Do you even read what you write? You're not making any sense at all. Nintendo's PowerPC architecture is far weaker than either of the two x86-based systems by Sony and MS. Who cares if it uses a tiny amount less electricity? What a dumb statement.
And PowerPC is much harder to program for than x86, which is another deep flaw in your logic. Developers can use many of the same tools that are available for PC game development when designing PS4 and XB1 games.
Nope, the game bombed hard (330k worldwide sales), and got many terrible reviews (Metacritic score of 69). No matter how much you wish it were different, Star Fox Zero was a huge failure for Nintendo, and for its fans.
And I bet you never even play it anymore. My OG Xbox still works great, but I never play it anymore. I do play my 360 and PS3 occasionally.
The point isn't that these older consoles still work, it's that Nintendo cuts way too many corners on the design and specifications of their consoles. Until they step up to the plate and offer better products for the money, they'll continue to slide into irrelevance in the gaming industry and community.
What? Both Sony and MS offer great technology in their consoles, considering the price. Most people aren't going to pay $700-800 for a console, so these two consoles are highly optimized for gaming.
Nintendo, on the other hand, hasn't offered solidly designed, feature-rich consoles for over a decade. Instead, they cut every possible corner on the design and features, throwing in a gimmick to try to ignite sales. Their gaming hardware is cheap junk, lacking many co...
At this point it's clear that Nintendo prefers the cheapest possible hardware they can get away with, to minimize their costs. They really don't care about offering a technologically advanced piece of gaming hardware, they just want something cheap to pad their profits. They throw in a gimmick to reel people in, but lately that approach has failed hard.
All of their gaming hardware for over a decade has been cheap stuff, lacking in even the most basic features found...
So, you want more blood and gore to teach gamers about the reality of war? People don't play games to learn about the atrocities of war, they play them for entertainment. Most people don't want to see realistic gore in games, if they did see that, they wouldn't want to play at all.
I understand the point you're trying to make, war is a disgusting thing, but that doesn't mean games need to illustrate that fact with realistic imagery.
@ Otaku - Well you SHOULD care, because in a short period of time, Nintendo will be forced to exit the gaming hardware business permanently. Then they'll either attempt to make games for the other platforms, or just sell off all their IPs to the highest bidder. It's a very selfish, close-minded -attitude you have, which really doesn't benefit Nintendo at all. With supposed "fans" like you, Nintendo's future really does look very bleak.
And where di...
"Don't expect Nintendo fans to by into the same crap yall get."
See, that snobby superior attitude is a common problem among diehard Nintendo fans like you. The funny thing is, you have no reason to act superior, when Nintendo's reputation has fallen so far in the gaming industry and community, all of their recent products have been gimmicky junk, and their gaming libraries are pitifully small and weak. You're living in your own little world, oblivious...
It's the "New Virtual Boy", according to a very knowledgeable source here on N4G.
I'm sure they are genuinely confused as well ,they seem to be clueless.
Wii U is a 7th generation console, along with the PS3 and 360. The other two consoles completely blow it away in terms of game libraries, and the Wii U can't even match multiplats from those systems, despite having come out 6-7 years after them. Nintendo clearly put all their effort into the gamepad gimmick, leaving very few resources for the Wii U console itself. The result was a mediocre console unable to offer competitive games.
No reason to bother with the Wii U unl...
Garbage review from a website desperate for clicks. Don't bother clicking, just downvote this shitty site and move on.
Look at the idiotic summary of the game (which makes no sense at all):
"The game is frustrating, unfair ordeal to the rest of the normally outfitted players. Similar annoyances work their way into the experience as well, creating for what is in the fullness of time, a subpar addition to a promising piece of single-player conten...
wonderfulmonkeyman knows very well why he consistently gets many disagrees; no matter how bad Nintendo's products and policies are, he blindly defends everything they do, and tries to shift the blame elsewhere. Nintendo's problems are all the fault of Nintendo itself, yet he literally never holds that company accountable. It's always someone else's fault, never Nintendo's fault.
With blind support for poor products and decisions from fans like wmm, it&#...
No, they don't need to "get permission" from outside developers on how to make their consoles. But if they don't bother to even solicit feedback about their plans, then they obviously don't care about getting solid 3rd party support. And in the case of the Wii U, this is exactly what happened.
The result? Very few developers were on board with the console, and it failed. If that's what you want to happen for the NX, by all means, keep supporting N...
But in the end, when the waggle gimmick fad fizzled out, the Wii died years before the competition. And burned all the fans who bought it. And it was completely unable to run multiplats from the other two consoles, another factor that contributed to its early demise.
So yes, it does have a lot to do with power. If the NX is another gimmicky, low-spec piece of hardware like the Wii and Wii U, it'll be dead on arrival.
At this point it's pretty clear that 3rd party developers are done with Nintendo consoles. Nintendo's arrogance in producing whatever gimmicky hardware they want, without consulting other developers, is one of a long list of reasons that they're not going to bother in the future. Why waste time developing games for Nintendo hardware, when most of the very fans who ardently support Nintendo won't bother to buy 3rd party games? That ship sailed a long time ago.
No, Nintendo is all about gimmicks, and those gimmicks have proven to make the gaming experience worse, not better. Fortunately the vast majority of gamers have come to realize this fact, and voted with their wallets by not buying into the gimmicky junk they produce.
@ Zeldafan64 - The gamepad trumps nothing at all, in fact the gamepad never proved it's value, and is the central reason why the Wii U failed. No matter how much you wish it were different, the gamepad was nothing more than an expensive, awkward, distracting gimmick that degraded gaming experiences, rather than improving them.
@ PurpHerbison - Haha nothing wrong with a little smokes now and then (never had the Purps), but braindead comments like Negative420's really need to be called out.
Well written article. Despite the fact that the Wii was very profitable for Nintendo, the console died years before the competition, when the casual market grew bored and dropped it. In the end, the Wii never really proved its worth, and will be remembered as a fad that fizzled out quickly. The result was damage to Nintendo's reputation, when many actual gamers realized that the system was a gimmick.