Malstrom: 'The Big Picture' problem underlying Nintendo's decline

[LordTheNightKnight]

RolStoppable said:

LordTheNightKnight said:
"misunderstanding malstrom?. lol!.. am I wrong when I say his very bitter because he does not get his 2D mario he said this himself.. all i see is most of his rant stems from not getting 2d mario.. which is really distracting from his other analysis .. all i see is .. wahh wahh no 2D mario.. ffuu nintendo!.. fffuu miyamoto!.. dieee!"

No, he's bitter because 2D Mario actually sells better than 3D Mario (we can see it on this site), and the former is a killer app, the latter isn't. He's not acting like Nintendo is doomed themselves. He's stating that this console direction is not going to help Nintendo grow, but that the Wii and DS direction will. That isn't "doomed". It's "this way doesn't work, the other way does".

You need to be careful with your wording. 3D Mario games are killer apps, they sell in the range of 10m copies, after all.

The correct way to say it is that 2D Mario is the mother of all killer apps and as such much of Nintendo's success correlates with how much effort they put into these games. They take good care of these games = glorious sales. They refuse to make it = huge trouble.

First of all, there are just two that sold that many. They actual range is around 5 to just over 10. Second of all, selling that many doesn't guarantee a killer app, although those might not be circumstances that apply here (I'm thinking like sequels of already huge hits). Regardless, even if they are, the direction those games signify has been shown to turn off customers, which we saw with the Gamecube after the N64.