Topic: Have you ever been disappointed with your Nintendo purchase?

[BranDonk Kong]

If you author your disc in an efficient manner you can help load times. Cartridges were too expensive and the N64 missed out on a lot of good games because of it. You also end up with compromised ports like Resident Evil 2, which was amazing to pull off on the N64, but could have been a better port if they had discs.

[Mop it up]

Conclusion for me: It's debatable whether cartridges were actually a bad decision.

I'm with you on cartridges. I'm glad Nintendo stuck with them.

I'm a little conflicted with the Nintendo 64, but I mostly agree with what you guys have said. The system unfortunately did miss out on thousands of games because of the lack of CDs, but it also has a lot of amazing games, many of which haven't been surpassed. And since it was Nintendo's game design philosophies that lead to sticking with cartridges, their games would have been completely different had they chosen CDs instead. There's no way to know what they would have been like on a CD system, and considering how great they are I wouldn't want to risk giving them up just to have had some games that I can still get by having a PlayStation.

I still don't think I could argue that it wasn't a mistake in the grand scheme of things, but I'm glad it exists as it does.

[NWR_insanolord]

In terms of long-term strategy it would have been better for Nintendo to use CDs, but as far as the quality of the games on the system went cartridges were the right way to go.

[Ian Sane]

I wouldn't mind the N64 cartridges as a one-off gamble that didn't pay off.  If Nintendo realized that losing a big chunk of third party support was not worth the lack of load times and then made an agressive effort with the Gamecube to make up for lost support and lost market share then it would all be fine.  "Ooops, we goofed.  Now we'll our act together and aggressively try to make up lost ground and bounce back."  But they didn't and going with cartridges in retrospect is Nintendo's jump-the-shark moment.  If Nintendo learned from their mistakes any of the short-sighted decisions they've made since then would have made them think "wait, this is just like the N64" and then they would have done something else.  You wouldn't stay offline on the Cube or go with last gen hardware on the Wii or Wii U if you regarded the N64 cartridges as a mistake.  It is the exact same overly conservative living-in-the-past thinking.  The specifics have changed but it is the same mistake of sticking with old technology for too long while the rest of the industry moves forward.

[Adrock]

I swear 95% of your posts are about the same things. We get it, man. You're on a Nintendo message board constantly complaining about Nintendo. Why even write that much? Every time you feel the itch to write an obscenely long rant, just post "Dear Nintendo:" then the following video instead:

Look how much time I just saved you. You are welcome.

[Phil]

I don't know. The other way is annoying, too. People who are overzealous in defending everything Nintendo does. It's better to strike a nice balance between the two viewpoints and not come off obnoxious.

[Oblivion]

I don't know. The other way is annoying, too. People who are overzealous in defending everything Nintendo does. It's better to strike a nice balance between the two viewpoints and not come off obnoxious.

We are on Nintendo World Report.

[NWR_insanolord]

Even still, there's such a thing as being too positive. Still, I'd take that over constantly bashing Nintendo, because at least then I get why you'd be on a Nintendo site.

[Phil]

I don't know. The other way is annoying, too. People who are overzealous in defending everything Nintendo does. It's better to strike a nice balance between the two viewpoints and not come off obnoxious.

We are on Nintendo World Report.

When you get overzealous to the point where you are insulting someone or being condescending to someone because they don't agree with you and your ultra-positive outlook despite facts, it DOES get obnoxious. Sorry.

[Mop it up]

Even still, there's such a thing as being too positive. Still, I'd take that over constantly bashing Nintendo, because at least then I get why you'd be on a Nintendo site.

Seriously. There are plenty of places to go on the Internet to be negative, but precious few places left with positive people.

[toddra]

That is one of the few reasons I still like this place, despite all the evidence you guys remain optimistic and positive but not fanboyish like other sites and not constantly negative like pretty much every other site out there. This place has a good balance of common sense and love for Nintendo. I for one will always love Nintendo but I do think they have made some mistakes over the years that are making it harder and harder to support them.


To answer the question of the thread, the only Nintendo purchase I have ever made I was disappointed with was Zelda Wind Waker and Luigi's Mansion, I really wanted to like those games but I just couldn't as hard as I tried. I knew what I was getting into with Pikmin and at that point I was just happy to have something fresh to play but even that wore off but it wasn't a disappointment it was just too much going on in one game for me to stay focused, plus at the time I was really deep into Harvest Moon AWL and that game took all my attention. Also I really hated DK 64 despite loving DKC.