wth does it matter
nintendo is doing well for themselves!!
why is it so hard for SPXIX to be happy for anyone other than himself and Sony?
p.s. btw, my bad, i got nuzzy and spxix mixed up. easy thing to do....
Well I can see from your location listing that you're not in the U.S., so it's only fair that you wouldn't have as much of an idea of what I was talking about because it is largely a U.S.-bred issue.
Here we have a lot of people who get pregnant and have kids real young and don't give a ****. In my hometown a newborn infant was found hanging on a fence in a trash bag by the waterfront, umbilical still attached; another news story that was big up here a few years back was how a girl somehow went into the bathroom during her prom, GAVE BIRTH in the toilet, and BIT the umbilical cord off, then cleaned herself up, finished the prom, and went home.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Here in America having a baby is seen as a minor inconvenience that is an unfortunate and only occasional side effect to getting laid.
When you add this general statistic of how many kids are born each year here that NO ONE wants or plans for...and you throw it in with the generally poor state of American parenting (due to numerous factors, political correctness, the abuse of TV, etc) and you have a very nasty combination of a number of people who have very poorly behaved bratty kids and who could barely give a **** what the kid does as long as it shuts up and lets them watch Lost.
If it were not for this single, solitary truth about piss poor parenting in America, along with our americanized capitalist uberholidays, the big N would have sold 1/4 this amount. Probably even less. See, the market isn't made up of just the educated and employed gaming public--no sir. In fact, we share demographics with a lot of people who have pretty much zero interest in the quality or longevity of these products.
So what's the bottom line here, you ask? It's simple.
People can come in here and pop mahogany about some sales figure all they want. At the end of the day, nobody bought this product because they deemed it the best choice; nobody bought these products because they have a great library of games, innovative control schemes, a vast library of backward-compatible titles, or any of that. Nobody bought the Wii because they did a thorough comparison and found it would be the best choice for their wishes for the next five year span of their console gaming; nobody bought it to protect their children from playing violent, adult-only games; nobody bought it because it has superior graphics; nobody bought it because it has some killer must-have title; nobody bought it because it has powerful hardware; nobody bought it because it has a great online component; and most of all, nobody compared it to the other two in any way shape or form and found it to be 'better' or 'the best' of the three.
People bought it because it was the cheapest thing on the wall their kids screamed in front of during their christmas shopping.
That's all I'm saying.
All that aside...you can come in here and try to crack disses at me like your some kinda big dog on the block, that's fine. I take a lot of pride in the gaming industry. I think that it is one of the most technologically and creatively impressive aesthetic achievements in human history. And I am sick and ****ing tired of being looked at like a loser because when I say I like to play video games, people think I'm playing with a kids' ****ing toy, because of people like this. I'm sick and ****ing tired of my games coming under political and legal heat because the notion of a ****ing video game being for mature audiences only is completely ****ing alien to Soccer Mom Sally because "it's just a toy." I am sick and ****ing tired of people wanting to do a ****ing psych profile on me because Daddy Doesn't-Give-A-Damn let his kids play a game where they murder police and they ended up trying to shoot up a ****ing schoolyard.
Now maybe you can deal with all that ****. Nobody has the kind of pride and reverence I have for video games and its respective industry--NOBODY. So I don't want to deal with that **** anymore. Neither should you--any of you.
What does this have to do with Nintendo, you ask? Well it's simple. Big N markets to kids. They like the "toy" niche. It makes them money, and it helps them avoid the sales wrath of the beast machines they are constantly besieged by in the industry. But suppose they started to really take off, and suppose all the game sales started to be dominated by kiddie games or "rated G" games like Guitar Hero or DDR. What do you think would happen if Nintendo won the console war and destroyed Xbox and PS3, exactly? You think you'd still have online shooters? RTS games outside the PC? Advanced video technology? Games with photorealistic graphics? Yeah sure. Nin can't even rip those things off of other companies until five years after the fact (and don't bother arguing back, history ain't on your side).
Here's what you have to look forward to in a Nintendo dominated market:
1.) Death of the console shooter.
2.) Death of the third person action game, save for the occasional Zelda.
3.) Death of the console RTS/keyboard+mouse initiative
4.) Death of all true online innovations
5.) Death of technological advancements in video games.
6.) Death of client/server console online architecture
7.) Death of multi-use consoles
8.) Death of third-party licensing, and thus death of independent game development as we know it
So yeah. I rejoice when I see Nintendo fail, and I cringe when I see it succeed. But it isn't because I'm an *******, or a fanboy, or anything like that. It's because someday in the future you just might be at EB games and be looking at a wall full of Zelda, Metroid, and Mario (no doubt all redos of old sequels), and nothing the hell else. And if that ever happens I promise you, even the biggest Nintendo fanboys will wish it went differently.
Either way...have fun waving your stick around at the wall trying to fish. I'm going to play Gears of War.