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Wright on 27 September 2014
zero129 said:
Wright said:

Zero129 just wants Nintendo games on PC. :P

But i've already got Nintendo games on my PC xD .


Didn't know Dead Rising 2 was a Nintendo game :O



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platformmaster918 on 27 September 2014
IamAwsome said:
One failed console doesn't equal "so many attempts".

I think he's referring to continued declining sales in an otherwise growing market.  The Wii was an anomaly.  Other than that it's NES>SNES>N64>GC>WiiU (for now)




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Nintentacle on 27 September 2014

It's hit or miss with them. The hits always compensate for the misses.



TheLegendaryWolf on 27 September 2014

Funny thing is the GC made more profit than the PS2 and yet is called a "failure."



TheWPCTraveler on 27 September 2014

They can hit lightning in a bottle again, for all I care.

All I know is that I'm interested in eight games already - all but one published by Nintendo.

I guess I'm Nintendo's target audience?



 
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ohmylanta1003 on 27 September 2014
Baalzamon said:
Darc Requiem said:
Baalzamon said:
IamAwsome said:
One failed console doesn't equal "so many attempts".

3 out of 4 starts to be though.

Out of their last 4 consoles, Wii was the only successful one.

Their profits say otherwise. 

I would expect them to, considering the wildly successful Game Boy Advance followed by the even more successful DS were pretty much carrying the company. A company making profit as a whole does not mean the consoles they were selling were a success.


The consoles made profit for the company. You are reading into it incorrectly. People are not talking about the company making profit as a whole. People are talking about each individual console making money for Nintendo.



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gcube2000 on 27 September 2014

because they don't give up like most people do today



Teeqoz on 27 September 2014
TheLegendaryWolf said:
Funny thing is the GC made more profit than the PS2 and yet is called a "failure."


Proof? I know the PS2 made Sony 1 billion dollars annually, so then the GC would have to have made a shit ton of cash. Now, because of it being more powerful than the PS2, and it's huuuuge pricecuts in such a short time, I don't really see how that can be true.



TheLegendaryWolf on 27 September 2014
Teeqoz said:
TheLegendaryWolf said:
Funny thing is the GC made more profit than the PS2 and yet is called a "failure."


Proof? I know the PS2 made Sony 1 billion dollars annually, so then the GC would have to have made a shit ton of cash. Now, because of it being more powerful than the PS2, and it's huuuuge pricecuts in such a short time, I don't really see how that can be true.

I meant to say during most of the 6th gen. PS2 was being sold at a loss for a while. Overall, the PS2's long life span led to most of the profits made.



IamAwsome on 27 September 2014
platformmaster918 said:
IamAwsome said:
One failed console doesn't equal "so many attempts".

I think he's referring to continued declining sales in an otherwise growing market.  The Wii was an anomaly.  Other than that it's NES>SNES>N64>GC>WiiU (for now)

I just don't understand that whole "downward trajectory" arguement. 

The NES was a monopoly.

THe SNES had stiff competition. (I'll never understand why people see the SNES in particular as "downward trajectory")

The N64 has STIFFER competiton (Sony + a dying Sega) as well as Nintendo hampering themselves with carts. 

The GCN turned up late against the PS2 and suffered from a "kiddy" design... and MS..  they were there too.  

The Wii U was just poor execution. 

Yeah sales went down, but they dropped for reasons. Change certain crucial decisions that Nintendo made in the past, and the gaming landscape would be very different now.