History backs up Nintendo: Shedding some new light

Well the old saying goes, “If you don’t learn from history then you are doomed to repeat it." And I believe everyone agrees with this.

So now we see that this happens all the time that people don’t learn from their mistakes. And the upcoming console race is a great example. History says a lot and right now History is backing up Nintendo. Read my post I wrote yesterday and maybe you’ll shed a new light on the areas of graphics, Nintendo, and a revolution in gaming. All are covered in this post and opens up a new way at looking and after reading this analysis I think you’ll agree and maybe see how the Revo just may have the advantage in the most important area, GAMEPLAY. And then you may not be dissappointed in Nintendo not having the horsepower as the competition. So enjoy and give me feedback:



Well above a lot of Nintendo bashing I think the misinformed infor be blurted out is propostorous. Please if it is an opinion or rumor please state that. Matt is just an editor and he knows apsolutely nothing abou the real specs or anything. But he is a very good source for info and a big Nintendo fan.

Now if you want a arrow to the heart check out these Hollywood or GPU for the revo’s rumored specs. They are pretty good:

http://www.connectrevolution.com/version2/igaming/index.php?do=viewarticle&id=45

Well above everything let us go over something. Why do people play games. Well there is one reason and one reason only. For entertainment right. Well what provides entertaiment. Well that is easy the games. And what makes a game good. Well that is another easy one. Well whay makes the gameplay good. Well the storyline and originality.

So if we look at everything down to the smallest bit that 100% of gamers play games because of the gameplay. So really saying that a system is going to fail cause it doesnt' have the right hardware but has made a big innovation towards gameplay is as yall would say hyppocritical right. So yes hardware improvements need to be made but what is that going to get you in the game. Well except some nice visuals and a few better game designs not really anything noticeable while you are playing the game.

Let us take Tetris for a sec. This game is one of the most popular games even today. And yet it was released with no graphically good performance yet sold 33 million units. Well they weren’t buying it for graphics so why did they buy it. Well duh. They bought it cause it had the most addictive gameplay ever.

So if this is what sales a game then why aren’t companies such as MS and Sony focusing on gameplay the most. Shouldn’t they be doing that the most rather than hardware.

Well this might explain maybe a reason why gaming popularity has gone down. The best selling year was the year with only 8 bits the primitive graphics compared today. So why did that sale. Well probably sold because didn’t have to work on graphics just gameplay and originality is all they worked one.

So that explains something now. Ever since the grahpics get more powerful the less and less of game console sales there are. So what this is saying when the graphics go up the less and less amount of innovative and compelling gameplay is put into the game. So basically companies are thinking if they make a visually good-looking game then they will have a good game.

This is a reason why gaming has declined because not enough innovative and compelling games made. You’ll see a few every now and then but not enough.

So you ask yourself why gaming is going down and the real problem is hardware. So is hardware that is good neccesarily a good thing. It’s okay but it is making the developers lazy cause they think visuals are everything. But if we look at history that ain’t the case. The best-selling games are the ones that are the oldest and less-graphically visual.

So you look at the future generation and you look at history. And you think which way would you go. Well history tells you the bettering of hardware means worse sales. And I’ve already explained why. So then we stand here and critisize Nintendo’s concept and controller and way of going about this gen and historically accurate in the gaming market there way does exactly what history tells them to do. That is make gaming the way it was when you had the NES and Sega consoles.

So overrall everything comes back to games and if hardware as history has proved doesn’t sale games then there is a problem. And if we keep seeing hardware as the answer to the declines then you aren’t learning from history that says hardware is what is causing games to decline. But if we make the games better and the gameplay better and more thrilling then we will have sales like the NES days. So innovation and improvement to gameplay is where all attention should be focused.

So point being hardware is good to improve on but how much will it matter in the final product. Apsolutely no where. It ain’t going to matter. Someone could release an 8 bit game right now and if its gameplay is amazing that game will sale like hotcakes. But if you allow the developers to have alot of hardware they’ll get lazy and not make a good gameplay but a good visual.

So Nintendo’s controller is trying to go where history says it should go. Good hardware is causing bad gameplay and as we say everything comes down to the games. If the gameplay ain’t good then no one will buy it. So good hardware=bad games.

Yet average hardware meaning improvements enough to be a good improvement but a legendary change in a way of playing this just gives an overral new excitement. AS gannon said that gaming was better in the NES cause more good games were being created and this explains why.

