Nintendo is gone. Well, not gone as in vanished or destroyed entirely, but gone as in changed – transformed.
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.
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Ooh, this is gonna have a fun comment section.
"Nintendo was losing touch with what gamers wanted"
Yes follow the hord that actually brought them into their own doom...well almost.
Recheck N64 and the GCN days.
Great support from the gamers right? LOL.
Nintendo has done enough to please their usual fanbase.
Other people are just whining for the sake of it.
And with the upcoming titles im not really seeing how they lost touch at all.
"The irony of this is, of course, that Nintendo was the company that started the arms race in the first place. They were the ones that designed the SNES to display 32,768 colors, compared to the Genesis’s 512. And they were the ones that created the Super FX co-processor – a graphics chip (released during the 16-bit era) that allowed for never-before-seen 3D visuals on a home console."
Actually Nintendo usually had the lower specs. They used Add-ons to beef up their hardware( like the FX-chip inside some games)
Eventually other consoles did that stuff out of the box.
"And so, yes, Nintendo is gone. Gone, but not forgotten. The company’s innovations and brilliance during the 80s and 90s "
Lets not show him what the first NES package art looked like...lets just hint out there was a mama, a dada and a child playing some Nintendo game.
This guy is delusional =D.
what a joke. nintendo didnt really changed its the people who grew up with nintendo change.
so the motion controller not a innovation? weird cuz i thought it was.
well over the years nintendo did lose developers and gamers but that about all. i dont see how they are losing touch.
When i was a kid and i had a N64 i was the biggest Nintendo fanboy. Games like Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, ISS 64, Legend Of Zelda, F Zero X, Mario Kart and 64 etc etc. Now compare those games that were made over 10 years ago to Wii game. Nintendo are dead to me.
What a pathetic article. xD Kinda sad, really.