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"Nintendo Failing?"

Have Nintendo failed? That is the big question everyone is either asking or thinking.

I'll take you back to the nineties, when the two giants of gaming, (Nintendo and Sega) weren't at war. They produced great games at their own pace, creating certain masterpieces along the way, e.g Sonic and Mario. The two characters became mascots for the companys and were growing rich at a steady pace.
The games industry was a profitable buisness and more powerful consoles and games were 'promised'. Nintendo produced Zelda, a new franchise, which helped Nintendo significantly.

Sega ,however, was losing money. For the first time, profits were down. Just at a convienient time, a reputable, rival company steped in. Sony. Sony produced the Playstation, which hit record sales and quickly overtook the Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn consoles.

The Playstation had the backing of many games manufacturese.g Square-Soft, Konami and THQ, to name but a few. Now, Nintendo had serious competition.

Nintendo hit back in Japan with the ever-famous Pokemon. Everyone knew about Pokemon. It was everywhere, video games, cards ,posters and T.V series. There was no escaping Pokemon.

Nintendo continued to battle but seemed to give up. After producing the amazing James Bond: Goldeneye, numerous Zelda titles, Nintendo still didn't look like they were going to win this battle.

Sega had gone bust. They were bankrupt. So it was Nintendo Vs. Sony... Games like Final Fantasy, Grand Theft Auto ect. were being released on the Playstation, but Nintendo could only churn out more sequels e.g Zelda and Pokemon, whilst the fans were happy, most people wern't.

Some people say that it was Sony's fault that Sega only produce games today, but not consoles. But was it Sony's fault, or was it that Sega could keep up the pace?


This now leads us to the present day. Nintendo have had alot of speculation about them being bankrupt. Will they have the same fate as Sega? Maybe if Nintendo went back to their glourious days when every new release was 'hyped' and 'wanted' by the public, they would be ok financially. Without a mix of other games produced by leading company's Nintendo may suffer, too many games are accused of being 'babyish'.

If more Mario and Zelda sequels/remakes come out, will Nintendo still be here in the next 10 years?

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Same with GT4 prologue. What a catastrophic waste of money that would be.

Talking about marketing schemes i must applaude Nintendo's attempt to make the public pay £15 a time for 15 year old or so games. For the amount it takes to buy the whole lot of them you could probably just buy the original console and games for much cheaper. Nice try though.

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And im not sure about the Saturn but Sony did have a part in making the DC fail for Sega. In america FF8 was released the same day as the DC console and you can only trust Sega and they're crappy marketing schemes to only help.

Right you say back in the ninties when Ninty and Sega wearn't at war? Well they were also Mario and Sonic became icons in the gaming industry in the 80's. I havn't even read all of your post as most od it is incorrect already. Also Ninty are coming back strong and with the DS and GBA2 there its a safe guess that they are still going to be pretty much dominating the Handheld market. And one other thing, bring on the N5.

There's Pokemon there, whatcha know?

"That is the big question everyone is either asking or thinking."

This is where I stopped reading.

Nintendo havent failed. Fullstop.

Failed? No they've switched their priorities to handhelds.

The GC's more of a GB peripheral. :D

[Edit] Albeit a multi-million making peripheral of global significance.