I've had enough of Nintendo lately... The wii is not coming out with any good games (Except skyward sword :smile.gif: )
They've been MASSIVELY been overdoing the DS: DS, DS lite, DSi, 3DS. I'm not trying to troll Nintendo, but I'm just saying that it's been a while since a really good game/system came out. If you ask me their last good game was Twilight Princess, and that was a while ago. What Nintendo needs is a nice good quality new system, something that they could make nice games for without the overdone twist of the Wiimote. I would love to see a new system with good graphics, and some redone old games like super Mario 64 or Ocarina of Time as as apposed to on the 3DS.
While I can't disagree that their putting more time into the Ds/DSi/3DS. That doesn't necessarily means they are going downhill. I personally think that they should have kept working on the Gamecube when they made the Wii though. It had so much potential.
I'm not sure I really understand your point about the DS; They've made four different versions in seven years, and if we ignore Lite/XL versions they've only made two. The DS and DSi. The 3DS is an entirely different console, in the same way the DS isn't a Gameboy. Putting effort into their new console, the 3DS, is perfectly reasonable.
I totally disagree. The 3DS is completely the same thing, with 3D graphics. Same Gameplay, Different Visual Experience. (I should know, I own one)
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Their marketing shows that they are trying to dominate the handheld game purchase because their Wii's aren't doing to well and Xbox do not have PSP's or DS's but in matter of opinion I would say that PS3 are doing the best in both genres.
(Holy **** thats the smartest thing I've written.)
Actually I think they're just going up a different hill.
Casual gamers.
Edit: Those of us who gamed with Nintendo back in it's older days (NES/SNES/64) are growing up with Nintendo making no attempt to follow. Instead they've opted for a different market entirely, the casual gamers, which may as well be liquid gold for how fast that casual gaming industry is exploding.
We'll end up growing into other companies, consoles, game series but you know I haven't really seen the kind of depth old school Nintendo games had in anything new recently.
The thing is, Nintendo has always held the handheld market. They're virtually untouchable in handheld ever since they rolled out the original GameBoy (I remember that thing, too; it's such a shame mine broke down over time, still have it somewhere though). With slipping console sales, of which they were a big contender (SuperNES and the N64 especially), it may well be them falling back on the one thing that they got the undoubted biggest hand in; the handhelds.
Now they definitely corner the market in casual gamers, that is true, but I'm not sure if that's really helping much now. That's the thing; casual gamers are only going to pick up just a few games. Yes, they were a relatively untapped market, but each one, individually, just will not cough up the money like a hardcore gamer.
Basically, they over-focused on getting a casual gamer market, and now it's biting them in the ass.
The only problem is that they make zelda games nintendo hard. Water Temple in OoT on 64. Almost everyone thought they couldn't go on because of a small key that was extremely hard to get and easy to miss.
I can't possibly be the only person who finds the water temple too easy. I mean, I'll admit, I was stumbling about for about 20 minutes trying to find the key. Then I used this MAGICAL THING called the map and compass to see there was a chest, and that it happened to be right below the middle pillar area, so I investigated and found the opening. And I've never had an issue with it even after not playing it for years.
The 3DS one made this easy, by showing the passage for 2 seconds.
What? Weak. Although I guess it wouldn't make a difference to me. I personally prefer when a Zelda game actually get's me stuck once in a while. Majora's Mask was the last game in the series to do that to any significant degree. Twilight Princess actually made me try things that weren't completely obvious, which I cannot say for Wind Waker.
And most of them always have a stupidly hard boss fight (Twinrova, for example) which took me a fairy or two to figure out that I had to hit her with the sword, not arrows.
Arrows? wut? I always use the sword. I don't even bother with the biggoron sword, either. Waste of time to get that most of the time. Jump-Slash and then crouch-stab, usually only have to stun them once. Even the first time through, I never had a problem with the bosses. Twinrova has always been my favourite, actually.
The Zelda franchise has not been "Nintendo hard" since Zelda II. After that it pansied out. Still great games, but in no way Nintendo Hard. (IMO)
but I still use the Battery from the Wii to power something I'm making.
That's one good thing about Nintendo, their Batteries.
I would have thought the battery was a standard CR2032...
