5th October 2005, 2:22 PM
Quote:Also, what has been proven is that Nintendo games sell on Nintendo consoles and that's about it. Third parties just don't get the same success of Playstation or Xbox games on the Gamecube with the exception of a few, namely Sega with their Sonic titles. Nintendo fans by Nintendo consoles for Nintendo made games = niche product. That's my logic anyway.
You're ignoring the fact that Nintendo is publishing market-expanding titles as well, though. Do you really think that the main market for Brain Training and Nintendogs is longtime Nintendo fans? Of course not. They're trying to both please their base (which I'm sure they will do, and will make them a decent amount of money) and expand the market, which is less certain but I'm hopeful. Even if they aren't as successful at that as they wish, though (not something I'm going to conceed yet, certainly), though, there is no way they will lose money. Between GBA, DS, the next Gameboy, and the fact that all they'd have to do to make money is do worse than they did this generation (and that would be hard to do), that's just not going to happen.
And anyway, remember how Nintendo has said that they'd never publish games for other platforms? They're stubborn, I believe them... they wouldn't do that.
Quote:I think it's far too early to make a call concerning Nintendo's fate, but if the trend of the past few years is any telltale sign then these analyst speculations aren't totally unwarranted.
How about the trend of the current year, with the massive success of the DS and the continued spectacular preformance of the GBA? :)
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