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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.
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.
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I think Maverick pretty much sums up what I was going to say.
Top Score is a muppet. No doubt about it.
Top Score is a muppet. No doubt about it.
Top score wrote:
> I am just trying to understand why and how it has all gone so wrong
> for Nintendo. 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.
Ripped us off? Nintendo produce the best value-for-money products in the business.
> I am just trying to understand why and how it has all gone so wrong
> for Nintendo. 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.
Ripped us off? Nintendo produce the best value-for-money products in the business.
Top score wrote:
> Nintendo have been told by some heavyweight financial advisers that
> they should develop software for other platforms or face financial
> ruin.
Yes, this was said - you're not wrong. What you fail to mention, however is that the following day, a 600 page report on Nintendo's situation in the industry was released by analysts. It proved, that Nintendo (year after year) continually manage to make more profit than Microsoft and even Sony. Mario and Link on PS2? Never.
> 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.
Poor GC sales? Sure, they've started to drop in the UK in recent months - but that's bound to pick up with the deals coming out soon, and the European releases of quality titles such as Resident Evil Zero, Metroid Prime and The Legend Of Zelda. If you take Europe as a whole however, things are a lot better. Nintendo managed to shift an impressive 1.5 million units last year - more than Microsoft.
In the USA, things have been erratic. However, thanks to Metroid Prime and Resident Evil Zero, Nintendo managed to clinch second place at Christmas and are still holding on to it now - impressive, seeing as it's Microsoft's home turf. And in Japan, Nintendo seem to be doing fantastically. One week before Christmas, sales topped around 150,000 - matching that of the PS2. They also manage to outsell Microsoft, too.
And that's not to mention the success of the Game Boy Advance, the imminent release of the SP and massive income from their brilliant games - Pokemon sold in droves. So at the end of the day, Nintendo are in a very comfortable position where sales and profits are concerned - you just have to look at the facts.
> 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.
Tripe they sell at the moment? That single comment just proves your absolutely diabolical taste in games.
> Nintendo have been told by some heavyweight financial advisers that
> they should develop software for other platforms or face financial
> ruin.
Yes, this was said - you're not wrong. What you fail to mention, however is that the following day, a 600 page report on Nintendo's situation in the industry was released by analysts. It proved, that Nintendo (year after year) continually manage to make more profit than Microsoft and even Sony. Mario and Link on PS2? Never.
> 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.
Poor GC sales? Sure, they've started to drop in the UK in recent months - but that's bound to pick up with the deals coming out soon, and the European releases of quality titles such as Resident Evil Zero, Metroid Prime and The Legend Of Zelda. If you take Europe as a whole however, things are a lot better. Nintendo managed to shift an impressive 1.5 million units last year - more than Microsoft.
In the USA, things have been erratic. However, thanks to Metroid Prime and Resident Evil Zero, Nintendo managed to clinch second place at Christmas and are still holding on to it now - impressive, seeing as it's Microsoft's home turf. And in Japan, Nintendo seem to be doing fantastically. One week before Christmas, sales topped around 150,000 - matching that of the PS2. They also manage to outsell Microsoft, too.
And that's not to mention the success of the Game Boy Advance, the imminent release of the SP and massive income from their brilliant games - Pokemon sold in droves. So at the end of the day, Nintendo are in a very comfortable position where sales and profits are concerned - you just have to look at the facts.
> 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.
Tripe they sell at the moment? That single comment just proves your absolutely diabolical taste in games.
phi11ip wrote:
> Well, using Top Score's ways of analysing things I can tell you that
> Nintendo will be releasing at least another 5 consoles...
5? blimy.
> The will be buying numerous other games companies
don't say that it makes them look like Microsoft.
> Well, using Top Score's ways of analysing things I can tell you that
> Nintendo will be releasing at least another 5 consoles...
5? blimy.
> The will be buying numerous other games companies
don't say that it makes them look like Microsoft.
From some news site:
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ATI Technologies Inc. has agreed with Japan's Nintendo Co. Ltd. to develop technologies for use in the latter company's products. No further details were disclosed by ATI, which already gets royalties for designing a chip that's used in Nintendo's video game console, GameCube. Analyst Brian Piccioni of BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. said yesterday ATI will likely design a component for GameCube's successor. "This likely represents an extension of high-margin royalty payments from Nintendo to ATI," he said. "However, this may be offset by a bonus agreement between the company and senior management tied to the signing of this agreement." He was referring to president David Orton, who was granted 350,211 ATI options that are only exercisable if the Markham, Ont., company enters into "specified business arrangements" with an undisclosed party by this August. In addition, Mr. Orton is scheduled to receive a cash bonus of $934,037 if ATI achieves certain goals related to these transactions over the next three years, according to a circular.
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Well, using Top Score's ways of analysing things I can tell you that Nintendo will be releasing at least another 5 consoles...
The will be buying numerous other games companies and Sony will be forced to go multiformat because all the people will buy the Nintendo consoles...
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ATI Technologies Inc. has agreed with Japan's Nintendo Co. Ltd. to develop technologies for use in the latter company's products. No further details were disclosed by ATI, which already gets royalties for designing a chip that's used in Nintendo's video game console, GameCube. Analyst Brian Piccioni of BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. said yesterday ATI will likely design a component for GameCube's successor. "This likely represents an extension of high-margin royalty payments from Nintendo to ATI," he said. "However, this may be offset by a bonus agreement between the company and senior management tied to the signing of this agreement." He was referring to president David Orton, who was granted 350,211 ATI options that are only exercisable if the Markham, Ont., company enters into "specified business arrangements" with an undisclosed party by this August. In addition, Mr. Orton is scheduled to receive a cash bonus of $934,037 if ATI achieves certain goals related to these transactions over the next three years, according to a circular.
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Well, using Top Score's ways of analysing things I can tell you that Nintendo will be releasing at least another 5 consoles...
The will be buying numerous other games companies and Sony will be forced to go multiformat because all the people will buy the Nintendo consoles...
Nintendo will never go multi format.
Top score wrote:
> Unbeliever wrote:
>
> N64 + 50 games
>
> Learn somehing new everyday I didn't know they made that many games
> for the N64. You must have robbed a bank to afford that many most
> people couldn't afford one. Then again you probably bought it at a
> car boot sale they go cheap their.
I got 52 N64 games.
> Unbeliever wrote:
>
> N64 + 50 games
>
> Learn somehing new everyday I didn't know they made that many games
> for the N64. You must have robbed a bank to afford that many most
> people couldn't afford one. Then again you probably bought it at a
> car boot sale they go cheap their.
I got 52 N64 games.
Insane Bartender wrote:
> Syphonical wrote:
> And what do you mean by that??
>
> I wsn't taking to or about you, if that helps you solve the riddle.
Indeed it does...
*stares at wall*
> Syphonical wrote:
> And what do you mean by that??
>
> I wsn't taking to or about you, if that helps you solve the riddle.
Indeed it does...
*stares at wall*
Syphonical wrote:
> And what do you mean by that??
I wsn't taking to or about you, if that helps you solve the riddle.
> And what do you mean by that??
I wsn't taking to or about you, if that helps you solve the riddle.
Insane Bartender wrote:
> Heh, spot the highly amusing thing...
And what do you mean by that??
> Heh, spot the highly amusing thing...
And what do you mean by that??
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