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From the dawn of gaming Nintendo have been always been there, they are an important factor in keeping the gaming business balanced.
They have been always been sucessful, their earlier consoles were always being sold, the Game Boy is the most popular portable console to date and the N64 was still contending with Playstation and Dreamcast not so long ago. They have never really tasted the bitter flavour of failure as many said Sega have done with the Dreamcast and in many cases the Sony with the Playstation.
So as the unpredictable new age 'Console Wars' are arising many have put their bets on Nintendo to crash and burn, while Microsoft and Sony become the two contenders...... Well I will have to disagree with this.
I have never been a fan of Nintendo and am probaly the most unbiast poster here, I am just looking for a good choice of game for me. I belive that Nintendo will have no problem at all when they release the GC and the GBA.
First of all they have two egerly awaited machines coming out in the space of a few months......
Firstly the GBA, a portable console, something I am sure everybody loves and there are so few around. The graphics and varity of games are impresive...... It seems they have crammed an N64 into the size of a emmmmm brick :D. It puts the GameBoy to shame when you see the astonising difference in them, with games like F-Zero and Mario Kart. With the value of what you get the GBA looks to be as popular as its anceister the Game Boy.
Now onto the GC, a fine looking console if every I saw one. (not the colour the spec :D) Gone have the days of constant 'childish' games, there is now a varitey of more 'grown up games' such as Rogue Leader and Metroid. Both look outstanding, the graphics look superb, smooth and curved. Also now in are sport games for the 'late teens' and 'early 20's' such as NBA 2002 and Fifa Soccer. Of course they have not forgotton their roots and of course there is the 'childish games' of Luigi's Mansion, it sounds poor but it looks impresive and of course Zelda and the likes.
So Nintendo are having a double release, they are both looking impresive. They have expanded the varitey of games so although they still have Mario for the younger fans, they have games for their fans from the earlier days that have grown up with Nintendo and can now still be fans, and with this they may gather more fans.
With this I have not been biast, only stating an opinion as an honest gamer who likes to see good gaming in the making.
They have been always been sucessful, their earlier consoles were always being sold, the Game Boy is the most popular portable console to date and the N64 was still contending with Playstation and Dreamcast not so long ago. They have never really tasted the bitter flavour of failure as many said Sega have done with the Dreamcast and in many cases the Sony with the Playstation.
So as the unpredictable new age 'Console Wars' are arising many have put their bets on Nintendo to crash and burn, while Microsoft and Sony become the two contenders...... Well I will have to disagree with this.
I have never been a fan of Nintendo and am probaly the most unbiast poster here, I am just looking for a good choice of game for me. I belive that Nintendo will have no problem at all when they release the GC and the GBA.
First of all they have two egerly awaited machines coming out in the space of a few months......
Firstly the GBA, a portable console, something I am sure everybody loves and there are so few around. The graphics and varity of games are impresive...... It seems they have crammed an N64 into the size of a emmmmm brick :D. It puts the GameBoy to shame when you see the astonising difference in them, with games like F-Zero and Mario Kart. With the value of what you get the GBA looks to be as popular as its anceister the Game Boy.
Now onto the GC, a fine looking console if every I saw one. (not the colour the spec :D) Gone have the days of constant 'childish' games, there is now a varitey of more 'grown up games' such as Rogue Leader and Metroid. Both look outstanding, the graphics look superb, smooth and curved. Also now in are sport games for the 'late teens' and 'early 20's' such as NBA 2002 and Fifa Soccer. Of course they have not forgotton their roots and of course there is the 'childish games' of Luigi's Mansion, it sounds poor but it looks impresive and of course Zelda and the likes.
So Nintendo are having a double release, they are both looking impresive. They have expanded the varitey of games so although they still have Mario for the younger fans, they have games for their fans from the earlier days that have grown up with Nintendo and can now still be fans, and with this they may gather more fans.
With this I have not been biast, only stating an opinion as an honest gamer who likes to see good gaming in the making.
