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Originally posted by Crash
pc's outsell macs by a landslide, macs aren't leaving. they are still being made. WHy? cause they ahve a loyal following, so does nintendo. they aren't going anywhere, nintendo is still making millions of dollars, just not as many millions as sony. (but sony is losing a bunch in their movie and other electronic business he he )
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I'm not denying that they are making money... read the below quote:
"When they start worrying about Game quality instead of how much they will profit, I will go back to thier side... "
Yes, Nintendo is making millions... but off of what?
1) Selling Rare aka selling game quality?
2) Having super low memory cards[/b] at an extreme rip-off price? Memory card 59, 500kb, $15... Ps2's memory card, 8000kb $30... 16x the memory for 2x the price, and yes Sony profits a lot off of thier memory cards. The funny part is, it hurts the game quality of 90% of (simulation) sports games on the Cube.
3) Taking the smallest loss on every system made instead of just simply lowering the price?
4) Making crap games and tossing Nintendo licenced charicters on it just so it will sell?
These are just a few examples. Before Rare was sold and before I know THQ would stop making wrestling games with the Aki engine, and before Zelda got the makeover... buying into GCN's craptacular hardware was worth it.
I used to not need sports games to buy a Nintendo system because I was guaranteed greatness out of the first and second parties. Is that still the case? NO. Nintendo hasn't done anything great with GCN yet if you ask me.
Thank god I didn't just own a cube, I would have went insane.
It is fall 2002, aka the year hyped up to be "owned" by Nintendo... and with the exception of AC there isn't a game I have wanted that was released in September, October, November, or December that I couldn't get a better version of on Ps2.
Why is this? Because Nintendo is in it for the money. Not to say nobody else wants money... but they are putting more forward in thier hardware than Nintendo. What was Nintendo's last big developer purchase? M$ flopped out $$$ for Rare... and Sony flops out $$$ to keep the GTA series exclusive. What does Nintendo do? Look for the cheapest little nobody developer they can find and try to make them great by giving them a Nintendo licence.
Even Hal Labs... take away Nintendo franchises and what are they? SSB would be a joke without Mario and Link jumping around.
Nintendo is a great developer, they are just trying too hard for that little profit. They turn thier back on my as a sport gamer just to make an extra $10 per memory card sold, I'll just turn my back on them.
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