14th February 2003, 1:25 AM
Nintendo doesn't have the momentum to afford hits and misses. If they want to survive well to catch Sony and Microsoft when they fuck up, they need to make all hits, and worry about consolidating what they have for now before experimenting with games that will be about as popular as Romance of the 3 Kingdoms, Ogre Battle, etc. here in the US - even if they are wildly popular in Japan. When you're selling war themed games in the US, you're hitting up on a market of gamers who don't play video games - in fact look down on video gamers as half wit button mashers, to card gamers as idiots obsessed with laminated cardboard, and to D+D RPGers as totals freaks... they're called table top wargamers. Instead of playing video game war, they play simulated war with miniatures on a table terrain, kind of like military brass does.
Online gaming is a gauranteed hit. Nintendo needs to do it.
Btw, Yugioh, is not a complex card game.
If Nintendo were to bring FE here, chances are they would let a company like Atlus do the localization and risk their own resources while Nintendo makes what it can off of royalties.
Online gaming is a gauranteed hit. Nintendo needs to do it.
Btw, Yugioh, is not a complex card game.
If Nintendo were to bring FE here, chances are they would let a company like Atlus do the localization and risk their own resources while Nintendo makes what it can off of royalties.