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Nintendo Franchises That Would Be Better on Other Consoles

"Nintendo is a great company by any means. They're often seen as the inventors of the wheel in terms of video-games, and are responsible for the development and publishing of some of gaming's biggest icons. Disregarding the Nintendo DS' near complete domination of the handheld market, the current generation hasn't treated Nintendo so well. The Wii was a huge success at first, but has dwindled in sales in the last year. Nintendo still pumps out the occasional successful first-party game, but I feel other developers and companies could do much better jobs if given the opportunity to do so on other consoles."

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GunShotEddy4774d ago

here we go. It's so easy to hate on Nintendo hardware because it's slower and older, but outside of the CD-i, you'll never see Nintendo on another platform.

vgn244774d ago

@Gun. Are you kidding me? Did you even read your own comment? You defend Nintendo by talking about how old their hardware is? The Wii is a freaking PS2 with waggle. Nothing more.

Dark_Charizard4774d ago (Edited 4774d ago )

So what if he is? Nintendo hardware may not be the best, but i could never see Super Mario Galaxy or Twilight Princess on a freaking PS3 with that dualshock controller.. It's only now that SONY has released their Wiimote rip off, but TOO BAD its late to the party! Wii gets SKYWARD SWORD and what does move get? Sorcery?? LMFAO!

Nintendo hardware rocks, that's all I'm saying... GCN > PS2 hardware.

@VGCHICA - GCN is far more powerful that PS2. Remember the games that rocked on GCN but looked like s#it on PS2 like Resident Evil 4!? And btw GCN was FAR FAR more powerful and MUCH MORE easy to develop for, it was Nintendo's relations with 3rd parties that caused the lack of games, NOT THE HARDWARE, noob.

VG_Releaser4774d ago

Nintendo would make a lot more money as a 3rd party pub. A lot of gamers miss out on great Ninty titles cause their hardware's bunk.

vgchica4774d ago

Did I see someone say the Gamecube was greater than the PS2? That is impossible in every way. I play RPGs more than anything, but I know that the PS2 had more games in more genres than anything last-generation.

The PS2 was more powerful and easier to develop for too.

AGamerOfConsoles4774d ago (Edited 4774d ago )

If you want to play Nintendo games get Nintendo consoles. Sorry to tell people this but Nintendo is in this industry as much as MS or Sony.

ChickeyCantor4774d ago (Edited 4774d ago )

"The PS2 was more powerful and easier to develop for too."

RE:4 says hi.

@below
Im talking about "more powerful".
The only downside GCN had was the disc capacity.

" And they didn't require first-party assistance"
Nonsense, Sony funded lots of PS2 projects.

charlescox44774d ago

@#1.1.5

The entire PS2 library of much better games says hi back. And they didn't require first-party assistance to develop like Capcom did with Nintendo.

browngamer44774d ago

@vgchica
Are you on crack or just mentally impaired?"the ps2 was more powerful and easier to develop for"-It was the excact opposite..Gamecube COMPLETELY crushed the ps2 in the graphics dep. in every single way..noob! It was running off a power pc structure instead of intel(like the other two)and was vastly easier to develop for ..the xbox had better resolutions but the gamecube could read info. much quicker and easier..fact.

ShAkKa4774d ago (Edited 4774d ago )

"Wii gets SKYWARD SWORD and what does move get? Sorcery?? LMFAO! "

At least Sorcery worked how it was supposed to. But hey! as long as you don't have a cell phone or camera turned on you should be good to play.

Btw the Gamecube was in fact more powerful than the Ps2 but the difference between the RE4 tittles was minimal at best.

MisterAV4774d ago

Gamecube was a little more powerful than PS2, not so much. However GC used stupid small disc with 1.4GB so many title couldn't fit. And it was released almost two years later...
And PS2 had the biggest library...

And @dark-charizard Super mario galaxy it would be much better with a dualshock instead of remote+nunchuck. If you think many nintendo titles like that use very little motion controlling, also SMBB.

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BeaRye4774d ago

I'd love to see what Zelda could be on the PS3 or Xbox 360. Who wouldn't love that except diehard Nintendogs? It would be great if we had the best games on the most powerful systems, but exclusives somewhat level the playing field. Nintendo will get their stuff together eventually in the home console.

Let's just hope the Wii 2 isn't this gen hardware and actually next-gen.

matey4774d ago

Nintendo could have made Twilight princess 2 with improved polycounts and textures ect they said as much but they chose a different art style the wii can handle alot going off gamecube and wii being 2/4 times more powerful expect TP2 4 Wii2 even Retro said with MP3 they could have gone with high polygons but chose art instead.

dannybohy4774d ago

wouldnt they all be better on a different console! why grown adults buy this machine for themselves is a mystery to me!.. i only bought one for my 5yr old son! and now kinect is out even he want me to sell his Wii and get him Kinect for the xbox!

dannybohy4774d ago

I want ZombieNintendogs on my xbox please!! or rather ZombieXdogz!?