Those of us who gamed with Nintendo back in it's older days (NES/SNES/64) are growing up with Nintendo making no attempt to follow.
Very true. Last Nintendo System I got "new" was the N64. my GC was acquired off ebay a year or so ago. As with all the games; I think this is a common trend with those of us who grew up with the NES/SNES/N64; rather than purchase a Wii just so we can spend more money on simply emulating the games we want to play with a Wii(A concept I find idiotic when the emulators for PC are about a million times better), we'll either emulate ourselves, or just get the original hardware off ebay. They still have a lot of mindshare, but no way to effectively turn that into market share, except by way of "portable-izing" their previous overrated games, Like Ocarina of Time.
They've been MASSIVELY been overdoing the DS: DS, DS lite, DSi, 3DS. I'm not trying to troll Nintendo, but I'm just saying that it's been a while since a really good game/system came out. If you ask me their last good game was Twilight Princess, and that was a while ago. What Nintendo needs is a nice good quality new system, something that they could make nice games for without the overdone twist of the Wiimote. I would love to see a new system with good graphics, and some redone old games like super Mario 64 or Ocarina of Time as as apposed to on the 3DS.
I totally disagree. The 3DS is completely the same thing, with 3D graphics. Same Gameplay, Different Visual Experience. (I should know, I own one)
This prettymuch describes how I feel about nintendo.
No it isn't, you used "Genre" wrong.
Casual gamers.
Edit: Those of us who gamed with Nintendo back in it's older days (NES/SNES/64) are growing up with Nintendo making no attempt to follow. Instead they've opted for a different market entirely, the casual gamers, which may as well be liquid gold for how fast that casual gaming industry is exploding.
We'll end up growing into other companies, consoles, game series but you know I haven't really seen the kind of depth old school Nintendo games had in anything new recently.
Now they definitely corner the market in casual gamers, that is true, but I'm not sure if that's really helping much now. That's the thing; casual gamers are only going to pick up just a few games. Yes, they were a relatively untapped market, but each one, individually, just will not cough up the money like a hardcore gamer.
Basically, they over-focused on getting a casual gamer market, and now it's biting them in the ass.
It gets a result.
I can't possibly be the only person who finds the water temple too easy. I mean, I'll admit, I was stumbling about for about 20 minutes trying to find the key. Then I used this MAGICAL THING called the map and compass to see there was a chest, and that it happened to be right below the middle pillar area, so I investigated and found the opening. And I've never had an issue with it even after not playing it for years.
What? Weak. Although I guess it wouldn't make a difference to me. I personally prefer when a Zelda game actually get's me stuck once in a while. Majora's Mask was the last game in the series to do that to any significant degree. Twilight Princess actually made me try things that weren't completely obvious, which I cannot say for Wind Waker.
Arrows? wut? I always use the sword. I don't even bother with the biggoron sword, either. Waste of time to get that most of the time. Jump-Slash and then crouch-stab, usually only have to stun them once. Even the first time through, I never had a problem with the bosses. Twinrova has always been my favourite, actually.
The Zelda franchise has not been "Nintendo hard" since Zelda II. After that it pansied out. Still great games, but in no way Nintendo Hard. (IMO)
I would have thought the battery was a standard CR2032...
Very true. Last Nintendo System I got "new" was the N64. my GC was acquired off ebay a year or so ago. As with all the games; I think this is a common trend with those of us who grew up with the NES/SNES/N64; rather than purchase a Wii just so we can spend more money on simply emulating the games we want to play with a Wii(A concept I find idiotic when the emulators for PC are about a million times better), we'll either emulate ourselves, or just get the original hardware off ebay. They still have a lot of mindshare, but no way to effectively turn that into market share, except by way of "portable-izing" their previous overrated games, Like Ocarina of Time.
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Because "everyone else" is basically just making PCs with custom cases.
A playing card crash in japan when they were still a playing card company.
A time they nearly were bankrupt.
Video game crash in america.
The Virtual boy.
The devastation in the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube era. (Yep, they were really hurting then.)
I think they will pull through...
Well those are better aren't they?
Umm... dude. Uh.. well...you just proved yourself wrong.
What do you expect, they're working on a new system and that probably means they're focusing on making games for it.