Article: Why Nintendo is always ‘doomed’

[Avinash_Tyagi]

disolitude said:

Mr Khan said:

He is right, in both of his articles, though he points it out in a way such as is a bit more caustic than is prudent (pot-shots at Sony and Microsoft, etc.)

Nintendo has always been doomed, though for different (and sometimes legitimate) reasons

-The NES was doomed because gaming's future was with the computer
-The Super NES was doomed because they didn't embrace the aging audience like the Genesis did.
-The N64 was doomed because of cartridges (true enough), and also because they didn't embrace the aging audience
-The GameCube was doomed because it had no 3rd party support (kinda), kiddy games, no DVD, and no online
-The Wii is doomed because its an underpowered fad focusing on a fickle audience

The two articles sort of tie together (and tie with a recurring theme of his) that the game industry is removing itself from popular opinion. The industry itself knows what is best for it, and not the consumers. Thus a strong feeling of consensus emerges within the industry, norms that everyone know of come to govern thinking. Nintendo goes against these ideas, and become a pariah. The industry becomes more elitist and arrogant as time passes.

Gamecube was doomed. 5 bucks says that thing lost money. The GBA was selling 10s of millions of consoles per year and tonnes of software and nintendo was having 200 million profits per year.

Nintendo obviously didn't go under becuase of it, but calling something "doomed" is saying its going to fail. And nintendo did have failures in the past.

 

 

 You argue that Nintendo has had failures in the past, and yet throughout all that time in the video game industry, they have reamined profitable, with the exception of one quarter and been dominant in three generations of home console and every generation of handheld consoles, so tell me how that translates into a company being doomed or in any way in decline?

 

You're ignoring the pertinent points of this issue, in spite of what you may think, nintendo software sells more, its hardwares is selling more and its profits are higher than its competitors (in terms of gaming), so the fact is clear nintendo is in no way doomed, so there must be some disconnect in the media and industry that leads them to argue that it is.