mike_intellivision said:
freedquaker said:
My title may seem kinda contradictory, but it does not as a matter of fact. Let me clarify!
On the other hand, I hate Nintendo, because;
a) They would often feel no shy to employ sinister policies, like barring third parties from developing games from other consoles (this felt especially bad against Sega in the past).
b) Many irritating policies like overwhelming copy protection paradigms, sticking to cartridges and imprisoning the companies to expensive propriety formats.
c) Their games suck. I truly hate Nintendo games. I can't stand playing any type of mario or pokemon games or such, maybe Wii Play, wii sports kind of games could be exception, never played them yet.
e) Nintendo is an innovative company, though I hate mario, I adore (original) crash bandicoot games, or though I hated Mario kart, I loved Crash team racing. So I gotta give them credit for their original ideas and innovativeness. However they lack dynamism. They didnt have the dynamism that Sega had in the past with Genesis and Dreamcast, and they still dont have the dynamism that Sony has brought into the industry with ps1, ps2 and ps3, which is also true for MS with Xbox and Xbox360.
I, myself, have never had a Nintendo console, but would stick to Sega and Sony consoles and maybe Xbox360 in the future. Yes I love wii as a machine but I hate the games, and what is it good for with no games that I like!? I still want Nintendo in this business because of their innovation and competition but I hate it when they dominate like this. I want Sony or Microsoft, whichever, to win immediately, LOL :)
Just my opinion gentlemen!
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Just some thoughts on this.
(A) That was then. Now Nintendo is getting ripped for allowing anyone to do anything.
(B) So protecting profit by limiting piracy is a bad thing? (And the cart for N64 was as much because of the failed Sony deal as anything else).
(C) There are many other franchises -- Kirby, Star Fox, Pikimin, Zelda, etc. to choose from that are made by Nintendo.
(E) Sounds like you like things that are derivative rather than original (this relates for to CTR than the original Crash, btw).
Mike from Morgantown
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B) of course copy protection is not a bad thing but only as long as it does not harm innocent purchasers who has the greatest actual burden on themselves. I mean N64 owners, for example, paid much more for a game, got non-CD quality sound/music, crippled versions of many games and very few games in the end. The only true advantage of cartridges were the fast loading time (not only because cartridge is faster but also there is a lot less data to load relative to 650 MB CDs). Many producers rejected developing games for N64, because
a) the cartridge was limited in capacity,
b) Nintendo was the sole producer at an expensive rate, and you had to gestimate the amount needed in advance as it took time (3 months or so) to produce the quanitity demanded and were non-refunable
c) Nintendo was very harsh and snoopy in their licencensing issues. In fact it seems to have changed quite a lot now.
C) I dont like those games at all, save Zelda and several other non-kiddy games though
E) I think you're right. I mean I thank Nintendo for inventing (or popularizing) the concept but those ideas were best implemented by other developers like Naughty Dog and Insomniac Games. I was not a platform gamer at all untill I saw Crash Bandicoot and Spyro. Tekken and Crash are the reason why I'd bought psx in the first place.
Thank you for reading :)
