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Iv allready posted this message in the 'Will Nintendo Survive another 10 years' room but thats an old room, so here it is to get all your attentions...
Will Nintendo Survive another 10 years?
They could do but for that to happen, we, the GC owners will have to help - and by that I don't mean buy Mario, Luigi, Zelda and Metroid (Plus every other first party game) but buy some 3rd party ones.
As somebody else pointed out a while ago, the reason Dixons (and a collection of other shops) dropped it is because nobody was buying games for it other than the first party ones. If people don't buy these, shops drop the console, people don't buy it and it dies. Dixons never dropped it because of console sales - It was only a couple of thousand behind the XBOX, so that was not the reason...That could have changed any moment, but if to many shops drop it, it never will!
Fair enough though - Nintendo did make their own fair share of mistakes...A tiny non DVD drive is an obvious put off for most, and makes it very hard for developers to port across large 5GB games from the other 2 consoled - and the fact you can copy games for the PSone is the pretty much only reason it did so well, making the GC sell even less. Also - lets be honest now - even if there are some grown up games, the best ones, challenging as they are (Mario for example which NO 3 years old could never even begin to complete) have baby faces, which put off the masses - we see past these...most do not.
Nintendo should now focus on their next console - Have Metroid Prime 2, A PROPER Mario 64 sequel, and a Zelda game ready for launch and make sure that it does all the things their rivals does (Online, Hard Drive, DVD, GC game support...) and then they will get back on track. The GC is great - but as I said, unless we all go out and buy bucket loads of games, it may become the next DC....And that upsets me...
Will Nintendo Survive another 10 years?
They could do but for that to happen, we, the GC owners will have to help - and by that I don't mean buy Mario, Luigi, Zelda and Metroid (Plus every other first party game) but buy some 3rd party ones.
As somebody else pointed out a while ago, the reason Dixons (and a collection of other shops) dropped it is because nobody was buying games for it other than the first party ones. If people don't buy these, shops drop the console, people don't buy it and it dies. Dixons never dropped it because of console sales - It was only a couple of thousand behind the XBOX, so that was not the reason...That could have changed any moment, but if to many shops drop it, it never will!
Fair enough though - Nintendo did make their own fair share of mistakes...A tiny non DVD drive is an obvious put off for most, and makes it very hard for developers to port across large 5GB games from the other 2 consoled - and the fact you can copy games for the PSone is the pretty much only reason it did so well, making the GC sell even less. Also - lets be honest now - even if there are some grown up games, the best ones, challenging as they are (Mario for example which NO 3 years old could never even begin to complete) have baby faces, which put off the masses - we see past these...most do not.
Nintendo should now focus on their next console - Have Metroid Prime 2, A PROPER Mario 64 sequel, and a Zelda game ready for launch and make sure that it does all the things their rivals does (Online, Hard Drive, DVD, GC game support...) and then they will get back on track. The GC is great - but as I said, unless we all go out and buy bucket loads of games, it may become the next DC....And that upsets me...
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TGMbloke wrote:
>> Nintendo should now focus on their next console - Have Metroid Prime
> 2, A PROPER Mario 64 sequel, and a Zelda game ready for launch and
> make sure that it does all the things their rivals does (Online, Hard
> Drive, DVD, GC game support...) and then they will get back on track.
> The GC is great - but as I said, unless we all go out and buy bucket
> loads of games, it may become the next DC....And that upsets me...
Focus on the next one?
When the Cube has the best line up on any system and the best looking release list of the year? I think not.
Online is already on Cube. The other day I could have bought myself the complete online kit, but I didn't. The point is, I could have gone home and actualy played some American at PSO. To be honest I couldn't be bothered. Online = woopy-bloody-do. I agree with back catalogue support. That would be good. Hard drive too. DVD only to get in the punters, not for my use really. MP2, Mario 128 and another Zelda all for the current Cube please.
>> Nintendo should now focus on their next console - Have Metroid Prime
> 2, A PROPER Mario 64 sequel, and a Zelda game ready for launch and
> make sure that it does all the things their rivals does (Online, Hard
> Drive, DVD, GC game support...) and then they will get back on track.
> The GC is great - but as I said, unless we all go out and buy bucket
> loads of games, it may become the next DC....And that upsets me...
Focus on the next one?
When the Cube has the best line up on any system and the best looking release list of the year? I think not.
Online is already on Cube. The other day I could have bought myself the complete online kit, but I didn't. The point is, I could have gone home and actualy played some American at PSO. To be honest I couldn't be bothered. Online = woopy-bloody-do. I agree with back catalogue support. That would be good. Hard drive too. DVD only to get in the punters, not for my use really. MP2, Mario 128 and another Zelda all for the current Cube please.
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