Topic: I've come from the past to bring you the future

[The Omen]

  My dear gaming elite, what has transpired in my absence?  Must i return to simple rhetoric and mundane 'findings', such as 'Nintendo is in trouble!' and 'What Nintendo needs is...'.  Lets take a look at the not so long ago history of your favorite video game company, Nintendo.  As recent as 8 human years ago, Nintendo was number 1 in the world.  As recent as 20 human years ago, Nintendo saved the gaming 'religion' from extinction.  The N64 was a grave mistake, if i may join the previously ridiculed  'What has Nintendo f'd up' game.  Many great empires have doused themselves in a gasoline of arrogance.  By believing the 'lemmings' would lap up whatever they released, they prevented themselves an opportunity to widen their dominance.  In some respects, they were right.  The software sales for the AAA games were better than any on another console.  Sadly, they were too few or too far between.  The Playstation, AKA beezlebub, beat the N64 to the punch, and with the more conveniant media , the compact disc, made the game creating process much easier for developers.  The cartridge went the way of the dinosaur, blown out of the water by the new gaming gods.  So, here we are.  6 years have elapsed since that fatal error, and what has Nintendo done?  They have set the table for their return to dominance.  By being more aggressive, Nintendo now has major developers back on the bandwagon.  Maybe not completely, but thats what the 'N5' is for.  The GC was the framework.  The 'N5' will be the 'rapture'.  With a new youthful leader now in charge, Nintendo is poised to take on the gaming  world head on, with aggression, something they were missing since the NES days of old.  When you are not challenged, you become complacent, content.  When the star dims , thats the test of ones toughness.  Nintendo is back on track, and they're looking to reclaim the lost souls of '96-2003.

[Chode2234]

Thats what I hear a lot of xbox fans saying "xbox is the foundation and framework for xbox2", I am actually more interested now in the "fight" between xbox and "N5".

I think that one will be the fiercest, most important battle in the next gen.  

[The Omen]

I hope you guys realize that, although i do believe this, i was being a little tongue in cheek because there are so many threads consisting of the same talk.  I just thought i'd add my own into the mix.

[nemo_83]

Why must we keep screaming for the same junk each consecutive gen and nintendo never delivers.  They only give a bit at a time.  They are stubborn.  I appreciate your humor.  It is funny that we wine about the same stuff all of the time, but only because Nintendo is so hard of hearing.  I remember saying back in October of 2002 that Nintendo should be more aggresive when marketing their products.  That didn't mean just advertise more.  I meant advertise better.  They are just now responding to my complaints.  Look at the CD vs cartridge issue, Nintendo was wrong on that.  They are just now attempting to broaden thier third party lineup.  So what's the complaint.  Well most are whored out Nintendo franchises or remakes of old games.  I don't want this garbage.  I want new games.  The last time Nintendo created a new series that appealed to the mass market on a Mario level was....well I cannot remember.  It has been too long.

[XBR]

Pokemon, my friend.

[joeamis]

actually if they focused on creating games to appeal to the mass market that would suck...

[Chode2234]

I think Nintendo does deliberately create games that try to have the broadest appeal possible.  Look at Mario and Zelda, they are about as Mainstream as possible, and I think Nintendo likes that.  If you think Nintendo is your little corner of the videogame market that hasn't gone "mainstream" you are mistaken.  I think they have been less mainstream lately only because they are trying to hard to be mainstream.  I can't think of any thing they do not aimed at the mainstream, even their most niche product "animal crossing" was just trying to do nintendos take on the sims.  If you think Nintendo would suck if they made games for the mainstream, how do you tolerate what they do now, and have done the last 20 years?

[joeamis]

animal crossing came out before sims, on the N64 in japan...

[Chode2234]

sorry, bad example, point still stands, question remains to be answered...

[ThePerm]

iv been on these forums for countless years..im not going to give a suggestion, argument, or even talk about your posts im just going to say im right. Can you all agree?

[XBR]

Animal Leader in Japan was from 2001 on N64, and my knowledge is that the Sims came out in 2000.  Just clearing things up.....