5th April 2005, 6:52 PM
As I said, its all a problem with the timing. Nintendo actually has a lot of stuff lined up, from Advanced Wars, to Metroid, to Animal Crossing, etc, BUT these games ALL should have launched last year and with online capability on day 1 if Nintendo wanted to assure that the PSP was DOA on launch date. But that never happened and so now Nintendo has to try to beat the PSP by luck, which when you evaluate Sony's strategy, you will see that they are leaving no rock unturned to beat Nintendo. With the current game schedule, the DS might as well have launched in Winter 2005.
There is too validity in the strategy of letting Sony drain its resources for example, but I don't know how much luxury of market share Nintendo has to spare to let this happen. From what I understand, Sony is still in the red and has been for a long time for overexpanding and overdoing it. One wonders how long they can keep it up while Nintendo despite having been last for a long time now, has always been the most profitable game company and was even lauded to be Japan's most well managed company ever.
Overall though, I do expect to see awesome games on the DS, I too, however, am saddened that it will take a while. Again, I still don't have a single game for my DS since none of the stuff out right now was compelling enough to buy.
There is too validity in the strategy of letting Sony drain its resources for example, but I don't know how much luxury of market share Nintendo has to spare to let this happen. From what I understand, Sony is still in the red and has been for a long time for overexpanding and overdoing it. One wonders how long they can keep it up while Nintendo despite having been last for a long time now, has always been the most profitable game company and was even lauded to be Japan's most well managed company ever.
Overall though, I do expect to see awesome games on the DS, I too, however, am saddened that it will take a while. Again, I still don't have a single game for my DS since none of the stuff out right now was compelling enough to buy.