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Nintendo Gaming / RE:IGN-Cube's on another Nintendo-rant

« on: November 02, 2004, 05:02:03 AM »

Bill: youre exactly right.  Not having the Wario character in Warioware wouldnt change the game one bit.  The point isnt that the game itself would be different.  The point is that people would percieve it differently.  With or without Wario, people like you or I would still love the game.  However, there are a whole lot of people out there who kinda gave up on Nintendo several years ago, and the only way to change those people's minds is to come up with new franchises, rather than putting the same old characters on all their new games.  I mean, other than Pikmin, off the top of my head I cant think of a single new Nintendo franchise this generation that didnt in some way rely on a well-known Nintendo name to help increase sales.  Look at it this way:  By making the game Warioware, rather than making up new characters and putting them in the exact same game, Nintendo guaranteed themselves that a large chunk of people out there would buy it.  But the vast majority of the people that bought it were already Nintendo fans.  By using brand new characters, maybe some people who arent Nintendo fans would have given it more of a chance.  Nintendo made the decision to go for a large slice of a small pie (Nintendo fans), rather than a small slice of a huge pie (all gamers).  Does that make sense?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:IGN-Cube's on another Nintendo-rant

« on: November 02, 2004, 04:20:40 AM »

I think youre missing the point of the article.  I think what he's trying to say is that Nintendo is still coming up with great gameplay ideas, but why do they have to stick their old franchises on them?  For instance:  The gameplay idea for Warioware is to have a lot of rapidfire, fun minigames.  Why did they need to slap the Wario name on it, rather than make up a whole new set of fun, original characters for the players to fall in love with?  Same thing with Donkey Konga: Nintendo wanted to make a rhythm game.  Why did they slap the Donkey Kong franchise on it, rather than making an original setting for the game?  We all know Nintendo has a lot of creative people and they certainly could have done it if they wanted to.  The problem is this:  By slapping their new games with old, familiar franchises, they guarantee that that game will sell a good number of copies.  However, they have gotten into a situation where they also guarantee that a lot of people will dismiss the game out of hand simply because it has the cute cuddly familiar Nintendo characters in it.  Therefore, Nintendo games are getting to the point that they only appeal to people who already like Nintendo, and we can see from the declining marketshare of the Nintendo home consoles over the past 10 years or so that the number of people who are Nintendo fans is slowly shrinking.  Now obviously, this does not apply to games like Zelda or Metroid.  If Nintendo wants to make a new platformer, then by all means, use Mario.  If they want to make a first person adventure game, then by all means, make it a Metroid one.  But Nintendo has to start thinking of ways to expand their fan base, and putting their big franchise names on games that have nothing to do with the franchise (like Mario Pinball) certainly isnt going to do the trick.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Gettin' Cube...finally! (Official "What game should I get?" Thread)

« on: January 16, 2004, 06:25:35 AM »

yeah i could do that, but that would require that i buy a playstation, and im not really into buying a console just for one game, even if it is just 20 bucks now. im gonna use that 20 to buy the gcn version.

i do agree that it is fun to go back and see those games you used to think were so badass.  like when i got warcraft 2 back in the day and after a while i went back and played warcraft 1 just to remember what it had been like. hahaha

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Gettin' Cube...finally! (Official "What game should I get?" Thread)

« on: January 14, 2004, 07:47:49 AM »

here is a question:

I have never played Resident Evil or Resident Evil Zero. I want to try the series out, so which one should I buy first?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:original gameboy games

« on: October 13, 2003, 05:42:10 PM »

thanks guys

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Nintendo Gaming / original gameboy games

« on: October 10, 2003, 11:17:42 AM »

does anyone know if there is an online place to buy original gameboy games (like, not color or advance)? Obviously there is Ebay, but i was wondering if there are some real stores that still sell them too.

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Nintendo Gaming / Is Nintendo Playing the Wrong Game?

« on: July 22, 2003, 03:33:06 PM »

This is an article from business2.com. the address is http://business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,50984,00.html (I dont know how to post a link).

Ive never posted before, but I keep reading posts from all these people who know exactly what nintendo should do for the nes5, and this article tells a little of what they are actually doing.  For any who dont want to read: it talks for a while about how nintendo lost its console monopoly over the last 10 years and then there is some stuff about what theyre doing to get it back for the next generation.  If youre worried about nintendo dying with the next generation, this article points out some things:

1. people may come back to nintendo if they decide they dont want to pay 300 or 400 dollars for a console.

2. heres the big one I think.  it seems that a lot of people are saying that nintendos next generations MUST include DVD, hard drive, broadband internet, and everything else sony and ms are putting in theirs.  what people dont seem to realize is that they can do this and still remain true to their "gaming only" stance that they have.  really, its already started with the panasonic Q.  all they have to do is make a Nintendo NES5 that is gaming only, but they can also liscence the hardware for the nes5 to be put in other devices. There are other companies that have a lot to lose if Sony and Microsoft's vision succeeds and they, like nintendo, arent going down without a fight.  So maybe Panasonic will license the nes5 like they did with gamecube and make a Q2 that also plays DVDs.  Apple could make an iNES5 that has broadband and downloads music and videos and everything.  This will enable the NES5 to compete on equal ground with xbox2 and ps3 and it will also allow nintendo to stay as true to their "games only" philosophy as they please.

anyway, with ideas like this, i think should quiet the people who say nintendo is doomed if their next console cant jump through all the hoops like sony and ms do, and it will also keep the people happy who say they didnt want dvd in the gamecube anyway.

all they have to do is bring it to america instead of japan only like the Q.