Topic: Three strikes and Nintendo could be out!

[jmoe316]

Nintendo has gotta kick some major but on this next console. It's good to see they are finally taking this very seriously. N64 was somewhat of a failure, so was GCN but not as much as N64. Nintendo can't survive being a failure three times in a row! They better have some killer apps at launch. Now we just need to wait till next year to see the system they are bringing to the battlefield.

[BlkPaladin]

What are using to quanitate them as a failure since none of them lost any money. But made Nintendo quite a bit of money.

[Hostile Creation]

And N64 was cool.  And so is GC.

So what's the point of this thread?  Look around, there are tons of other threads like this, and all of them are pointless and annoying.

[Nintendo Gamecube]

Nintendo may not own the market, but it sure makes the most money.

And I read an article recently that the GBASP is selling above expectations.

[rpglover]

gamecube expectations may not have been met but gba sales are way over what they ever thought
even the gbasp sells better than expected by nintendo
and not only that- nintendo is also a publisher and developer so they make money on each of their games sold
pokemon sold over 4 million in japan, and a million in america and europe at least
zelda sold over a million in japan, us, and europe seperately as did mario sunshine
basically their gc's may not sell so well, but the games and the gba make up for it to allow nintendo to make money and a lot of it

[Michael8983]

The N64 was a success. Just because it didn't do as well as the PSX doesn't mean it was a failure. The N64 gained a good-sized userbase, had lots of games that sold multi-millions, and Nintendo actually made more money off of it than Sony made off the PSX.
The Gamecube isn't a failure either but it's certainly a lot closer to being one than any Nintendo console should ever be. But, let's be honest, Nintendo deserves this after being stupid enough to give the PS2 such a huge head-start and not even having any really amazing system-selling launch titles when it FINALLY got it's new system out.
So, at most, Nintendo has about half a strike (which it deserves) and that's it.  

[SuperLink666]

Too Human, can not wait!!

[PIAC]

NOPE, its a failure, only THREE console have been SHIPPED world wide! FAILURE

blergh, cant there be 1 doom and gloom thread and everyone just post in that? :\ there are on average atleast 3-4 a page, come on! being GAMERS cant we talk about GAMES?

[Mario]

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Originally posted by: rpglover
gamecube expectations may not have been met but gba sales are way over what they ever thought
even the gbasp sells better than expected by nintendo
and not only that- nintendo is also a publisher and developer so they make money on each of their games sold
pokemon sold over 4 million in japan, and a million in america and europe at least
zelda sold over a million in japan, us, and europe seperately as did mario sunshine
basically their gc's may not sell so well, but the games and the gba make up for it to allow nintendo to make money and a lot of it

Zelda never sold over a million in Japan. Or Europe. And just barely over a million in the US. Anyway... erm whats the point of this? Nintendo RAWKS!

[Gup]

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Nintendo can't survive being a failure three times in a row!

You seem to forget that Sega failed on multiple systems(Master System, Saturn, Game Gear, Dreamcast, Sega-CD).  Even "if" GameCube is a failure, they got way more $ than Sega ever had to bounce back from one hardware.

[PIAC]

facts are easily forgotten in the bash nintendo mentality and in the support nintendo one too ofcourse, meh *plays more of super starwars*... fking jawas

[ThePerm]

when PS2 came out Nintendo had 49% market share...

[Raijin Z]

With what? Certainly not the N64, and Gameboy is a cheap win, because there isn't any real competition.