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If I don't get Quicktime working soon, I'm gonna cry...
Why will Nintendo succeed?
Maybe it is better to learn from mistakes and survive than learn from mistakes and go down, Nintendo have made a few huge mistakes along the way, and unlike other companies around them they have managed to scrap through, and most probably without the huge Pokemon industry they would have most probably wilted in the Playstation's success...
...those mistakes which circulate around the cartridged based N64 are all in the passed, in 1997, people were seeing that major developers weren't supporting the N64 and moved to the CD based Playstation, and again if Goldeneye hadn't been released when it was the end of the N64 was on the cards in Europe. For Nintendo have always had a large base of fans in Europe, Germany and the UK being the two places which Nintendo forgot about those few years ago....
....Now I look at it, Nintendo have managed to pull out the correct cards over the last five years to keep them in serious business, so why are the going to succeed now.
As Sheepy correctly said the GBA and GC will play one of the biggest roles in the Nintendo comeback, but maybe people forget why the Nintendo 64 failed on such a large scale, it was because of support, support was needed throughout the last war, and Sony received it all, if Rare released an amazing game, Sony would have 100 released alongside its console.
This huge difference lead one thing to another and the Nintendo 64 was dying like a swan from launch in 1997.
Now Nintendo have the backing, going into the biggest Next-Generation console war, they have Capcom, Sega Namco and Tecmo, these are four of the largest developers in the world. These are only a few of the many on the Gamecube's list.... and with this support we will see a great machine, a machine that had the 64's potential but with the backing of others behind it.
Thanks for reading
er-no
Maybe it is better to learn from mistakes and survive than learn from mistakes and go down, Nintendo have made a few huge mistakes along the way, and unlike other companies around them they have managed to scrap through, and most probably without the huge Pokemon industry they would have most probably wilted in the Playstation's success...
...those mistakes which circulate around the cartridged based N64 are all in the passed, in 1997, people were seeing that major developers weren't supporting the N64 and moved to the CD based Playstation, and again if Goldeneye hadn't been released when it was the end of the N64 was on the cards in Europe. For Nintendo have always had a large base of fans in Europe, Germany and the UK being the two places which Nintendo forgot about those few years ago....
....Now I look at it, Nintendo have managed to pull out the correct cards over the last five years to keep them in serious business, so why are the going to succeed now.
As Sheepy correctly said the GBA and GC will play one of the biggest roles in the Nintendo comeback, but maybe people forget why the Nintendo 64 failed on such a large scale, it was because of support, support was needed throughout the last war, and Sony received it all, if Rare released an amazing game, Sony would have 100 released alongside its console.
This huge difference lead one thing to another and the Nintendo 64 was dying like a swan from launch in 1997.
Now Nintendo have the backing, going into the biggest Next-Generation console war, they have Capcom, Sega Namco and Tecmo, these are four of the largest developers in the world. These are only a few of the many on the Gamecube's list.... and with this support we will see a great machine, a machine that had the 64's potential but with the backing of others behind it.
Thanks for reading
er-no
In the above it should read and SOny with the Playstation2 not Playstation :D
:D
I know.... I emmm did it on purpose
I know.... I emmm did it on purpose
Sorry Sheepy... I lied. It has two c's. :0)
Anyway. There is not one GC game I don't want yet... Damn.
Expect a heavy amount of topics from me over the summer. ;0)
Anyway. There is not one GC game I don't want yet... Damn.
Expect a heavy amount of topics from me over the summer. ;0)
i agree with old sheep face here, the nintendo company has always been great...gameboy vs the game gear...hmm whos being played on now GAMEBOY... and who is willing to admit that they still play on their SNES... to be honest the biggest flaw may have been the 64, it dont seem to have done aswell as any of the other nintendo consoles, listen people i have to go now, speak ta yas tommrow, live long, drink beer and eat pies!!
