@PlywoodStick

Actually that's not entirely true.

The oil price was high because speculators drove up the price because the stock market and economy were highly unstable. OPEC also cut output as well.

Also the U.S. dollar between 2008 to 2014 dropped like brick leading to everything priced in dollars to skyrocket in price.

For the past 9 years the U.S. Government has been trying to get the price of oil to come down, which in turn would lower gas and energy prices.

Right now the oil price has dropped like brick in part due to the rapid rise of the U.S. dollar on the exchange market, the rapid drop in demand for oil to to emerging economies including China and India slowing rapidly and/or entering into recessions, and lastly the glut of oil due to OPEC flooding the market to kill North American shale/fracking oil producers (they are producing a lot of oil) that are weaning the U.S. off of foreign oil. Also OPEC is hell bent on stopping Iran and Iraq from again any real market share in the oil market, so they are purposely tanking the oil price.

A major consequence of the high oil and energy prices, was that consumers bought less gas through less traveling while switching to green energy.

Businesses have also been switching to green energy in order to cut their high energy bills thus giving them stable cheaper energy bills.

OPEC's market share of the international oil market has been greatly reduced over the past 8 years, due to U.S. domestic oil production going through the roof, Canadian domestic oil production, green energy and other new sources of energy.

OPEC is hell bent on regaining their once dominant market share, by driving out all the new competition by force.

With the current and rapid drop in oil prices means consumers and businesses will have more money to spend else where as energy is now extremely cheap.

U.S. consumers are now spending more, since a significant portion of their income is freed up by cheap gas prices.

U.S. businesses are now spending more money, due to savings due to cheap gas and energy prices.

The cheap oil, gas and energy prices is the single best stimulus the U.S. could have gotten next to a huge FDR style spending program.

High energy prices act as a huge drag on all economies that aren't energy producers.

Short answer is the world is no longer beholden to OPEC for energy and oil, so old model is gone.

Nintendo will gain a lot of revenue and brand exposure by expanding back into multimedia, theme parks, license products and mobile.

They did most of this in the 1980s through the mid 1990s, but quit in order to salvage their reputation in the gaming industry (which was a bad move in my book).

They can get tons of revenue from mobile from IAP and ads.

They can get a good amount of revenue from multimedia and licensed products.

Though it remains to be seen how much can be generated by theme park deals.

This also increased brand exposure, which in turn should increase sales over the long run.

This expansion should in few years return them to Wii/DS era profitability regardless of how well NX does (provided it doesn't bleed money).