Taking Back the Industry

[Brian-RN]

home.ripway.com/2005-2/254417/Takingbacktheindustry.htm

Well, I finished it. The entire article is about Nintendo and how they can become king of the industry again. Have fun! It's rather long though.

[gamefreaks365]

*confused* That's the first time I read that Double Dash was online. It is through a 3rd party services. That's like saying Xbox Connect is Microsoft's online service though.

Secondly, Nintendo has no plans for future online play.

Where were you when Nintendo announced online for both the DS this fall, and built-in wifi for the Revolution?

Although the most sales are of E-Rated games, the pluralities of these games aren’t going to those under 18, or even 13 for that matter

People need to take into account that sports titles are all rated 'E'. How large of a percentage do sports games make up? 10%+ or so? It's not kids that are buying the sports games.

It’s unknown, but Nintendo has a reason that they don’t get a lot of games the PS2 and Xbox do. It’s either one of two reasons. Reason one being that Nintendo would like to have a more family-friendly image, that being why most of the more violent games stay away from the GC. Reason two is that 3rd-party developers fear that their product won’t sell as well on the GC, which is a viable and true reason. Although some of the best selling games each year are for Gamecube, these games are generally either sequels to already huge games or made by Nintendo themselves.

Reason 1: third-party games don't sell on the Cube, unless a Nintendo character is involved. Case in point, Link was in Soul Calibur II, helping it sell more units for the Cube than both PS2 and Xbox.

Reason 2: lack of online commitment from Nintendo. Some of the games released on PS2 and Xbox are best played online (SOCOM, Rainbow Six 3, Ghost Recon). Sure, some of them have come to the GCN (R63, GR), but they are sub-par versions of the same game that was on PS2 and Xbox. This ticks third-parties off. When it comes down to it though, for businesses, it's all about money. Investing in the GCN is not anywhere near as a guaranteed as PS2, when it comes to revenues.

[Richard-RN]

Another reason GC gamers don't buy games that come out on other systems is that because of the mini-dvd, a lot of developers are just too lazy to make a good port and therefore the GC version comes out as a lame product.