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ICStats on 04 May 2014
Skidonti said:
padib said:
ICStats said:
 

Yeah, it did win on sales.  Sadly it lost the love of so many gamers.  Supporting Wii is to support entertainment for non-gamers, and they don't even support that anymore.

I was reading this and could not agree more.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/17/game_theory_nintendos_problems/

 

1 word: Gamecube. So this article fails.


Literally the last paragraph is the Gamecube to a T. Like almost enough so to make me think it's a joke article without even delving into his other questionable statements.
This is journalism.

Except that they could have been early to market instead of late the way Gamecube was.  Gamecube was far better than Wii U's situation anyway.

The writer seems to be a Nintendo fan.



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Squeezol on 04 May 2014
TheLegendaryWolf said:
Skidonti said:
lucidium said:
console wars started at gen1.


Woo! Odyssey vs. Telstar vs. TV Pong!


Gen 1 and Gen 2 were generations of peace, and that peace disappeared since Gen 3.

It's pretty depressing if you put it that way ;(



FromDK on 04 May 2014

Nintendo vs sega was wars when it's good for us.. when one did some, the other did it better and faster..
(why can't Apple vs samsung vs google.. be the same.. why not improve instead of.. all theese ridiculous lawsuit all the time..?)

And I was a hardcore sega fan. back in the days.. :) (offcourse I still played super mario bros)

And Nintendo has been in all videogames generation..

1. gen: They sold Magnavox in japan
2. gen: color tv game

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_video_game_consoles#Color_TV_Game




Skidonti on 04 May 2014
ICStats said:
Skidonti said:
 


Literally the last paragraph is the Gamecube to a T. Like almost enough so to make me think it's a joke article without even delving into his other questionable statements.
This is journalism.

Except that they could have been early to market instead of late the way Gamecube was.  Gamecube was far better than Wii U's situation anyway.

The writer seems to be a Nintendo fan.


I'll give you that, he's a fan, but I don't think GCN 2.0 would have doubled sales of GCN 1.0 or something. Probably just marginally improved on it. May7be early to market could have made a difference. Maybe a big one.

I think he's wrong on the insistance that Wii should have been a failure for Nintendo and also on insisting that majority of people only played Wii Sports then put the system away and forgot about it.

I also think he's wrong in saying that in the past new Nintendo games and systems were like leaping into a new era. He's got glasses so rose tinted it must be hard to see through them. NES wasn't more powerful than anything else back in the day, and it was marketed as a toy. SNES was late to the 16 bit party, by like 2 years or so. Yet it also continued to compete well into the 32 and even 64 bit era against far more powerful hardware on the strength of games and price. Gameboy was not the most powerful handheld on the market in the 90s, it didn't even have color. But it beat everyone else! The N64's cartridge memory was expensive and could store little data compared to Playstation CDs.

It has always been price and games with Nintendo,  but their price and games market seemed to shrink generation after generation. NES>SNES>N64>GCN. So they tried something even fresher than usual.