From the dawn of gaming Nintendo have been always been there, they are an important factor in keeping the gaming business balanced.
They have been always been sucessful, their earlier consoles were always being sold, the Game Boy is the most popular portable console to date and the N64 was still contending with Playstation and Dreamcast not so long ago. They have never really tasted the bitter flavour of failure as many said Sega have done with the Dreamcast and in many cases the Sony with the Playstation.
So as the unpredictable new age 'Console Wars' are arising many have put their bets on Nintendo to crash and burn, while Microsoft and Sony become the two contenders...... Well I will have to disagree with this.
I have never been a fan of Nintendo and am probaly the most unbiast poster here, I am just looking for a good choice of game for me. I belive that Nintendo will have no problem at all when they release the GC and the GBA.
First of all they have two egerly awaited machines coming out in the space of a few months......
Firstly the GBA, a portable console, something I am sure everybody loves and there are so few around. The graphics and varity of games are impresive...... It seems they have crammed an N64 into the size of a emmmmm brick :D. It puts the GameBoy to shame when you see the astonising difference in them, with games like F-Zero and Mario Kart. With the value of what you get the GBA looks to be as popular as its anceister the Game Boy.
Now onto the GC, a fine looking console if every I saw one. (not the colour the spec :D) Gone have the days of constant 'childish' games, there is now a varitey of more 'grown up games' such as Rogue Leader and Metroid. Both look outstanding, the graphics look superb, smooth and curved. Also now in are sport games for the 'late teens' and 'early 20's' such as NBA 2002 and Fifa Soccer. Of course they have not forgotton their roots and of course there is the 'childish games' of Luigi's Mansion, it sounds poor but it looks impresive and of course Zelda and the likes.
So Nintendo are having a double release, they are both looking impresive. They have expanded the varitey of games so although they still have Mario for the younger fans, they have games for their fans from the earlier days that have grown up with Nintendo and can now still be fans, and with this they may gather more fans.
With this I have not been biast, only stating an opinion as an honest gamer who likes to see good gaming in the making.
They have been always been sucessful, their earlier consoles were always being sold, the Game Boy is the most popular portable console to date and the N64 was still contending with Playstation and Dreamcast not so long ago. They have never really tasted the bitter flavour of failure as many said Sega have done with the Dreamcast and in many cases the Sony with the Playstation.
So as the unpredictable new age 'Console Wars' are arising many have put their bets on Nintendo to crash and burn, while Microsoft and Sony become the two contenders...... Well I will have to disagree with this.
I have never been a fan of Nintendo and am probaly the most unbiast poster here, I am just looking for a good choice of game for me. I belive that Nintendo will have no problem at all when they release the GC and the GBA.
First of all they have two egerly awaited machines coming out in the space of a few months......
Firstly the GBA, a portable console, something I am sure everybody loves and there are so few around. The graphics and varity of games are impresive...... It seems they have crammed an N64 into the size of a emmmmm brick :D. It puts the GameBoy to shame when you see the astonising difference in them, with games like F-Zero and Mario Kart. With the value of what you get the GBA looks to be as popular as its anceister the Game Boy.
Now onto the GC, a fine looking console if every I saw one. (not the colour the spec :D) Gone have the days of constant 'childish' games, there is now a varitey of more 'grown up games' such as Rogue Leader and Metroid. Both look outstanding, the graphics look superb, smooth and curved. Also now in are sport games for the 'late teens' and 'early 20's' such as NBA 2002 and Fifa Soccer. Of course they have not forgotton their roots and of course there is the 'childish games' of Luigi's Mansion, it sounds poor but it looks impresive and of course Zelda and the likes.
So Nintendo are having a double release, they are both looking impresive. They have expanded the varitey of games so although they still have Mario for the younger fans, they have games for their fans from the earlier days that have grown up with Nintendo and can now still be fans, and with this they may gather more fans.
With this I have not been biast, only stating an opinion as an honest gamer who likes to see good gaming in the making.
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