if nintendo stopped making consoles....

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Joelcool7 said:

Here I'll make it simple. if Nintendo stopped making consoles they would stop making games. Miyamoto and Iwata both stated the day Nintendo stops making consoles is the day Nintendo stops making games.

LOL you must be too young to remember SEGA in their heyday. They trotted out the same line after the Saturn died in the womb. "Sonic will never play on anything but SEGA HW!" They proclaimed. We all know how that turned out. Thankfully Ninty is in good shape financially, and we won't have to see what happens. Perhaps I'm just oldschool but having a company focused on gaming always seems more exciting than being a fanboy for some faceless megacorp who really only give half a shit about gaming in the first place.

Man do I miss SEGA- they kept Ninty from turning into the touchy feely company they seem to natural gravitate to. I guess I would say I'm a Nintendo fan simply because they are less sucky than the others, but back in the day I always thought they survived too much on crappy kids games. SEGA had everything right except for a really dumb ass Japanese leadership team. If only SoA had been in control I doubt MS would have ever entered the game what with the DC using WinCE and having a great online backbone. 

Don't get me wrong I love how accessable Nintendo games are. NSMB Wii is a great example. But SEGA was a gaming company that was interested in current ("hardcore") gamers.

 

Frankly we don't need 2 HD consoles that are essentially identicle from two companies who have show a total disreguard for innovation- look at the controllers, both should be in a museum. PC people have been joking about these for longer than most members have been alive. SEGA had some balls, which I see little of outside Nintendo these days. A real shame.

 

Sorry for the OT rant.