Nintendo is working on "replacement" for Mario and Pokemon for the next-gen systems

[OB1]

You guys are full of shit beyond your years.

Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING in the entertainment industry comes down to marketing. Nintendo is in 3rd place because of marketing, not because Sony and MS are brilliant companies in their ideas and endeavors other than marketing.

Um... that's what ABF and myself have been saying for the past few years now. I even mentioned marketing in my first post here. Nintendo marketed the Gamecube towards a younger audience in the beginning, and advertisements were few and far between. While MS was advertising their machine a year before it came out, Nintendo waited until a couple of months before the GC's launch to start with the marketing.

Another thing that Nintendo should do with the next console is to make it as expensive as the PS3 and X-Box 2. Even though the Gamecube is just about as powerful as the X-Box and much more powerful than the PS2, many people thought that it was the most inferior because it was $100 less espensive.