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Thats so true. I wish Nintendo could be like Sony and release games which you can only play for about 10 hours before you trade it in for something else. I feel Nintendo are an attention whore, trying to make you play their games for ages and ages when I could have played and finished like the entire Sony first party game collection in the time I've spent playing Wii Sports and Sports Resort.



Tease.

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lol that's actually kind of a funny thought. I don't agree with it but it is funny.



nintendo just needs to buy a ram. PROBLEM SOLVED

 





In other news, can someone help me figure out what makes Rol Stoppable? I figured Rol was unstoppable, but I guess I am wrong.



I lol'd.


Thanks for putting a smile on my face Rol. And honestly, I agree.



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Nintendo are just a powerhouse company they brainwash people with there first party's and in the end we don't give a rats ass about 3rd party's lol




RolStoppable said:

A lot of the criticism towards Nintendo this generation is ill-founded, often times because the people who complain have no reason to say those things other than the fact that they just don't like Nintendo. That obviously doesn't hold true for me, because I am the biggest Nintendo fan on this website right after The Ghost Of RubangB.

Now where does Nintendo go wrong? It's obviously in regards to their third party support. Many of those games (like Little King's Story) don't sell as much as they deserve, because Nintendo's first party titles get in the way.

They simply have a too high hour/$ ratio. You buy a game like Mario Kart Wii and can play it for weeks if not months without getting bored. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess will take most players at least 30 hours to finish just for the main quest and the amounts of hours people put into DS games like Pokémon are insane. You don't feel the need to go out and buy a third party game as a filler until the next first party game is released (the sole purpose why third party titles exist in the first place), because your last Nintendo game lasts you so long. There's just no time to play another game and the result is that third party sales are for the most part less than stellar, to put it nicely.

Microsoft and Sony have a superior business model because they keep the campaigns of their $60 games usually below 10 hours of playtime in order to fuel more sales of third party titles. They not only get more money per title, they can also sell far more software that way while gamers still end up with the same amount of playtime as on a Nintendo system.

Nintendo is leaving a lot of money on the table by offering so much bang for our buck. Until they change their business practices to get more in line with the industry standard, analysts will be ultimately right: Nintendo is doomed.

But how, as fans, do we fix this? Do we demand more medoctiry from big N? Onlines petions declaring Super Mario Galaxy 2 to be "too Good" to be released and ask for it to be shelved so that the third party companies will not have to compete with its gilory. Should we ask for Wii Music plus? We need to form a comitte whose goal is to undermine nintendo at every turn so that it may prosper,  

 

 

 

 



"But as always, technology refused to be dignity's bitch."--Vance DeGeneres

 

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not everyone likes every single nintendo game for example I like ssbb but I don't like zelda that much cause ztp was kind of boring to me and I actually beat it and I don't know why I wasted my time and also third parties are not doing great cause they need to start making good games and you can't even compare codmw1 on wii to the ps3 version because we didn't get voice chat and on ps3 it was 12players and on top of that it obviously had better graphics and thats why they don't sell because they give us garbage or they give us a 2nd class game............ then to top it off most of the people who play these games don't own a wii because they probably wouldn't even expect it to come out on wii............



trangentspree said:
This is something that actually really does annoy me about Nintendo.

I like to play games to get to the end of them, so I can boast about having completed it to all my friends and start work on collecting achievements. It's like a mission I set myself with each new game I buy. I don't really care about having "fun" at all, it's not part of the mission.

Here are some humble suggesions to make Nintendo games less fun, so that you may focus more properly on your mission.

 

1. Turn down your TV speakers and set your computer to loop MMM-Bop nonstop. Without such things as teh Mario theme or Zelda Overworld theme to lift your spirits your soul can be crushed must faster.

 

2. Wiggle your wiimote as spastically as possible no matter what the game requires then declare the controls to be "broken kiddy waggle crap" 

 

3. have your friends call you with messages like "your grandma died" to keep your mood continually down

 

4. Play Ninjabreadman then try to look at your Wii  tthe same way again after have been virtually violated by that "game"

 

 



"But as always, technology refused to be dignity's bitch."--Vance DeGeneres

 

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So you're basically saying that, it's Nintendo's fault for making their games so damn good?



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