GamingLives writes "In a surprising speech to investors, Nintendo President, Satoru Iwata, admitted that the company’s focus on reaching new consumers and the family friendly market may well have placed Nintendo in the more precarious position in which it now finds itself. As we reported a few days ago, Nintendo recently posted a financial loss for the first time since it gave up on cards and concentrated on console gaming, and it would seem that the company have taken a long, hard look at why that might be."
If you were a 90s kid excited about Nintendo’s upcoming N64 console, you likely read something somewhere about the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive, also known as the 64DD or DD64.
Other nominees include games like SimCity & Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
There are some good nominees in this list that are deserving to be inducted also, but I feel Metroid has had the most impact on the industry out of all of these. Look how Metroid influenced the evolution of the Castlevania games, and the "Metroidvania" subgenre of games have become a prevailing force in gaming today. Especially now, Metroidvanias are bigger than ever.
I can very much see Resident Evil being added later too, bc it really did popularize and define the survival horror genre. I would say that one is next in line.
If any Metroid game should get the honor it should be Super Metroid , it's perfection in my eyes . 30 years later and I still feel it's the most epic shit ever .
The GBA remake deserves it or Super Metroid, the original was a very sloppy and rushed game programmed in 3 months and it shows.
If you've never played the remake, it's absolutely a must play, fixes basically every flaw in the game. Check out ExoParadigmGamer's comparison video.
“Before even Kirby was born, HAL Laboratory released the super-cute puzzler Adventures of Lolo in 1989 and it has held up beautifully.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
It will be interesting to see which market Nintendo focuses on with the Wii U (casual, core or hardcore) and whether or not 3rd parties support it.
Too late for Nintendo. Their company will always be seen as a casual company to gamer's eyes.
Well Nintendo the cash wave was friendly at first but casuals are just that...casual. They all moved on to other casual friendly endeavors.
More power to Nintendo and a great thing for me if they now turn their focus to the core community. I mean the wii just totally turned me off to buying anything Nintendo, but maybe just maybe if the Wii u is powerful enough and caters to the core i can get my Nintendo on again.
No regrets skipping the wii this generation. I'm curious however with those tablet controllers if the wii U (desperately needs a name change) will truly be the successor to the gamecube. M rated titles are gonna be key factors.