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Spazzy_D on 08 June 2012
NintendoPie said:
Spazzy_D said:
Anyone remember this old thread:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=112810&page=1

Good times. No-fun-do indeed.

LOL... seems like it's been around forever... the bashing that is.

My personal favorite from that thread was this

"I don't dismiss them as simple minded, I dismiss them as ignorant.  There
is a difference.  These people don't realize what an obsolete piece
of crap the NES is.  Just like there are hoards of people who still
believe PC clones are the pinnacle of Earth technology..."

Late 80's graphic whores ftw!

The bashing has been around forever though, the "hardcore" gamers were never Nintendo fans, the reasons a lot of them seem to think they were abandoned is because they were kids that had a NES, SNES, N64, etc.  I've even seen people talk about how the N64 was Nintendo's last gamer console, when at the time it had less "mature" games then the Game Cube.  It's all about perspective.



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maxnyc on 08 June 2012
Roma said:
haha the video did not work for me but its funny that it was like that back then as well

try the link- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_E2lh1lgmk&feature=player_embedded - "The console wars - xmas 1990"




Mr Khan on 08 June 2012
kowenicki said:


It isn't misleading, its factual.  Read into it what you will.  I will say though that to infer that the stock price is totally unimportant is naive in the extreme.

Whatever it may have to do in other industries, investors in game companies seem to have no idea what works and what doesn't. Case in point: Nintendo investors' consistent demands for iOS development. Dumb, dumb, dumb.



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 on 08 June 2012

Lo. Nintendo will defy gravity. im sure.



Yay!!!

Alby_da_Wolf on 09 June 2012

@OP:
Amateurs get d0m3d by accident, professionals with study, training, work and dedication, but only the true talented ones ARE BORN D0M3D!!!



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mootap on 09 June 2012

Never underestimate the power of mario and zelda



happydolphin on 10 June 2012
Demensha said:
happydolphin said:
maxnyc said:

Not only is Nintendo still in the console & portable business, whereas Sega dropped out a long time ago, Nintendo owned the competition last generation with units sold. DS & Wii were huge successes, whether people can admit it or not. Sony is bleeding money, and Microsoft lost tons of money for the first few years with the 360. As far as i can see, Nintendo is the only one out of the current three that has a sustainable business model. Sega didn't have a sustainable business model and they failed because of that. We'll see if microsoft & sony can last much longer. I'd bet on nintendo in the long run.

Lots of fails here.

1) First of all, Nintendo isn't going out of business, and the video never said so.

2) Sega dropping out has little to do with the topic at hand. There are other reasons about Sega that caused that.

3) Sony picked up where Sega failed to finish the job. Had Nintendo had no portable offering, they were out of the game, sorry.

4) Nintendo's failures in the core marketplace is not justified by its success in the casual marketplace. They are to be winners in both to be true winners in my eyes.


Only problem is as you said " in my eyes" it doesn't matter what you or I think. What matters is that called profit. When we use our terms to justify a situation we twist the truth to make our opinions matter. So in the last 6 years which company not division made more profit?

Also I see Sony did pick up where sega left off with vita being outsold 10-1 by who?



Sorry bro, you lost track of the convo. The question is not "is Ninty going out of business", but "was Nintendo going out of business". In a period where the casuals grew tired of home console Video Games (as evidenced by sales of SMW), the core market was a fundamental piece for success. That's why, in my eyes, the core market is fundamental to consider Nintendo #1, since at one time in VG history, it nearly caused them to drop the manufacturer race. But who cares what I think, even though I could be right, that never really mattered. Cheers



RedInker on 10 June 2012

Why does everyone want Nintendo to die?



Alby_da_Wolf on 10 June 2012
RedInker said:
Why does everyone want Nintendo to die?

Maybe they are undercover necrophiliac penguins and want to have sex with its corpse.   

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2157129/Sexual-depravity-penguins-Polar-explorer-discovered-century-ago-revealed-time--shocking-print.html



Stwike him, Centuwion. Stwike him vewy wuffly! (Pontius Pilate, "Life of Brian")
A fart without stink is like a sky without stars.
TGS, Third Grade Shooter: brand new genre invented by Kevin Butler exclusively for Natal WiiToo Kinect. PEW! PEW-PEW-PEW!