Slashgamer Writes: "Until the Wii was release to the masses, Nintendo was having a hard time trying to convince the public to accept their consoles into their homes. Sure, the NES and the Super Nintendo were smash hits and the Japanese-based company was riding high, but once the Nintendo 64 hit the market - that all changed. The first time in the company's history, they were no longer the current sales leader for consoles sold in a particular generation, thanks to the Sony PlayStation. Sony went on to sell 102 million systems worldwide, a record at the time. Nintendo, who released the N64 to compete with the original PlayStation, lagged behind with a little under 33 million sold total, even though it was marketed as a 'more' powerful system.
There was one sole key reason that marked the first time Nintendo would lose a 'console war,' and that was their inability to adapt to a new media."
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
New Chrono Trigger Form-ism figures of Crono and Marle have been showcased at a Square Enix pop-up store, with pre-orders expected soon.
It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
how is he wrong?
they make it sound like what he said is fact its just his opinion and i happen to agree with his opinion
while i use downloads for 1 thing or another
i will always support physical media over all
at the end it sounded like physical media was gonna be gone for good
even if digital downloads are the future physical media isn't going anywhere
Miyamoto's a fan of physical things. Remember when he said that video consoles require a controller (I guess in response to what he thought of Natal)? Same thing.
He likes things he could see, touch, use, whatever.
His opinion is a prediction, which can be wrong or right. Only time can tell.
DD ftw .
It`s Mr . Miyamoto`s opinion .
It all depends on the person .
i don't care what's trendy in the future, i like physical games and if it comes down to some games being released by digital only then i will go without those games, because personally I feel that you don't own it with download only, and there are a number of reasons why ( servers shutting down, ridiculous license agreements ( such as being permanently banned from playing a game if conditions are breached ( and seeing as how square-enix is banning legit players from selling items to certain merchants in ffX1)), i can imagine it would be easy to do