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forest-spirit on 06 April 2015

Nintendo as a whole? Yes, they will be relevant and I see no reason for why they wouldn't be. Wii U is a failure but as long as Nintendo supports it with good content it should be able to finish with enough momentum to avoid irrelevancy in the home console department. That's assuming Nintendo doesn't handle the transition as badly as they did last time. But that's just the Wii U, Nintendo also have their portable console business and their Mario, Zelda and Pokémon, and they've just taken their first step into the mobile place.

Nintendo will be irrelevant when they no longer can sell any hardware or software and the thought of having their games on mobile platforms, PC, Playstation or Xbox is met with indifference from both consumers and the industry.



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Chubomik on 06 April 2015

Attributing to the OP, if we keep seeing NINTENDO on this sight, on the titles of web articles, continued software/ hardware output, if people keep complaining, if people keep praising, merchandise still on shelves, amiibo CONTINUING to sell out within seconds (DAMMIT ROBIN SHOW UP ON AMAZON ALREADY), and posts like these keep appearing, yes. They will remain relevant. It's all about technicalities with this kind of topic.



Chubomik on 06 April 2015

... I'm tired



Chubomik on 06 April 2015
DevilRising said:
No offense, but these "Is Nintendo still relevant"/"Will Nintendo be relevant" threads are beyond old.




daredevil.shark on 06 April 2015

We can have countless threads about big companies. But if they don't change the situation will remain same. I am critical to Sony when they make mistakes. Supporters of Sony all around the web shows concern. Remember when the digital version of driveclub was supposed to have DRM? Francis AKA boogie made a video. Sony then changed their decision. Or take the example of Microsoft and Xbox One DRM. They listened. And thus these companies are relevant in gaming business.
Both Sony and Microsoft is run by old rich grumpy people. But they have faith in it. Being conservative wont do any good if its damaging the company.
But who am I talking to? Gaming forum people. It seems so. But it wont do any good unless the people who runs Nintendo changes. And I doubt they will change very soon.



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daredevil.shark on 06 April 2015
Cobretti2 said:
teigaga said:
RolStoppable said:

Third parties didn't like the Wii, so that can be ruled out.

The initial claim was that Nintendo ignored third parties with the Wii U. A stage appearance by executives proves this claim wrong, because no executive would show up for a console manufacturer that ignores them.

EA and activsion didn't like the Wii with all the shovelware they sold on it?  Anyway whether they liked it doesn't change the fact that it was hugely successful and thus has them paying attention. So many people on here thought the Wii U would sell at worst 40m (back before it launched) simply because it was follow up to the wii, I imagine Ea and Activision were no different.

And a stage visit by an executive of EA doesn't disprove that claim unless you take "ignore" as literally as not sending them dev kits or not speaking/responding to them. Did Nintendo consult with them and ask what power they wanted from next gen hardware, what their ambitions were, what achitecture they were with, what power bracket they would need to meet to be in the same bracket as other platforms (PS4/X1). If Nintendo did ask those questions and responded with the Wii U then thats the equivalent of ignoring third parties, if Nintendo didn't ask those question, that too is ignoring them.


3rd parites used Wii for shovelware sales to prop up their PS360 game development raising costs. That is how they used the Wii not to give te core gamers great games. None of that profit ever went int a blockbuster game on Wii.

Look at Rockstar used carnival games to save themselves and used that money to finish of GTA4. They were on the brink of bankrupcy due to how much they spent on GTA4 kind of like a lot of great devs that backed the PS3 early on and spent HUGE money thinkign the PS3 would ell like the PS2. RIP Free Radicals and Factor 5 to name a couple great devs.

Off topic. What carnival games. Can you pm me?



Chubomik on 06 April 2015
daredevil.shark said:
Cobretti2 said:


3rd parites used Wii for shovelware sales to prop up their PS360 game development raising costs. That is how they used the Wii not to give te core gamers great games. None of that profit ever went int a blockbuster game on Wii.

Look at Rockstar used carnival games to save themselves and used that money to finish of GTA4. They were on the brink of bankrupcy due to how much they spent on GTA4 kind of like a lot of great devs that backed the PS3 early on and spent HUGE money thinkign the PS3 would ell like the PS2. RIP Free Radicals and Factor 5 to name a couple great devs.

Off topic. What carnival games. Can you pm me?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_Games

A game literally called "Carnival Games".

The name speaks volumes for its effort. Sad

EDIT: And it still made 7 millions copies. Third best-selling third-party game. Kill me.



Boberkun on 06 April 2015

I hope Nintendo will continue their "gimmick" way. I don't want another faceless multiplat console like 4 or bone.



Johnw1104 on 06 April 2015

Did not read any of the previous 179 replies, suffice it to say that Nintendo's "relevancy" in gaming is no where near endangered as of yet.



sam987 on 06 April 2015

Its their anti realistic graphics/mature games policy that hurts them the most. And in time even the mobile games become irrelevant because people don't give much value to it.