Nintendo worries

[conorsla]

Hey Guys,
I'm worried about nintendo! what if the nintendo revoultion fails? the n64 and gamecube wernt exactly a success. im worried that the revoultion will be ignored and people will favour the ps3. i dont want nintendo to turn out like sega and give up on the console market. reasure me guys!

[Jason-RN]

I think the Revolution will actually be more successful than GameCube. Just look at DS. It's innovative, new technology, and it's doing very well all around the world (especially in Japan). If Nintendo can target the same market it does with the DS, I'm sure the Revolution will be successful.

[Dan-RN]

The Revolution could never sell a unit and Nintendo would be in business still, although not in very good shape. The company has over $6 billion in the bank, we don't have to worry about them dropping out of the console race for a while.

[Pilgrim John]

I really don't see how you would worry about Nintendo. They have fortunes in places Microsoft wouldn't even think about. As far as the Rev goes, it's more consumer-friendly than the X360 or PS3. You don't have to buy an HDTV to play them. The online gaming is free. Heck, it's backward compatible to every old Nintendo game made. Even if the Revolution controller is a bad idea (And it isn't), the rest of its features are what will draw gamers to it.

[*NormalGamer*]

It's only natural(human nature) for you to worry about Nintendo and you're letting 'fear' hold you back which is also why you're worried about Nintendo.

Important thing here is that out of 'fear' some people(mostly pessimists) are just predicting things that we 'do not' know yet that 'will' happen. I'm not gonna let something like 'Nintendo can't win!', 'Nintendo is going bankrupt!', 'Nintendo is going the way of SEGA!' or any other doomsday predictions bother me(even if I except it as truth or not.) Though, I can't stop pessimists saying what they want to say with my own intellegence and logic since they're free to express opinions just like optimists.

And as much as I understand how we all feel about Nintendo's future, it's still too early making predictions on how the rev. will fail selling around the world and how the rev. controller will fail to appeal to different people which is IMO another example of 'fear' messing with your head. The 'only' way for us to see that truth is for us to 'wait and see' when the Rev. launches in November before Thanksgiving.

admin said:

I think the Revolution will actually be more successful than GameCube. Just look at DS. It's innovative, new technology, and it's doing very well all around the world (especially in Japan). If Nintendo can target the same market it does with the DS, I'm sure the Revolution will be successful.

@ *referring to bold*

I agree on that and I hope Nintendo does it's best targeting each audience one by one, but like I said before, the Rev's launch in November before Thanksgiving this year will decide that fate.

[KazeYoukai]

zer0 said:

I really don't see how you would worry about Nintendo. They have fortunes in places Microsoft wouldn't even think about. As far as the Rev goes, it's more consumer-friendly than the X360 or PS3. You don't have to buy an HDTV to play them. The online gaming is free. Heck, it's backward compatible to every old Nintendo game made. Even if the Revolution controller is a bad idea (And it isn't), the rest of its features are what will draw gamers to it.

Actually, you don't need an HDTV, they just look a lot better with an HDTV.

[Pilgrim John]

That's what I meant.
Lots of X360 and PS3 games will require an HDTV to play them. That's bad. At least Nintendo gives people a choice.

[Justin-RN]

zer0 said:

That's what I meant.
Lots of X360 and PS3 games will require an HDTV to play them. That's bad. At least Nintendo gives people a choice.

You might have some facts a little mixed up because no Xbox 360, and likely no PS3 games, will actually require you to have an HDTV to play them. They will look better however, and I wish the Revolution would also have the option for us HDTV owners.

[Richard-RN]

Pilgrim John, I don't really understand what you are getting at. No 360/PS3 games are going to REQUIRE HDTVs. Of course they will look better because that is what many of them were made for...but that doesn't mean you cant play it on a normal television. In this case its actually MS/Sony giving people the choice, because Nintendo's games wont feature HD at all. Despite this minor annoyance, I fully support Nintendo and also hope that Revolution can find a niche similar to that of the DS.

