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« on: September 20, 2004, 05:36:29 PM »
I've been starkly against playing games online (other than PSO which I've been drawn back into) but after playing at a friends house and seeing that its not all evil people swearing and rapping (just 99%) and its good to have friendly competition whenever I can't go to my one friends house to play games. Being in a new area and not being a nice person, I don't have many friends here, so the computer AI is my only competition. As soon as street fighter comes out on xbox I'll shell out the 50 bucks and get xbox live. Its a sad day in my video game life.
As far as what is a success and what isn't. Gamecube started out as a huge success and is still the third best selling system this generation behind ps2 and gba. As far as finances go, nintendo is the most profitable video game company in the world. Nintendo doesn't beleive in losing money plain and simple. THAT and that alone is the only reason gamecube isn't online. They just don't have the funds for it, they'd be bankrupt in a few years. The xbox is no where close to turning a profit, but microsoft doesn't care. As long as people are buying computers (and they are) Microsoft is making money. The xbox is an amazing piece of hardware and unless you are stark on hating everything non nintendo you would see that. Developers have been quoted saying that it is the easiest of the three to develop for. When it comes to success in software, nintendo is teh doom3d. That's all there is too it. Sure there are more nintendo games I want than there are for xbox coming this christmas, but that's only because I'm most comforatable with the cube. I only buy multiplatform titles for gamecube. It saddens me to see soo many games coming out on xbox and not gamecube, and not just mediocre titles or bargain basement crap. Its the big name third party titles that xbox is getting and cube is not thats trubling me. I'm a hardcore fighting game fan and xbox is the place to go. Marvel vs Capcom 2, SVS Chaos, Guilty Gear 2, Street Fighter anniversary collection, Capcom Fighting Jam, All games I love and will be on xbox, and not come close to gamecube. There's no doubt that xbox is getting the games that cube is not, and nintendo should do some serious ass kissing come revolution time or a lot of games will be sailing on over to xbox2. I know nintendo can't give out the money, but they can lower development fees and be a lot more friendly to third parties. They need to realize that they are not number one and developers no longer feel privoledged to develop for them, in fact some are now seeing it as almost a burdon. That's not good for business. I'm not going to pretend that I know everything about the industry, but I do know that I love nintendo and will be depressed if they don't do something to bring them out of their slump. They have one more chance and only one more chance, If revolution goes the way of the gamecube you can call it all but over for nintendo in the console market.
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