Nintendo's not holding the big marketshare like they used to man...right now it would appear they're on the downslide.
yes i know that but i still want the DS and Advance Wars DS: Duel Strike.
Something that has been clear and obvious to market-researchers is that hand-held devices are not the biggest things now days. Sony's PSP was a good idea, and so was Nintendo's DS, and GBA-SP, however Nintendo will always have the up-side when it comes to hand-helds, as long as they don't try TOO hard to make it too complex. Nintendo is used to consumer demands about what is and isn't good when it comes to hand-helds, while Sony was just experimenting, and actually got both a great and poor responses. Compact-controls and poor DVD-play quality is what made the PSP hit a little bit of a rocky side, however Sony has a few assistants who put out the video studious, one for home-base or desk-base, and the other for general transport.
I will never say "Screw Nintendo" because they hold the roots to so much of what we hold dear to us now, and I even recently went out and spent over $350 to get an original Nintendo system and some of the best games ever released for it, aswell as a SNES (Super Nintendo entertainment system) with Super Metroid, the complete Super-StarWars set, and a few of the older classics like the Kirby games, DonkeyKong, Street-Fighter2, and some others.
(Atari rocks too, don't get me wrong I know about the roots)
Agreed mr man, I also respect the roots. Just don't like where the roots are in the industry today. Nintendo really seems to have lost it's way to me. Either that or they are focusing on little kids, which isn't a bad idea, but their marketing and everything should reflect that. Often times it doesn't and alot of their stuff lately has been what the ?????? I loved Atari, Sega, ect and am glad to see them still around in the software world, but ya gotta wonder if they ever kick around the idea of experiementing with a new console idea?
Ahem... the "roots" happen to be Atari. Come on man, who can forget Pong and Space Invaders?
As I said i know the roots, thats why I had to give Atari props, but you cannot deny the MAJOR contributions from the Nintendo Corp.
yes atari started the party and even hosted it. Pong, Space Invaders, Moon Patrol, Missle Command, Asteroids, ect........but they quickly hit the limits of their tech and started flooding the market with crappy games. Then the big N came along and became the life of the party. They did some great things to really save the industry when atari created it and almost killed it. I was partial to sega myself. They gave the big N some good competition and both camps came out with alot of original, good games. Man I sound old now reliving all this history lol....
"Gather around old man Ace children...it's story time..." ;D
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D *Goes to collect his old age pension check(yeah, it's worse if you think of it in DOG years) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D