Cybylt said:
The majority of people felt Nintendo's show was a refreshing change of pace from the others because it was, just rapidfire delivery of gameplay video after gameplay video. The longest time between a new game being shown was two or three minutes, not the better part of an hour.
fair enough, i can concede that they showed most gameplay footage, considering thats pretty much all they did.
They didn't sideline games discussion at a games conference to talk about movies for 40 minutes. And I'd like to point it out again, they showed more gameplay per game than Sony or Microsoft's showings combined.
And here is your mistake. This is not games conference, thats PAX. This is shareholders conference. they are supposed to talk about why people should invest into them, not show games. it just so happens that showing games is a good way to attract investors. therefore the amount of gameplay shown or how long they talked about movies is completely irrelevant since this is E3.
Oh, and nintendo wasnt even part of it either, they just released thier own conference at the same time.
Oh, and I went back through that list and checked the exclusives since that's what sells a system, and here's what we got.
Well, i never claimed that Sony had more exclusives announced, merely more games overall. and i personally find exclusives as a DETRIMENT to the system. a system thats going to hold games hostage to a single platform is not worth my money. Obviuosly, nintendo is going to have most of them because ports to other systems are not allowed thanks to nintendo thinking they still own gaming, while other systems game developers are more free to multiplayform. the whole concept of games selling systems is wrong. systems should sell based on what the system is, and games should run on all of them. you know, like CD players, Mp3 palyers, DVD players, BR players, Cars, ect, ect?
When was the last time you saw car-exclusive fuel at gas station? never. because thats ridiculous concept. Yet gaming is very disfunctional and seems to get away with it so far.
rosac said:
As for the "They just announced a load of sequels to Mario/Zelda etc." well, of course they're going to do this. These games sell systems, and for good reason. People tend to forget that a brand name is often only popular due to the quality of the items, and Zelda and mario games are often very high quality indeed.
Nostalgia and brand attachment often has much higher effect than actual quality. people in general are not smart shoppers. they will go for the braind they recognise rather thna for the best one. this is how old inferior products stay in the market. brand loyalty more than anything.
Racecarlock said:
I wouldn't say "Refreshingly". Nintendo's like a candy store combined with a bakery that always makes incredible treats and is always there for you.
But the nintendo shop is always open. Sometimes it suffers some cutbacks, but by god it fights to stay open. Until everyone comes back to taste the sweet treats once again. Although sometimes you have to jump through some hoops, but whatever.
and yet majority of people shop in supermarkets and not candy stores. people like variety, and sweet 100% of the time is not variety, oh and if were going with that analogy its also bad for your teeth and youll get overweight. im sure you can fill in the blanks of how its analogous to nintendo.
