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One possible thing that can support your theory, Nat, is the fact that a lot of the old (and we're talking old) games are so far removed from circulation that Nintendo can't make a profit off of their physical counterparts. Hell, you can't even backorder that kinda stuff from the company, even at an exorbitant price. Every sale of an old NES, SNES, or even N64 cart goes to line the pocket of the individual or company that sells it, simply because they don't actually MAKE it anymore. I'm not one hundred percent sure this can apply to GC and Wii games, but I imagine we're heading down that road.
That's not entirely unheard of, though. Most companies tend to not focus on publishing titles on their old hardware when new ones come out. Hell, when the Wii came out Nintendo pretty much stuffed the GCN in the closet and the same goes for the N64.
Not sad at all as I'm buying a Wii U just for Smash and Mario Kart.
No, plus you get to play all of the amazing exclusives the console will have years before anyone else when the masses inevitably look back at the Wii U and praise it for its unique exclusives and wonder how they could have passed up on an amazing console. All while ignoring Nintendo's then-current efforts while slinging mud at them.
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A DS PLAYER IS WHAT I'VE WANTED EVERY SINCE THE WII U WAS ANNOUNCED. Sure, its just downloadable games but I will gladly pay $10-$15 per game to play DS games on the the big screen.
Nintendo has supposedly been "declining" since the N64 era. People naysay the **** out of them now, then in ten years they'll be praising the Wii U while hypocritically giving their current console ****. Its the Nintendo cycle.
I was too young to understand what was happening around me in the N64 era, or the Gamecube era. So I wouldn't know. For Nintendo's sake, I hope you're right.
Honestly, I would have preferred an actual DS player that you hook up to your Wii U, like the GB player for GCN. I guess beggar's can't be choosers though.
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For example, in the PS1/N64/SAT era, people were jumping ship to the PS1 like crazy due to the N64's questionable controller, reliance on expensive cartridges (N64 carts were around $60-$80 new while PS1 games were around $40-$60 new). The fact that the console only saw a few good releases each year compared to the PS1's constantly stream of high quality games caused the console to earn the reputation of being a system that saw one or two amazing releases a year, but not much else. Hell, between the N64, PS1 and SAT, the N64 did the worst domestically and didn't even hold a candle to the sales of the PS1 world wide. This doesn't sound like the general opinion of the N64 these days, does it?
Yeah, definitely. Although in my case, I still think that way (but I'm biased for SNES). There's probably only a few N64 games I truly like. The droughts on that console were pretty bad which was why I ended up getting a PS1 instead. For me, I put the GC and Wii over the N64 when comparing libraries.
I second this. IMO the PS2 is the greatest console of all time for its massive library that provides high-quality titles regardless of what kind of games you like. Plus you also get access to the entire PS1 library, which is also ****ing awesome. Hell, the only think that sucks about the PS2 is that local multiplayer sucks on it. Yeah, you have stuff like SouCalibur and Tekken if you want a two player game but the PS2 isn't the best console for parties.
I have. Played through 5 missions though. I don't think I actually like it as much as I wanted to. But it may end up being one of those games I don't care about and years later start to lol
