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Asriel on 12 December 2009

Rob Fahey writes some really good articles. I strongly recommend those who found this a good read take a look at some of the other stuff he's wrote.



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LordTheNightKnight on 12 December 2009
mike_intellivision said:
If you asked "gamers" which would be the more successful handheld when released -- the PSP would have been the choice hands-down. But Nintendo went for something different and dominated.

If you asked "gamers" which would be least successful console when released -- the Wii would have been the choice hands-down. But Nintendo went for something different and has the largest market share.

This is all about Nintendo changing the perception of gaming -- both how it is done and who does it. Consoles may be a tougher fight because of the issues involved (such as non-portability and three entries instead of two). But it shows that the company is looking to do thinkgs its own way instead of lazily following the crowd.

Kudos to Rob Fahey for writing this mea culpa. Bruce on Games he is not.

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I think you mean "callenging the perception". Changing the perception is what the enthusiast gamers want to do. "Soon the mainstream will start to see games as legitimate art form!" Nintendo actually made games that fit with the mainstream perception of games. Not what they they thought games were, but what they would have liked them to be.



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Acevil on 12 December 2009

This is why the industry should stop trying to predict outcomes because they always seem to be wrong. Seriously how many doomed articles have we gone into the past 4-5 years.



 

patjuan32 on 12 December 2009

I recently read this article over at Gonintendo and I laughed. Not at the article per se but because if one changes the DS to Wii. It reveal that Nintendo is doing the same thing to both consoles even though the software is different.

I also remember how the press was in love with the PSP when it was revealed. They really hated the DS and complained about the Metroid the first hunt demo where the user had to tap the screen to get Samus to fire her arm cannon, It was labeled as awkward and a gimmick. Plus the success that Sony had with their home consoles had third parties lined up to support the PSP. Matt over at IGN stated that Nintendo was vulnerable.

Geoff Keighley also proclaimed that the PSP would create a revolution in portable gaming.

Link: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/thesims2/news.html?sid=6100181



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Kenology on 12 December 2009

I read this earlier today after reading Malstrom's dissecting of Matt's meltdown. Very good piece. If only all the other industry folks can be so honest about being wrong.



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killeryoshis on 12 December 2009

The wii might go the DS path. As quality titles had a huge increase over last year
http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=5017
Also old article. Might laugh at this one
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/psp-vs-ds/8-reasons-why-the-psp-might-overtake-the-ds-327596.php



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Mr Khan on 12 December 2009
Netyaroze said:
Core gamer dismiss DS ?? Thats news to me.

You weren't around when Blood of Bahamut was announced for DS. There were a lot of meltdowns about how this could have been an epic PS360 game, but they decided to make another DS game that no-one will care about.

 

That was relatively recent.



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Moren on 12 December 2009

Bye PSP, looks ds won't be a failure and you won't beat, it may even beat your bro



Demotruk on 12 December 2009
Mr Khan said:

You weren't around when Blood of Bahamut was announced for DS. There were a lot of meltdowns about how this could have been an epic PS360 game, but they decided to make another DS game that no-one will care about.

 

That was relatively recent.

Hey, people were even bitter when Iwata revealed Spirit Tracks when they could have gotten a Wii Zelda.



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alfredofroylan on 12 December 2009
Netyaroze said:
Core gamer dismiss DS ?? Thats news to me.

A picture says more than 1000 words

That was from March 2007; lovely, I still remember when I bought my PSP; the seller tried REALLY hard to sell me a copy of the movie "El zorro" in UMD. Pushing the system as a  Multimedia device was a mistake in my opinion, they should focused more on games at the begining, not movies and audio.