| RolStoppable said: When I read the thread title I thought it was about Nintendo saving videogames today, not back then with the NES. Without the NES the videogames market wouldn't be as big as it is today, but there certainly would be videogames. Nintendo had to overcome a lot of hurdles to reestablish console gaming back then in the '80s in america. Many doubted that Nintendo could do it, but they did it. Now for my sort of off topic rant: What many people don't seem to realize is that Nintendo is saving console gaming again. Right now we are at a point where the majority of publishers post tiny profits or losses. The reasons are high development costs and slow adoption rates of the HD consoles. Now that wouldn't be so much a concern for us gamers, but the problem that appears is that many publishers don't dare to take a risk to make some new and innovative games, but instead make more clones of what has proved to sell. We are seeing a flood of FPS, action, sports games, games which are perceived as cool by the majority of current hardcore gamer market. Overall games become more and more the same and predictable. It gets boring and that's where the Wii comes in. It doesn't sell so fast because it's "cheap". It became the fastest selling console in history because it delivers what the majority of gamers really want: a refreshing change to the way how games are played and a broad spectrum of games. Without the Wii the videogames market would shrink big time. The HD consoles aren't the way to go for videogames. If it was, the market would grow and publishers would post profits, but the opposite is the case. Basically the Wii is bringing back videogames to what they were back then in the NES days. What I mean by that is that the idea for a game and its gameplay is more important than its looks. That's what videogames are about and that's why the NES was so successful and why the Wii will be successful. Without Nintendo videogames would still be here, but the market wouldn't be nearly as big. Nintendo saved and lifted up the industry in the NES days... and they are doing it all over again right now. |
You said it better than any one of us could. I could barelly afford a Wii at U$ 250. My life would suck if I had to spend more than U$ 400-600 on a console,U$ 60 on games and U$ 1000+ on a HDTV
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"You are for ever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."
