Ok, last gen, the Gamecube was a "flop" which meant it didn't sell as well as Nintendo or analyists hoped. The fans of Sony and Microsoft were obviously very happy not necessarily because it was the gamecube that flopped, but because their system wasn't the least popular system, because as human nature dictates, we like to compare things, to see which is the best and which is the worst.

1 assumption:

Lets assume there is no difference between current gen systems. Lets just say they are all equally beneficial to own, and all bring equal equity according to their price points, and lets assume none has an advantage over another. No personal taste for games on a particular system, in other words, BRAND NAME ONLY, no casual vs hardcore, no 3rd party support, no 1st party support, no metacritic, no gamerankings, no goty, no graphics, no controller, no RRoD, no price mentions.

Ok, my question is:

Would you be happier if the Nintendo system for this gen, based strictly off its brand name, would have sold very poorly, and been marginalized, and even possibly led to Nintendo going out of the console business, or are you happy with the way things turned out?

Give at least one reason for your anwser. I'll anwser myself after a few others post.

Considering I lined up to buy one... No it would have sucked...

based on brandname wy would anyone really want a console to fail? sure eveyone will pick thee winner and loser but i'm sure everyone would want the loser to still do decent.

Yeah, if EA builds a console though I will definitely do whatever I can to make if fail. They have done enough bad for the industry already. MS is probably the company I like the least out of Sony, Nintendo, and MS.

You're basically just asking if anyone here hates Nintendo as a corporation enough to pray for their demise out a simple spite. You're taking away in your rules any logical explanation for anyone to want Nintendo to fail and instead just asking if they want thousands of people to lose their jobs for no good reason. My answer is no, I would not be happier if the Wii would have flopped.

Also what's up with your signature Zen? Did David Jaffe mug you on February 1st or something else that horribly scarred you?

Hypothetical questions about the past are so delightfully futile...

Personally, I think I'd be more than a little miffed, since it would mean yet another generation I wouldn't be getting into for years thanks to the high prices of the systems. Only worse than ever, as usually the practical price point for me is $200 to $250, and I would not be too happy with the prospect of buying a product with notorious hardware failure issues as the 360 exhibits for even that much. Not to mention that the standard controller format is really starting to bore me after having used it for the last 20 years of my life...

@Onyxmeth

His sig may just be that way because David Jaffe is a flaming bag of douche.

If the Wii failing led to Nintendo releasing a better next gen console in terms of hardware then yes I would. The Wii is far from my ideal console but I really like Nintendo so the only way I'd root for them to fail is if it caused them to make something better in place of the Wii.

Bingo.

Anyway, I made this topic, when I was tired and bored. Since I'm still tired and bored(and this topic is doom to failure anyway) feel free to change the subject.

Anyway, being a Nintendo fanboy, all I have to say is: Ha ha ha, hahahaha, in yo face, hahaha.

That's really the basic level of what this topic means:

Admit your a Nintendo hater, and I, a devout Nintendo fanboy will flaunt sales and laugh about them in your face.

I'm really tired, lol. Yar.