24th January 2003, 8:25 PM
Nintendarse - I don't quite understand what you're trying get at outside of the casual gamer thing, but I'm not a new who doesn't understand the difference between a casual gamer, a hardcore gamer, and a console loyalist.
Whatever it is, if the casual gamer were to pick up any game and enjoy it, so why has Nintendo lost its former glory ? There isn't a rule that says casual gamers MUST AVOID Nintendo games, or casual gamers MUST AVOID AAA games.
Nintendo has lost its momentum and can't win because with that they lost market dominance, and along with that they lost something important - the perception to the casual gamer that they can buy a Gamecube and have a vast variety of games to play on it. Nintendo fought a one company war on the N64, and even with Gamecube and their cooperation with Capcom, and Namco, its not carrying any particular momentum because Sony has the momentum and they would rather chip in their power to go with the bandwagon. Hell Konomi still says Nintendo is a piece of shit, and Namco is completely DISENCHANTED with their partnership with Nintendo. Theres no winning back the momentum that a giant monster has until it crashes into the sidelanes where you can then steal the momentum back. This is quite obvious that Nintendo still hasn't regained the momentum of 3rd party support it had in the SNES era.
My whole point here is that Nintendo will NEVER REGAIN, or more to the point - HAVE A CHANGE OF REGAINING the momentum until Sony actually blunder BY THEMSELVES in a manner as big as the N64. And thats how oligopolies work. Just review the history on how Microsoft defeated Lotus and WordPerfect. Do you see Lotus or Wordperfect ever regaining the office productivity software dominance in the forseeable future ? Maybe if Microsoft gets torn into 20 peices yeah... if thats realistic at all.
Hudson - haven't looked at stats in a while, but if you have, you're probably right then. I was under the impression that economic times would push the casual gamers out first, and that the Xbox has diluted the PS2 market.
Whatever it is, if the casual gamer were to pick up any game and enjoy it, so why has Nintendo lost its former glory ? There isn't a rule that says casual gamers MUST AVOID Nintendo games, or casual gamers MUST AVOID AAA games.
Nintendo has lost its momentum and can't win because with that they lost market dominance, and along with that they lost something important - the perception to the casual gamer that they can buy a Gamecube and have a vast variety of games to play on it. Nintendo fought a one company war on the N64, and even with Gamecube and their cooperation with Capcom, and Namco, its not carrying any particular momentum because Sony has the momentum and they would rather chip in their power to go with the bandwagon. Hell Konomi still says Nintendo is a piece of shit, and Namco is completely DISENCHANTED with their partnership with Nintendo. Theres no winning back the momentum that a giant monster has until it crashes into the sidelanes where you can then steal the momentum back. This is quite obvious that Nintendo still hasn't regained the momentum of 3rd party support it had in the SNES era.
My whole point here is that Nintendo will NEVER REGAIN, or more to the point - HAVE A CHANGE OF REGAINING the momentum until Sony actually blunder BY THEMSELVES in a manner as big as the N64. And thats how oligopolies work. Just review the history on how Microsoft defeated Lotus and WordPerfect. Do you see Lotus or Wordperfect ever regaining the office productivity software dominance in the forseeable future ? Maybe if Microsoft gets torn into 20 peices yeah... if thats realistic at all.
Hudson - haven't looked at stats in a while, but if you have, you're probably right then. I was under the impression that economic times would push the casual gamers out first, and that the Xbox has diluted the PS2 market.