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Nintendo: Spin Attack or How They Win?

I love Nintendo. I have since I was an elementary school kid begging for an NES Action Set. The Wii U is my first Nintendo system since the Gamecube, and it hasn't been powered on in three months.

The recent System Update has drastically improved its speed, but there's a lot more wrong with it and Nintendo than loading times.

Nintendo has problems galore, many of which spilled out over the last week, following their announcement of their second consecutive annual earnings loss. I'm not sure that there is a clear path for them out of this. They have, however, done a couple of things right in the midst of a bunch of PR spin deflection. This is my analysis of the current state of Nintendo, a company that could be doing much better than they are.

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