? Are all the people buying the non-games just getting the wrong game by accident? And it's not like Nintendo is only making non-games now... but why take Nintendo's word for it? Have you taken a look at their upcoming DS releases? You know, the list where the traditional games outnumber the non-games? How exactly is Nintendo altering those games to fit the new market? Do you have any evidence or is it all just vague unspecified misgivings? Better yet, is all this whining based on how you imagine Revolution games (which we know nothing about) will control?
"They're changing their product significantly for a market that currently doesn't even care about them at the likely expense of the market that does. That is selling out and that's a huge reason why I don't like this new focus."
No, they're making new product for a market that shows potential at the likely expense of people like you having to watch other people also have fun. Those horrible sell-outs.