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Mon 21/04/03 at 20:06
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Iv allready posted this message in the 'Will Nintendo Survive another 10 years' room but thats an old room, so here it is to get all your attentions...



Will Nintendo Survive another 10 years?

They could do but for that to happen, we, the GC owners will have to help - and by that I don't mean buy Mario, Luigi, Zelda and Metroid (Plus every other first party game) but buy some 3rd party ones.

As somebody else pointed out a while ago, the reason Dixons (and a collection of other shops) dropped it is because nobody was buying games for it other than the first party ones. If people don't buy these, shops drop the console, people don't buy it and it dies. Dixons never dropped it because of console sales - It was only a couple of thousand behind the XBOX, so that was not the reason...That could have changed any moment, but if to many shops drop it, it never will!

Fair enough though - Nintendo did make their own fair share of mistakes...A tiny non DVD drive is an obvious put off for most, and makes it very hard for developers to port across large 5GB games from the other 2 consoled - and the fact you can copy games for the PSone is the pretty much only reason it did so well, making the GC sell even less. Also - lets be honest now - even if there are some grown up games, the best ones, challenging as they are (Mario for example which NO 3 years old could never even begin to complete) have baby faces, which put off the masses - we see past these...most do not.

Nintendo should now focus on their next console - Have Metroid Prime 2, A PROPER Mario 64 sequel, and a Zelda game ready for launch and make sure that it does all the things their rivals does (Online, Hard Drive, DVD, GC game support...) and then they will get back on track. The GC is great - but as I said, unless we all go out and buy bucket loads of games, it may become the next DC....And that upsets me...
Tue 22/04/03 at 22:41
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Gamecube games are not easy, mario sunshine is hard to finish completly and Metroid Prime is also hard and look at Ikaruga, maybe the hardest game of all time. Why change the mario engine if it's worked all these years??
Tue 22/04/03 at 22:39
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Lipe wrote:
> If your saying to make a mario 64 sequel that's online then i
> disagree. Mario is a 1 player game but they could make that game, on
> Mario Bros. 2 a online multiplayer, that would be fun.
i think mario is just using too much of the same material has anyone noticed that gcube games are easy but id like to see B.F.D online 200 teddy versus 200 squirells and a genral each would be choas but cool chaos
Tue 22/04/03 at 22:33
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If your saying to make a mario 64 sequel that's online then i disagree. Mario is a 1 player game but they could make that game, on Mario Bros. 2 a online multiplayer, that would be fun.
Tue 22/04/03 at 22:09
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"the third person"
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i think a sequel to mario 64 is pretty much the same as the first one but nintendo should braoden horizens to online multiplayer but new ideas mabye some new games with a main character other than mario so why not make some merchandise like the beyblade stuff and like pokemon but gaming should expand to more than it is now i think the future is in the internet nintendo needs to appeal to youths with killing teacher but the lack of new games is a reason for nintendos recent downfall
Tue 22/04/03 at 21:54
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Nintendo needs too take Online Gaming more seriously. Its the 'new' Mutliplayer.
Tue 22/04/03 at 18:41
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Yup, I agree. It didn't follow suit, but it allowed Shigsy to be more creative and inventive- exploring Ideas previously held-back by the storlyine/s.
Tue 22/04/03 at 17:35
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Exactly Lipe, it may not have been a very Mushroom kingdom like world but it was still an amazingly fun and addictive game.
Tue 22/04/03 at 16:39
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A PROPER mario sequel?? I thought it was a fine game, one of the best on the 'cube.
Tue 22/04/03 at 16:31
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Some good points highlighted there.
Tue 22/04/03 at 15:28
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A very well written post, TGMbloke.

very well... written

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