Poor sales in Europe and a backlog of surplus stock have meant that Nintendo have halted production until autumn. The Dixon’s group and Argos have both stated they are going to discontinue sales once surplus stock is sold
It was inevitable (which is why I have not bought one) after all Nintendo just don’t seem interested in targeting all areas and all age groups of the market. How many games do you know of on there system with an adult theme?
ANSWER NOT MANY a few but not many
I wont deny they make GREAT games Zelda, Metroid Prime to name few. But unfortunately the public want more than just the cutesy Mario style games; they want games like GTA, GT3, etc, games aimed squarely at adults. Could you ever imagine a game with a theme as adult as GTA on Cube?
Nintendo seem to once again have got it wrong (N64 previously, kept afloat by Pokemon). They make great games but this doesn’t make up for them not aiming games at the western market, specifically Europe. Sony has a large share of the 3 main markets because they care about there public. Nintendo seemed to be only interested in aiming their console at the Japanese market. A severe lack of third party releases meant that Nintendo could only rely on the first party releases. Further more the other two systems had the advantage of being multimedia systems where as the Cube is purely a games console. True I do not use my PS2 to watch DVD’s as the quality is poor, but customers will always be pleased too get something extra i.e. a DVD player as a bonus. What with EIDOS stating that they are discontinuing to publish games on the console the future does not bode well. They seem to have lost sight of what made the SNES so popular.
I’m gonna wait till the next big price drop (currently £79.99 in the UK) and bag myself a bargain
I think Nintendo would be wise to do as Sega and make games for the other platforms.
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