Should Nintendo Target Adults More With Their Next Handheld?

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Mr.GameCrazy said:

RolStoppable said:

My assessment of you as a poster is correct. Your conclusions are merely what you wish to be true because they are what you would like Nintendo to make; you don't care about anything else. Take the bolded part, for example.

You argue that actual quality as well as the things you listed in the second to last paragraph in the OP are what creates long term customers. That, however, is directly contradicted by the facts. The GameCube had plenty of sequels to N64 games, Nintendo made an effort to get mainline Resident Evil exclusively on their platform plus they developed Eternal Darkness, they upgraded to a dual analog controller and optical media and made their system powerful, they reached out to EA and had things like NBA Live that featured Mario characters, they had great exclusive Star Wars games with the two Rogue Squadron titles from Factor 5. All of the aforementioned things are exactly what you claim to drive sales, yet all of that led to a decline of Nintendo's customer base. It's like a parody at this point.

You do realize that Nintendo used smaller game discs for the GameCube than what PS2 and Xbox used, right? That affected third party support for the Gamecube.

That didn't stop x360 from getting many multi disk games. Third party bias and behind the scenes deals affected 3rd partysupport for gamecube.