17th May 2003, 1:45 PM
OB1/ Every game Nintendo has mentioned that uses the GBA require one GBA. The other players use GC controllers. It's not about trying to get people to buy Gamecubes anymore. It's about getting people hooked on to an idea. one that will be fully lit when GC2 hits. All Nintendo wants to sell now is their name.
Nintendo's thinking for the future. High profits, low cost and happy gamers. What do we complain about the most?
1. Price of software.
2. Time it takes to produce software.
3. Lack of online/LAN support.
4. Hardware not being exploited (mostly by 3rd parties).
5. Quality of software's game content (mostly by 3rd parties).
So, Nintendo decides to outsource their top franchises to 3rd parties to create high-standard games just as Nintendo has always done. But where has that gotten Nintendo? Third Place. A giant, beautiful, 5 years+ in the making demi-God of a game produced by the top minds at Nintendo has gotten them third place because today's game players simply dont care. We're all spoiled ADD shock-jocks looking for our next high and we simply do not have the time to gawk at a brilliant project. Games SMS a game that can easily put most platform games to rest, has dropped out of sight after generating millions of sales. It's like it never existed now; People have moved on to the next big Nintendo project, which was of course Zelda. It too has generated millions of sales and is now slowly winding down, within a month or two it wont even be remembered. The same for Metroid Prime. So now, the 3rd parties spend the money to produce the games, and most of it goes to them with a cut to Nintendo. Nintendo spends nothing and gets a profit.
Nintendo sees the new trends and it's wised up considerably. Shit, I bet an online multiplayer Pacman game that sells for 30 bucks with an Ethernet adapter will outsell Metroid Prime and Zelda: WW combined in its first few weeks. Welcome to the new machine - You get gobs of software, all of it mass produced and re-packaged memories of yester-year with new modern twists. It costs them nearly nothing to make or upgrade, it costs you nearly nothing to buy, and you can slap it online (for a monthly fee) and play it until you get bored of it. This is sadly what happens to every single game ever made since the dawn of the industry to today. No matter how good, how brilliant, in-genius, spectacular, genre-creating, I dont care if it gave birth to Jesus Christ; People will get bored eventually, and it will collect dust.
The New Nintendo stands before you; it answers all your questions, it grants every wish and fixes any complaints. In a few years, it will be like the pure essence of MTV Executives and it will make more money than you can imagine without lifting a finger and we all took part in this new creation. But the downside is that the Golden Project is dead.
The multi-million dollar uber-project is an old joke now.
Enter the Matrix for GC has cut scenes with real actors. They filmed these extra scenes while they were working on the actual movie. Can Nintendo do that? No. Will Enter the Matrix generate huge sale numbers because of those cut scenes alone? You bet. Can Nintendo pump so much hype and buzz through print ads, commercial spots, movie tie-ins and product placement that you cant help but feel like you need this game or else you'll die? Nope. Nintendo cant even generate hype when they try to, it's all about word of mouth when it comes to how consumers handle Nintendo. No cool factor, no pop, no Hollywood magic or bloated endorsements.
And now Nintendo admits defeat to its enemies. The people that forced this change; the game players, have turned Nintendo out faster than a pimp at the school dance. With all the new business knowledge I’ve gained from school, it's so easy for me to see what Nintendo's doing and I’m happy for them. Nintendo will be #1 so far ahead of the competition that the console market will be a mirror to he hand held market - total ownership, a monopoly that would (and will) make Bill cry at night while sleeping in his money bin. Give it a decade to be fully realized, but you can see it squirming in the womb right now. And when it's old enough to take flight, Nintendo will be synonamous with everything game related, right down to the plastic it's pressed on. And no one will ever realize that at one time, games were made to be a form of art, because no one will care.
So welcome the new Nintendo with open arms, if you dont you'll be grinded up in to jelly along with anything else that stands in its way.
Of course, this could all go horribly wrong.
What if Nintendo gives people what they want, and those people realize they didn't want it. Then we'll be playing Mario on a system that doesn't say Nintendo anywhere.
The funny thing is, everyone fears that Nintendo will become a software only company. But what they're not seeing is that right now, Nintendo is becoming a hardware only company. It's like a giant pyramid scheme of sales reps. Nintendo sells the meat, the third party's, owned either partially or wholly by Nintendo, sell the bread, and cuts a profit from it. Meanwhile, the only games they'll be working on is what people want right now, the games that are making the most money - Pure shit. Games that I wouldn't wipe my ass with in fear of its transparent nothingness infecting my free time.
The cool part is, while Nintendo is changing for the best (worst) they're still more talented than every developer combined. For Nintendo, the in-house production of the golden project is dead; long live the fun factor of the cheap, in-house produced game of the future. Golden projects will still exist, they'll still take 5 to 10 years to be created and they'll still cost millions to produce. And Nintendo will still have their hands in it in the creativity department, but most of the cost of producing will fall squarely on the 3rd parties shoulders... just as most of the profits will. Most...
