| ookaze said: This is utter nonsense. The last two generations, Nintendo sold tons of GameBoy and GameBoy Advance. So NO, they didn't lose a lot of brand-name recognition, only market penetration. You assume that every portable owner is also a console owner with that. Is it possible to have a person who owns a console but not a portable? Or to rephrase that, do you think it isn't possible? Anyway, for Nintendo, financial goes hand in hand with strategic, as it seems you didn't notice. You can have one without the other however so while they generally go hand in hand, that is not always the case. The very core of the company is based on this simple principle. If they don't make fun games that people want, on a console they designed, they die. Why did you add "on a console they designed?" You were making sense right up until that point. Do you think Nintendo would not be able to produce quality games on any console? Your loyal Sony/Playstation lovers are just fanboys. Fortunately for Nintendo (and Sony at the time), they're a minority. You need only look at my brother, he sold his PS2 without a thought and bought a Wii, despite growing up with Playstation, on which his sole interest was playing PES or FIFA, football games. So the loyal Sony/Playstation fans are just fanboys but not the loyal Nintendo fans. Oh no, they could never be fanboys.
Nintendo specifically distanced his new consoles from its previous brands, at least in commercials. No more Nintendo Home Console or GameBoy, that's Wii and Nintendo DS now. Sometimes it's just DS. So no, Nintendo wasn't in the dump at all the two past generations, as they made tons of money and it didn"t affect the outcome of this current gen. Aren't we discussing this very thread topic because it is affecting the outcome of this current gen? The only ones for whom you could say they were in the dump are developers. Of course, because making games for the highest selling system in history without enormous brandname competition definitely makes life real hard for developers. |
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