Nintendo: We're Sorry About E3

RememberThe357 - 525 days 13 hours ago

Oh well, maybe next time.

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daveman3 - 525 days 11 hours ago

apology not accepted

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Lifendz - 525 days ago

what did you expect from Nintendo? Didn't they show you who their target market is by now? It's not the crowd that was disappointed with their press conference; it's the crowd that wants Wii music. The crowd that wants Wii fit.

You guys bought the Wii expecting the next Nintendo 64 (great console btw) and it's not anywhere near that. It's a console for the casual primarily with a very limited catalog of games for the hardcore.

Time to make an investment in a PS3 or 360 or get used to the next casual friendly slew of games from Nintendo.

Edit: Go ahead and disagree. That press conference was an absolute insult to the non-casual gamer and I think Nintendo shouldn't even be at events like E3 if that's the sort of conference they're going to give.

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rexor0717 - 524 days 23 hours ago

IF you already have a Wii and are disappointed by the lack of hard core, then move to a PS3 or 360. There is plenty there, and if Nintendo finally goes back to their roots for a game or two, you will still have the wii to play. But for a videogame enthusiast, a Wii wont do.

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Bubble Buddy - 524 days 23 hours ago

What are you guys talking about, Wii Music is teh most pwnage game out there. /sarcasm

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J@D - 524 days 23 hours ago

Yeah, it was horrible especially Wii Music... and that woman on the events PUPPY ARE CUTE blah blah blah' I was tuning off my speaker each time that woman goes into the stage o.O

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Hellangelzx - 525 days 14 hours ago

Did you say the 64 was a disaster? Really?

It's probably nintendo's best console. Ever.

HAd some of the best games.
Starfox 64
supermario 64
Zelda games
Donkey Kong 64
Umm, can't remember the rest of the games in my posseion =P

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Mr Fancy Pants - 525 days 19 hours ago

not exactly a toy but a good business move. the focus to casual gamers it's what gave legs to their company since the disaster I called N64.

now nintendo it's drowning in money. who's giving money to nintendo? casuals. that means they no longer cares about cores.

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ape007 - 525 days 17 hours ago

@3.1

n64 disaster?

mario 64,turok 1 and 2,zelda:oot,banjo kazooi,goldeneye007,banjo tooei,jet force jemini,conker:bad fur day,shadow man,perfect dark(best fps ever IMO),donkey kong 64,killer instict gold,paper mario,zelda majora's mask,rayman 2,the world is not enough(ps1 version suck)
wwe:no mercy(best wwe game ever)beetle adventure racing,mariokart 64,diddy kong racing

all of this+more= disaster????

you sure didn't have one

the n64 IMO,the best video game console along with ps2

consoles today suck tbh

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sidar - 525 days 16 hours ago

Fancy pants,
Stop using Drugs....really.

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Voiceofreason - 525 days 16 hours ago

@APE007, The library of games is not the reason the N64 is considered a failure by many. It was the lack of sales. the N64 was the most mature system Nintendo put out as far as games go. The majority of people just didnt care though. They wanted the casual friendly PS1.

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sidar - 525 days 14 hours ago

@ voice,
ironic isn't it...

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Mr Fancy Pants - 525 days 11 hours ago

why i said a failure?

first: nintendo was last two gen since the N64

second: what games are you talking Ape? i could mention like 30 games from PS1 and from the genere that i like, Jrpg's only, without counting crash bandicoot, tomb raider, spyro and all the new franchise that were created during that time.

and yeah, believe it or not i was a nintendo fanboy until the Wii came. i have every zelda, mario and metroid games on consoles and i have beat every one of them; including zelda II: adventure of link.

i don't even think that any of you know more about Jrpg's from the snes than me. heck, i'm even totally sure that i know more about nintendo than the two of you...

what happens is that you're fanboys and can't see things clearly, that's all.

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sl0w-m0 - 525 days 8 hours ago

How the hell can you not recognize ANY of the games he listed? I even have all those games except a couple. If you think the 64 is a failure then you're either talking out of your ass, never had one, or you're probably too young to even remember it (most likely).

BTW i'm not even a Nintendo fanboy, I just think the 64 is the best console Nintendo made (I don't like the Wii that much)

nvm about the age comment I didn't really read your comment clearly, but if you had a 64 and still don't recognize any of those games Ape listed than that makes it even sadder

"the N64 was the most mature system Nintendo put out as far as games go. The majority of people just didnt care though. They wanted the casual friendly PS1."

Thats BS. How the hell are there more "casual" games on the PS1 than the Nintendo 64 which had Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Mario Kart, etc you must be delusional unless I have the wrong definition of what casual games are

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titntin - 525 days 5 hours ago

For me - the N64 was an excellent machine and I STILL play some of the great titles it brought me.

But a company does not exist to satisfy my needs. It needs to make money, and the N64 was a flop in terms of market penetration and making any money and was widely seen as a business disaster and the beginning of the end for Nintendo. Gaming heaven or not, doesn't enter the equation for shareholders and those responsible for running the company, its about cold hard cash.

The cube did little to turn this around financially, and many considered that Nintendo were going to go completely out of the running.

But the DS showed them the light. A novel feature set and a bunch of software that appealed to people well outside the normal gamer demographic was making them enough bucks to stay in the game and shift a lot of software.

They took this concept and brought it to there next console and the Wii was the result. You can't argue with the validity of what they did. They are sitting on a mountain of cash and have completely turned around their fortunes as a company.

