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Nintendo is doing all they can, so stop the noise!
Gamebasher:
Forum member, Mario, just started a serious discussion about where Nintendo is right now saleswise from the perspective of the latest sales charts. Why all this focus on the international sales charts and bemoaning them? Hell, Rome wasn´t built in a day. Neither will Nintendo´s future success. Nintendo is well on it´s way to regain the top of the videogame market. They just need to keep going and keep putting out quality titles. Correct their past mistakes, and keep going from there.
One of their past mistakes was evident on the N64. Too few or no sequels to the best games.
On the GBA you get sequel upon sequel upon sequel of the same games franchises, game-sequels that stay true to their respective prequels. And the GBA hardware and software sells in mega bucket loads!! People get to play their favourite games in constantly released new incarnations again and again (I owned two GBA already so I know what I talk about as I have seen the selection of games available). Now, look over on the PS2! Here we have the same phenomenon: sequels upon sequels of beloved franchises pumped out in a never ending succession. People are happy. People are buying.
This was lacking on the N64. And so Nintendo promises us it will be different with the GameCube.
But, as I have pointed out before in the previous forum, the one before this latest NEW FORUM, Nintendo should be carefull with what they do from now on so they don´t go and experiment too much but stay faithfull to the games make up that is a proven success, like Mario 64 and Zelda 64. These games set the standard for the whole games market in all the future. And they were million sellers. That is what Nintendo needs. But even if Super Mario Sunshine sells a crap load of games, which it apparently isn´t at the moment, there is still a lot of people who will agree with me that it is nowhere near as great as Mario 64. The textures are mostly plain ugly, and it is too difficult. Many many people the viewpoints of whose I have read many places agree to this.
Spong.com is one of them. In their view (notice that I didn´t copy and paste that from that website, but you can go and check it for yourself on that website under "Games of the year - the dissapointments")!
As I also stated previously EDGE said somewhat the same in their Super Mario Sunshine issue review, and CUBE magazine in the VIEWPOINT section of their most recent issue agrees with a reader that Nintendo has recently dissapointed with their main franchises, also stating however that Nintendo ws going to make up for it with the new 2003 selection of games.
Miyamoto can make any sequel as great as that if he wants to! And astound the world yet again! Get Nintendo where his Nintendo wants to be!
Nintendo can´t afford to dissapoint gamers anylonger. As the current situation goes they did dissapoint a lot of gamers with SMS. So Miyamoto-san listened and is making a new Mario which will purportedly be easier.
Great, we are getting to where we need to be: sequel upon sequel upon sequel....
Word of mouth travels fast! All the way over to all those PS2 gamers who once owned an N64! The ones Ninty want so bad.
So let´s trust in what Ninty is doing. Trust that they will not dissapoint us with the GameCube. And support them.
I´ll give it a shot!
Here´s to brighter (Nintendo) future!!
Gamebasher.
rodtod:
I think it would do us all some good if we stopped and considered for a moment the differences between the Gamecube's launch, and that of the Famicom/NES.
The Famicom was released in 1983, 8 years after Nintendo first got involved in videogames.
The NES was released in 1985, two years after the Famicom.
The Japanese Gamecube was released in September of 2001, 8 years after the Famicom. The North American launch happened that same year in November. The American launch of the cube was Nintendo's most successful stateside launch ever.
Now, consider the amount of time that has past. Nintendo has had nearly 28 years of experience in the videogame industry. It has produced four generations of video game consoles (not including the Gameboy, its iterations, or the N64DD). Each generation is more successful than the last (though the N64 is arguable), and increases Nintendo's userbase by leaps and bounds.
Gamers who purchased the Famicom at launch would now be 20 years older. They are now able to work at game development companies and hold important positions in such companies. If Nintendo claims it will return to its glory days (the NES generation), this is how it's going to happen. Yes, Nintendo's Famicom had hypnotic properties.
Ok, seriously I think Nintendo can only keep on getting better at making games, getting richer off of gamers, and brushing up on their marketing strategy
Gamer Donkey:
I hear a lot of talk about how Metroid really isn't selling as well as it should, but it hasn't released in Europe yet, and won't until March. At www.eurogamer.net, they're just now getting excited about PSO and the modem adapters, and yet I think back and remember a post about the GC outselling Xbox in France. Please forgive me if I said anything wrong. I just trying to show that we can't judge worldwide sales until they're selling worldwide.
Infernal Monkey:
Only problem with Metroid not being released yet, is that the Freeloader HAS, and well, I know of quite a few people (online and offline =o ) who have gotten themselves a copy from the US.
Nintendo took too long, this is what happens.
rodtod:
I've yet to see Nintendo's current position in the market affect the quality of their first-party games