Nintendos dilema

[soundwaves]

If you research nintendo and japanese-culture in particular it becomes obvuis that nintendo is a good, clean, ethical company and they run things there way without worrying to much about being on top of the world. In this cold world that often means dealth of a company, slowly but surely...Its not looking good for nintendo from the perspective of being on top or even at the top for long. I think nintendo definatly needs to expand, and have the courage to hire new-talent, also nintendo has make a clever devide between its lines of software. They are having a hard time trying to stay true to younger gamers but also please older gamers. Ive heard alot of people express there thoughts on developing differant product-lines that are targeted for young and old, I agree, it would let them off the hook and developers would flood-in and it would be let them be free....Imagine an alternate zelda-series developed for there alternative software-line (NINTENDO BIG_KIDS) simailer to toys-r-us but maby more profound....and zelda should be anime not loony-toons dam it!!!!

[dxp969]

You don't have to worry much about nintendo in japan. Xbox just launched at 123,000 with 12 games. Nintendo only had 3 at the cube launch and dengeki said 174,000 systems were sold. Then with help from SSBM, Pikmin, and Animal Forest Plus, nintendo now has 1.5 million systems installed. Xbox doesn't have anything that will sell like SSBM in it's entire lineup. Plus gamecube has biohazard pretty soon. Which should put it at the 2 million mark just as mircosoft reaches the 400,000-500,000 mark. With mario in the summer it will be a smooth ride to 3 million consoles.

[simps]

not to mention that the new zelda look will go over extremely well in japan.....

[Juan Marcano]

What dillema?

Nintendo´s strategies have been profitable as hell, and in the end, that´s what matters (to them). Sure, they may be losing sales because of it´s "kiddy" image, but they have control of the younger market and won´t risk that. A careful expansion towards the mature market could be beginning, and it could be boosted when Yamauchi, the main stockholder, retires.

[simps]

Originally posted by soundwaves
Imagine an alternate zelda-series developed for there alternative software-line (NINTENDO BIG_KIDS) simailer to toys-r-us but maby more profound

That would be inefficient and wasteful, why make 2 games that are graphically different unless you wanted to find out who the bad "gamers" were and who the "good" gamers were.


Also, Nintendo isnt going down anytime soon.. they have the GBA making them tons of money.. correct me if im wrong, but nintendo as a whole is making more money in the videogames market than anyone else.

Another thing - nintendo IS expanding.. i dont know where youve done your research but you seemed to miss all of nintendo's partnerships and yamauchi's "young developer startup fund" to encourage lesser known developers to make software for them---and its working.. look at brownie brown and skip... already have games on the way.. just to name a few

[PhixedDice]

Exactly, What dilenma exactly? The practically own the handheld market (there are some good handheld out in Asian tho), so if the GameCune did fail (Yeah right ) they'd still have something to fall back on.

I think Nintendo is in damn good shape if you ask me.

[soundwaves]

Well i wasn't talking about about there sales in japan, i meant america, i should have been more clear about. To rephrase the title of the tread and put things in perspective "Nintendos dilema in the usa".

[biglyle]

Nintendo has no dilema at all. The only dilema is people buying Gamecubes and wanting Playstation games for it. I bought a Nintendo for MARIO, period. Everything else is gravy. To many people want their cake and want to eat it too. You want Nintendo games buy a nintendo, you want playstation games buy a playstation, you want both buy both. Please do not balme Nintendo because it doesnt do exactly what you want it to do. That is not Nintendos dilema, that is yours.

[Ytoabn]

I'm betting Nintendo will be fine. Just wait untill summer hits and all the games flow out.

[Deadly Blood Shedder]

Originally posted by soundwaves
If you research nintendo and japanese-culture in particular it becomes obvuis that nintendo is a good, clean, ethical company and they run things there way without worrying to much about being on top of the world. In this cold world that often means dealth of a company, slowly but surely...Its not looking good for nintendo from the perspective of being on top or even at the top for long. I think nintendo definatly needs to expand, and have the courage to hire new-talent, also nintendo has make a clever devide between its lines of software. They are having a hard time trying to stay true to younger gamers but also please older gamers. Ive heard alot of people express there thoughts on developing differant product-lines that are targeted for young and old, I agree, it would let them off the hook and developers would flood-in and it would be let them be free....Imagine an alternate zelda-series developed for there alternative software-line (NINTENDO BIG_KIDS) simailer to toys-r-us but maby more profound....and zelda should be anime not loony-toons dam it!!!!

Nintendo's stradegy works fine. They stay cawm about things and don't rush anything. Then we get grat games. What more could you ask for?