| Legend11 said: So I looked at Futureshop's flyer today (Canada's largest consumer electronics chain) and saw that they are selling an Xbox 360 60GB Pro package with 4 games (Lego Indiana Jones, Kung Fu Panda, Dark Sector, and Stranglehold) for the same price as a Wii with NHL2K9 (and Wii Sports by default). Considering what exactly is inside the 360 it just goes to show what competition can do as far as pricing is concerned. If the Wii really did have competition (in the new demographics that the Wii has attracted) you can bet we would be seeing more of an effort on Nintendo's part in terms of both first and third parties and in prices. If the Wii was struggling do you really believe all we'd be seeing for first party this Christmas would be basically Wii Music and Animal Crossing? A big reason the Gamecube got one of its best games last generation (Resident Evil 4) was because of competition. Nintendo now seems comfortable with sitting back and waiting for third parties to come to them (something that because of the fierce HD competition may not ever happen in ways that some Wii fans are hoping for).
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Yes because Nintendo only makes good games such to compete right. They don't make them because they know they will sell loads and make them huge profits. No they do it solely to compete. Well of course they do it to compete but there is a monetary reasoning behind it as well sherlock. Which is why this argument makes no sense as to why twould they stop making good games when obviously they make money. Which is why Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Galaxy, Twilight Princes, Metroid Prime, ect. have all been released to MAKE MONEY. Now they have not been much of a money maker compared to Wii Fit, but of course no game in history has been able to rake in the profits compared to that game.
So does Ninty need a wake up call. They did. And they got it haha after E3 2008 which is why the October conference focused on games such as Sin and Punishment 2, Punch Out, The Conduit, Madworld, ect. People are still looking for that wake up call to Nintendo when they obviously got it haha. It's just most of it doesn't happen til 2009 aside from 3rd party efforts this last quarter such as CoD: WaW, Deadly Creatures, Rygar, Castlevania Judgement along with Animal Crossing from them. Of course nobody cares about those titles because it isn't Mario or Zelda haha. Alwasy funny that people complain about Ninty's stream of games not coming out yet all they really care about is a certain few franchises from them. Even more so they tend to care about Wii 3rd party games when more than likely the only reason they bought a Wii, like the GC, was for first paty efforts. Quote that sucker for the truth.
