Perfect Stu:
Gamers shouldn't be happy about all the things you complain about. That I agree with.
But Nintendo gets away with it somehow. Maybe Nintendo fans are just fanatics. Maybe Nintendo is just that good at first party games. I don't really know. All I know is they've managed it and are probably making lots of money in the process. More, in any case, than they would have had they gone online and added DVD playback and so on.
You talk about how much Nintendo is hurting itself with these business practices, but you might as well talk about how well Nintendo is doing
despite them. Microsoft is spending money like mad and has added all kinds of extras to their machine. They're even bundling two games free with every Xbox, but they haven't managed to sell more Xboxes worldwide than Nintendo has managed to sell GameCubes (this may change next year, so keep watching). Isn't that remarkable, too?
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I look at Sony and Microsoft...they're taking strides to supply gamers with new concepts, franchises and business moves that will all contribute to consumer satisfaction (Frequency, SOCOM, Mark of Kri, Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper, Primal, Dark Cloud, Online gaming, etc. for PS2.....Halo, Project Gotham Racing, XBox Live, purchase of Rare, etc. for Microsoft)
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You think they're doing that just because they want to do good things for the fans? Or better yet, do you think Sony and Microsoft are doing this because they "should think about having their CONSUMERS as a higher priority?" If so, you are making a classic mistake in assigning some kind of morality to these companies.
Think about what would have happened if the Xbox didn't have DVD playback, a hard drive or an online plan. Microsoft would have gotten
killed in the console market. The Xbox might not have lasted more than 6 months. Microsoft has not simply done these things to satisfy the consumer. It's doing this to survive.
The same could be said to a lesser extent about the PS2.
The rest of your post is pretty much irrelevant. You talk a lot about what games Nintendo has been putting out as opposed to Sony and Microsoft and say that Nintendo hasn't been satisfying consumers with what they put out. But that's highly debatable. You'll probably find plenty of people who think your view of Nintendo's games is rather narrow. And I know there are plenty of people who are satisfied with the games Nintendo has put out. And on the subject of advertising, I agree that Nintendo needs to rethink its strategy.
But we weren't talking about either of those. We were talking about going online, and you have still failed to convince me that Nintendo has any reason to do it. You're continuing to talk from the perspective of what
you want rather than what Nintendo wants, and as long as you do that, your argument will be fundamentally flawed.