Nintendo Named "World's Best Company" by Business Week

[Pendragon9]

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Perhaps you are right, but still, I don't think they deserve the title for best company. They still do much wrong in the industry, and alot of sales doesn't necessarily mean they're better. It's like saying Wii sports is better than every game ever because it sold more. Something in there is being missed.

It could be the incessant Wii fans that make me feel this way, but for some reason I just don't see it.

 

[DrDeath3191]

Good job, Nintendo. Very well deserved, despite what haters say.

 

[Amnestic]

Galaxy sucked, Sunshine was awesome.

I know a lot of people who would disagree with that assessment.

I'm not one of them, probably because I've played neither.

 

[misfit119]

Hunh. I usually follow the business end of the stuff. Thank you Anton P. Nym, I didn't see that little bit of news.

Are Wii-owners (and lovers) not allowed to be called gamers?

Nintendo made gaming what it is today by revolutionizing the whole industry.
They deserve the no. 1 spot on this list.

No, just no. If you want to say that the Wii is this fantastic system because you and your family love it and thus it deserves to be up there that's fine. But nostalgia doesn't do a damn thing to booster this for Nintendo. They were awesome with the NES and SNES, fell flat on their faces during the N64 era but still managed to pull out a few gems and then sat in a corner watching paint dry during the GC era. No, if you want to warble about revolutionizing the industry then we might as well say Atari belongs up there despite all other facts about the new company named such.

The fact of the matter is Nintendo doesn't care about the gamers. To Microsoft and Sony you're just a number, someone that they're going to try to force to buy their garbage no matter how silly it is. But to Nintendo, gamers barely even figure in. I'd even go so far as to say you're not who they're selling the system to and are thus mostly irrelevant. If you buy their stuff then that's fine but get out of the way for the little kids and grandparents, we want them! They seem to be trying to address this issue recently and things have been looking up for it as an actual console but that's like saying MS is addressing the RROD.

And I find it peculiar that people are talking about how good their third party relations are when everything I hear in the industry seems to indicate otherwise. Things like not telling them about Wii Motion Plus, making it less than easy for developers to include WMP in their games, allowing lots and lots of shovelware but then shelving some games that came to Japan only before they could cross the oceans... last I heard Nintendo was heading right back to the NES days of people loathing them. Except for shovelware makers anyways.

Astounding amounts of Butthurt in this thread.

We get it guys. You hate fun. You don't have to keep beating us over the head with your opinions. The rest of us however enjoy activities that are fun, and we don't need super high resolution ferns and muzzle flash to achieve that feeling.

The sooner you accept that the Wii is a successful console and stop treating it like your bastard stepchild the sooner you can start having fun with the rest of us. If you would rather hang out on the internet and spew bile over the littlest praise that Nintendo receives then that's up to you.

I'll be in the living room actually playing a game, with other people, in the same room.

Yes, I quite agree with you. There are too many haters out there that only go after what is currently popular and innovative. I mean, the most that the 360 and PS3 have put out is shooter games, racers, and madden, nothing much to tell about, while Nintendo is busily expanding in just about every genre. Besides, I really dislike games where you absolutely have to have an internet connection to 'fully enjoy' a 360 game and how you have to download stuff in order to be able to fully play it.
News flash to 360, finish the games and then bring them out! It's basically their attempt at trying to bring out games as fast as Nintendo but they cut down greatly in quality by leaving them half-finished.
Would you agree to this?

What are you talking about? Most of the Wii games are absolute trash with a number of really good games tossed in. You're right, the 360 could really do for some more Jenga World Tour, crappy bowling and table tennis games that use broken motion controls. Most of this "innovation" you speak of hasn't amounted to much of anything you couldn't do with a controller. The only Nintendo games that are bar none excellent quality all around are their first party titles and some of the third parties. However to accuse all 360 games of being half-finished is just as laughable as the people who hate the Wii since it's popular.