The Problems, The Plans and The Future.Nintendo cant afford to spend billion dollar yearly budgets on aggressive product awareness & product placement (concerning the GCN platform or future next-gen platforms) aimed at mainstream markets because Nintendo doesnt have predominate PC franchises keeping it afloat
(like newskool platforms that are so-called competing in the console industry). (Morrowind with bugs or too boring version, Morrowind Updated without bugs version, or coming-soon Morrowind GOTY edition version? WTF when did Morrowind win GOTY?).
When M$ retail-give-away their console platform for free providing the consumer signs-up on a dictatorship online plan through M$, one can only cringe at all the analists (who are merely puppet-publicists for the corporation that pays them enough) defaming Nintendo for not keeping up with the competitor's desperations.
In 90 years time when these set-top-boxes have mandatory accompanied wireless chipsets that must be installed under the
gamer's skin or VR teleportation technology placing the gamer into a VR dimension filled with commercial product placement and other corporate brainwashing trash, Industry analists will be whining why Nintendo still only focuses on the basic fundamentals.
Nintendo has its own hardcore fanbase to please and has been doing so for decades (much to the bemusement of know-all analists) with pure console genre type of games that focus on realtime, polished fun rather than Movie Industry entertainment etc.
Its unlikely PC developers (being used by M$ to leech-dry the
console platform industry "money well") will support the GCN platform on the scale that they will support the Direct
X-in-a-
Box platforms, therefore Nintendo's demographics will most likely always remain predominately targeted as its core fanbase while Nintendo keeps supporting its fundamental principles of proprietory (non-mainstream, hence easily cracked) software data formats. Nintendo is willing to sacrifice mainstream markets that are the result of mainstream software data mediums which multiple entertainment industries use, in order for Nintendo to maintain property protection of its huge software lineup that it
"actually" developes and publishes itself literally.
Sony is in the market for userbase figures (no matter how shallow its software or how primitive its hardware can be) ...while
Nintendo is in the market for software development entertainment "with" property-protection ...while
M$ (LOL) is in the market to "crash it" so then M$ can restructure the market in its own corporate mould & infrastructure not unlike the possessive nature it displays regarding PC operating systems.
The day Nintendo changes its traditional & specialist (refer below) gaming-only company principles is the day Nintendo sells-out its principles in order to mainstream itself for the masses. It aint going to happen, Nintendo will always be a proprietory format gaming-only focused company and it wont shift its philosophies for the sake of mainstream entertainment markets. Sony publishes cheesy music & publishes shallow movies, so that part of the entertainment industry is pretty much covered, its not in Nintendo's interests to invade Sony's industry by introducing GBA players that features MP3 format which would literally kill-off corporate music industry publishes like Sony. Its not in Nintendo's interest to introduce a GCN with DVD burning capabilities to kill-off the coporate movie industry publishes like Sony who depend on shallow movie-to-game liscense deals like *cough* Spiderman *cough* and other 3rd Party shallow games that attract the half-witted mainstreamy market, to make money off the PSX platform(s).
And no matter how hard certain analists, publicists, speculators, journalists or fanboys jump up and down whining (or vine-swing like apes from hangman's nooses with Nintendo's name on em), because Nintendo wont play "image seeking" games and not rely on "aesthetics" or "cool factors" for selling its consoles but rather focus on "practical functionality" at its most quick-time form, Nintendo will still continue developing polished console games to be played on a console platform because Nintendo's core fanbase are not "image seekers" they are hardcore gamers that have an appreciation for gaming evolution.
Even an ape can speculate that Nintendo wont rush into Online Gaming infrustructures during this era just as Nintendo didnt rush into the cost-effective CD-ROM software data medium (until the technology was available for Nintendo to be able to copy-protect its franchises they actually make), however these speculators must respect that there is no urgency to rush just because eg. M$ converted the beige PC platform into a suspicious console looking case, platform, and Nintendo is therefore apparently not satisfying all the fussy markets because its principles of polished game publishing remains fundamental and is not appealing to the "patch/upgrade online subscription infrastructure" otherwise known as "leeching".
It really is not too hard to identify that Nintendo specialise rather than "cash-cow diversify" for the sake of playing the "Console (userbase sales figures) Wars", or "Aesthetic Image Games". Nintendo plays real games, not corporate games.
If we were to look at the automobile industry, is it pressumptious of us to assume there are analists in that industry that defame European car makers? for the fact that they "just" specialise in fine automobiles rather than than compete with eg. Hyundai who manufacture automobiles but also happen to be the biggest shipping-building company on the market.
One should hope not. The European car companies may "only" specialise in one market being eg. fine automobiles of sporty a nature, but they do it with pride and they do survive against eg. Hyandai.
Industry analists, publicists, speculators, journalists, fanboys should accept the fact that Nintendo's userbase will always be lower than that of mainstream entertainment platforms.
In conclusion, the question at hand is not what Industry analists, publicists, speculators, journalists, fanboys believe
Nintendo's direction must be but rather whether or not Industry analists, publicists, speculators, journalists, fanboys and apes alike can actually identify, acknowledge and respect Nintendo's fundamental principles which Nintendo adhere to and these pressure groups should get on with their gaming lives already and stop adding useless sensationalism topics of discussion to the already chugger bandwidth of the internet.
To quote a M$ puppet at a previous E3 show
..."We are in the Console Industry and We are here to stay...yadda yadda ...We are here to Win"... </end arrogant procclaimation and or threat>
Industry analists, publicists, speculators, journalists, fanboys and apes alike must identify that Nintendo is not in the Gaming Industry "to win", it is in the Gaming Industry to surprise and entertain its core userbase and those that cant handle it should get over it.
2003 = Nintendo's greatest E3 ever.(Pure console games. No PC franchise ports).