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Can Nintendo Survive Gaming's Brave New World?
Nerval's Lobster writes "Jon Brodkin talked to indie developers (including the creator of Super Mario Bros. Crossover), former Nintendo employees, and a number of others about where exactly Nintendo went wrong over the past few years. Their conclusions? Nintendo made a number of mistakes, including a lack of an indie-developer ecosystem, a refusal to license out core properties such as Super Mario to other gaming platforms (or even iOS and Android), and platforms that don't appeal to hardcore gamers. While the developers suggest Nintendo is taking steps to broaden its horizons, such as by reaching out to smaller studios, it's questionable whether such efforts will succeed in a world where the PS4 and Xbox One are about to enter the market, and iOS and Android are swallowing up mobile gamers' time and dollars. What do you think?"
Then I don't care!
I bought an original Nintendo to play Super Mario Bros on. Then I bought the SNES for the next Mario/Zelda, then the GameCube to play Mario again and then Zelda Four Swords and 4 GBA's! I bought the Wii for New Super Mario Bros, and again the Wii U for NSMB WiiU (or whatever it is called). Currently I have 1 game for each of those platforms (Wii and Wii U), and its the Mario games!
As long as they make games that are so fun to multiplayer with my friends I will buy whatever console and game it takes to play it! The only game I play with friends on PS3 or XBox360 is the Rock Band games, and that was only because they didn't have it for Wii yet at the time.
Damn. Meant GT5. Maybe I should have bought a pair of glasses to proof my posts with, instead.
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'd say so, since you bought a PS3 exclusive for your Xbox.
Since the ps4 and xbone aren't out yet, it would be rather unfair to show that the Wii U is outselling them.