The entire game industry is watching the release of Nintendo's Wii U. Will it be able to repeat the phenomenal success of the Wii at launch—a success that changed the entire game industry as other companies rushed to incorporate motion control into their own consoles? Of course, not all gamers are interested in the Wii U, or anything that comes out of Nintendo these days. Still, it's good for all of us that Nintendo is around. Here are a few reasons why Nintendo is good for gaming.
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Too many troll articles and people declaring their consoles superior. Load of crap.
why is this even a question? as far as i know, the more the merrier.
i will try harder next time :P
but to be fair with the people that disagreed becasue they thought you were being serious...
...its hard to tell between sarcastic comments full of purposefull stupid and actual anti nintendo fanboy comments
i think i will start using the [/sarcasm] too...
Yes. Yes they are.
nintendo and sony are good for gaming.
All three companies are beneficial to gaming in different ways.
I love how they do their own thing. Everyone gets into the shooter craze then Nintendo is off in their own bubble doing 2D platformers. It's great and breaks up the monotony of things. Reason why I always go the PC/Nintendo route each gen instead of just straight up PC.
That's a great way of putting it. There are times when I simply get tired of shooting and stabbing things on my PS3/PC. And that's when I break out some Super Mario Galaxy, Donkey Kong or Kirby. Don't get me wrong, Borderlands 1-2, Mass Effect 1-3, Uncharted 1-3 are some of my favorite games this generation. But I need a break from the "monotony" at times and Nintendo gives me those alternative experiences that fill that gap. Great comment!
Every bit counts. Anything that contributes is good for gaming.
Nintendo has created some of the most memorable characters and franchise in all of gaming history and they deserve to be recognized.
So Nintendo is/was good for gaming!
We need all the current console makers to stay put, the gamers get the benefit of this, be it with competing games or console prices. Nintendo saved the industry and in their own way helped create Sony. Nintendo is needed, wanted and essential to the game industry.
Also, I'm loving my Wii U.
However there is a downside to having too popular a character. The threat of 'overusing' them can lead to stagnation & that in the long run is not good for the gaming industry. Games need to evolve as time goes by & Nintendo has for the most part done a good job for some of their franchise. Link & his games have done just that evolving into something much more but unfortunately i can't say the same with Mario.
Super Mario Bros. is great don't get me wrong but the same ideas & situation are in every Mario game. Granted Mario Galaxy is something i would like Nintendo to expand more than what is delivered almost every year.
Yes Nintendo is good for gaming cause a healthy Nintendo means a larger pot in the market, though i wish Nintendo tries to evolve their franchises more so than stick with the same formula to often.
Nintendo have been good for gaming during the N64 and Gamecube years. And that's it. Let's examine the evidence:
The NES - released late in the day in the UK about the time that the Amiga was already out. So that's an 8 bit console with games costing 40 pounds each or a 16 bit computer with games tending to cost 25 pounds maximum (in practice most Amiga games were probably pirated).
Hmm.. Amiga wins. If you disagree with me at least know that it sold a lot more in the UK than the NES ever managed. The Amiga even has a much better range of platform games. Zool, Superfrog etc.
The SNES - many would also regard this as a pinnacle of Nintendo but I only regard it so in a qualified way - for Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country. Apart from those, the Megadrive goes head to head very well. Yes, multiformat games tend to look and sound a bit better on the SNES but the SNES is also a slower console. And the MD had some great exclusives including its fruitful partnership with Disney.
The N64 - a great statement from Nintendo. Mario 64 did look very special back in the day. Not always the prettiest visuals in the world but realy ambitious in their scale. But this was often due to Rare who pushed the console right until the end with Conker's Bad Fur Day.
The Gamecube - remains scorned by many who don't like its cute looks or controller. The Resident Evil remake and Metroid Prime alone make it worth a purchase but there are other solid games on that console, albeit some of them too hard or quirky to be very popular with Nintendo gamers.
The tiny discs are brilliant and possibly load data faster not massively worse than a cartridge.
The Wii - oh dear. Has a few of the same kinds of games that were on the Gamecube but you feel like you're playing them on an inferior system. The console and controller themselves feel more cheaply made than perhaps any Nintendo console. And its peak of popularity over a Christmas or two and many of its simplistic looking, cheap games made it seem like a gimmick rather than a worthy successor to the Gamecube. Let's get this straight - some of its games are significantly aesthetically inferior to Gamecube games. Call that progress? And the Miis are like Fisher Price men dipped in chocolate.
In short , Nintendo has been innovative but usually when they had Rare or third parties on board or when Miyamoto makes an effort. They're not quite intrinsically, reliably, innovative in the way that Sega was.
And nowadays I trust Sony, or even Microsoft, far more to surpise me than Nintendo's conservative efforts at changing the market bythe odd technological change rather than any surprising new franchises. They might as well be as stagnant as a dirty pool to me now, tarred by overpopularity drowning out criticism. Super Mario Galaxy looks fun but their default mode now seems to be boringly conservative. I'd say that Nintendo are now the Star Wars of gaming (not much prospect of massive change). They're still that old fashioned Japanese playing cards company at heart- their old habits die hard.
Nowadays, I havent been interested in Nintendo since the "gamecube".