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impertinence on 08 October 2013
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happydolphin said:
impertinence said:
happydolphin said:

I'm going to side with Seece here. On the console front, Nintendo has yet much to prove. The Wii came in as a hit out of the park after the N64 and cube's struggles. Meanwhile, Nintendo's handheld lines continue to boom (with some struggles in the West for the 3DS).

Having said that, the Wii line needs to prove its success with the U, so it's not a cemented victory. Also, the twins combined sold more than the Wii and much of the market is not found on the Wii line. Examples are GTA, AC and COD. Though AC and COD are on the Wii line now, their sales are incomparable to the sales of their analogues on the twins.

When it comes to the home console front, Nintendo's victory is still under challenge.

I agree with the post after that though.

Yeah, that all makes sense if the video game industry was 2 years old. Let's just say that anyone who wants to take aim at Nintendo as the king of video games have a few decades of work ahead of them.

There's no real point in discussing this as if it's somehow related to personal tastes or preference, pick any metric you want, and Nintendo is clearly in a unique position in the video game industry. There is no one who can hold a candle to what Nintendo has done, and there won't be for a long, long time, if ever.

@bold. But I thought I mentioned the N64 and the Gamecube. So anyway I disagree wholeheartedly with you.

Nintendo is in a very difficult spot right now on the home console front. Sure, they have Mario and Mario Kart, as well as Zelda, but so did the cube. What makes the Wii line different is the new gamepad and the fact that Iwata is at the helm, but the U is not a comforting launch especially compared to the Wii.

So, I empathize with you as a Nintendo fan myself, but really it's best to keep hopes in check with the realities of the industry. Nintendo could be doing much better. They'll be fine, but you can't underestimate the importance of Sony and MS' market either.

Videogames exsisted before the N64, and so did Nintendo. Anyway, I am talking about videogames and what company is the king of videogames. To restrict that to a certain subset of home consoles is arbitrary. It includes, arcade games, hand helds, software anything associated with video games basically and obviosuly needs to take into account the full history of video games as well as the cultural impact the games and companies have had and continue to have. There really is no contest, and what is painfully obvious is that Bethesda in this context is a mere midget compared to Nintendo and thus sounds pretty ridicolous when telling Nintendo what they should be doing.