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Yes, they are the only specialist Games Company left and they will surely survive. The GBA sales alone are enough.
Hardware or Software?
No doubt.
Look at Sega and Atari, both have survived in Software, despite consoles that have bombed.
Nintendo could produce a new console and keep churning out Mario, Zelda, Metroids, Pikmins etc and still be viable on a much smaller level.
People will always want quality games. Nintendo has always been viewed as the choice of the hardcore gamer who wants the most playable, original games.
It only the 'Console Wars' and trying to compete for the number one spot, that regards the Game Cube as anything other than a success.
It's worldwide mass market launching and hype which is causing problems, and the economic scale is the only advantage Microsoft and the XBox have got.
The console world would be a sad place without Nintendo hardware.
Look at Sega and Atari, both have survived in Software, despite consoles that have bombed.
Nintendo could produce a new console and keep churning out Mario, Zelda, Metroids, Pikmins etc and still be viable on a much smaller level.
People will always want quality games. Nintendo has always been viewed as the choice of the hardcore gamer who wants the most playable, original games.
It only the 'Console Wars' and trying to compete for the number one spot, that regards the Game Cube as anything other than a success.
It's worldwide mass market launching and hype which is causing problems, and the economic scale is the only advantage Microsoft and the XBox have got.
The console world would be a sad place without Nintendo hardware.
Interesting topic.
Software: No doubt, in terms of quality games, ninty own everybody.
Hardware? It'll be a sad, sad day if the industry only supports one consle (PS whatever number). While the Xbox could be argued to have more going for it, I don't think anyone could argue it in a sufficiently better position to keep going while ninty give up the ghost.
Then again, a lot can change in 10 years, and it only took 2 consoles to take sega out, and only one of those (saturn) was what you could call bad.
GBA? Have to see how this mobile thing works out. (was it called the n-gage?) I'm sure it won't be as good as the gba, but having a reasonable console and a phone in one would be less hassle, possibly more cool, and maybe good enough, to beat carrying round a phone *and* gba. For some.
Then again, if you've seen those specialist flash card reader things for gba (look on lik-sang), the ones that convert a pc flash card thing into a gba cart?
If ninty pulled their fingers out, made those official and helped make music, films and stuff downloadable (legally, until people twigged), the GBA would be the best gaming / personal stereo / pocket cinema thing in the world.
Software: No doubt, in terms of quality games, ninty own everybody.
Hardware? It'll be a sad, sad day if the industry only supports one consle (PS whatever number). While the Xbox could be argued to have more going for it, I don't think anyone could argue it in a sufficiently better position to keep going while ninty give up the ghost.
Then again, a lot can change in 10 years, and it only took 2 consoles to take sega out, and only one of those (saturn) was what you could call bad.
GBA? Have to see how this mobile thing works out. (was it called the n-gage?) I'm sure it won't be as good as the gba, but having a reasonable console and a phone in one would be less hassle, possibly more cool, and maybe good enough, to beat carrying round a phone *and* gba. For some.
Then again, if you've seen those specialist flash card reader things for gba (look on lik-sang), the ones that convert a pc flash card thing into a gba cart?
If ninty pulled their fingers out, made those official and helped make music, films and stuff downloadable (legally, until people twigged), the GBA would be the best gaming / personal stereo / pocket cinema thing in the world.
Dr Duck wrote:
> Interesting topic.
>
> Software: No doubt, in terms of quality games, ninty own everybody.
>
> Hardware? It'll be a sad, sad day if the industry only supports one
> consle (PS whatever number). While the Xbox could be argued to have
> more going for it, I don't think anyone could argue it in a
> sufficiently better position to keep going while ninty give up the
> ghost.
> Then again, a lot can change in 10 years, and it only took 2 consoles
> to take sega out, and only one of those (saturn) was what you could
> call bad.
>
> GBA? Have to see how this mobile thing works out. (was it called the
> n-gage?) I'm sure it won't be as good as the gba, but having a
> reasonable console and a phone in one would be less hassle, possibly
> more cool, and maybe good enough, to beat carrying round a phone *and*
> gba. For some.
Agreed, surely you could do a GBA with built in phone, using current technology?
I think with Sega, the problem wasn't specific consoles themselves, just having two unsucessful consoles in a row.
> Interesting topic.
>
> Software: No doubt, in terms of quality games, ninty own everybody.
>
> Hardware? It'll be a sad, sad day if the industry only supports one
> consle (PS whatever number). While the Xbox could be argued to have
> more going for it, I don't think anyone could argue it in a
> sufficiently better position to keep going while ninty give up the
> ghost.
> Then again, a lot can change in 10 years, and it only took 2 consoles
> to take sega out, and only one of those (saturn) was what you could
> call bad.
>
> GBA? Have to see how this mobile thing works out. (was it called the
> n-gage?) I'm sure it won't be as good as the gba, but having a
> reasonable console and a phone in one would be less hassle, possibly
> more cool, and maybe good enough, to beat carrying round a phone *and*
> gba. For some.
Agreed, surely you could do a GBA with built in phone, using current technology?
I think with Sega, the problem wasn't specific consoles themselves, just having two unsucessful consoles in a row.
Software wise Nintendo will last, but hardware wise depends on how well Gamecube 2 does, since Gamecube isn't selling alot and Nintendo can't afford to make that mistake again.
Hell, I don't even know if i'll survive the next 10 years let alone Nintendo.
If Nintendo have lasted this long then there's no doubt they'll live for another 10 years.
In recent months, Nintendo have been pulling their socks up. They've managed to survive without doing much before, but now it's starting to take it's toll. Sony and Microsoft have been advertising and spending like crazy to promote their console. If Nintendo did half of what they did, they'd survive the next 20 years.
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