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The NGage still exists? Well what do you know.

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Yea, supposedly its now "better than ever" or at least that's what they are saying about the new version.

Bleh, garbage.

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This three page thread popped up so amazingly quickly. I've never seen anythign like it. o_O

Despite the fact that Nintendo is a broken record, I don't think that is what is hurting their sales the most. What is tearing them apart at the foundation is their inability to break from tradition. (I guess that's almost the same thing, though, isn't it?) What I mean is that most of their games are still keeping that quality of play that all of us enjoyed as children. They do have the occasional violent game, most of them still keep that "kiddie" quality that has given them such a bad image.

The name "nintendo" is now something kids are embarrased to say they are a part of. When a new system hits stores, what are people going to want to be seen with? A "nintendo" DS, or a "Sony" PSP? No matter how cool the Nintendo system is, the name Sony sells.

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Yes, I always make fun of people when they say that they own a GCN. I say "nice purse, you pansy!" Then I skip away like a 7 year old girl.















Anyways, Nintendo is still cool. Hell, I think they can definitely pull it around on their next consoles, but only time will tell.

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Well, the 10-14 year olds who think they are black, listen to rap music, demean women, would say that ;)

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If you don't like it, don't play it and shut up about it.

Nintendo is perfect the way it is.

Back off.

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Nope. If they were perfect there wouldn't be a 3 page thread of people complaining about them.

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I don't really care how much Nintendo falls off the map. If there is a new Zelda (or Mario, Metroid, etc) game to be played on a new system that I don't have...I MUST have the system and the game, it's as simple as that. The games and tradition and nostalgia for me are reasons enough to keep playing and buying Nintendo systems. It will forever continue that way unless Mario games start to suck, and I really don't see that happening.

Edit: And don't get me wrong either. I also own both an Xbox and PS2 which I also enjoy very much. I still have never gotten into online console gaming however (except a couple of sessions on the DC), so that has never been a big deal to me at all.

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CELL PHONES?

um...if cell phones counted, THEY would control 99% of the handheld market

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We will never shut up and never back off until Nintendo becomes perfect.

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Sadly that doesn't end at 14.

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I was going to make that point but I figured it was redundant relative to absurd obviousness.

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Come on now guys. I thought it was absurdly obvious that I meant cell-phones that are designed with gaming in mind. If you compare those select models and the amount their producers and software developers are making off of the software, then no, they're not actually holding a rediculous amount of the market at all.

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Well, have fun crying about it then. Because it will never be perfect to everybody.

Nintendo has been Nintendo for what now? At least 20 years? Why should they change?

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Actually I was thinking about PSP preorders.

Although... that's probably not 5%... 20,000 compared to several millions AGBs. :p
What I mean is that Nintendo is definately going to lose that 99%, no question about it.