| johnlucas said: Nintendo doesn't get ENOUGH credit for saving videogames. Mark my words guaranteed if Nintendo ever leaves videogaming the industry dies right behind them. Others contribute, others participate, others enrichen it, but Nintendo IS the videogame industry. Videogames = Televideo games = Games played from a Television screen as opposed to Arcade and Computer. The reason videogaming's capital is in Japan is because of the Famicom/NES and nearly every significant addition to the playing experience came from Nintendo. Gaming would be all computers today if not for Nintendo in 1985. Review the Crash of 1983 for yourself. Sega wouldn't be able to resurrect it. No one would have. And because of the NES gaming became a greater cultural force that allowed it seep into cell phones and a host of varied devices. Anime's influence on US culture was partially brought about by Nintendo's existence in the gameworld. Cultural exchange. Sony saw gaming as a fad and Kutaragi saw the potential of v-gaming watching his daughter play a Famicom. The handheld market IS Nintendo because it was started and designed up and down the line by Nintendo. And Nintendo has even influenced the computer gaming world with controls and game design. Nintendo's praises seriously are not sung enough and this is why the Wii was so important. If Nintendo didn't create the DS or the Wii the videogame industry was headed for another crash. Perhaps the final one. Look at the only developer to survive through all the time making a healthy profit to statt afloat as a company. Only Nintendo has done it from generation to generation. They wrote the bible on how this industry is really run and it was inevitable that their ruling time was to return. Large money pockets from megacorps and Nintendo's attitude towards 3rd party are the only reasons they dropped a little from the console throne. Guaranteed Nintendo will be here long after Sony or Microsoft or any other johnny-come-lately enter this difficult biz. There's a reason for that and I've just detailed why. John Lucas |
Nintendo is not the Holy Grail and it is not God.
The folks who make the video game industry great aren't the console manufacturers; it's the video game developers of which Nintendo is only one of, if one of the oldest/most successful ones.
Nintendo has done a lot of innovative things in the past but I don't think they have a monopoly on creativity. It's not as if only Nintendo can be creative and it's a mistake to think that. Though I will say that Sega, the way it was back in the Genesis/SNES era, felt far more creative than the entirety of the MS-xbox division and Sony put together.
I think very highly of Nintendo and its accomplishments, but one can't be objective while wearing a fanboy T-Shirt. It's sad so many people are wearing them...
