21st February 2003, 9:53 PM
Huh... who'd have thought it -- two new people at the same time. How in the world did they find TC? A member mentioning it? Because we're sure not linked from much of anywhere...
Anyway...
We have a cow, a lovely cow!
:lovelycow:
On to the subject.
Hmm... does Nintendo's isolating themselves as gaming-only as opposed to set-top boxes help them? Well... I don't know. I do know that Nintendo makes lots of extremely good games... which if they actually had caught public attention would have had a chance to sell great.
Yet we've still got lots of people talking about the "Kiddy Cube" and how its just for little kids... and Nintendo does almost nothing to change that... and what they do do, they don't do enough of... I know I've said how abysmal Nintendo's advertising department has been ever since they started marketing the Gamecube many times... because its true. Nintendo either doesn't advertise anywhere NEAR enough, or advertises badly... they haven't had a decent ad campaign in years and I'm sure it has hurt their massmarket appeal some... given how Sony seems to advertise CONSTANTLY, and Microsoft isn't too far behind them...
As for the pace of NGC releases, it isn't as good as for the other consoles, but its worlds better than we got for the N64... which is an improvement... even if it doesn't keep pace, its better than it used to be. And we're still getting all the great Nintendo first and second party games, so I have no doubt that it'll stay that way... I can't afford any more games than I get for PC and NGC as it is...
Oh, and the X-Box does have a great lineup of exclusive games and multiconsole games that are best on that system (because of better graphics, online play that isn't in the other versions, or both...). Not as good as Nintendo's, of course, but pretty good...
Edit: Oh, and IMO Nintendo should just get rid of their whole marketing division, hire people who are actually competent (ie NOT people even remotely responsible for the Mario Sunshine ad campaign), and increase the ad budget... its badly needed...
Anyway...
We have a cow, a lovely cow!
:lovelycow:
On to the subject.
Hmm... does Nintendo's isolating themselves as gaming-only as opposed to set-top boxes help them? Well... I don't know. I do know that Nintendo makes lots of extremely good games... which if they actually had caught public attention would have had a chance to sell great.
Yet we've still got lots of people talking about the "Kiddy Cube" and how its just for little kids... and Nintendo does almost nothing to change that... and what they do do, they don't do enough of... I know I've said how abysmal Nintendo's advertising department has been ever since they started marketing the Gamecube many times... because its true. Nintendo either doesn't advertise anywhere NEAR enough, or advertises badly... they haven't had a decent ad campaign in years and I'm sure it has hurt their massmarket appeal some... given how Sony seems to advertise CONSTANTLY, and Microsoft isn't too far behind them...
As for the pace of NGC releases, it isn't as good as for the other consoles, but its worlds better than we got for the N64... which is an improvement... even if it doesn't keep pace, its better than it used to be. And we're still getting all the great Nintendo first and second party games, so I have no doubt that it'll stay that way... I can't afford any more games than I get for PC and NGC as it is...
Oh, and the X-Box does have a great lineup of exclusive games and multiconsole games that are best on that system (because of better graphics, online play that isn't in the other versions, or both...). Not as good as Nintendo's, of course, but pretty good...
Edit: Oh, and IMO Nintendo should just get rid of their whole marketing division, hire people who are actually competent (ie NOT people even remotely responsible for the Mario Sunshine ad campaign), and increase the ad budget... its badly needed...
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