If you only restrict yourself to triple A studios and publishers, then yeah, your gaming life will be quite stale and boring.

This gen is the best by a long shot.

Nintendo entered the video game industry 44 years ago in 1971:

"in 1971, Nintendo had -- even before the marketing of the first home console in the United States -- an alliance with the American pioneer Magnavox to develop and produce optoelectronic guns for the Odyssey (released in 1972), since it was similar to what Nintendo was able to offer in the Japanese toy market in 1970s (Gorges, 2012). Thus, Nintendo was directly involved at the onset in the home video game industry, and through these partnerships, the company was able to have a direct look at the industry in North America"

(Source: The Foundation of Geemu: A Brief History of Early Japanese video games, The International Journal of Computer Game Research, 2013)

Nintendo's first arcade game was released 41 years ago in 1974: Wild Gunman. It was a light-gun shooter where you shoot at live-action FMV video footage of cowboys (recorded with analog film reel, a precursor to '80s laserdisc arcade games).

The first Nintendo-licensed video game console was released 41 years ago in 1974: the Japanese version of the Magnavox Odyssey.

And finally, Nintendo's first own video game console released 38 years ago in 1977: Color TV Game. It was a Pong-clone console with colour graphics.

Entire genres were missing. No variety bruh.

Nintendo released the Game & Watch in 1980. That was 35 years ago.

Sony Computer Entertainment was founded in 1993 (the PS was released in 1994).

Microsoft Game Studios was founded in 2002 (and the Xbox was released in 2001).

Combined that is 36 years. So I was wrong. But it was a quick, mental estimate. Plus, Nintendo started developing gaming products in the 1970's. Also, let's not forget that Nintendo was founded in 1889. So they've been making strong business decisions for 126 years. Enough to change markets multiple times and heavily influence others.

No, but it's getting people who already shelled out that money for those consoles to spend MORE money on the app.

That's a first in gaming history. Hardcore gamers don't pay for free apps on phones.

Just face it, you are creating a problem where there isn't one. This is very smart on Nintendo's part. They have been in this business longer than both Sony and Microsoft combined.

Last gen didn't have diversity of current gen. Only 2 good years were 2006 and 2007. After that everyone was chasing COD money. During entire last gen, we never saw a single story based Space game, we didn't seen any top down cRPG, we didn't see any non linear FPS after Crysis. Everyone was chasing COD money, even some of the strategy games were turned into shooters including Syndicate, Commandos and XCom.

FPS games are cheap

If you had 1 rpg, 1 rts, 1 fps, 1 puzzle game, 1 action adventure, 1 childrens game, 1 mmo, 1 platformer, 1 racing game, 1 feminine game, 1 fighting game, 1 sport game, you would have a very diverse library.

3DS is a portable console. Per Wiki,

"The Nintendo 3DS (Japanese: ニンテンドー3DS Hepburn: Nintendō Surī Dī Esu?, abbreviated to 3DS) is a portable game console produced by Nintendo."

That's only true for the top 3 JRPG franchises, but the rest haven't had any more sequels than the WRPG franchises.

Like someone mentioned in the other Nintendo/Miyamoto/kids thread, Nintendo might target kids, yet their core fanbase aren't kids, but adults who grew up with Nintendo. Likewise, many JRPGs might target teens, yet their core fanbase aren't teens, but adults who grew up with JRPGs.

And finally, most WRPGs for the last 3 generations are available on multiple platforms upon release. Back in the days when JRPGs were popular, they were only available on a single platform upon release. JRPGs didn't start getting multi-platform releases until recent years, long after the JRPG industry's decline. If we're looking at individual platform releases, as well as overall franchise sales, then JRPGs still come out ahead either way.