It's June 17th, 2017, right? That means the Switch has been out for a little over three months, right? And already people are asking if Nintendo is entering "a new golden age"? Don't you think you're putting the cart before the horse a bit?
until this website updates the numbers i say no.
mZuzek said:
I wouldn't call Wii/DS a golden age. |
Are you joking? They are two of the top 5 most selling gaming devices of all time, in the same generation. How would that NOT be a golden age?
| 1 | PlayStation 2 (PS2) | 53.65 | 55.28 | 23.18 | 25.57 | 157.68 |
| 2 | Nintendo DS (DS) | 57.37 | 52.07 | 33.01 | 12.43 | 154.88 |
| 3 | Game Boy (GB) | 43.18 | 40.05 | 32.47 | 2.99 | 118.69 |
| 4 | PlayStation (PS) | 38.94 | 36.91 | 19.36 | 9.04 | 104.25 |
| 5 | Wii (Wii) | 45.38 | 33.75 | 12.77 | 9.28 | 101.18 |
Yeah playstation 1 and 2 were either two golden ages or even seperate ones...and to be honest...a lot of that carried over into ps3...which i think in the long run was the most played console....and won in the end...and now ps4 is on top...
could it be this is just playstations world and we are just living in one big sony golden age?!
They've got a long way to go before they reach the Wii/DS era, I'm not sure if any gaming company will ever be able to recreate that kind of renaissance period again. But for now I'd say there on the right path.
| Areym said: "increased awareness of Nintendo IP" How exactly are you measuring that? Just curious. |
Quite easily, really. Below is google searches for "Zelda". As you can see, recent interest is significantly higher than even when Zelda 25 and SS happened, when Wii and DS were the big platforms out there. Clearly a major lift in Zelda interest.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2011-05-16%202017-06-16&q=zelda
| kopstudent89 said: It's weird how things go in cycles. |
They don't. But people love to simplify things.
TheLastStarFighter said:
Quite easily, really. Below is google searches for "Zelda". As you can see, recent interest is significantly higher than even when Zelda 25 and SS happened, when Wii and DS were the big platforms out there. Clearly a major lift in Zelda interest.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2011-05-16%202017-06-16&q=zelda |
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mZuzek said:
I wouldn't call Wii/DS a golden age. |
Are you insane? Nintendo has never been bigger than it was in the Wii/DS era, plus we got a lot of Nintendo's best games, and with the Virtual Console, we got to visit most of the rest of the games from past consoles. It was most certainly the golden age. 250 million+ systems sold, and 2 billion games, the current record holder for any company in a single generation.
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| Aeolus451 said: Anything would be considered golden after the wii u. |
That's actully something that's concerned me. The Switch is doing well, but I think we need to take a step back and remember how awful the Wii U was. Is the Switch really going to do better than say, Gamecube? Because we know the Nintendo faithful is still there, plus a few million more. But it's still way too early for golden age comments. They're doing most things right though.
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