As much as I enjoy many of the nintendo games, I'd say theres not much appeal to today's generation as there was about 10 years ago or so. Many of today's gamers has been introduced to massive violence and stuff like that and usually don't go into Mario and such. Even if the GC dies, or the Revolution turns out to be a flop, nintendo still holds reverence to some of the best games ever. (Even with DDR mario mix hahaha). Thats just my opinion. Keep in mind I Haven't owned a next gen system and will change when xbox 360 and ps3 are out. (After all that gay testing)