Competitions are often decided by who makes the least mistakes, but are equally weighed by the winner recognizing and making the most of the oppurtunity. True in any form of competition.

@steven787

 I know this is off-topic, but the picture in your signature makes me laugh every time I see it.

Nintendo can do wrong because they did with the Nintendo 64 and Nintendo Gamecube, even though they are still amongst my favorite consoles.

steven787 said: Competitions are often decided by who makes the least mistakes, but are equally weighed by the winner recognizing and making the most of the oppurtunity. True in any form of competition.

I still dont believe you own a ps3, you need more proof than that, come on your psn id was fake.

youjiro said: the lack of advertising put behind metroid,

Lack of advertising!? They've got comercials, the preview channel, plus check out IGN's wii section, they have MP3 ads there too. Aswell as a site. So I'd say they're doinga good job of that. On topic: Nintendo can and has done wrong. No ones perfect.

@xeo_842

ye i know they had some advertising online and of course the metroid channel on the wii itself, and i saw the compressed files so at first i thought wheres the quality. but i meant more towards a mass market, the metroid add was...meh at best,maybe i'm jus pointing out my dissapoint at the advert...

Nintendo's making some mistakes, but its overall strategy of finding new markets is overshadowing them.

I think people put too much emphasis on the negative aspects when considering why consoles are doing well/poorly. By this logic Wii SHOULD be failing due to friends codes, poor online in general, a mediocre game lineup, small internal storage, inferior graphics, a dumb name, not enough buttons on the controller, bad third party support, etc.

Sony's price was definitely a mistake, but Microsoft's price made a lot of sense. If Microsoft hadn't raised the price a little bit, we wouldn't be getting as much of a graphical leap...and that's the yardstick by which game consoles were measured for 4-6 generations. It's not that Microsoft screwed up, it's that nobody could have guessed that a system with basically NO graphical improvements and a crazy new controller would be so popular...even with the price difference. After all, GameCube was $100 cheaper than the other two, and that didn't help at all.

Time to analyze that last post...

A fair point, though a pretty petty one. Inserting a 12-digit number shouldn't be considered a very solid negative.It's being improved, slowly but surely. Mario Kart Wii will allow you to race against selected people from your Friend Code list as well as doing broad searches for opponents like in Mario Kart DS.How was the launch "mediocre"? It had a broad spectrum of games at launch and is starting to really roll with the punches now (Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart Wii)I've yet to see that as a significant issue so far.If that's a negative for the Wii, it's also a negative for the PS2, the graphically-weakest console last generation.Because that's what really matters. How is this a negative? The whole point of simplifying the controller was to keep from alienating consumers with more complicated controllers every few years.Bzzzt. At launch, third parties were skeptical. Now they're flocking to the Wii to put something on it.

Bodhesatva said: I absolutely agree that Nintendo can't do no wrong. That's realistically impossible for any person, group, or corporation.

 nice sarcasm

have u tried online on madden 08 on wii its pretty good