theRepublic said:
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.
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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.
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How could hardware that was sold at a profit lose money?
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Do we know for sure it was sold for profit? ninty cut it down to 99 bucks at one point...
