| okr said: No offense, but I don't understand why it's always Nintendo fans who post threads like this. What are some of you guys afraid of? Nintendo is by far the world's most successful console/handheld manufacturer and at the same time the most successful videogame publisher. They sold more than 230 million Wii/DS systems so far, if I'm not mistaken that's more than 100 million more gaming devices sold than Sony since the start of the last gen for these two companies, i.e. the launch of DS/PSP. As publishers, Nintendo sold - according to VGC data - around 650 million games on Wii/DS, Sony around 125 million games on PS3/PSP, Microsoft around 100 million games on 360. Even if we'd detract ~100 million bundled Nintendo games from these figures, they'd still be ~400 million copies in front of Sony. Nintendo is probably the most profitable company in this industry. I see no reason why this should change soon. |
I could be wrong but I suspect a lot of these "negative" threads are created by people who haven’t been paying attention to the console cycle for particularly long. Because Nintendo has broken with conventional thinking many times with the design of their consoles, there is always a lot of pent up curiosity on what they’re planning on doing next; which inspires a lot of rumours to be created. The vast majority of these rumours are completely unrelated to what Nintendo eventually releases.
Even rumours that (in hindsight) appear to be caused by legitimate leaks have suffered heavily from the "telephone game" and the concept that is presented to people on websites only seems to vaguely resemble the final product.
People who are not used to dealing with these rumours tend not to be able to trust Nintendo to only implement something that works well; and they freak out and assume it will be a disaster. Personally, I think if Nintendo uses touch pannels, projectors, cameras, RFID, laser light shows, or any other technology in their system it will (likely) be far cooler than we would initially imagine; and be a really slick implementation.
