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"Nintendo "like retirement home""

BBC report on E3 Nintendo performance

"Nintendo's conference was like a retirement home for classic game developers as Toru Iwatani, the brains behind Pac-Man, played on-stage against Mario wunderkind, Shigeru Miyamoto, who is currently working on an all-new Pac-Man title.

Refreshingly self-critical, the assembled masses were told of the mistakes the big N made with marketing the GameCube, and the difficulty the traditionally family-orientated company was having in appealing to modern, gore-obsessed players.

But their president, Satoru Iwata, in a nod to the Grand Theft Auto series, assured Nintendo-philes: "You won't see Mario shoot a hooker".

And while we were assured the GameCube had a rosy future, its successor is already officially in development."

*chuckles*

er-no wrote:
> Your a bit dumb?

*sniggers*

gamezfreak wrote:
> is'nt
> does'nt
> does'nt

Now those are poor quality apostrophes.

Goatboy wrote:
> Except that Lylat Wars isn't a beat'em up.
> Beat 'em ups are simple, button mashing exercises in immediate
> gameplay, usually with mates.
>
> Lylat Wars was a one player game that was supposed...actually no, I
> dont need to defend that game or explain why it sucked balls.
> It did.
>
> If you dont think it did, that means you are a hommo



Ladies and Gentlemen, please do not feed the trolls.

er-no wrote:
> Arguing on the internet is like running in the
> para-lympics. Even if you win its not funny.


No, it's "Arguing on the internet is like running in the special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded." I didn't make that up, for the record. And I don't think Goaty was arguing, he was fishing.

er-no wrote:
> Arguing on the internet is like running in the
> para-lympics. Even if you win its not funny.

:D

gamezfreak wrote:
> This is probably the fastest growing post i've seen.
>
> Its all down to personal opinion I guess, If Goatboy is'nt Gamecubes
> major fan, Let him be. It does'nt matter, he probably does'nt give a
> fook what we say. His opinion won't change.

And to be frank. Nobody here should care about Goatboy's opinion apart from himself. Arguing on the internet is like running in the para-lympics. Even if you win its not funny.

so if we jst dropped it then it would be better :P

This is probably the fastest growing post i've seen.

Its all down to personal opinion I guess, If Goatboy is'nt Gamecubes major fan, Let him be. It does'nt matter, he probably does'nt give a fook what we say. His opinion won't change.

Wobbly Sumo wrote:
>
> Thats a very bold statment - neither 3 is best. Its down to your own
> personal preferences. And as a Notable, tut, tut, tut. Very fanboy
> indeed.

For a human. Your a bit dumb?

Refer to Whitestripes post.

Goatboy wrote:
> Even a lumbering non-games company such as the BBC realises Nintendo
> is for kids and the Gamecube is doomed.

> The comments about not reaching a wider audience of gamers and the lack of > titles came from?
> Not a BBC Journalist but from Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo.

> “Iwata admitted that some of Nintendo's earlier efforts have not been
> sufficient--such as how, in the first half of last year, the company
> did not release enough exclusive titles--and that games such as Super
> Mario Sunshine and Metroid Prime did not live up to expectations”

He said that exclusive games were released too far apart to make a large impact.

ANd I'm just wondering, how did you come up with "The Gamecube is doomed" from that statement?