Nintendo is doing so successful with its Wii and DS, that analysts say this overwhelming success will hurt the gaming industry as a whole badly. Being such powerful competition, Nintendo is pushing publishers to develop and release faster in order to keep up with Nintendo and get a small slice of the pie. This will cause lower quality games, which is never a fun thing, especially when it had the potential to be better. Although I'm a Nintendo enthusiast, I enjoy many other sources of gaming too. Hopefully other competition will rise up to Nintendo's success, since I would really hate for Nintendo to have to go down.

Boston (eCanadaNow) - Analysts have come out and stated that the success of Nintendo with their DS and Wii is bad for the gaming industry.

As of late Nintendo has been dominating the hardware and software sales of games around the world with the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii.

Analyst Todd Mitchell though has stated that “Nintendo is dominating software sales on its popular hardware platforms, leaving the publishers with a smaller slice of an only somewhat incrementally larger pie.”

He did state that the “DS and Wii are taking the videogame industry by storm.”

This is not all that good for publishers though as Nintendo could force them to get games out faster for their consoles.

“Moreover, we feel that the likely shorter product cycles of Nintendo’s platforms puts the publishers in a permanent catch-up mode. We think the upcoming releases of Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption will highlight this phenomena [sic] this holiday season,”

The problem here is that sales on these consoles is largely dominated by Nintendo, forcing third-party publishers to try and compete.

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