Stephen Kelley of gamrFeed: "With all the exciting new gadgets on the horizon, such as the Wii-U and the PlayStation Vita, one has to remember all the failed technology that made modern gaming the way it is now. Will the ingenious screen on a controller of the Wii-U, or a back touch screen on the Vita be successful, or will these technologies be on a similar list a few years from now? Some technologies look bad at first, yet somehow come back. Take the motion control peripherals of today and compare them to their failed forefathers such as the Nintendo Power Glove and the Sega Activator. What about a camera based game like Kinect? It’s a long way from the lukewarm reaction to the original EyeToy. The following list contains ten innovative gaming technologies that, while popular at the time, ended up as novelties or luxuries and floundered completely. This is the top ten great gaming ideas that ultimately failed, in no particular order. "
Sega has released its financial statement for the 2023-24 fiscal year, and profits may be up, but it's mostly not down to video games.
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."
The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.
i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.
nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.
people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly
mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.
zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.
nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.
its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.
but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.
Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.
Goombas smell like shrooms brah.
Nice article!
I remember the e reader lol.. I bought it because one of my friends said i could use it to transfer my pokemon cards into ruby and sapphire... which i figured out you couldnt after I had bought it it was an interesting idea though.
Also iSmell needs to exist again...Other than the gross stuff The smell of napalm in the morning would be sweeeeeeeeeet!
I want to smell Wario with the iSmell
There was one barcode scanning game that even looking back on, was fairly decent. "Scan Command: Jurassic Park" had you scan barcodes to get tetris shapes that you would use in your Dinosaur's DNA. The shapes had stats and would effect your dinosaurs fighting skills.
I scanned SOOOOO many things to fill out the abilities but I eventually ran out of unique barcodes which it kept track of. Then I found if you kept scanning denim jeans, it would eventually see some random barcode. :P