I personally find it frustrating that they couldn't make this kind of success by catering to my core tastes as I want some of what made ninty so special to me in the past.
But the past is the past.
For all its success as a gaming platform for me, the N64 and then the cube, showed Nintendo that they were doomed if they continued catering to the core gamer market.
You can't blame them for making a success of their company, and much as I can wish they still made their hardware and software targeted at me, I have to accept that Nintendo no longer serve the core demographic and move on. I make do with the odd classic like Galaxy or Metroid and turn to the other two machines for my fix.

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ape007 - 525 days 3 hours ago

the n64 IMO is much,much better gaming system than wii and ds which both kicked the hell out of n64 in sales

the n64 is a console for the ages

I can't even remember one game that sucked on n64(screw sales and marketing,people are stupid)

just look at turok 2 and now look at the new turok

look at the original perfect dark and take a look at pdz too see how much it sucks

today,even with next gen technology,there are too many games that sucks

even more didasterios

nintendo's own wii has 95% of its games that totally suck(see guys sales don't matter)

but the only n64 flaw was the lack of rpgs,fighting and driving games

and the cart space

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Gamefan79 - 525 days 15 hours ago

I agree>i have a wii i bought for my son.he has Mario,Lego star wars,and a couple more.Even he doesn't see any good games he wants for it this year.What games do they even have worth mentioning.He wants a xbox 360 for xmas,and he is 8.hmm I see that word of mouth will sell any crap as long as it is hyped to be good.Yes im a ps3 fanboy.lol

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sidar - 525 days 13 hours ago

I'm seriously glad that they did not added it within the controller.
The size back then would have been Big and power consuming(and expensive as hell).

Also they never promised 1:1 gameplay, Wii-mote was doing its job and that was replace "buttons" with movement, or in your case "waggle".
Its only better they are at least bringing this on the table, its better than nothing.

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va_bank - 525 days 20 hours ago

... they have all year to NOT make announcements. That's what E3 and other conventions are for.

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Altered_Soul - 525 days 16 hours ago

I don't know what world you were living in, but Nintendo basically lured in all the hardcore gamers with enticements of future reveals, got us in a dark shack behind the darker alley, and then punched us in the face with a middle finger.

I don't give a rats ass about the "Wii is not hardcore" argument, as I love mine, but what does piss me of is Reggie saying "There will be hardcore news", and then expecting us to think Animal Crossing is hardcore...

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Voiceofreason - 525 days 16 hours ago

ONe sentence you say just one good game is all you wanted then you get mad over just one game. Of course MAd world was hardly the only core game at E3. I guess you missed the next CoD, The Conduit and GTA on DS.

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VaeVictus - 523 days 20 hours ago

I have long since abandoned Nintendo. They aren't even hiding their abandonement of gamers anymore. The Wii will lead this generation, but I sense a huge falloff for the next one unless they make some drastic changes. The idea that their big wigs don't understand why people are upset is the most compelling evidence of their total lack of understanding what people who want to buy games to play want. Nintendo Wii, meet the Pet Rock.

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sidar - 525 days 16 hours ago

...Thats what im trying to say all allong but people call me "fanboy" for that.
E3 didn't mean anything, and Nintendo said before that they wont speak of their projects because the believe " it might get uninteresting after a while".

This was pretty obvious, its just stupid to think they have nothing else in developement.

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Gamefan79 - 525 days 14 hours ago

I like Mario as well,BUT it is clearly not the best game this generation.Before i get flagged by hate I own a wii and a ps3.As far the best game this Gen,hmm hard to say.Ps1 i clearly loved Final Fantasy.Ps2 gen was ruled by gta3.Now it's hard to pick a clear winner cause i've had a bunch of 360 games before mine broke,and now i'm enjoying ps3 so i guess mgs4,call of duty 4,or uncharted.Question how can you have a system this gen and not let it be hd.Without hd it may as well be last gen

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sidar - 525 days 13 hours ago

Why should it be HD?
With such a success, it seems things like HD look like trivial things to the majority of the consumers.

" Without hd it may as well be last gen "
Why? So now its not good that the Wii has AT LEAST more power?
To your logic they should have left the specs lower than it is now...thats just stupid.

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Voiceofreason - 525 days 16 hours ago

Not getting a core game? You missed Punch Out, SMG2 and new Zelda announcements? Wii is far from not getting any core games, they are just waiting for TGS to show them off. Oh and COD5, Mad World, Conduit, and GTA were at E3 for Nintendo. Hardly a casual only event with those games.

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linkmaster95 - 524 days 23 hours ago

HA! Are you just saying that to distract yourself from the sales data that shows the Wii beating both the 360 and the ps3? Why would you spend time trashing other consoles when you could just trash people that trash your console?

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gumgum99 - 525 days 19 hours ago

they were thinking animal crossing T_T

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TheDeadMetalhead - 525 days 18 hours ago

Nintendo DID have GTA DS and Animal Crossing Wii. It goes like this...

Sony------------------------N intendo------------------------ ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- -----------Microsoft.

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thereapersson - 525 days 2 hours ago

And you've become the joke of N4G, almost moreso than... well, nobody, really. I could say Power of Green, but even he looks like a regular Einstein when put in comparison with you. I guess maybe Rhezin and you could fight for the title of "biggest N4G clown"? Or how about PP or Nasim? I'm sure those two morons would be happy to play with you!

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