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"Nintendo in deep water"

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.

Updated wrote:
> Tony_Blair wrote:
> Updated wrote:
>
> N64 was a wired controller - but had batteries. Sony's original
> Rumble
> handset got power from the console.
>
> ===
>
> be my guest and find me where you got that from. IF not find a pic.
>
> Everyone knows this. Ahh, selective memory. Bad things about Nintendo
> alert - sshhhh, don't talk about.


bad things that were fixed with the Cube.

Updated wrote:
> FMV right or wrong. Doesn't matter. It's here to stay. Developers will
> push even more of it into games in the future. It will also get more
> difficult to see the difference between FMV and gameplay. That's just
> the way it's gong to be. And with less disc capacity, GC will loose
> out the most.

Its called cinematic sequences actually, FMV is geting rather rare now. In game cut scenes for the more retarded of us.

Tony_Blair wrote:
> Updated wrote:
>
> N64 was a wired controller - but had batteries. Sony's original
> Rumble
> handset got power from the console.
>
> ===
>
> be my guest and find me where you got that from. IF not find a pic.

Everyone knows this. Ahh, selective memory. Bad things about Nintendo alert - sshhhh, don't talk about.

I think you are talking a little in the future, and by then we wont be discussing the PS2, X-Box and Cube anyway.

FMV right or wrong. Doesn't matter. It's here to stay. Developers will push even more of it into games in the future. It will also get more difficult to see the difference between FMV and gameplay. That's just the way it's gong to be. And with less disc capacity, GC will loose out the most.

Updated wrote:

> N64 was a wired controller - but had batteries. Sony's original Rumble
> handset got power from the console.

===

be my guest and find me where you got that from. IF not find a pic.

Updated wrote:

> N64 was a wired controller - but had batteries. Sony's original Rumble
> handset got power from the console.

Why are we now talking about the N64 controler?

If you people could make your mind up about what your trying to argue about, i may get myself involved, until then...

Tony_Blair wrote:
> Tiltawhirl wrote:
> And films have exactly what to do with games?
>
> Run along litle boy, Top Score wants to suck all the milk out your
> man
> boobies.
>
>
> ================
>
> lol lol lol.. FMV made a game hm.. since when I thought good games
> made games?... Metroid Prime... Anything before a boss match?
>
> ===
> "batteries in your controllers" yeah so I can say play from
> 10 metres away. and not go " ahh F--- my controller broke
> again" or " my controller came out of the multitap
> AGAIN"
>
> "There is also a real lack of FMV and intro sequences. What is
> going on"
>
> "rubbish sub standard FMV fits the game though when you are
> talking Mario Sunshine. "
>
> do I see a contridiction?
>
> If FMV are all you want then go play FFX at least the hours in that
> game will keep you off the forums long enough for some decent debate
> that has reason to start.

N64 was a wired controller - but had batteries. Sony's original Rumble handset got power from the console.

obviously we are all due for some amazement.

come on top score, wow us with that.. thingyme that you do! :D

I am fairly amazed. Anyone but a cretinous idiot can tell you that a game's success is based on gameplay and not the inclusion of FMV elements.