Nintendo waves the white flag at E3 2010

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Killiana1a said:

Alright, first off, Nintendo is to Japan what GM, Ford, and Chrysler are to the United States. An ingrained institution who creates culture that is irrevocably tied to culture. Hell, they even have Japanese school buses for kindergartners that look like a Yoshi float at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. So if Japan defaults, you can expect Nintendo to be making some hard decisions, which will have a definite affect on the quality of their games.

As for Japanese games selling more than Western ones, I don't buy it one bit at all . Red Dead Redemption has shipped more units than Super Mario Galaxy 2. No Japanese game in 2009/2010 has touched the numbers that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 reached in such a short time. Mass Effect and Fable sell comparable numbers to any new Final Fantasy game. JRPGS with the exception of Final Fantasy is a niche genre with a quarter of the appeal that WRPGs such as Diablo have in the US.

The only numbers you can cite are the casual Wii games. Yes Wii Sports has sold more than any other game of this current generation, but how long has it been out?

Nintendo will continue to dominate the casual market and I am proud they are doing it.

As for the future, only time will tell. If the 3DS is priced above $200, then I see it having a hard time topping the DS due to it being a one trick pony for gaming. I know myself and a lot of people who would love a Nintendo handheld, but look at what Apple is doing and what the Sony PSP can do and think, why can't Nintendo release a gaming device that has cell phone and Internet capabilities?

o_O You know there are online games on the DS, with a web browser cart for normal DS systems and a built in one with the DSi.  Add in the fact that the 3DS has been announced to have some major film companies releasing their 3D movies on the system that will sport an online system that is always online for every game ala PS3 and 360.

As for things like cell phones, that's their purpose, making calls, with gaming being a side note.  A game company making a game console with cell phone capabilities would be largely the same issue, a game console with the cell phone part being a side note, likely meaning it would be a SHITTY PHONE like the Nokia N-Gage that not only sold like crap but was a crappy cell phone on top of it.

As for the sales bit Red Dead is being pushed so hard cause Rockstar doesn't want to be left in the poor house after how much money they poured into the project and yet despite all their struggling the possibility of breaking even is likely to be nil if the reported budget is correct.  As for Modern Warfare it was marketed like no other game in history yet still on a single console sales comparison was outsold by a 2D Mario game that reviewers stated lacked "real effort", was pushed not even a fraction as much, and no where near the budget... hrm I wonder which model works better especially when you factor in every game that has tried to be a modern warfare and lost like Bionic Commando or Dantes Inferno