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1. I never said it was easy. Neither of their steps forward will be easy, by any means at all. On the contrary, I'm totally with you it will be a HUGE challenge for Nintendo. But I do think they will pull it off. Given they're recent business track record with Iwata, and given their historical potential in catering to a more core audience, I believe in them. Mind you, I do think online in general will definitely be easier than it was for Sony and for M$$$, because they paved the road, so by def Nintendo has less to do, there is a blueprint there (alot like what Move is to Wii) and also people are accustomed now to playing online on their consoles. 2. Good point with Uncharted online challenge. But the Rare thing is bad because it was co-developed with Nintendo, the agent that made the recipe a success. It was joined with Nintendo that Rare made their games shine. You can argue that all you want but history definitely proves me right here. Once they left Nintendo, their games lost their luster. 3. Here, COD and GTA are multi-plats so I don't see your point. RROD, nor PSN outages for that matter, take players away from consoles. If you're a uni kind of guy, it takes more than that to move you from one platform to another, it takes games. If you're a tri-console person, it's definitely the exclusive games/experiences that moves one to purchase an alternative. Fair enough for not getting your hopes up. I definitely am, see end of point 1.
4. and last paragraph. Full props I can't agree more. And you can see that in my point 1. The PS was a killer system, I had that, I had the PS2. Only consoles I never bought were XBoxes, they just don't appeal to me. I started after atari, on Nintendo, but I did play pitfall and had an atari of my own when I was like 12. (got it out of an oooold old cupboard :) hehe). I just got that impression about the being in the now thing, alot of us are pretty much the same age. I guess given the current gen being the most recent one it's what we see most, but I remember alot of the PC (Starcraft/Diablo), N64/PS and Gamecube days because those were the ones I gamed the most in. I do still game today, but my fondest memories are from the past. Edit: also had a Dreamcast, I love fighting games. |
. Even though Nintendo paved the way for the Move Sony still managed to not achieve great heights with it and the same for M$ and Kinect(though better than Sony's attempt). Nintendo's recent outting with the 3DS i.e. not even a browser or online store yet and better friend codes just don't encourage me personally. I suppose I should say with the FPS/TPS and actiony shooter crowd not necessarily core audience.
2. Unless they get Retro to do it I just don't see it happening from their other teams and I still have my doubts about online shooter from them(I may be wrong but didn't one Metroid prime have a multiplayer mode that was critically panned?). As for rare Kinect sports is doing pretty well (best selling non bundled Kinect game if i'm not mistaken and 3mi selling game on a 10-12 million userbase is pretty good)and I thought Kameo was pretty good though Perfect Dark zero was very meh. Viva pinata did fine for a sim game that wasn't the sims or animal crossing. Though I don't really even wanna mention that thing they called a banjo game on 360.
3. I do like owning multiple consoles. There just haven't been enough reasons this genration for me to do so. I had an atari, NES, SNES, Genesis, PS, Saturn, N64, PS2, DC, GC. I've been a multiguy mostly up until lately. My point is having those titles which are the ones I suspect they are going to get as I don't see Western 3rd parties lining up to give Nintendo exclusive content(maybe Ubisoft). They may get a few exclusive games from the Japanese 3rd parties but this gen at least they weren't big enough to matter and I'm sure Japanese would rather be developing for the 3/DS, PSP/NGP because of their long commutes and lower overall investment in cost similar to this gen. The third party support I expect them to get does them no good because people can get them on the networks they already have or it would be cheaper to get them on a PS360 than Cafe if we are talking about newcomers even. Who knows. I may be surprised I just wouldn't bet on it.
4. I miss the days when every console seemed to have unique identity. Why did CoD and GTA and the Unreal engine lead us to this multiplatform hell of a generation?
