BengaBenga said:
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Yes I did but I just don't feel Nintendo really tried to cater the hardcore, with the GC it just felt like they tried it with a very few games that in the end get noticed by the hardcore crowd...Yeah MGS on GC made head turns but many didn't care when it was a remake and in the end their was only one game that made hardcore games jealous and that was Melee....
With N64 what did they really do? They had Rare but I doubt Nintendo influenced them to make games for Hardcore games;.And they had the Goldeneye license....and Rare ended up creating the best movie licensed game to date. It is probably the only time in gaming industry that Nintendo thought their is a developper that can match them..
And with the Snes generation it was rather Sega who was trying to cater the hardcore crowd with Sonic/streets of rage/Golden Axe/strider (many more) and sega is for cool people advertisements.
Nintendo basically always cater the hardcore crowd with minimal effort and if it is possible with the most wanted games like they tried with Monster hunter.
While if you compare that with MS it is a day and night difference, they went and get Bungie (that with Marathon had a hardcore following), they made a financieal deal with Epic for Gears of war, they had a deal with bioware, they went to rockstar and get (time)exclusive DLC for GTA 4, they went to Itagaki and probably made a deal for Dead or alive and Ninja gaiden, they (probably) went over to Square enix and Konami for getting their popular franchises on their platform...with all of that you know you will have a hardcore crowd following, and even better they went to the other side of the world to a region that doesn't like Xbox to make a deal with Sakuguchi... (nu ik het er toch over heb werkt de laatste cd niet van Lost Odyssey ofzo :s? of ben je het beu geraakt op het einde) that is what I call catering the hardcore crowd..
