30th May 2003, 10:05 AM
You guys are full of shit beyond your years.
Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING in the entertainment industry comes down to marketing. Nintendo is in 3rd place because of marketing, not because Sony and MS are brilliant companies in their ideas and endeavors other than marketing.
Nintendo wants to phase out Mario and Pokemon because of marketing. That's it.
Take away Sony's marketing and cool factor and you have the weakest system on the market that is actually last gen compared to Xbox and GC, which are current gen. Take away MS marketing and you have a Halo machine, soon to be replaced with a Halo 2 machine. Same machine, new graphics.
Take away Nintendo's marketing and you have Nintendo. That's the first step, then they're going to reinvent the wheel and repackage the same company and sell it back to us with a new image. The only change we'll see is that more people will be interested in it without fear of losing their friends because they play on a "system for children."
Dont even try to tell me that Nintendo is 3rd place because of bad business or lack of imagination. Dont fool yourself in to believing that Sony or MS have greater expectations, hell if anything they sent the games industry back about ten years or more. Back to the days of Mortal Kombat's blood factor. We dont need a gimmicky industry again and Nintendo has been against that since the SNES, now they believe its the only way to SURVIVE the industry.
Just remember that Pokemon and Mario will be put on the back burners because of marketing, and only marketing. And as soon as Nintendo's cool again, guess what games people will be begging for.
Weltall/ "the reason they don't is both because it would cost Nintendo far more to produce such a console, as MS and Sony can much more easily and less expensively implement such features"
Nintendo spent more money on the creation of the Gamecube than Xbox and PS2 combined. Both of those system were hastily put together using existing technology.
Eden/ The disks used by the Gamecube hold as much if not more than a standard DVD disk based on how the hardware uses the data. There is no visual difference in games and it is easier to program for. Disks do not carry graphics, it only holds the models used and their programed coordinates of how they're placed and animated (based on cues). Gameplay information itself takes up less than 1% of a disk since it's basically binary data. As our mother's said; Size doesn't matter.
Nintendo isn't killing off Mario, they're putting him on the back burner while they focus more on their image and the games that will stabalize that image.
Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING in the entertainment industry comes down to marketing. Nintendo is in 3rd place because of marketing, not because Sony and MS are brilliant companies in their ideas and endeavors other than marketing.
Nintendo wants to phase out Mario and Pokemon because of marketing. That's it.
Take away Sony's marketing and cool factor and you have the weakest system on the market that is actually last gen compared to Xbox and GC, which are current gen. Take away MS marketing and you have a Halo machine, soon to be replaced with a Halo 2 machine. Same machine, new graphics.
Take away Nintendo's marketing and you have Nintendo. That's the first step, then they're going to reinvent the wheel and repackage the same company and sell it back to us with a new image. The only change we'll see is that more people will be interested in it without fear of losing their friends because they play on a "system for children."
Dont even try to tell me that Nintendo is 3rd place because of bad business or lack of imagination. Dont fool yourself in to believing that Sony or MS have greater expectations, hell if anything they sent the games industry back about ten years or more. Back to the days of Mortal Kombat's blood factor. We dont need a gimmicky industry again and Nintendo has been against that since the SNES, now they believe its the only way to SURVIVE the industry.
Just remember that Pokemon and Mario will be put on the back burners because of marketing, and only marketing. And as soon as Nintendo's cool again, guess what games people will be begging for.
Weltall/ "the reason they don't is both because it would cost Nintendo far more to produce such a console, as MS and Sony can much more easily and less expensively implement such features"
Nintendo spent more money on the creation of the Gamecube than Xbox and PS2 combined. Both of those system were hastily put together using existing technology.
Eden/ The disks used by the Gamecube hold as much if not more than a standard DVD disk based on how the hardware uses the data. There is no visual difference in games and it is easier to program for. Disks do not carry graphics, it only holds the models used and their programed coordinates of how they're placed and animated (based on cues). Gameplay information itself takes up less than 1% of a disk since it's basically binary data. As our mother's said; Size doesn't matter.
Nintendo isn't killing off Mario, they're putting him on the back burner while they focus more on their image and the games that will stabalize that image.