[Revival]

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Nintendo has been around since 1889 (then making Hanafuda playing cards) and while time went on the company changed with it. From cards they made toys and then opened grand toy factories creating substantial profits. Nintendo explored the theme of arcades but poor economic conditions pushed Nintendo to lessen its investment in the early arcades and bring in more profit from toys. After seeing the success in America of TV based games they moved in that direction with the TV-Game 6 and then TV-Game 15. Nintendo's first arcade games didn't make a great impact on the gaming world and so they sold the handheld Game & Watch units to increase profits. As we all know Shigeru Miyamoto was recruited and created the now famous game Donkey Kong which was at first mocked by American arcade distributors.

This was the beginning of Nintendo's true success. I'm sorry for all the background information but to understand their way of doing things you must look at one's past. Nintendo continued to change with the times in order to stay alive and successful. But from this success they have become too comfortable. They feel that no matter what they will continue to thrive as a company based on their name and fan base alone. Miyamoto now experiments with new forms of gaming because he's tired to just trying to please the public. It's obvious he wants people to connect with eachother on a personal level while playing games.

Take a look at his parenting. He will play with his kids but restricts their time with the system. Miyamoto knows life isn't all about games and that you must be able to break from them to enjoy life. If you're constantly online with a game there's always something changing and to log out would be to miss out. While playing with someone you can physically touch this isn't the case and the two of you can disconnect yourselves from the game and engage in another past time or just talk face to face. But as stated Nintendo has a history of changing to keep itself alive. Though now their online plans seem to be "crappy" they'll eventually need to enter cyberspace. GameCube is the test for such a thing. Third party developers want to go online so Nintendo let's them, just as long as they do it on their own.

I feel GameCube will have a few great online games (PSOv1&2) and there may be even more as time progresses but the next generation will focus on online gaming to a much greater extent. And with a new president things may progress faster than we may have thought. Nintendo means "left to heaven's hands" and that's exactly how they treat everything such.