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Grey Acumen on 17 January 2008
highwaystar101 said:
i wonder who the first person to 'the same' will be

Doubt it would happen. Even die hard Playstation and Xbox fans know that neither one would have gotten involved in the console business if it hadn't been for Nintendo's influence. sony might not have even developed the Playstation without Nintendo having hit them up for it, and without the success of the Playstation and Playstation 2, I doubt Microsoft would have even taken notice of the industry, and instead stuck to just PC games.

Nintendo brought a lot of innovation on multiple fields that other companies have taken and run with, sometimes to a greater success, sometimes to less of a success. You'd have to be... Leo J to say that it would be the same, and I'm not sure that even he would do that.



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akuma587 on 17 January 2008
bluster said:
It would be like the film world without Stanley Kubrick or David Lynch.
Sad and empty.
Seriously, as much as the other companies hav done in the videogaming story, it has always been Nintendo the one that paved the way for al major improvements during the last 25 years. Games wont be the same without the Big N

 I think you guys are overemphasizing the artistic quality of Nintendo games.  I can't even remember the last time I played a first party Nintendo game with a story above a 3rd grade reading level.

 If you want to say things like that about Bioshock, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, and numerous others I agree, but Nintendo is more like Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay than Stanley Kubrick or David Lynch.



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johntonsoup on 17 January 2008
akuma587 said:
bluster said:
It would be like the film world without Stanley Kubrick or David Lynch.
Sad and empty.
Seriously, as much as the other companies hav done in the videogaming story, it has always been Nintendo the one that paved the way for al major improvements during the last 25 years. Games wont be the same without the Big N

I think you guys are overemphasizing the artistic quality of Nintendo games. I can't even remember the last time I played a first party Nintendo game with a story above a 3rd grade reading level.

If you want to say things like that about Bioshock, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, and numerous others I agree, but Nintendo is more like Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay than Stanley Kubrick or David Lynch.


 So, the story line is the key piece for you? To me, what makes Kubrick or Lynch great is rarely the story, but rather the mastery of mood and environment. On this metric, I think Nintendo is one of the best. I will agree that Nintendo has an entirely different feel to its games (more like Disney than the intense adult oriented films of those two).



Duke Of Darkness on 17 January 2008

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Kai Master on 17 January 2008

People saying we would be living in a PC-dominated gaming world is plain stupid! I never like playing on a PC and never will! If it was I would be playing marbles lol
I don't think Nintendo was important, another firm would have made the VG market reborn (Sega or Phillips?)



EHSTEVE on 17 January 2008
damkira said:

That would not be a world I would want to live in. I imagine the living would envy the dead.

 


 You wouldn't know about what doesn't exist though. We would be clueless as to what COULD of existed



Joeykanga on 17 January 2008

Not fun.
We would be playing Sonic until our eyes bleed.
No PlayStation because Nintendo made them enter the market.
No Xbox because they won't be threatened by the PlayStation.
No Wii.
No Wii.
No Wii.
No Wii.
No Wii.
No Wii.
No Wii.
No Wii.
No Wii.
No Wii.
and finally.........
No Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Bowser, Link, Zelda, Metriod, Wario, Kirby, Star Fox, and Super Smach Bros.



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Reasonable on 17 January 2008

Don't know about the world - but I'd be better off for the cost of two DS and a heap of games for my kids!

I also wouldn't be having my wife nag me about getting a Wii 'for that fitness thing'...



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Damstr8 on 17 January 2008

with nintendo,the u.s. wouldnt be where it is right now with games....without nintendo,the whole world wouldnt be where it is with games....it wouldnt be anywhere near what it is today if sega ran the show...if sega would have even caught on with consumers...