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Cultural Blinders Lead to Nintendo Fallacy
obchrisj writes "A week long, unscientific poll on FileFront found 61% agreeing with the notion that Nintendo will soon be "going the way of Sega." In an editorial on their website, they ask Nintendo reps and industry analysts what the future of Nintendo really is, taking a glance at the DS, GameCube, and Revolution consoles. Slashdot recently reported on poor sales performance for Nintendo's GameCube. From the editorial: 'According to O'Rourke, Nintendo's U.S. market position has conditioned North American gamers to believe the company's global fortunes are equally down. Such "Nintendo is dying!" hysteria is largely a product of this cultural tunnel vision.'"
The Cube IS somewhat lacking in the 3rd party stuff, but I can't argue the party gaming aspect. F-Zero GX and Smash Bros get a lot of group play here.
I just wish Nintendo would get off their asses and figure out how to make online gaming work for them. Hell, I'd just about kill for a Phantasy Star Online version that does local network and online play on the DS, but the DS apparently doesn't even have a TCP/IP stack.
Nintendo could probably even rake in cash off a Pokemon MMORPG if they really tried, but there's nothing even resembling online innovation from them right now.
Not that they're really missing all THAT much with the sheer asshat factor I see on X-Box Live and PS2 gaming. You can't avoid the idiots..
I dont believe any analyst as a rule of tomb some kinda make sense but most of them are innacurate and a big number of them are cluless and they are banking on the popularity of the product Nintendo is putting out to make some money talking about it, otherwise they would have no jobs.
,I dont play mario tennis or Mario smash , Because Mario for me is a hero not some normal fun playing guy.
The console wich is dying and on life support are Xbox , Game cubes may not outsale the Playstations , but its still a box wich come with many games people whant to play.
The Nintendo system of yester year whas great because it whas a great bundle , a good console with a great game or two , now and days they are a bit pricier and the game arent as fun , personnaly an Upgraded Pokemon game where you could build a 3000 level high Pokemeon wich could play online in some ladder game where people and yourself could play for money would be great.
A good game will always replace a game wich is more advanced , I still play marios brother 1-2-3 because they are fun to play
Basically Nintendo is aiming to please everyone , when they should concnetrate in giving the best consol with a Game people whant to play and they should stop diluting or trying and failing to bank on there former best Game.
I am a REAL American from Canada , not a wanna-be from the country , self called "last remaining superpower" "of America
I would have thought the percentage of Xboxes sold just to play pirated games or use as media centres is pretty small. At a guess, I'd say less than one percent. The attachment rate on the Xbox is somewhere around 7-8 titles*, which is pretty good, so certainly it doesn't seem that the chippers and mediacentre folks have made a particularly big impact.
* http://www.silicon-fusion.com/news/2350/
Yeah, it will be coming out for the playstation, but only a year after it came out for cube. The release date according to gamefaqs.com is Q4, 2005. So I guess GTA: San Andreas isn't a PS2 exclusive, since it will eventually come out for X-Box?
If you had super powers, would you use them for good, or for awesome?
Why would they trade in that part of the market share? They're making money off each console being sold. That's more than you can say about Sony and Microsoft.