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Permalink Reply by Sarah Walton on June 12, 2012 at 2:04pm

No kidding. The 3DS practically prints money. Nintendo owns that bit of the market.

Permalink Reply by Sarah Walton on June 12, 2012 at 2:02pm

Nintendo seems to ignore the adult gaming audience. I haven't gamed regularly in a couple years, but I remember having that complaint with their titles. I was unhappy with what they were doing with The Legend of Zelda series and ultimately turned to our PS3. We have a Wii but I don't think it's been on in a month. I use the PS3 primarily for Netflix these days.

Heh, didn't see that one coming back when I was crawling behind my parents cabinet TV to hook up the Atari 2600. "TV through the console? Why??"

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on June 12, 2012 at 2:09pm

Yeah, they're completely ignoring the core gamers. Doesn't seem to be hurting them much financially, though.

Permalink Reply by James Yount on June 12, 2012 at 2:30pm

I heard that they had a bad year financially.

Nintendo's Philosophy:

N64 (They want CD's? F'em, we know best)

Gamecube (They want adult games and the third parties to come back? F'em, we know best, here's a minidisk and the worst Final Fanatasy game ever)

Wii (They still want mature games? They want a DVD player? F'em, here's a motion control gimmick that we'll force all our games to use)

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on June 12, 2012 at 2:43pm

I dunno about the current year. In previous years, the Wii did insane sales.

I kind of liked the N64, actually. Some texture-maps would have been nice, but the 4-player games were insanely fun.
I'm right with you on them going the same route as Sega, though. I'd like to see what their developers could do with a real piece of hardware.

Permalink Reply by James Yount on June 12, 2012 at 8:04pm

The new Wii is supposed to be way behind the other companies in the hardware department. Nintendo says they have enough power. Once again, Nintendo knows best. I guess you don't need great graphics when all of your games are cell shaded child side scrollers.

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on June 12, 2012 at 8:28pm

Doesn't mean they won't make a fortune with it.  I probably won't buy one, but many others will.

Permalink Reply by James Yount on June 12, 2012 at 2:24pm

Zelda is the only reason I'd consider buying a Wii. I find myself rooting for Nintendo to fail and go third party so I can play Zelda on other platforms.

Permalink Reply by Steph S. on June 12, 2012 at 9:13pm

Right James I agree with you here on your reference to Coke or Pepsi. I have to admit I am bias toward Apple. However, I use the PC too.
I would like to see both in the market myself. It serves us best to have variety and diversity in the marketplace.

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on June 12, 2012 at 9:28pm

Not a great direct comparison, since a can of soda is a stand-alone product, but it makes for a good turn of phrase.

 

Computer, console, and phone operating systems have less room for a variety of products, because of the additional cost of tuning applications to each OS.  The developers will only support a few of the most popular platforms.

That's why most corporations still use Windoze XP.  There's a bit of a Catch 22 going on.  Application developers only write their software for Windoze XP, because almost none of their clients have Windoze 7 deployed throughout their workforce.  Corporations are still slow deploying Windoze 7 throughout their workforce, because most of their necessary applications are only written for Windoze XP.

We're still trying to get a working image of 7 up and running, and it's been a fucking nightmare, because we have to run everything in virtual mode.

Permalink Reply by James Yount on June 17, 2012 at 10:20pm

Thanks for the replies everyone :)

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on June 17, 2012 at 10:26pm

De nada.

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