Stealth20k4774d ago (Edited 4774d ago )

the wii has been killing it in sales worldwide.

still as popualr as ever

just sounds like a jelous idiot fanboy who wants to play nintendo games but cant afford nintendo systems

dannybohy4774d ago

so is The Sun newspaper in the UK! doesnt make it any less cr4p!

dannybohy4774d ago

who?. Ive got a Wii, an Xbox360 and high spec PC
the Wii was by far the cheapest so i dont know what your on about! lol!. im selling the Wii to go towards Kinect purchase!

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The Best Games Similar to Pokemon for PlayStation

There are many worlds out there brimming with wondrous creatures ready to help you on your adventure beyond Pokemon.

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LG_Fox_Brazil26d ago

Temtem is actually really good as a single player experience or as a co-op game. Played the shit out of it when it released

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Pokémon Gen 10 Release Date Predictions: Are New Pokémon Games In 2024?

Even if Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have not yet completed their first anniversary, it is possible to predict exactly when Gen 10 is arriving.

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Pokemon Doesn't Need to Sue Palworld, It Needs to Get With the Times

The Nerd Stash: "There's been a lot of talk about Pokemon and Palworld recently, but if anything, Pokemon's new competition should be a sign to change."

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ChasterMies78d ago

Fortunately for Nintendo, the legal team is separate from Game Freak’s development team.

NotoriousWhiz77d ago

Unfortunately for us, as their legal team seems to be more competent than Game Freak's development team.

gold_drake78d ago (Edited 78d ago )

they do tho .. IF there is something to sue for. IP infringement is such a delicate thing.

but absolutely agree on the change

GoodGuy0978d ago

That, have longer dev time, and absolutely get rid of Nintendo as the exclusive platform. Imagine a AAA pkmn game on current consoles or next generation.

But money, they'll make billions with little effort.

badz14977d ago

you know that's never gonna happen

FinalFantasyFanatic77d ago

Gamer Freak, Creatures and Nintendo all have a stake in the Pokemon franchise, Nintendo especially will never let them go, I don't know how Creatures or Game Freak feels about it. Plus, the other two don't have a financial incentive to ditch Nintendo, they make mega bucks regardless. Although I think Nintendo should help Game Freak out more since they're clearly struggling, other they'll all just have to accept longer dev times and bigger gaps between games, or maybe just make some cheaper low-tier games in-between.

shinoff218378d ago

Idk yall. I'd take a Pokémon jrpg over a Pokémon with guns, online play etc. Plus wasn't Pokémon mobile pretty fking big like 4 years ago then covid hit.

--Onilink--77d ago (Edited 77d ago )

Even Scarlet/Violet had sold 24million as of early November (and undoubtedly sold even more during the Holidays), its not like they are currently suffering.

Yes, there are plenty of things I would like Gamefreak to do better, and yes I happened to like Palworld, but not because its a Pokemon clone, because its not, but because its a good survival game, something that I have zero interest for the mainline Pokemon games to become.

Most publications keep bringing up these topic ls just for clicks, because clearly the game is your typical survival game (most who do well on PC) with some Pokemon sprinkled in and not a Pokemon competitor, the core gameplay loop is clearly just Ark with dinosaurs swapped for Pokemon like creatures

And again, while I’m enjoying the game itself, I hope it doesnt set a new precedent for what we expect from game devs these days because, based on their other games, this developer really seems to basically just try to go as close as possible to ripping off other games without getting into trouble and then not really following up on those projects as promised (Craftopia players seem particularly angry).

I doubt they ever expected the discourse around this game to reach this level of popularity to push those insane sales numbers, and they actually take the opportunity to increase the quality of their work

FinalFantasyFanatic77d ago (Edited 77d ago )

I'm going to say something somewhat controversial, the last set of Pokemon games weren't that bad, it wasn't a great game, but a good game if we ignore the performance issues (and I personally didn't have many bugs).

They just need more interesting towns and NPCs (give them interesting dialogue, there's literally no reasons to talk to NPCs), interesting areas/locations (like the sunken ship and Bellsprout Tower), and some decent side quest, there isn't really any interesting side quests in those games, and fix the barely there lore for the game (Idk even know what was going on with those 4 "legendary Pokemon"). And maybe add less new Pokemon into the next game so they can transition more of the older Pokemon into 3D.

I think Scarlet/Violet had the potential to go from a good game to a great game if they implemented most of those ideas, but they also needed more development time to optimise the game as well.

Profchaos77d ago

Yeah agree id take a remake of red in the style of the links awakening remake any day of the week

Profchaos77d ago

No they don't I don't want any of the gameplay anywhere near Pokemon the only link between them is the idea of Pokemon except there's guns you enslave humans and Pokemon and there's a survival aspect.

Pokemon is fairly family friendly can't see Nintendo going ok let's give them m16s and slaughter each other

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