[Pilgrim John]

justinrn said:

zer0 said:

That's what I meant.
Lots of X360 and PS3 games will require an HDTV to play them. That's bad. At least Nintendo gives people a choice.

You might have some facts a little mixed up because no Xbox 360, and likely no PS3 games, will actually require you to have an HDTV to play them. They will look better however, and I wish the Revolution would also have the option for us HDTV owners.

Oh. I always get confused about that kind of thing. The stuff I read (months before the systems were released) said that some X360 and PS3 games would only support HDTV. My information was incorrect. Again.
*kills new informant*

[TibrisXVII]

The problem with Xbox 360 and PS3 is that computer technology hasn't really advanced enough for the difference in graphical quality to be noticeable on anything other than an HDTV. If you compare an Xbox360 game running in standard def to a similar Xbox game (not too hard considering that almost all the 360 games are sequels) you would be hard pressed to find a significant difference. In fact you can do exactly that, and vote on the results right here. That is why I think the revolution will be fine. Quite frankly, this is a generation that will not be defined in graphics. Your average Joe does not own an HDTV and would not be able notice the difference.
As far as Nintendo's finances, they have never failed to turn a profit, which is the whole point. You don't need top market share to be profitable, and as long as a company is profitable, it's viable. Nintendo is doing fine.

[Justin-RN]

The problem with that article is that they are all ports and the developers were to lazy to make them look next gen. Fight Night Round 3 on any TV looks far better than anything this generation. Check out any Oblivion video, the Mass Effect Video or even the Ghost Recon video for a good example of next gen graphics.

And actually, Madden for Xbox360 looks way better than than the current gen versions. After playing it, it hurts my eyes to play NCAA on PS2, it's just too ugly.

[*NormalGamer*]

justinrn said:

The problem with that article is that they are all ports and the developers were to lazy to make them look next gen. Fight Night Round 3 on any TV looks far better than anything this generation. Check out any Oblivion video, the Mass Effect Video or even the Ghost Recon video for a good example of next gen graphics.

And actually, Madden for Xbox360 looks way better than than the current gen versions. After playing it, it hurts my eyes to play NCAA on PS2, it's just too ugly.

Regardless, I, IMO, still just want to 'enjoy' playing the games I want to play rather than caring too much how good next-gen graphics are better than current gen graphics.

[Justin-RN]

normalgamer said:

justinrn said:

The problem with that article is that they are all ports and the developers were to lazy to make them look next gen. Fight Night Round 3 on any TV looks far better than anything this generation. Check out any Oblivion video, the Mass Effect Video or even the Ghost Recon video for a good example of next gen graphics.

And actually, Madden for Xbox360 looks way better than than the current gen versions. After playing it, it hurts my eyes to play NCAA on PS2, it's just too ugly.

Regardless, I, IMO, still just want to 'enjoy' playing the games I want to play rather than caring too much how good next-gen graphics are better than current gen graphics.

Who ever said anything about not enjoying the games you play? Sure I want to enjoy the games I play, but I definitely wouldn't mind amazing graphics to go along with it.

[TibrisXVII]

My thing is that yes, the graphics may be nice, but even with an HDTV, they do not allow for a significantly improved gaming expirience. I'm not realy interested in playing the same things I've been playing for the last 10 years only prettier. Quite frankly, as it is right now, most games I've played latly with, few exceptions, have felt like something else. I keep finding myself compairing games directly with other games that have no connection to them in either developer or franchise.
I honestly think, though, that this has more to do with production costs. The more it costs to develop a game, the less likely a publisher is to back an unproven game design. They tend to er on the side of caution by going with something that has proven to sell. With the added cost of developing in HD, I fear that new and uneque gameplay expiriences will dwindle away and we will be left with playing increasingly prettier versions of what we have right now. Sadly, I don't thing Katamari Damacy would ever have seen the light of day had it come in an HD generation.