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Snoorlax on 01 December 2018
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curl-6 said:
Snoorlax said:

Really, you think the Dark Ages started 2011? The Nintendo (console) Dark Ages has been around since 2001 losing most of their third party supporters and fanbase to Sony and Microsoft to the point that they're aren't considered serious competitors anymore in the core gaming scene which is a huge loss considering Nintendo started the serious console wars craze with Sega.

They got a big break in 2006 with the Wii but then Nintendo had no damn clue on how to follow up the Wii's casual market success. They tried to market the WiiU to casuals and core gamers but failed cause they cheaped out immensely on the hardware specs thinking it would be another Wii-hit wonder and with Nintendo's pride so high up their asses made it only worse to get third party support.

This Nintendo "Dark Age" is nothing recent it's as old the NintenDOOM threads and predictions.

It was the N64 where third parties jumped ship, so if you're going to go by that logic, your "dark age" should have started in 1996.

2001-2005 may have been a Dark Age, but 2006-2010 was the most successful period in their history.

I know that, but that was before the NintenDOOM narrative started and Nintendo was still considered a serious competitor in the console scene for next gen gaming since they mastered and set the standard for 3D games. Really during and after the GC days Nintendo consoles became that gaming company everyone knows but no one talks about in a cool sense anymore other than longtime Nintendo fans and kids i guess.

Not even in a nerdy sense like console wars, it's always been "Playstation! VS. Xbox! VS... Nintendo i guess?" ever since, speaking of Xbox, GC also lost to this newcomer and then decided to back off core gaming with the Wii for good, some will tell you that Nintendo was never about specs and horsepower but we all know that's utterbullshit. Yeah the Wii is their best performing console yet, but that's why i said they got a big break, from the bad sales even so Nintendo was still viewed as that console "your grandma plays for bowling" and it only got more embarrassing with the WiiU. Sure things are looking better with Switch  and it's a great console but in my pov Nintendo has lost their footing with consoles a long time ago and only now are they actually trying to fix and learn from their past mistakes.