Some general truth's I've discovered as a Ninty fan.

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SmokedHostage said:

I've been a fan of Nintendo since the NES days but there are just some other things that "come with the package."

1.) Nintendo's console will always be deemed the kiddy console.  There's no way around it.  Unless Nintendo hires American Developers into their first party ranks to develop a bunch of FPS's, it's not going to change.  It's been like this since the Genesis became popular so I'm over it.

2.) Nintendo's console will always be at a reasonable price.  Say what you want about Wii hardware but at least it wasn't launched at $600.  I'm sure that if 2160p graphics can be produced on a console at $200 next gen, the Wii's successor will have it.

3.) Nintendo will always find a way to make something with an obsurd name sell well.  Look at Pokemon.. I can't begin to tell you how many times someone has used Poke-a-man to insult my Pokemon fandom but Blue/Red/Green have sold more units than anything that's not Super Mario Bros.  Also look at Pikmin, Nintendogs, Wii Sports, The Wii itself, etc.

4.) Nintendo fans always find reasons to bitch.  I'm sorry but they do.  I mean anyone remember Yoshi's Story, probably the most childish looking game ever and it was great.  Also Wind Waker.. Cel-Shaded but still one of the most epic Zelda's.  These are just examples but I don't even want to go into Wii Fit or Wii Music.

5.) Despite people says that Nintendo "releases the same damn games,"  They will have some quality IP's every gen.  The SNES had Starfox, for example. The Gamecube had Pikmin.

6.) There will always to a new Mario IP every new console.  The SNES had Mario Paint and Super Mario Kart.  The N64 had Mario Party, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Paper Mario.  The Gamecube had DDR Mario Mix, Mario Baseball and Mario Strikers.  I can't for the next ones, personally.  I'm sure there are more, I just haven't listed them.

I'm glad I got this out of the way.  If you don't mind, I'm going to give my Wii some playtime.

you know with the N64 they came very close to growing up with the gamers of my generation i remember talking about it durring lunch in middle school back in the day, it didnt go over as well as they would have liked, then the cube derailed that. the wii, is a different path entirely i could see them growing up, but it will be with another console in the future, though they may just stay in the younger gamer area. no problem with that....

 

im far more interested if they will ever take the hand-helds they make to 3d, so far all handhelds have been designed mainly for 2d control (looking angerly at my psps one nub) i think they could storm that market with a true ds fallow up that is as powerfull as the wii, it wouldnt be a streach the chip is low power enough, it could even be die shrunk again, or gpu/cpu same chip with the respective age and development on both taken into account