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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
"However, as #3 in marketshare, Nintendo and its fans are once again given the shaft."
The very reason why I'm always making such a big deal about marketshare. As good as it is financially for Nintendo to consistently make a profit their marketshare is ultimately what affects us gamers. This has become a chronic problem. It's like now if a game is announced for all three consoles I almost assume the Cube version will be cancelled. That's not the sort of thing to be associated with. It's not good for Nintendo to be known as the console maker that has all their third party games cancelled. They have to address this problem and show a serious effort to improve their marketshare.
As a fan why should I stay loyal to a company that doesn't show me that they care about issues like this? What incentive is there to stay when things are always getting worse and the situation never improves or a least stays where it is? Nintendo has to take these questions into account because I've never seen anything from them that suggests to me that they even care about this. It often feels like they're taking our support and loyality for granted.
Seriously Ian, stop torturing yourself and buy other consoles. If the only reason you care about Nintendo is the raw number of games you get out of it personally, you should've switched over to the PS2 long ago.
It's NOT a bad thing. My best friend is a multi-console gamer. He's a Halo 2 addict. Heck, he even does a bigger sin in a Nintendo fan's eyes and he steals rather than buys most of his games. (as in steals, I mean uses pirated versions) There is no shame in owning more than one console, lol.
But seriously, Ian, you need to seriously take a close look at what you want out of your videogame experience, and whether it's even possible that one company can give you all that.
As a Nintendo fan, these things don't bother me much because in the final equation, I value what Nintendo brings to the table so much more than what most third parties do. I'd still much rather hold a GC controller in my hands instead of a PS2 controller or XBox controller, even after becoming enamored with GTA 3's game direction and after being in a bunch of Halo Lan Parties. Anyways, if third parties DO do something that's a must have, I have the maturity to go out and buy myself a PS2 or XBox. It's practically elitist snobbery to think that there are no appealing games on other systems.
But I still believe that Nintendo games are among the best games in the world, hand-down. I believe that all the sacrifices I make as a Nintendo Gamer pay off big-time. If you don't believe that, if you don't believe that Nintendo games are worth not getting MGS 2 or FFXII, then you really are deceiving yourself by labeling yourself as a Nintendo Devotee.
~Carmine M. Red
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