Nintendo haven't had the best running ever since the wii came out, sure the technology was good for the wii but the less so stellar graphics were appulling, they looked like the ps2, now i'm not doubting the ps2 had crap graphics but when you're seeing games played on the ps3 and the xbox 360, it feels like you're going back a generation when you switch over to the wii.
The games for the wii coming out these days have been so stupid and pointless that there's no point in people actually having a wii. Now when the wii first came out with games like red steel and super mario galaxy these were the cutting edge of gaming.
I was talking to my uncle the other day and there's rumours going round that nintendo might actually branch out to apple to try and get some market back for their exclusive content like mario and zelda. Now me and my uncle were going back and forth of why nintendo would and wouldn't do that.
Nintendo wouldn't do this at all, they've built up the company based on exclusive content, the only reason people bought the 3DS was one of two things, they wanted glasses free 3D and the other reason to play their old classics in 3D like the orcaina of time and play super mario 3D land. Nintendo have always produced consoles that based around exclusive content.
Now my uncle was saying, if they were really struggling and close to bankrupcty... Maybe.
If nintendo do switch over, I think they'll lose the company that they've built and remove every hardware engineer within the company and concentrate on software just like what sega did when they started to lose sales in the sega saturn and also the sega genesis addons and go multi-platform with their franchises like sonic the hedgehog and shinobi.
Just think of pokemon as the franchise, I know a lot of people who only bought a DS for pokemon, if people had the opptruinty to download pokemon onto their idevices they would not have the need to buy a nintendo product. If I had pokemon on my ipod, i'd be playing it all the time, leave angry birds and plants vs zombies, i'd be playing pokemon all the time!!
There's emulators for all kind of platforms on cydia but the gameboy advance emulator installs something called sandcastle that's required for the emulator to work but drains the battery an awful lot.
My ending opinion is, nintendo aren't going to breach out to apple unless they are really really struggling and on the verge of becoming bankrupt.
P.s apple don't really need anymore to justify getting shares into nintendo and the sales of ipod touches might rise but not a massive percentage because mostly everybody today either owns an ipod touch or an iphone.
Unless the Wii U is something amazing (and it doesn't look to be at first glance) Nintendo will be really struggling soon. Their 3DS caused many headaches, advised not for use by children of 6 and under i think it was (quite a core part of their DC range games) i also think the 3DS is close to a break even price so they are making the money on the games but at around £25 a game, people was heading to iOS/Android for their small screen fixes. It might be a case of if they leave it too long and Apple keep selling their hardware as they are they may not need the extra few million sales of Nintendo products...but i think they could make a lot of money fast releasing their back catalogue on iOS/Android etc. for very little actual work on their behalf... Their stock price is at a 5 year low, and dropped at the first Wii U showing so it really needs a big console success this year...
ReplyDeleteAt first look, the wii U doesn't seem like anything amazing but the amount of third party support the wii U is getting. The way that nintendo are innovating the way we play our games. You've already seemn the affect it's had on our gaming like the playstation vita and the ps3 communicate with each other.
DeleteYou've also got the ipad/idevices with airplay and the apple tv, the way that all of these devices communicate with each other to give a wii U like experience