So Nintendo’s route is actually the right path. Change and surprise is what gamers want or else if we keep following the same path as MS and Sony are doing gaming will fail in at the most 10 years. Gaming can only be saved by games and the games need to be new and original like the were in the NES days.

ONLY the REVOLUTION offers this and because of that you may finally see how wonderful this is. Hardware only will be the destruction of gaming. But gameplay improvements will be the savior of it. Nintendo has the right route and if history is correct it will be a big success.


This is why Nintendo chose the controller and history says it will work. You should shed new light guys cause this analysis is just wondeful. And yes I did write this so give thanks later. This will open a new way of thinking on Nintendo’s strategy and maybe you can see how good of a way it really is.

So thank you I give credit to gannon for helping me see this. OH and sorry for the length but take time to read it or you will never understand the advantage the controller really gives and why gaming needs a Revolution and why the regular way of gaming is destroying the market.

A REVOLUTION IS COMING. REVOLUTION DAY. JUNE 6, 2006




Well this makes perfect sense and I think that it is just a different way of thinking. This is Nintendo’s strategy and history is backing them up. If history is correct, which it always is, then Nintendo has an upmost advantage in the biggest area of all, gameplay.

Beautiful,absolutely beautiful I could have not said that better myself let me get real I could have not said that at all.

You make so much sense Zucas I personally think
you should submit this article to Nintendo Power
or any other magazine for that matter.It just exlplains so much,I did at one point have this same opinion just wasn’t able to express it the way you did. Very Good Job.

I’m going to read it over and over again until I fall asleep. lol.

Keep up the good work. =)

Kilik- Thank you. Yah I think it is beautiful analysis myself.

I mean if you read it and you look at stats and everything it makes the point and it is serious. Hardware wars are destroying gaming. Games is what it comes down to and if developers only think that visuals is the goal they will make shitty gameplay. Proven fact over the years.

But Nintendo is learning from history. They want gameplay to be the most important thing so games will be better which means better sales. They want developers only thinking about games and gameplay and you already seeing those reactions from developers. They are only talking about possibilities and with that you will see a lot of new, innovative, and compelling games coming out on the revolution.

Thank you for your feedback. I mean the analysis does make a lot of sense and the name of the topic fits. You read this and you will shed some new light on the Revolution cause what it is doing makes a lot of sense and you will want to see what games come on it.

So thank you Kilik I hope everyone else sees it the same as you. You, TR, and Kev360 have all felt the same way.

Excellent. You deserve an applause.

*claps*

*Claps* I Believe in what u wrote, NINTENDO WILL WIN THE NEXT-GEN WAR COMPETITION

Thank you SA-X and Flippy the Squirrel. I guess I should go with Kilik and send it to Nintendo Power to put in their magazine. OH well but yah it says a lot and it really does make a lot of sense.

*clapping and whislteing*
ya dude send that to nintenod power i will look for it soon if you do...like you could miss that huge thing...
your article was aweinspiring and breath takeing ..i laughed ..i cryed...i raped a small mammal or two

oh and one reason why the number of gamers are going down thayou didn’y talk aboot to much is that ms and sony fans ..die,go broke,and get uninterseted which will decrease the number of sony and ms gamers ....and sonys and ms’s marketing plans are to keep the same fan base now ..we hat fan base to slowly going down ...when babys are born they do not instantly become a ms or sony player..but when people die they instantly don’t play ms or sony no more.(cuz there dead) so the number of people that they have goes away faster then they gain people and sense there startegy is to keep the fans they have now they will gain very few....

nintendo has realize that(history(thanks to zucas)) and tey are looking to expand the number of gamers instead of keeping the same fan base ....you kind of mentioned that zucas but not that much



great article!

nice

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nintendo forever- Exactly. The way of gaming today is not working cause the success of the NES and SNES generations is far more superior to this generation. Yet instead we keep wanting to stay in that even thought sales and profits go down.

So Nintendo wants to change that. They decide to put gameplay back at #1 and keep hardware in it a respectable 3rd on the spectrum. So if they improve gameplay then all developers are thinking about it making a better game. So with developers only thinking about possibilities with Nintendo there is going to be a lot more innovative and compelling games.

Hardware is definetly destroying gaming and we can all see it now. Developers just get to lazy on making a gameplay cause they think that all they need is nice visuals. And wrong.

gannon- yah I got this from when you said that the NES and SNES gens were the golden days and I started comparing that to gaming sales declines and I finally figured out a legible conclusion. Of course that being that games are just not being made the way they were used. Not original, innovative, and compelling anymore. But thanks to Nintendo with its new controller you’ll see all sorts of those games.

