| Game_boy said: Despite being a Wii and DS fan, there is one common criticism of Nintendo (usually made by Sony/Microsoft fans) I have never seen addressed by the community. I believe it is an extremely valid criticism and would like to take this opportunity to discuss it and see if we can come up with a counter-argument or whether it stands. Just like the Sony and Microsoft fans have said, I too am beginning to see the truth. It seems as though Mario, Zelda, Pokémon only do sell on Nintendo systems. Look at Metroid, for instance. Not one game in the Metroid series appears on a Sony or Microsoft console, but Metroid Prime and Super Metroid have both been exclusive to Nintendo consoles even when they're not the most popular. I can see it as a monopolising practice now: Nintendo are deliberately witholding Zelda games from the Xbox 360 even though they might sell better on it. It's like they're deliberately losing sales to spite the competition. I have checked Wikipedia and other sites, and it seems an even more disturbing trend has been happening unnoticed until the Sony and Microsoft fans respectfully raised the issue: not a single Nintendo game has ever appeared on a non-Nintendo console. This is an outrage! Sony and Microsoft deserve these games and Nintendo are holding back the entire games industry by denying them these series. I call for a boycott of Nintendo until the situation changes. |
How do we know that it isn't Sony and MS that isn't allowing Nintendo games to sell on their consoles? Worried perhaps that if they did, and those games did so well, soon others would charge them with the criticism of 'only Nintendo games sell on your consoles'.
Just because this might be the case is no reason to keep Ninty games off those consoles. Because this is just as likely as the OP's case, the boycott should be broaden to include MS, Sony, PC and cell phones. Board games as well just because I haven't seen a LoZ from Parker Brothers either!
Torturing the numbers. Hear them scream.
