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Nintendo's Early 2005 Strategy
Gamespot has an overview of Nintendo's strategy for the next few months. DS sales, female users, and penetration of the older market is up, while DS software sales are down owing to bundled software. The Big N is still trying to decide how much information to share about the Revolution at E3. From the article: "We want to receive some level of evaluation, but releasing too much information is also another issue. We don't have the slightest intention of making a machine that follows the same path as conventional game hardware."
Someone found something of interest that could possibly be linked to the Revolution on the Penny Arcade Forums. It's probably not directly linked, but it may share similar technologies with the upcoming Revolution.
"female users and penetration of new markets..."
together like that?
I only have a cube becuase of Zelda. Without that one game, I'd probably not have any consoles.
I really hate Dan Patrick.
In other words : 'We're gonna wait and see what Sony and Microsoft do and say before we do or say anything. So far we're waiting for some definative information on whats going on between the DS and the PSP as well. Finally, the days of the D-pad are gone. Look forward to new and innovative controllers in the next generation of video games.'
Or in a nutshell : 'We're playing it safe for now.'
Bundled software my ass...
DS sales are going down because there's been all of like 3 games released since the already-weak list of launch titles.
"Many disputed this assertion, but Nintendo has become increasingly reliant upon its existing franchises- especially Mario and Zelda (and to a lesser extent, Smash Bros. which includes both)"
It's disputed because Nintendo has 6 billion in the bank to play with, whereas Sega had to drop the Dreamcast because they didn't have the money they needed to build DC units to sell. A million units cost like 200 million to build, and they didn't have the money.
"Gamecube simply can't compete."
It doesn't need to compete, it merely needs to make a profit. Since Nintendo's franchises are successful, they're not having a prob with that. They really should try to get more marketshare, but they're a long ways off from being the next Sega.
"Derp de derp."
From the article:The Big N is still trying to decide on information to reveal on the e3
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Translation: They are weighting if they should let their fans know about the GBA Evolution so they dont buy PSP's OR let the sales for the DS rise a bit more first (they're aparently taking option b)
p.s. Please notice no new titles for the DS other than those already produced (metroid, puppies) were mentioned. The talk immediately went to the new rehash for the GBA instead.
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of the people with consoles I know, only 2 have Gamecubes and neither uses it much since they also have PS2s/ Xboxes.
Odd, out of people with consoles *I* know, everyone has a Gamecube, a couple have PS2s as well, and no one has an XBox.
It's almost like personal anecdotes don't mean anything!
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Certainly, not many people play DVD's on their consoles, but you have to admit, when the PS2 came it, it *sounded* good. IMHO, the DVD drive is purely a marketing feature. It makes a casual buyer feel he is getting more for his money. The fact that I already had four different ways to play a DVD when I bought my game cube wasn't relevant to the grandma's buying birthday presents. They just know the nice man at the wal-mart had a longer list of nice things to say about the play station.
Of the people *I* know, he has a GameCube and an Xbox, but no PS2!
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