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"Nintendo told go Multiplatform or face ruin"

Mario and Zelda on PS2 as strange as that sounds their could be more truth in it than you think.

Nintendo have been told by some heavyweight financial advisers that they should develop software for other platforms or face financial ruin.

It would appear that the poor GC sales are starting to bite with developers getting increasingly worried about the GC continued poor performance and the lack of software sold because of this.

Producing for Xbox and inparticular PS2 would add a much bigger user base up instead of the limited one they have now makes sense to me. If Nintendo was able to make more money from software they might be able to produce more quality titles rather than the tripe they do at the moment, hell it might even help Nintendo to sell more GC.

Putting a few Ninty games on PS2, is the same as SKY putting 2 or 3 of their channels on Freeview (which they have done). It gives other users a taste of Nintendo. If they like what they get from Ninty (in a reduced amount) on PS2, they might just buy a GameCube to play "all the other" GameCube games.

idlewild wrote:
> VenomByte wrote:
> If you were to remove the handheld market from the question, I think
> you find Nintendo's current profits to be somewhat less
> impressive...
>
> But we're not though, are we? If we removed Windows etc. from
> Microsoft what would there profits be like? Eh?

Or if you removed all of Sony's profits from other area's, quite frankly, Nintendo are the only company of the three to MAKE money from selling CONSOLES. If Sony sell a PS2 at 170 quid each, and they lose lets say, 80 quid on each one sold, Multiply that by, 50 million, (the stat Top Score came up with for number of PS2's CREATED), that equates to 4 billion lost, I wouldn't say that's a profit...

It's just getting stupid now. All we need is one console and put an end to this competetive bull. I mean even if this isn't true, most games are multi-platform and so kinda makes it all seem pointless.

VenomByte wrote:
> If you were to remove the handheld market from the question, I think
> you find Nintendo's current profits to be somewhat less impressive...

But we're not though, are we? If we removed Windows etc. from Microsoft what would there profits be like? Eh?

Aha. A report a day later said Nintendo will gain ground.

Don't believe anything until it has already happened.

Also, nintendo said the day they leave making consoles is the day they stop making games. mwahahaha

And Nintendo made the most profit last year, so shh.

Top score wrote:
> Also why Ninty fanboys are so loyal to a company that has ripped them off
> for years and years and been fined for doing so.

Actually, they were fined for keeping the prices high in the REST of Europe, though they have every right to have high prices here, the majority of the public is highly ignorant and many probably haven't heard of Zelda, Metroid or F-Zero (The latter which I can prove to you). So, no=-one buys stuff here, so, they need to make monjey, why not (but they haven't)

Of course the only reason he's posting this, and the only reason other people say similar things, is because they are despereate to play the best games in business; Zelda, Metroid, Mario, Pikmin, F-Zero etc.

I've figured it out.

Top Score is actually one of us - a regular or very likely a notable, who's having a tremendous laugh at our expense by baiting the Nintendo owners.

WE LOVE YOU TOP SCORE! TOP SCORING!

Meh, I don't care. The future of Nintendo looks bright whatever. We have a confirmed next console, and loads of great games coming in the next few months, as well as a bunch of old games I haven't played that I want to get at some point. Whether or not GameCube is commercially successful seems somewhat irrelevant to me.

I'll only believe that The Gamecube hasn't succeeded in Europe after this month and may... I remain heavily optimistic.