Even if competitors throw al that dirt in Nintendo´s face, it will only show one thing: they are afraid of something!
Otherwise they wouldn´t have to bully Ninty. The whole problem from the start was that Nintendo dropped down from the heights of the throne of videogaming, thanks to their N64 flop, and Sony rushed in to take the top spot after them, with Microsoft smelling the money and eyeing the number two spot. Now, the DS is a huge success, with the PSP struggling just to make even because it doesn´t have any games worthy of mention, and Microsoft are going to launch their own handheld very soon.
But nomatter what these competitors do, Nintendo can´t be dismissed as "a sparkling innovation" or worse designations since they started videogaming and therefore is having the sharpest edge of all the drawn swords. So, knowing this, and being afraid (of course you will NEVER get them to admit it), there is these vicious attacks by Ninty´s two competitors not only fighting for the topspot, but also to squeeze out Nintendo altogether, no doubt wishing they can do to Nintendo what has already been done to SEGA. According to them there can only "be two companies" in console gaming (this is what I have heard over and over, and it has got to be coming from somewhere inside their HQ´s).
They are just fools, however, who lose money on all of their efforts, and maliciously refusing to bow out for the reason that they "have to" look good in the publics eye thus maintaining their selfesteem and pride. The sad truth about them is that they not very profitable at all, because they have chosen the path of advanced graphics that cost fortunes to develope into games, with the cost of any such game running into tens of millions of dollars, and a general public not willing to pay much more at retail for said games. This spells deficit to me.
So Nintendo´s two competitors who so strongly fights for the two top spots (to stay there that is), have not only Nintendo to worry about, but also their own financial backyard to be concerned for as they keep moving along into their own financial downcoming foolishly believing that they will eventually make it down the road. All the while watching Nintendo going the exact opposite direction of where they want them: Up!
So they can bully all they want, ridicule all they want. Nintendo has always had its loyal followers, and gained even more with the DS, and are to gain yet again more with the Wii. All the while making a profit on everything they do. So Nintendo goes only one way all of the time: UP And the other two is going only one other way al of the time: DOWN.
That is why they keep on squealing so much, and bang on their empty barrels that their "big money" can buy them. In Nintendo´s bank money keep trickling in, but in their bank money keeps on trickling out. So nomatter how long they keep on trying to hurt Nintendo, they will only be hurt themselves as Nintendo CAN afford to KEEP on going for as many generational cycles as is needed before they are again the number one in videogaming, something the other two cannot afford. Not with how they throw money around. You can say that Microsoft has very deep pockets indeed, so of course the first of the two to go at any time in the future will be Sony.
But eventually, if Microsoft keep on being bad, they will in one way or the other go out too. I trust in the workings of Nature and in the Law of Karmic pay-back. This has always worked (I have personally seen and experienced it do so all of my life), and will always continue to do so. No religious bs, just plain fact about how the Universe fights back on those who do harm to others for their own selfish reasons. The Universe demands BALANCE, and that there shall be once one of the two bullies have left the videogame market.
If I am not completely mistaken, the God who runs everything (as I believe it) does not approve of videogame companies who make a living off of corrupting the hearts and minds of the young by launching mostly violent videogames to the market, saturating everything with it, and not caring about it.
It has already been proved (IGN) that violent videogames (and movies) have a direct (!) influence on peoples behaviour to the negative making them violent themselves. Already now there is laws that have been made to curb the influence of such games in several countries around the world, in several US States. So Sony and Microsoft do not care what their games do to people who play them, but concerned parents and a large segment of the rest of society does. And so there will be one further problem which the two bullies will have to worry about: the people pressure! People will not tolerate the violence in games, if, and as has been proven, it hurts their loved ones on one way or the other. This sentiment will grow every day from now on. At any one time in the future it will become big enough to squeeze out gamemakers who make such games. So imaging what appeal the Microsoft and Sony machines will have to people, once they see that such games will have nearly been removed entirely from their games systems library! There wont be much left which can compete with Nintendo. It is clear by then, if not already, that Nintendo will stand out as the clear winner. Because they can entertain people, without also corrupting the hearts and minds of those who play on their machines. That is the winner of the future videogame market!!