Time you Dummy
 

http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazi...557120,00.html

We've been hearing from Nintendo haters for months about how Nintendo is going to 'die' and all this and suddenly Nintendo is doing the best in sales nd profits for this quarter...and what does Time Magazine have the gall to do? It publishes an article about how it thinks Nintendo is going belly up.

Basically using information people who care have known for months, the writer of this article has found its way to state how it thinks Nintendo "...cannot hope to win a technological arms race against deep-pocketed Sony and Microsoft." Without of course taking into account such factors as Nintendo has made the most Profit off their system term wise and is currently selling at the highest rate since its 99 price cut, a feat the magazine brushes off by saying "...they may well have an adverse effect on Nintendo's profits unless game-software sales rise dramatically too" not stating the fact that the XBOX has been doing that very thing since its launch. Then top it with a parallel to Nintendo to having 'a Disney-like imaginiative edge' and using the old 'Nintendo is for Kids argument', this article doesn't boast anything special and seems just to want to slander Nintendo, including what they have done to improve.

Oh, did I mention the writer comes two steps short of saying Nintendo is going to lose the Hand Held market....to a system that has yet to sell enough systems to fill a stocking and one that isn't even out for another year? This entire article if filled with everything and all things 'Nintendo is going to die' all over as if they single handedly want to bring back the Fandom internet console wars of last year.

They actually pay somebody to live in Tokyo to give us information spanning a couple years we already know and give us his personal opinions. Man, why can't I get a job like that. I can write at a 7th grade reading level.

What, do they think that the N-Gage is going to beat out the GBA? HAHAHA!

Not quite, they're putting their hopes on the PSP, which they believe will do the same as the PS1 (the amazing source of game information they are...)

its Time ASIA. Maybe im an ugly american for saying this: but when have you heard of ANYTHING from Time Asia?

although i think there are valid points in there about the console market, price slashing is all well and good for the consumer, but usualy never a good sign for the company. as well as the fact that Playstation and Xbox are backed by transnational megacorporations with bottomless pockets capable of shaking off million dollar dives like a slap on the wrist, whereas Nintendo is just Nintendo.

however, I would be hardpressed to listen to, much less belive, any argument for a hand-held that could even rival the Gameboy's grip on the market.

The GBA is all that is keeping Nintendo afloat at the moment, and they know it. Eventually they'll got the route of Sega. I give 'em one more console. It's a shame, I'll admit, I have many great memories on Nintendo systems. They're just in a different market now, and don't seem to have adjusted to it.

What? Nintendo go the way of Sega? NEVER! The GC is more successful than that article leads one to believe. Nintendo is far from finished. They'll have another console after the next one (due for release in 2005), guaranteed.

the big difference between sony and nintendo is that SONY DOESNT PUBLISH GAMES. sony does hardware, not software. they sell the console... and that's it. nintendo sells the console, and then the games that go with it. considering as a GC will pretty much 75% of the time have at least 2 nintendo games post purchase added to it, the profit that nintendo makes is pretty fuggin' high.

metroid
zelda
mario
=
profit

and that's without including the GBA

Sony does publish games. Sony Computer Entertainment of America is responsible for HUNDREDS of games. Check their website, the list is huge. And includes some top sellers too, like Socom, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter, etc.

Nintendo isn't going to die. Nintendo has a product that works, works well. It doesn't have the massive controller of the X-Box, and it's got a much better frame rate than the PS2. Nintendo publishes great, grandoise and perfected games. Nintendo is now profitting more by the price cut. They're beating the Xbox and Playstation. Nintendo isn't going the way of Sega. They're going the way of their own. It has been around since NES. I think the price cut signals the end of the GameCube will be soon. Which is actually good, because I figure that means that the new system, let's call it the NCube, will have the ability to play old GC games on it. Now of course Sony or Microsoft may outrun Nintendo, but ol' Nintendo will hang on for dear life. It shall not die fools, it shall not die.

Nintendo will never die as long as it has a loyal fanbase. It's the hardcore nintendophiles that will keep the company afloat (and there are millions of them).