And all Nintendo has to do is make the systems to play it on.
Nintendo's thinking for the future. High profits, low cost and happy gamers. What do we complain about the most?
1. Price of software.
2. Time it takes to produce software.
3. Lack of online/LAN support.
4. Hardware not being exploited (mostly by 3rd parties).
5. Quality of software's game content (mostly by 3rd parties).
So, Nintendo decides to outsource their top franchises to 3rd parties to create high-standard games just as Nintendo has always done. But where has that gotten Nintendo? Third Place. A giant, beautiful, 5 years+ in the making demi-God of a game produced by the top minds at Nintendo has gotten them third place because today's game players simply dont care. We're all spoiled ADD shock-jocks looking for our next high and we simply do not have the time to gawk at a brilliant project. Games SMS a game that can easily put most platform games to rest, has dropped out of sight after generating millions of sales. It's like it never existed now; People have moved on to the next big Nintendo project, which was of course Zelda. It too has generated millions of sales and is now slowly winding down, within a month or two it wont even be remembered. The same for Metroid Prime. So now, the 3rd parties spend the money to produce the games, and most of it goes to them with a cut to Nintendo. Nintendo spends nothing and gets a profit.
Nintendo sees the new trends and it's wised up considerably. Shit, I bet an online multiplayer Pacman game that sells for 30 bucks with an Ethernet adapter will outsell Metroid Prime and Zelda: WW combined in its first few weeks. Welcome to the new machine - You get gobs of software, all of it mass produced and re-packaged memories of yester-year with new modern twists. It costs them nearly nothing to make or upgrade, it costs you nearly nothing to buy, and you can slap it online (for a monthly fee) and play it until you get bored of it. This is sadly what happens to every single game ever made since the dawn of the industry to today. No matter how good, how brilliant, in-genius, spectacular, genre-creating, I dont care if it gave birth to Jesus Christ; People will get bored eventually, and it will collect dust.
The New Nintendo stands before you; it answers all your questions, it grants every wish and fixes any complaints. In a few years, it will be like the pure essence of MTV Executives and it will make more money than you can imagine without lifting a finger and we all took part in this new creation. But the downside is that the Golden Project is dead.
The multi-million dollar uber-project is an old joke now.
Enter the Matrix for GC has cut scenes with real actors. They filmed these extra scenes while they were working on the actual movie. Can Nintendo do that? No. Will Enter the Matrix generate huge sale numbers because of those cut scenes alone? You bet. Can Nintendo pump so much hype and buzz through print ads, commercial spots, movie tie-ins and product placement that you cant help but feel like you need this game or else you'll die? Nope. Nintendo cant even generate hype when they try to, it's all about word of mouth when it comes to how consumers handle Nintendo. No cool factor, no pop, no Hollywood magic or bloated endorsements.
And now Nintendo admits defeat to its enemies. The people that forced this change; the game players, have turned Nintendo out faster than a pimp at the school dance. With all the new business knowledge I’ve gained from school, it's so easy for me to see what Nintendo's doing and I’m happy for them. Nintendo will be #1 so far ahead of the competition that the console market will be a mirror to he hand held market - total ownership, a monopoly that would (and will) make Bill cry at night while sleeping in his money bin. Give it a decade to be fully realized, but you can see it squirming in the womb right now. And when it's old enough to take flight, Nintendo will be synonamous with everything game related, right down to the plastic it's pressed on. And no one will ever realize that at one time, games were made to be a form of art, because no one will care.
So welcome the new Nintendo with open arms, if you dont you'll be grinded up in to jelly along with anything else that stands in its way.
Of course, this could all go horribly wrong.
What if Nintendo gives people what they want, and those people realize they didn't want it. Then we'll be playing Mario on a system that doesn't say Nintendo anywhere.
The funny thing is, everyone fears that Nintendo will become a software only company. But what they're not seeing is that right now, Nintendo is becoming a hardware only company. It's like a giant pyramid scheme of sales reps. Nintendo sells the meat, the third party's, owned either partially or wholly by Nintendo, sell the bread, and cuts a profit from it. Meanwhile, the only games they'll be working on is what people want right now, the games that are making the most money - Pure shit. Games that I wouldn't wipe my ass with in fear of its transparent nothingness infecting my free time.
The cool part is, while Nintendo is changing for the best (worst) they're still more talented than every developer combined. For Nintendo, the in-house production of the golden project is dead; long live the fun factor of the cheap, in-house produced game of the future. Golden projects will still exist, they'll still take 5 to 10 years to be created and they'll still cost millions to produce. And Nintendo will still have their hands in it in the creativity department, but most of the cost of producing will fall squarely on the 3rd parties shoulders... just as most of the profits will. Most...
And all Nintendo has to do is make the systems to play it on.