The truth about Nintendo

[Michael-5]

You should be a professional journalist. Good read, most of the stuff I agree with, but much of it I don't.

1. Nintendo pockets their profits when Sony/MS don't is a bad thing? No, Nintendo needs a reserve for when they make a bad system like the WiiU. MS and Sony are part of larger companies and they can temporarily "borrow" money from other departments. Nintendo can't.

2. Adults that grew up with Nintendo were already too old to be pleased with the same experiences? Simple sports games only for kids? No way buddy, Wii Sports appealed to adults and kids alike. It was simple, but that's why it was fun everyone can play without investing too much time learning the controls. Mario Kart also outsells GT, so get real. It's not all kid gamers

Same with the RPG's, I still love JRPG's now. XenoBlade was awesome, and the SNES was just loaded with amazing gems. Sony took advantage of this high demand market, and with the PS1 gave them lots of space for pre-rendered cutscenes and large worlds.

It's because Nintendo LOST focus on JRPG's, that the PS1 got so damn popular. If FFVII and XenoGears were N64 games that era would have gone completely differently.

But I do agree about Nintendo spending the last 10 years "not spending" and that's why they are struggling now.

3. Nintendo putting a chip to stop free development of games in the 3rd gen.....This probably saved gaming. If forced a lot of crap off the shelves. Sure PC's get tons of cheap games, many awesome, but imagine if we saw all those at retail again? It would be a huge crash again.

4. Nintendo building consoles for their needs, regardless of 3rd party needs, is probably what's going to kill them in the console buisness (at least home console).

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Anyway good read, a lot of facts distorted by opinion, but a lot of this is true. Nintendo during the NES era really operated like a cold-company. Kinda feels like Microsoft now, forcing Kinect upon us, trying to force Digital Only sales, and new only sales. Nintendo go away with it because of the 90% market share, MS just failed because Sony is there to outsell them if they do.

This is why I feel Sony is 1st with their PS4. Nintendo is back a gen with the WiiU, not willing to spend $$$ to do some R & D and catch up, and not designing a system in mind for 3rd party studios (Bethesda has spoken about them not making games for WiiU). MS tried to force rediculous policies which would hurt the gaming ecosystem.

Yet Nintendo has always made quality handheld games. Next gen, I don't know what Nintendo is going to do in the handheld market. Like you said a lot of their games rely on old architecture, and true Nintendo handheld games probably sell well because they are simple....,but there is only so much people will take. I don't exactly see Batman and Assassin's Creed selling that well on 3DS/DS...