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powpowpow said:
Well its a good thing for you that I AM clued into whats going on with nintendos company. Are familiar with the shift in authority since CEO H. Yamauchi retired? Did you know that Myamoto was practically stripped of his power within nintendo? These are the problems nintendo is facing. The fateful step was taken when nintendo broke contract with sony and went to work with a non-japanese compnay known as Phillips. There was a chain reaction you see from this one move, and nintendo lost a lot of third party support and support from fell japanese companies. If you recall correctly, the nes and the snes were huge with third party games. Nintendo was raking in enough money to push for the top of the line systems. However they lost that third party support, that popularity with outside developers and within their own country.
Serves them right, they made a very bad business move and its effects are still seen today. This caused Yamauchi to pass on the torch.
But to who? No not Myamoto, the one responsible for much of nintendo's success. It went to someone else, someone who turned Nintendo into a marketing tool aimed at mass profit rather than the best gaming has to offer. Myamoto has no power, he is a figure head, an icon, treated more like a celebrity than a developer. He had many plans, many project, and all but most shot down for no apparent reason. Power struggle is what it came down to, and Myamoto lost his benefactor, Yamauchi.
So now you have the Wii. A rehash of the Game Cube. No it really is a Game Cube, in fact the key to the wii lay in the smaller size and gimmick remote. A gimmick isnt a bad thing, but nintendo sold their console off of three main things, none of which have to do with good gaming.
Those things? 1. Nintendo franchise (mario, zelda, metriod), 2. Size (slim consoles have shown there is a market for it, so they went out to make the smallest one yet) and 3. a gimmicky controller. None of this relies on good solid games, or hardware. The current head of nintendo, who restructured the entire company, took one look at what was popular (PS slim) (mario name, not game) and knew they had to get something to attract a lot of attention. The Wiimote.
The wiimote was actually designed by Myamoto who got the idea from using a tv remote, one of the few things nintendo let him continue doing is create the controllers. Out of the many prototypes they picked the remote and modeled it after a similar patented device (which nintendo is actually being sued for). Now if Myamoto was able to at least influence the controller, what would happen if he actually had more control over the company? We would see quality in the games and product. We would tilt back towards the pattern used in the snes days. Thats not gonna happen, its only a matter of time before myamoto retires and washes his hands clean of the New nintendo.
These games are not quality anymore. There is no real potential in the wii at all. Its simple, its fun, but you have seen the limits of its capabilities already. It runs of a very very very minimalistic old school system (700mhz cpu), 4.5 gig dvds, and its goal is only to make money where the game cube lost out. It literally is a gamecube with a make over, try number two. Nothing much has changed. Nintendo didnt take the effort to make a next gen system, it merely wants money, money that was lost with the game cube. The inhouse developers are limited by budget, by power and by options because of the route the current nintendo has gone.
The wii has no real future. It is a quick fix, a quick buck, but it has no real substance and unfortunately it did not even try to keep up to date with the other consoles. The result? The wii has the most piracy out of all current gen systems. You think people are paying for crap games? No. Nintendo expected this a little bit, by actually making a profit off of the console rather than the games. The fact that games are so easily pirated, shows that the wii has no future. Myamoto has practically no creative controll. The company is completely restructured, its different. Same name, different soul.
If you go out to get a hamburger (gaming console) and you stop at a McDonalds (Wii) dont expect the hamburger to look or taste like a quality restaraunt style burger (360/ps3). As long as you know you are buying a cheap product for cheap thrills you will be fine. Otherwise, be realistic. Nintendo isnt the same nintendo that make it a success to begin with. It is a cold hearted business now. I have no problems with that, but I do have problems with people who believe blindly that nintendo is still the same. Fanboys really need to think for once. Times change and so people have to change. Dont ally with a company, just go where the quality goes. Sadly that is not nintendo. not anymore.
