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Nintendo's share price is falling faster than a leaf in autumn. Why? The industry is pointing the finger at the poor sales of the Gamecube, citing all the surplus stock sitting on the warehouse shelves.
Nintendo are a big company, of course, but they are pretty worried about the fairly hefty fall in their company's profits by about 37 percent. Even their usual fallback on the handheld market is now being threatened by Sony's new handheld Playstation, currently being readied for release over the next year, and their Pokemon franchise, which is slowing down of late.
The news is that they want to ditch the Cube and try again, but doing this would drastically affect their company image. This was a company founded on trust, when they took back faulty NES consoles without arguement and replaced them with new ones in Japan it made their sales jump through the roof.
Whatever way they decide to stay afloat, it looks bad for the true gamers who were hoping and believing that there could be room for 3 consoles in the market. E3 showed that some companies are cutting back again on their Gamecube titles, despite earlier efforts from Nintendo to gain support from big players like EA Games. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.
Nintendo are a big company, of course, but they are pretty worried about the fairly hefty fall in their company's profits by about 37 percent. Even their usual fallback on the handheld market is now being threatened by Sony's new handheld Playstation, currently being readied for release over the next year, and their Pokemon franchise, which is slowing down of late.
The news is that they want to ditch the Cube and try again, but doing this would drastically affect their company image. This was a company founded on trust, when they took back faulty NES consoles without arguement and replaced them with new ones in Japan it made their sales jump through the roof.
Whatever way they decide to stay afloat, it looks bad for the true gamers who were hoping and believing that there could be room for 3 consoles in the market. E3 showed that some companies are cutting back again on their Gamecube titles, despite earlier efforts from Nintendo to gain support from big players like EA Games. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.
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Alter Ego says:
>X-Box: Need a forklift and a 16 man delivery team to manuver the damn >thing.
Thats funny I am sure I carried it on my own with a bag in one hand?! The White House would need more than that but the designs doesn't need to be changed. Me thinks you are a bit of an idiot.
>X-Box: Need a forklift and a 16 man delivery team to manuver the damn >thing.
Thats funny I am sure I carried it on my own with a bag in one hand?! The White House would need more than that but the designs doesn't need to be changed. Me thinks you are a bit of an idiot.
Yeah all 3 are pretty ugly.
PS2: Looks like your standard VCR.
X-Box: Need a forklift and a 16 man delivery team to manuver the damn thing.
GC: Looks like part of a 'put the cube in the cube hole' toys (although i do like the platinum one).
One of the best designs for a console was the MegaDrive 2 (the small one with the red buttons. It was compact, very stylish, and although the colours look a bit old fashioned now, just change them and you have a winner (The PSone portable proves this, very similar indeed). Yes we all like small and portable, but we dont want it in the shape of a VCR or a toy square, we want contemporery designs, flashy machines, consoles should learn from Mobile phones, although im not much of a 'gota have the best mobile' sorta guy, i do beleive that some of them look outstandingly stylish. Perhaps Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft could get some of those designers to do work there magic.
PS2: Looks like your standard VCR.
X-Box: Need a forklift and a 16 man delivery team to manuver the damn thing.
GC: Looks like part of a 'put the cube in the cube hole' toys (although i do like the platinum one).
One of the best designs for a console was the MegaDrive 2 (the small one with the red buttons. It was compact, very stylish, and although the colours look a bit old fashioned now, just change them and you have a winner (The PSone portable proves this, very similar indeed). Yes we all like small and portable, but we dont want it in the shape of a VCR or a toy square, we want contemporery designs, flashy machines, consoles should learn from Mobile phones, although im not much of a 'gota have the best mobile' sorta guy, i do beleive that some of them look outstandingly stylish. Perhaps Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft could get some of those designers to do work there magic.
You are all needing to be ween.
Analyst partie all around.
Analyst partie all around.
Er-no, i need to talk to you about something on MSN, involving somesort of DVD and a recent film *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
The cube doesn't look like a toy at all look at the ps1 even.
Judah Ben-Hur wrote:
> I could design a consle with crayons on newspaper that looks better
> than all the consoles on the market. Blind. Using only my bum cheeks.
No JBH. That *is* your bum cheeks.
> I could design a consle with crayons on newspaper that looks better
> than all the consoles on the market. Blind. Using only my bum cheeks.
No JBH. That *is* your bum cheeks.
You used to draw the adidas symbol wrong.
And now you do art.
How I weep.
And now you do art.
How I weep.
I could design a consle with crayons on newspaper that looks better than all the consoles on the market. Blind. Using only my bum cheeks.
Seriously. I could design a console in a 3D package that looks better than all the three on the market at the moment.
Nintendo are dying from the hardware age. Its a sad but true fact. And its Microsoft's fault. As I predicted. They haven't been good for the games market. Not one bit.
Nintendo are dying from the hardware age. Its a sad but true fact. And its Microsoft's fault. As I predicted. They haven't been good for the games market. Not one bit.
Snuggly's right. In a way.
Nintendo have to realise that they can't just design things with bright colours and hope that it'll sell any more. And it's sad that I'm having to say such a thing, as no matter how "colourful and kiddy" Nintendo games look, I can't help but feel lucky to own the ones that I have purchased.
It's just, that in the eyes of the public, Nintendo and Mario are made for children, while Sony and GTA are for the more "mature" than the rest of us. And although this statement isn't necessarily in any way true, it's one that so many people are saying these days, and it's something Nintendo really have to address.
I like my Gamecube, a lot, but Nintendo need to get with the times and realise that price-drops and advertising sells a console, and not arrogant excluding (UK releases) and ignoring the public's demands.
Nintendo have to realise that they can't just design things with bright colours and hope that it'll sell any more. And it's sad that I'm having to say such a thing, as no matter how "colourful and kiddy" Nintendo games look, I can't help but feel lucky to own the ones that I have purchased.
It's just, that in the eyes of the public, Nintendo and Mario are made for children, while Sony and GTA are for the more "mature" than the rest of us. And although this statement isn't necessarily in any way true, it's one that so many people are saying these days, and it's something Nintendo really have to address.
I like my Gamecube, a lot, but Nintendo need to get with the times and realise that price-drops and advertising sells a console, and not arrogant excluding (UK releases) and ignoring the public's demands.
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