If anybody else has any analysis on this same thing feel free to post it. But makes sure it sticks to the topic.

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I read the entire thing. Wonderful analysis. But it seems to be only for the hardcore gamer and not the true gamer. Think about this. Nowadays, we have hardcore gamers. They like graphics. We need more true gamers. That is Nintendo’s goal.

I love the name “Flippy the Squirrel”.

“We can’t solve problems using the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
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Thank you Carl. I like tha analysis myself also.

But untrue on one section of your feedback. The only people who buy a system and even know what the specs are, are hardcore gamers.

More than 95% of gamers have no idea about specs. And actually gamers even today don’t buy games for visuals. If that was true then RE4 would have sold like 20 million copies but it didn’t. Or Halo 2 would have sold 10 million copies but it didn’t. Graphics has nothing to do with a gamer buying it. It is the game itself. They buy the game because it is good not because it looks the best. And that stands true to time and why you’ll see older games and consoles saling beastly well but when you come to this gen that sales are going down. So my analysis says why and that is because developers think that a visually good game= a great game. But that is wrong cause they aren’t making good gameplay. So because enought good gameplay games aren’t coming out then you won’t see as many gamers cause casual gamers buy a system cause it has good games and if all they are seeing is crap stuff with only good visuals they are just going to stop buying games and systems cause there are no good games.

Gamers today are no different from the gamers of the NES days. We want good games just like they did.

I find that flawed in multiple ways, yet somehow true to every word.

I must expand.



I believe (me) that there are three main genre of gamers. As we progress through the modern and technological ages we shall uncover more. However, it seems that we have the average (like most Nintendo fans and half Xbox/Sony fans), Hardcore (loves the graphics and nothing else), and true (is anybody a true gamer?). Nintendo will be creating what they call a Revolution, or something along the lines of “The overthrow of one government and its replacement with another” [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Revolution]. They are trying to destroy the tyranny of Hardcore gamers and convert the Average gamer into a true gamer.

If that makes any sense, I’ll be surprised.

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EVERY GAMER WHO PLAYS. EVERY GAMER WHO USED TO PLAY. EVEN THOSE WHO HAVE YET TO PLAY, REVOLUTION IS FOR YOU.

A REVOLUTION IS COMING. REVOLUTION DAY. JUNE 6, 2006.

Hey guys hope you get a kick of of this as I did
my little brother was on this web site
http://flash-movies.1.freeonlinegames.com/play/2903.html
its really funny check it out its all about Nintendo and funny little bits that only Nintendo fans would get.

Hope you like it.=)

Oh, yeah one more thing I need to apolagize to Zucas, sorry Zucas I kinda went off topic here hehe my bad I just read what you said to try to keep on topic, a little too late sorry again.=(

good job Zucas, nice , maybe people will get it now that grapics aren’t everything

i don’t think of my self a gamer i think of my self as a true nintendo gamer

So does that make you a better gamer than I?
Cause lets see I’ve been playing for a while now lets see since I was around 9 years old, now I’m twice that age. Now let me tell you what I think a true nintendo gamer is,or my interpretation of a true nintendo gamer,now because one is a true nintendo gamer does not mean he/she is better than anybody else who plays another system.Now I didn’t say thats what you are implying or thats what you said,this is just my view on this subject. I am a Nintendo faithful, I haven’t given up on any Nintendo system and I hope I won’t have to. I am looking forward to Nintendo’s new ideas and innovations. I think that a true Nintendo gamer as you put it knows when to be critical of some things that Nintendo has done,and when to defend where Nintendo is going as a GAMING Company. That is just a little on what I think.

Now tell me in your opinion what is a true Nintendo gamer?

I must say, this topic is a shining light among all of the tripe that I had to sort through to get here.
Nintendo is in fact shifting the market. I don’t really buy the true/hardcore/casual gamer analysis; it really just comes down to the bottom line. Nindendo doesn’t care if people buy an XBox or PS3. what they care about is this: CAN THE REVOLUTION COEXIST?

That is the beauty of the system, the fact that its not only going after the traditional market of true/hardcore/whichever gamers. They’re marketing to the guy who would be the perpetual whupping boy as well. The girl who tried gaming once, but couldn’t get used to the controller. The older crowd who feel like they can’t keep up with the complexity of the controls. In short, they can really open up a new market.

Sorry if I’m repeating any previously stated ideas.