...Rebuttal: Mr. nyebuckeye, thank you for posting your comment. I am actually a 38 year old father (young at heart) of two who has been gaming for many years and has owned many gaming systems since the Atari 2600. I even "game" with my kids. I also grew up on Nintendo and loved Mario. However, over the years, you must admit the plethora of systems that Nintendo has doled out have been ridiculous. The NES and the Super Nintendo were great systems. But think about the systems that have come out since and the software support to justify these systems. How many truly great games were there for the N64 to justify buying one? The Game Cube? My Wii continues to collect dust. And yes, there are a few great first party “Mario” games for it. However, I would not justify buying one with the type of third party software support it has. How many versions of the DS do we need every year? (DS, DS Lite, DS XL, 3DS, and a rumored bigger 3DS coming out)….and we are just talking about handhelds. Don’t get me wrong, Sony and Microsoft are also guilty. The Kinect for the Xbox and Playstation Move, in my opinion, are failures (look at the quality of software and the applications). However, Sony and Microsoft have a plentiful library of quality first party and third party games that you don’t see with Nintendo. It seems over the years, Nintendo has been the biggest of all 3 evils with gaming systems and quality of software. So yes...$$$...The gaming times are changing, and Nintendo must change with it. I apologize for hurting your Nintendo-laden feelings. Love….”Lame Sheep.”
Not to mention that NONE of their consoles have been backwards compatible... Big draw back. Can't even play the great classic games on the newer consoles. They just change too much too often.
Heh, I bet even Shigeru Miyamoto would laugh at this. You know, from his bed of hundred dollar bills. As easy as it is to make fun of Nintendo, their strategy has proved quite successful. Casual gamers just own the Wii, while hardcore gamers also tend to own the Wii.
Also, the Wii was originally the only seventh generation console fully compatible with the previous generation's games. At this point both Sony and Nintendo are forgoing compatibility with old discs in favor of reselling old titles as downloads. The Xbox still has some backwards compatibility, but it's always been iffy.
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nyebuckeye 12 years, 5 months ago
Lame, you obviously know nothing of the subject topic...sheep
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TheRambler 12 years, 5 months ago
Haha, awesome.
@nyebuckeye: Lame, you obviously missed that each one of these points ties to at least one Nintendo console... Nintendo sheep.
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NB73 12 years, 5 months ago
...Rebuttal: Mr. nyebuckeye, thank you for posting your comment. I am actually a 38 year old father (young at heart) of two who has been gaming for many years and has owned many gaming systems since the Atari 2600. I even "game" with my kids. I also grew up on Nintendo and loved Mario. However, over the years, you must admit the plethora of systems that Nintendo has doled out have been ridiculous. The NES and the Super Nintendo were great systems. But think about the systems that have come out since and the software support to justify these systems. How many truly great games were there for the N64 to justify buying one? The Game Cube? My Wii continues to collect dust. And yes, there are a few great first party “Mario” games for it. However, I would not justify buying one with the type of third party software support it has. How many versions of the DS do we need every year? (DS, DS Lite, DS XL, 3DS, and a rumored bigger 3DS coming out)….and we are just talking about handhelds. Don’t get me wrong, Sony and Microsoft are also guilty. The Kinect for the Xbox and Playstation Move, in my opinion, are failures (look at the quality of software and the applications). However, Sony and Microsoft have a plentiful library of quality first party and third party games that you don’t see with Nintendo. It seems over the years, Nintendo has been the biggest of all 3 evils with gaming systems and quality of software. So yes...$$$...The gaming times are changing, and Nintendo must change with it. I apologize for hurting your Nintendo-laden feelings.
Love….”Lame Sheep.”
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Logan.Livers 12 years, 5 months ago
Not to mention that NONE of their consoles have been backwards compatible... Big draw back. Can't even play the great classic games on the newer consoles. They just change too much too often.
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Thom 12 years, 5 months ago
Heh, I bet even Shigeru Miyamoto would laugh at this. You know, from his bed of hundred dollar bills. As easy as it is to make fun of Nintendo, their strategy has proved quite successful. Casual gamers just own the Wii, while hardcore gamers also tend to own the Wii.
Also, the Wii was originally the only seventh generation console fully compatible with the previous generation's games. At this point both Sony and Nintendo are forgoing compatibility with old discs in favor of reselling old titles as downloads. The Xbox still has some backwards compatibility, but it's always been iffy.
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