Nintendo - Stodgy, Not-So-Super Mario?

Thanks to the Washington Post for their article discussing Nintendo's current position in the console wars. Although many of the usual points are discussed (despite Sony and Microsoft's efforts at innovation in online gaming and elsewhere, Nintendo has "...stuck to a philosophy that people who buy and play video games enjoy the familiar and care little for such gimmickry"), the piece also points to possible failure in Nintendo's current tactics ("The company proclaimed that the Game Boy Advance would be a 'Trojan horse' for the GameCube - but that Trojan horse never opened because very few game designers have figured out cool ways to take advantage of that connectivity.") The article ends with an analyst's concern that "...the game console market might be starting to move beyond what Nintendo can deliver."

Comments

Re:One flaw I see with the Gamecube

[Momomoto]

Am I the only person that sees no internet connectivity as an advantage? I couldn't care less if my console can go online or not.

What I want is an excellent multiplayer experience that I can share with three other people in the room. Nintendo's games have got this in spades. A game of Mario Party just wouldn't be the same if the people you were playing against weren't in the same room.

I see nothing wrong with Nintendo forcing us to be social creatures in order to get our multiplayer fix. Let Microsoft and Sony make games that can be played online; the truth of the matter is all the multiplayer games I play are on Nintendo right now, except for Guilty Gear X2 (PS2) and Power Stone 2 (DC).