Werix357 said:
Soundwave said:
Well to be fair there isn't really a tablet that plays "real" games. I can see a lot of 7-15 year old boys choosing this over vanilla Android tablet and parents being relatively happy because at least it was $100-$150 cheaper than that damn iPad.
I think Nintendo just cannot let the kids market go, it always has been their bread and butter, they have to go after it with NX.
Nintendo doesn't have the horses to go after Sony/MS. As I noted in my GoldenEye thread ... that game is 19 (19!!!!) years old in a few minutes time. That was the last time Nintendo really ever had a huge hit game that resonated with even the Playstation (and what would become the XBox) crowd. In 19 years they really have not, even on the Wii had a hit game on any of their systems aimed specifically at that Playstation crowd that sold like 3/4/5/6/7 million copies the way GoldenEye did. 19 years, I'd bet half the posters on this board weren't even born when that game came out. That's how far Nintendo is out of touch.
That and the loss of Minoru Arakawa and Howard Lincoln was devastating to their Western outreach, they've never, ever been the same company after that. They've become a very Japan-centric company and have been for like 15 years now. You would need to have new leadership that actually knows what its doing with the Playstation/XBox crowd in the West and Nintendo simply does not have that. Reggie is just a glorified PR person, nothing more.
Without any real leadership or vision, it doesn't really even matter what hardware you have ... the GameCube had great hardware and core gamers avoided it like the plague.
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Yes after GoldenEye there is not much to talk about when comes to games that apealled to the same demographic.
From all the things I've heard it seems Nintendo stopped making those type of games delibrately, not sure about the reasons but I'm sure Miyamoto is one of the people who pushed for this.
And yes Nintendo don't really care about what the western audience wants. If they did they would be making there own FPS shooter to take on the likes of BF and CoD wether you like those games or not they sell.
Edit: and the missing sports games from EA and 2K doesn't help
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People really underestimate Howard Lincoln's contributions to Nintendo in particular.
When EA said they wouldn't support the N64, he went personally to EA, set up a meeting and after that EA agreed to support the N64. Does Nintendo have anyone like that today? Nope.
NOA successfully negotiated the rights for Star Wars exclusive games in the 90s, which was huge, Star Wars at that time was probably even bigger than it is now.
Things like Kobe Bryant and Ken Griffey Jr. NBA and MLB games all under NOA, hell in the 90s Nintendo had DMA Design (the future developers of Grand Theft Auto III) as a 2nd party partner. I think Miyamoto did not like GTA3 so it was not allowed on the N64.
