AznAnarchy99
Lifer
- Dec 6, 2004
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Worst video game decision ever made was Atari turning Nintendo down as a retail partner in the US.
(Nintendo was shopping the NES around to different companies to distribute in the US. Back then, Japanese companies typically didn't peddle their goods directly here. Retail partner for Sega on the SMS was Tomy, if I recall correctly)
(Nintendo was shopping the NES around to different companies to distribute in the US. Back then, Japanese companies typically didn't peddle their goods directly here. Retail partner for Sega on the SMS was Tomy, if I recall correctly)
StrangerGuy
Diamond Member
- May 9, 2004
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Nintendo:
Virtual Boy
Nintendo 64 using carts
Bad 3rd party relations
Not pushing eye candy/HD on Revolution. That's really going to hurt them in 2010 when a lot of gamers will have HDTVs.
Not pushing DS's technology more. They're getting great sales now, but when PSPs price comes down and equals it, it could hurt it later.
Ignoring the online market.
They have ADD with their userbase target. First they want to get the adult market with Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil, but then they go for "Mario Sunshine", purple gamecubes, and cartoony zelda. Great games...but completely contradicts their new target.
Microsoft:
Being anti-keyboard/mouse. FPS + gamepad = SUCK. Not to mention we could have Warcraft 4 on Xbox 360.
Their Xbox 1 was a complete financial failure. But then again, MS may have only been concerned about market penetration, which was a moderate success.
Sony:
Somewhat negligant of making hardware developer friendly
2 controller ports on PS2
Sega:
Everything between, but not including, genesis and Dreamcast.
Virtual Boy
Nintendo 64 using carts
Bad 3rd party relations
Not pushing eye candy/HD on Revolution. That's really going to hurt them in 2010 when a lot of gamers will have HDTVs.
Not pushing DS's technology more. They're getting great sales now, but when PSPs price comes down and equals it, it could hurt it later.
Ignoring the online market.
They have ADD with their userbase target. First they want to get the adult market with Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil, but then they go for "Mario Sunshine", purple gamecubes, and cartoony zelda. Great games...but completely contradicts their new target.
Microsoft:
Being anti-keyboard/mouse. FPS + gamepad = SUCK. Not to mention we could have Warcraft 4 on Xbox 360.
Their Xbox 1 was a complete financial failure. But then again, MS may have only been concerned about market penetration, which was a moderate success.
Sony:
Somewhat negligant of making hardware developer friendly
2 controller ports on PS2
Sega:
Everything between, but not including, genesis and Dreamcast.
why do all computer nerds write like 14 year old retards? that article was almost as poorly written as some of the crap that gets posted on Anandtech's main page. college educations FTW!
Yeah STFU right there. You have NO appreciation for games relating to their time period. ALL of those games were ground breaking and amazing games for their time. I still consider them all great games and I think the ONLY people who would have no appreciation for these games are idiot 10 year old little myg0t wanabee kids. Please just don't talk and save yourself the embarrassment.
HamburgerBoy
Lifer
- Apr 12, 2004
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The worst descision ever belongs to Halo. Bungie sold out to the millions of rabid ten year olds by releasing a kiddy-friendly console game. Level design sucked, the enemies were stolen from Marathon, and overall it was horrible. All thanks to Bungie, dozens of other game developers have been following them, slowly killing the game industry.
:thumbsup:
Although I've never played Goldeneye, Mario 64 was a thousand times worse than the SMB and SMW games. Mario Kart is just hideously basic in gameplay and Starfox is a total bore. Nintendo can go DIAF.
:thumbsup:
Although I've never played Goldeneye, Mario 64 was a thousand times worse than the SMB and SMW games. Mario Kart is just hideously basic in gameplay and Starfox is a total bore. Nintendo can go DIAF.
- Aug 23, 2003
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I think Sony would have eventually branched out on their own regardless of what happened in the past. Sony and Nintendo have different philosophies when it comes to designing games and hardware. Just look at the difference between the PS3 and Revolution for an example of this divergence.
And the bottom line: Nintendo is still deep in the black.
And the bottom line: Nintendo is still deep in the black.
HamburgerBoy
Lifer
- Apr 12, 2004
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the newer xbox 360 is a competitor to the ps2 and the not yet unleashed-> ps3
so what about nintendo, they will still make money.. but I guess they are no longer the leader in consoles/games, or are they...
so what about nintendo, they will still make money.. but I guess they are no longer the leader in consoles/games, or are they...
no, they're not
I think they're kinda like the Apple of the video game console world... they make a solid product that only appeals to a small niche population.
I'll take that to mean that your opinions are about as useful as your consitant BS neffing. 4000 posts in 4 months = you need a life.
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