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Are we killing Nintendo?

More of an emotional appeal than industry analysis, this piece examines a simple question: Did we, as gamers, help Nintendo into the tight spot it's in?

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teflontactics4517d ago

I hope so, they need to either evolve or die.

wonderfulmonkeyman4517d ago

They've taken more chances with hardware than the majority have in the past 3 generations.
They've also been doing their best to change up their own series while courting indies more strongly than ever.
They're evolving.
Slowly, but surely.
And if they died, the industry would stagnate.
It's because we've got 3 as big as the 3 are now that we've got any variety at all.

sweendog4516d ago

Nobody needed the big 3 when it was Sega and nintendo.

wonderfulmonkeyman4516d ago

@ Sween, the market was way different back then.
3's pretty much the minimum now.

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kneon4516d ago

If one left the market there are others waiting on the sidelines, Google, Apple, maybe even Amazon.

AsimLeonheart4516d ago (Edited 4516d ago )

What about the software? Nintendo is still making cheerful platformers for the most part when majority of the gamers are playing multiplayer shooters, western styled RPGs, open world games and action adventure games. When they do try for something new, they release eccentric games like Wonderful 101 that fail commercially. Evolving means to adapt to the newer environment in order to survive and prosper. In case of a games manufacturer, it means to make games according to the new and different tastes of the customers. I understand that Nintendo fans like them the way they are but they will evolve only when they make games that majority of the people like playing these days.

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mrbojingles4517d ago

Yea coz more competition never benefited the products you enjoy?

Dehnus4516d ago

Because they don't give you the games you like, it needs to die so the people who enjoy their games can go without.

Here is what is wrong with Electronic Gaming Culture.

teflontactics4516d ago

It's more to the effect of Nintendo's only good games being first party, and even then they're few and far between. It's not worth buying their consoles to play less than a handful of really good games when I can have a much better experience elsewhere and across a wider (and frankly better quality) set of titles overall.

Nintendo should move to the software business like Sega did, it's pretty much their only chance to stay relevant.

MasterCornholio4516d ago

Your a little harsh but I do agree with you that Nintendo needs to change the way they develop their consoles.

I_am_Batman4516d ago

I'm curious. How would it make your life better when Nintendo would die?

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MajorGecko4517d ago

its like people got sick of dooming the vita now they moved onto nintedo lol give it a break

BABY-JEDI4517d ago

I thought Nintendo were committing suicide?

kneon4516d ago

That's right, it's not my fault they don't make things I want to buy.

MasterCornholio4516d ago

Thats the same case for me. If Nintendo doesn't make something that I'm interested then I won't buy it. They are the ones who decide what their products will be like not me.

Mikethejew4516d ago

No, Nintendo is slowly killing itself

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7766d ago (Edited 66d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS65d ago (Edited 65d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer91d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi90d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure90d ago (Edited 90d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer91d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot91d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box90d ago (Edited 90d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno91d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay91d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno89d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK89d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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