You're right when you say the PS1 beat the N64 mainly because of CD's. They were much cheaper, did not have to be bought straight from the console company like Nintendo's proprietary cartridges, and could store far larger amounts of data.
I would not, however, call cartridges an obsolete tech. They have their own advantages (durability, no moving parts, & load speed) and disadvantages (cost); it remains to be seen which side will outweigh the other.
Bull.
Nowhere does this opinion piece back up the statement 'From the moment that Nintendo debuted their little plastic amiibo figurines, the company has had no idea what it wanted to do with them.' Aside from stating something random about them and reiterating 'lack of direction'.
Not knowing how many games would feature amiibo when they released? Lack of direction from the company. Production lines straightened out so people no longer...
Well, yes. Exactly. But it is as if a DLC pack from Sony or Microsoft covered many of their games rather a single one, to varying degrees.
Plus you get a figurine, something Nintendo fans have wanted for decades, even long after one stopped playing the game(s).
One cannot just hand-wave away a data point in a set of, what, 6?, as an exception, especially when you are biased against it. In addition, I am not entirely sure but I've read that the Gamecube got plenty of third party support.
That said, I do agree that the NX will need third parties to survive. Rumors say the NX will be easy to port to; I hope it is true.
I understand the gist of what you are saying, and agree: in today's market, the NX needs more than first party games to thrive, or even to survive.
But this article's entire premise is built on the supposition that Nintendo believes first party games are all the NX needs. And uses rumors concerning the volume of the launch lineup to support this position. The author reached too far for a reason to write an article detailing why the Wii U failed, somehow managing...
Right off the bat, the title is click-bait: How the hell does a console that has not even had its SPECS announced need to be SAVED?
As for the substance, complete bull. The author takes rumors concerning the volume of the launch lineup of the NX and suddenly jumps to the conclusion that Nintendo has decided the Wii U failed simply because there weren't enough first party games. Then goes into her own tirade about what REALLY went wrong with the Wii U, reasons that som...
Not surprised to see this turn up here. The hatred of anything Nintendo is running rampant these days on N4G.
This author has the opinion that Nintendo has been making poor PR decisions or late, and cites the NX Delay and Zelda at E3 as reasons to back it up. Except the NX was not delayed, he states himself that the Zelda at E3 is a bad decision unless you are a Nintendo fan (imagine that), and Zelda being the only playable-on-the-floor game does not mean it is the only g...
I don't understand how some of the posters here can look at the ports the Wii U received and think that they did not deserve to have parity with the other releases because Nintendo did not pay/pay enough.
I'd bet sony fans would put up an incredible stink if their PS4 got 80% of a multiplat game compared to 100% of the game on the xboxOne. Or if microsoft fans if an xboxOne multiplat was inexplicably delayed because they pulled the team to work on the PS4 version. ...
Lovely logic here. The fact that nothing is really known concerning the NX somehow is an argument for 'nothing has changed'. And since 'nothing has changed', he then deduces that since NIntendo has lacked third party games since N64 that they will lack them in the future, and thus prove 'the NX doesn't matter'.
Of course, the 'Let’s make the Nintendo faithful cry a little' comment really puts into question exactly how unbiased an opinio...
Would love to debate this, but it seems to be (rough estimate here) 90% insults and 10% arguable points. And arguing against insults is like having a discussion with a 4 year old why he should not consider you a doo-doo-head. Water off their backs, they know what they know, and you are still a doo-doo-head.
But I will ask this, being completely serious & asking politely for no insults. Your last point, concerning release dates and sales and stupidity. You are correc...
It is comments like these that make me wonder if people ever think to research beyond their own preconceptions. The Wii U released Fall of 2012. PS4 and XboxOne released Fall of 2013, at least everywhere but JP (Feb 2014 for PS4 and Sep. 2014 for XboxOne). Any way you look at it, that is one year.
As for you saying people waited before buying a Wii U, I would agree. They did. People wanted games and, that first year, the Wii U did not have more than a handful as the ex...
@ Lol_Wut
Serously, shove off. All I see these days on the Wii U section of N4G is article after article saying the same crap over and over. Nintendo is doomed, Nintendo should go 3rd party, Wii U died at release. How many articles does one site need that say the EXACT same thing? Now articles are even cropping up damning their next console of which NOTHING IS KNOWN. Not the size, shape, color, controller, main menu, release games, EVEN THE NAME is unknown. Yet people...
And you know... absolutely 100% for-certain know... that the NX will be no different... how?
While cartridges on the N64 and its third party support are reasons they lost marketshare to Playstation, I can see where they were coming from. If I remember their reasoning, they were worried that their games would be easily pirated if they went the CD route (accurately, as I believe the PS1 was subject to rampant piracy) and that they would have less control over the games put on their system (big at the time, as low-quality games were a big reason the game crash of the '80s happened)...
More... support? That's your catch-all 'fix' that would magically have propelled the Wii U to success?
After being caught flatfooted when 3rd parties abandoned the console early 2013, I would say they did a damn good job supporting the console. Introducing new IPs like W101 & Splatoon, releasing Wii U versions of their classic franchises (yes, even Zelda as its dual-release). If they hadn't given the Wii U support they did it would have been dead in t...
Lack of third party support =/= lack of support. The Wii U's first and second party titles have held the console afloat since third party developers pulled the rug out from underneath it right after launch.
Can't argue much about the same protagonist (they really only come in two forms: kid and adult, with various backstories), but your mention of the same main enemy in every game got me thinking about who was the 'end boss' in each game. It's more varied than you would think. There's:
Demon Train/Malladous
Ghost Ship/Bellum
Demise
Yuga
Ganandorf/Ganon (6)
Vaati (3)
General Onox
Veran
Majora <...
http://n4g.com/news/1882027...
I'm sorry, what's this about stopping hardware production? It would seem you are in so much of a rush to click the latest 'nintendoom' rumor-mongering article that this slipped right past you.
You know, until you wrote that, I hadn't even thought about it...
A Skell, Elma, or Secretary Nagi Amiibo would have been awesome.
The article is about Xenoblade Chronicles, not Xenoblade Chronicles X. No driving around or flying mechs plus a much better story.