For over a year I've been spreading the word on how Nintendo needs to be more aggressive to combat the mistakes they have already made. So now they finally start in on that. I say too little too late. Luckily to combat waining console sales they will also force you to buy GBAs, and link cables to play the game that was going to be the holiday smash, but oh what do you know it sliped into next year, didn't see that one coming from over the hill. And just in case you forgot you have not gotten any killer apps from Konami on a Nintendo console since the Super NES they will PORT a game from the PSX. Then you get 20 more sequels and a conga game and if we're lucky we may one day see the light of wait for it......Pac Man....talk about a brand new game series...Pac Man. Let me tell you how astounding those graphics and that suround sound are going to be on Pac Man.
In all seriousness I'm very disappointed in Nintendo. That doesn't mean I'm not disapointed in Sony and MS too. Nintendo had a second chance to redeem themselves and this generation has been a waste. MS has been very willing to spend billions on face value while Nintendo has just tried to wing it for one more gen. The only original material I've seen has been Pikmin (failure), and Animal Crossing. LAN is just an excuse to keep NIntendo from footing the bill. Instead we the consumers suffer. We have to buy the excess hardware, find friends with GameCubes (haha I hope the price drop at least helps that out), buy more controllers, buy the game, and have multiple tvs. They tried this with Halo. It didn't work. Why? Cause there is not a snow flakes chance in hell that somebody qualifies for that unless your name is EGM. Online is easy for the consumer, can have voice chat (Nintendo won't include that prob if they ever do online cause they want to censor), the hardware is minimal, most gamers are online already, and it is the kind of philosophy that Nintendo has always preached (simplicity and ease for the consumer equals success). Now they want to hook up with AOL. Why limit yourself to one service provider. There is no way I'm switching to AOL cause their service is the pits. If they use AOL then we have to use AOL to play the games online. Another way the consumer will have to suffer for NIntendo who is growing into minimalism in every philosophy.
If you don't believe Nintendo has screwed up just ask Dennis Dyack and ask him how aggressive the advertising campaign for Eternal Darkness was. That game could have pushed Cube sales and never got a chance. I feel great pitty for Dennis, he has made some great games only to be pushed down like a tac by the thumb of Nintendo. We may never see ED 2 or Too Human. Next Nintendo will make him do a remake of a Nintendo game classic like Kid Iccarus. Didn't they say Silicon Knights is an indepent developer like Rare that can make their own games and not some program wrting company that takes orders like Retro.
Shig hasn't lost it. He is just spread far too thinly. You will all see after this honeymoon is over and you see that it takes more than price to push hardware....PS2 has been far more expensive than Cube for what 2 years now and Cube is still far behind. I don't know if Nintendo really listens to what we want. They only listen to the Japanese these days. We are their long forgotten army left behind like the South Vietnamese during Nam to loose the war. The truth is still evident. If Nintendo continues to ignore what we the Americans want then they will continue to see their sales go through the floor in America. 20 years ago they listened and payed much attention. They redesigned their systems for the American market. Now they seem arogant. I'm tired of NIntendo dodging the facts and going off the edge blind folded by an ego bigger than MS's. Sure MS hasn't put out many good games, okay only one worth buying, but they have tried hard (bought a lot of people) to get this far this fast.
Nintendo reminds me of the WWE (WWF). The WWE has spent the last few years pulling every string imaginable to keep the ratings up. They bought their competitors WCW and ECW. They bought all the top talent from those companies. They hired Hogan, Nash, Hall, Steiner, and Goldberg. All those guys have million dollar contracts and have done nothing for that company. Why cause the company is still taking the same APROACH to delivering its product. They are reluctant to use edgy, fresh, or even inteligent writing. They only focus on wrestlers being the next Rock rather than the wrestlers making names for themselves. They use tired storylines and weak wrestling styles that are dated by today's independent circuit standards. It is not the talent's fault but they get blamed. It reminds me of how Nintendo places blame on everyone in the company for the problems so everything must be like Shig for a success and when it blows up in their faces they act like it didn't. Because they are just as arrogant as Vince MacMahan. Their way is not always the only way. And some of you fanboys (noone inparticular) need to step out of the box you've built and look at things from an objective point of view and not just the one Nintendo feeds you.
My point is despite the "aggressiveness" they have displayed lately they are still the same folks that want you to play conga sims and use water guns instead of using Mario. Recognize it already. They have changed. And they refuse to change back. I hope this net loss kicks them in the teeth and gets their attention that we're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it anymore. No more rehash. I'm not playing through the same star wars game a seventh time dangit. And I'm not buying anymore sequels unless that sequel says this the new ****, Mario 128 the way Mario used to be, fun, for everyone, easy to get into, yet trully difficult, platforming and no more scavenger hunts, and a green clad brother included water guns and vacums not included.
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