shifty100 said:Nice to see nintendo getting high from their current success, strange thing is the last I remember the public who sway towards the latest ' cool thing ' are as fickle as any human can be.
So to focus on the mass market who aren't from the traditonal pool of people who make up the games buying market is slightly short sighted of them, gamers usually stay gamers for life while the rest of the mass consumer market will always latch on to the next big thing to come along.
What happens to nintendo when the next ' big thing ' come along and the wii becomes that thing were you shake the controller around pretending to play baseball, bowling etc.
There is a big reason that MS and Sony are fighting the current dirty war in which they are engaged, to try and capture the majority of the market that will consistently buy games and consoles. The people that can be relied on to generate sales and profit month after month and year after year are as much of a sure thing as anything can be in consumerisim and are the core of both companies strategy.
The market can be increased and gaming can become a more socially accepted pastime but through time, not within the space of a year or so. Nintendo have to remember the people that helped build the company to what it is today since it first started making games and consoles - the same spotty, anti-social nerds their pr speaks about.....or so the stereotype goes.
mellowbob said:apparantly the more laughing smilies you put in a post, the cooler you are
Gigglepoo said:I can't believe they are still spouting this line. Back in the PSX vs. N64 days, Yamauchi said PlayStation gamers locked themselves in dark rooms playing RPGs by themselves. I'm still not sure how Nintendo can rip solitary gamers than release games like Phantom Hourglass and Metriod Prime. I know I wasn't playing those games with a group of people.
EDIT - Found the quote!
From IGN:
"[People who play RPGs are] depressed gamers who like to sit alone in their dark rooms and play slow games," he noted in a 1999 interview. Yamauchi - who incidentally has prided himself on the fact that he has never played a videogame - went on to call RPGs as a whole both "silly and boring."
d[-_-]b said:Wtf is this shit.
shifty100 said:There is a big reason that MS and Sony are fighting the current dirty war in which they are engaged, to try and capture the majority of the market that will consistently buy games and consoles. The people that can be relied on to generate sales and profit month after month and year after year are as much of a sure thing as anything can be in consumerisim and are the core of both companies strategy.
:lol :lol :lolDrinky Crow said:gee, and how long have i been saying that the wii isn't for people who like videogames? mods, can we please start moving all wii threads to off-topic now
Drinky Crow said:gee, and how long have i been saying that the wii isn't for people who like videogames? mods, can we please start moving all wii threads to off-topic now
Drinky Crow said:gee, and how long have i been saying that the wii isn't for people who like videogames? mods, can we please start moving all wii threads to off-topic now
LOL, you know he's right...:lolDrinky Crow said:gee, and how long have i been saying that the wii isn't for people who like videogames? mods, can we please start moving all wii threads to off-topic now
Drinky Crow said:gee, and how long have i been saying that the wii isn't for people who like videogames? mods, can we please start moving all wii threads to off-topic now
it's gotta be worth a shot, people try sueing macdonalds for making them fatDiatribeEQ said:So....let me get this straight: Because I played RPG's on Nintendo's systems for years, I'm shallow and anti-social because of them?
Question: Can I sue Nintendo for making me what I am today?
Drinky Crow said:gee, and how long have i been saying that the wii isn't for people who like videogames? mods, can we please start moving all wii threads to off-topic now
Drinky Crow said:gee, and how long have i been saying that the wii isn't for people who like videogames? mods, can we please start moving all wii threads to off-topic now
Unless this is all some big misunderstanding, I honestly don't even see why this is even controversial. Nobody here honestly likes the videogame stereotype, do they? The only sensible posts I've seen against this have been of the "trading one stereotype for another" sentiment, which is arguable, but hey, it's a business.