To use "the series started on x console, so it should return to that console" as an argument is weak. What about all the series' that started on NES/SNES but went to Sony's consoles? Because there are several franchises that should come back "home" in that case.
But in any case, like I've said earlier, RE4 could not have sold a substantial amount of GCs. Other games have failed to drastically increase the sales of GC, so I doubt that this one game could have made that much of a difference. I'm really not that angry about it going to the PS2. I'm more pissed off at Nintendo these days anyway, to care about what Capcom decides to do with one of their games, no matter how big it might have been.
I really hate the way Nintendo threw away the opportunity to bring an epic RPG from Square to the GC, when it let Square develop for the GBA. Instead of getting a great epic RPG, we got the absymal (I admit the game was not that bad, but compated to what we GC gamers were expecting it was downright lousy) Crystal Chronicles. The game sold nearly 900 000 copies worldwide, but thats because GC owners were starved for a new epic RPG. The only RPG (worth mentioning) we had on the GC at that point was Skies of Arcadia (a great game, but a port of a couple of years old DC game).
This is a game you must not only own 3 GBAs to play, but you must also have 3 friends who are interested in playing these kind of games. I do have 2 GBA's, but no friends of mine wanted to play that game for longer then 15 minutes (which I can't blame them for, as the game was not that good to begin with, regardless of whether you played it single or multi player). Nintendo tried to sell GCs by using the GBA, but it had not worked in the past, and it sure as hell was not going to work this time, especially given the bad quality of the game they were trying to sell it with.
If I'm not mistaken, the Q fund was used to finance the development of this game. And in return Square got to give us the FFTA on the GBA. A game that was more or less build on the same principles as FFT, with a different (more childish) story. The story of this game was so weak, it could put any serious RPG gamer off. I hate this game. And now they are giving us remakes of the first 2 Final Fantasys. Just like every other every other 3rd party developer uses the GBA to earn easy money (by making nearly direct ports of their old games), and then pisses all on Nintendo by using that money to fund rival consoles' (mostly PS2) games, SquareEnix is doing it to.
As for Mario Tennis being a "real" tennis game. I would not have bought Mario Tennis, but since there is no other option on the GC, I'm almost forced to. Sure Mario Tennis is decent, but its not an actual Tennis game. Its more of a tennis game with Mario characters in it, which means that it also doens't use actual Tennis rules.
I want a tennis game like the legendary Super Tennis, where I can't pull of super natural moves. I don't want to get power ups in a Tennis game, I want to play a regular tennis game, with no power ups.
Nintendo might make most of the profits, but that won't help the company much in the long run. Nintendo's profits on the home console market is decreasing, and it will continue to do so, unless Nintendo starts to approach the market differently. The N64 sold twice as much as the GC, even if the GC is still selling, I don't think it will ever sell more then 20 million units.
Also Mario 64 sold 5 times as many copies as Mario Sunshine. Ocarina of Time sold more then Wind Waker, and so on. The only platinum seller the GC has in Japan is Smash Bros Melee.
Nintendo needs to make changes, its even started to loose its most loyal fans. I've stuck with Nintendo through thick and thin, I missed on several classic games in the previous generation, and I've missed out on maybe even more classic games in this generation, and there is only to a certain point the gamer in me can let him be dictated by the Nintendo fan in me. There is a limit for everything, and Nintendo sure has reached the limit of patience in its most loyal fans.
How much longer do we Nintendo fans have to suffer for Nintendo's stubberness? I know 15 GC owners, 10 of those GCs were partially or fully financed by me (I either gave those away as presents to friends/family members, or paid half the price for those who were somewhat interested in the console, the GC costs only around $100 here in Norway, and that is by far the cheapest home console ever here in Norway, even a dying DC costed more), and 80% of these people own a PS2 or an Xbox as well.
Thats were the market is going, some are buying the GC as a second console, most are just ignoring it altogether. Nintendo needs to change or else its profit will continue to decrease until there will no longer be any profit for the company, and thats when Nintendo will realise that it should not have ignored those who have kept it alive for all these years. The loyal Nintendo fans who have stood by the company for nearly 20 years.
Btw, I bought RE and RE0, and enjoyed both. I will also buy RE4, regardless of it being on the PS2 or not.
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