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PhalanxCO on 09 September 2008
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Paul_Warren said:

"Seriously, none of those are an issue. Nintendo only has one thing to worry about:

1) Nintendo."


Possibly, and their at best rather bland E3 outing was evidence that they do really need to worry about that.  I know that  their E3 showing really did a lot to dampen any enthusiam that I had for the Wii.  It felt like a slap in the face like they were saying we are Nintendo and we're going to give you cr*p games like Raving Rabbids, an inferior version of Call of Duty 5, Jedi Master****** W*****, Animal Crossing (without the animals you all know and love), and Wii Music, and you're going to take it with huge smiles and say we're the greatest game company on earth because we're Nintendo and you are our fans.  The best thing they showed in retrospect seemed to be Wii Sports Resort and that is not really my type of game.  Actually, now that I think about it, their E3 Conference reminded me of that part in Eddie Murphy's Raw where he said that Richard Pryor told him to tell Bill Cosby to have a coke and a smile and shut the **** up."

 

     I know that most of my current resentments against the Wii and Nintendo generated from their E3 conference because before that I had been sending them very nice and polite letters asking them to bring Mother (Earthbound 3 ) or an Earthbound Collection to the US in some form and even though they refused to do it for some reason, I didn't find their refusals on the matter to be as much of a slap to the face as the E3 Conference.

 

 

 

I know you have to be someone's joke account, but seriously, E3 sucked for everyone.  It's a shell of it's former self.

Price drops never have a long term impact on sales.  Yes, it was definitely needed.  But I don't see it as a threat to Nintendo.  They could easily counter with one of their own.  Heck, they could give them away if they wanted to and still not have a loss for the quarter/year.

BTW, I actually saw one in the wild this weekend (when I bought Wii Fit).  That makes 5 I have seen in the nearly two years since launch.  The one I bought, the one the guy behind me bought, two at Wal-Mart last summer and the one this weekend.

5 in two years...