[TheGame]

heh heh heh

About time I creep into this thread...

First of all, I would like to say that Nintendo going third party would be a better move for ME. We talk about how the company makes more money as a first party, but who gives a damn? If Nintendo stops making consoles, there is one less console to buy, period.

Second of all, I think going third party could kill any developer. I'd much rather Nintendo become a second party.

Now, would it be a smart move for Nintendo? I say yes. Here are my reasons (debate if you dare):

1) Nintendo has faithful fans, but the group of faithfuls have been getting noticably smaller over the generations percentage wise. it went from NES's 100%, to SNES's 50%, to N64's 33%, and now to gamecube's ???%. The fact is, the market is growing, and Nintendo isn't.

2) If Nintendo developed exclusivly for Sony or Microsoft that could help both game quality and the sales of games.

On the game quality end, we'll say Xbox. Xbox is simply better hardware, more features, and more stuff to innovate with. You couldn't name one thing Nintendo could do with GCN that they couldn't do with Xbox as a second party.

On the sales end, Ps2. Imagine how much more effective the GBA-GCN(now Ps2) link up would have been. Pokemon online would also be a bigger possibility, and it would have a VASTLY bigger crowd of gamers to sell it to. I mean, what's more profitable, a game that sells 1 million copies on GCN, or 5 million copies on Ps2?

3) Nintendo would still be able to keep the GBA. The fact is, GBA is the most profit friendly system there is right now. Nintendo probably pays pennies to make it, and sells it for a pretty unreasonable price (especially the GBA:SP)...and people still feed in to it. Like it or not GBA is the reason Nintendo is the most profitable company, not GCN.

4) Partnership before competition strikes. It looks like Sony and MS are/were planning to make a handheld system... By Nintendo joining one or the other, not only will they get support from the company they join, they will also be able to relax even more than they are now in the handheld market.

ok, that's about it.

Personally, I think Nintendo should ride GCN out, then jump ship to Sony or Microsoft. Like Crash pointed out, Nintendo's console is superior... but gaming is coming to a time where graphics just don't matter. Next generation does anybody here really think a console will stand out in visuals? I don't think so.... I think only 2 thinks will seperate the systems. 1) The features the console has and 2) The games the console has.

Even now it's basically at that point. A game ugly as hell like GTA:VC can sell like there's no tomorrow, while visual masterpeices fail.

The thing I hate about Nintendo in comparision to Sony or Microsoft is that they worry WAY too much about profit. When they worry about that too much it in turn hurts the game quality because they aren't willing to go out on a limb with things, like for Example online gaming, or making any notorious changes to sequals(the way I see it, change the bad selling games, and keep the good selling games the same.. Nintendo has done the exact opposite this generation). If Nintendo becomes a second party they could worry about what they are great at... making games.