Has Nintendo Lost Its Edge?

Thanks to GameSpy for their 'Spy/CounterSpy' editorial discussing whether Nintendo has lost its way in the increasingly competitive gaming world. On the one hand, an editor argues: "One of the few concrete things [Nintendo have] said is that the successor to GameCube is coming out sooner, rather than later, but what's the point if it's as lacking in software as its two predecessors? Or if the software is as samey as the current stuff?" But on the other, there's counterpoint and optimism: "In fact, it's the companies with lots of resources who are falling behind in the race who typically come up with the biggest and riskiest innovations. Given Nintendo's ability to create good hardware and its strategic position in the handheld space, that could mean some VERY cool things in the future."

Comments

Re:Nintendo - the Apple of game systems

[Mike Mentalist]

Actually it is a fact. We are discussing the Gamecube game library not what Mike Mentalist is interested in.

LOL!
How can it be a 'fact' when it is totally dependent on opinion?

Re:They don't realize:

[analog_line]

Yeah, use standard media because you can't download any GameCube games for free, you mean...

Idiot.

Re:disappointed

[bigman2003]

Exactly...with you and your friends, it is the "GC is the first thing that is turned on."

When my girlfriend comes over, it isn't the Xbox that is the first to get turned on...that's for later.

Just a different demographic I guess.

Re:Yes

[Mike Mentalist]

You did not need to say the exact same thing about Super Mario Sunshine in four different posts.

Well, if I am replying to four different people about the same point...


You're remarkably quick to label anyone who likes Nintendo games a Nintendo fanboy,

No, just those who trot out the usual "you haven't played it" or "You don't know what you are talking about".


And yet you get surprisingly defensive when anyone suggests that you're a troll - which is interesting, considering that your cumulative moderation in this thread, at this point, is -9, with an amazing total of -8 for trolling. (-4 for redundant, and one +3 for an insightful for your first contribution.)

Or are the mods just Nintendo fanbois too?

Thats typical Slashdot moderation. If you look carefully, I had posts modded down where I was actually describing Metroid Prime - even the one where all I mentioned was the lack of a proper strafe was modded down as flamebait.