Many actually believe what the Media says about Nintendo being in serious trouble. I never did because I do my own research and employ facts and logic. (And I'm sure the Media HATES it when people do that too...) Anyway, despite their claims of Nintendo being a sinking ship, Amazon is telling a different story...
After disappointing financials, the media has been keener than ever to portray the Kyoto company as a fading force – a former giant in crisis. Amazon certainly doesn’t see it that way. “I think Nintendo have this imposed on them and it’s driven by a lot of the media, and the media drives perception,” continued Patel. “Nintendo are getting a lot of bad press and PR and as soon as anything negative is out there it’s a media frenzy. It diminishes what they’ve actually done. If you look at 3DS as a format, it has done very well last year – had that sort of performance been with Microsoft or Sony, my personal opinion is that everybody would be thinking ‘wow, what a fantastic job’. Because it’s Nintendo and they’ve been embroiled in this negative PR frenzy, everyone thinks it’s a dying format. It’s absolutely not.”
And...
So while the media continues to give Nintendo a difficult time, even with the relative success of 3DS, one console that has apparently escaped such criticism is Sony’s PS Vita. Patel has concerns for the system. “Vita is struggling, absolutely, in terms of the market segment,” he tells us. “Firstly I think that the price point is too high. I think the compatibility with PS4 will give it a bit of a kickstart and Vita will have a better year, I just don’t know whether it will meet the expectations Sony had with Vita.”
SOURCE: http://www.edge-online.com/news/amazon-uk-on-the-next-gen-race-nintendos-plight-microconsole-rumours-and-accidental-leaks/#null
^^^You see, I told you there was bias in the News Media. :P
And this is actually pretty typical of game industry coverage in the Media for the last 15-20 years. Whatever Sony does and succeeds in is a business miracle. Anything Nintendo does is evil or never going to work. That has been the mantra with these bums since I was a teenager. Despite their claims of the Big N going down, it never happens. Their 1st party franchises and their dominance of handheld gaming have kept them alive and profitable for a long time. Despite smart phones, iPads and Sony all getting into portable gaming, they still dominate that market. I don't expect it to change anytime soon since the 3DS is awesome.
Nintendo makes mistakes like any other company (No blood in the SNES release of Mortal Kombat, Virtual Boy, N64 sticking to cartridges, not advertising the WiiU more agressively, et al.) but, they aren't going anywhere.
As far as I am concerned, Nintendo is the only hardware manufacturer that is really innovating these days. The WiiU has kept me fascinated and looking forward to new titles. I wish more of them would be coming from a 3rd party company instead of just Nintendo themselves but, I had similar complaints about the N64 as well. I am surprised that I didn't have that complaint with the GameCube. I'm not surprised that I didn't have that complaint with the Wii since it became the console of choice for gamers and companies looking to make a profit. It did have over 1,200 games released for it in it's lifetime...
PS4 is (so far) just a technology upgrade to PS3 with a few interesting features. I like the idea behind the share button and the touch pad on the controllers. The games, sadly, aren't any different from what came before. I'm actually quite disappointed in it's line-up of launch titles. Not a single one of them was even remotely interesting to me. How does that happen? You have nearly 80 games at launch (which is far more than most launch line-ups) and I am not interested in ANY of them? WTF, Sony? You have never had that much of an EPIC FAIL with me before. Why start now? BTW, $400 is too much. Get the price down below $300 (and more interesting games) and we will talk.
As for the XBOX One... Well, if you follow this blog, you already know of my very negative opinion of that device. It costs too much ($500?! WTF?), includes features I don't want and I suspect that M$ will try to help the NSA to spy on me with that machine. That is no way to separate me from my hard-earned cash, Microsoft. Even worse, there's nothing interesting, or overly distinctive from the PS4 in it's game library so far. WTF? During the Console wars between SNES & SEGA Genesis, there were a LOT of exclusive titles on both systems. Nowadays, that just doesn't seem to happen as much. That makes all the consoles seem like they are the same as any other. There's no real difference between them. Don't copy people, Microsoft. INNOVATE!!!
Personally, I don't really like Microsoft as a company anymore. The 360 had way too many problems for a consumer product that would cost buyers several hundred dollars at retail. The games were pretty much identical to the PS3 library and the only franchise I knew of that was XBOX exclusive is the same one that attracted me to their first XBOX console: Halo. Despite liking that franchise, I am still not interested in ever having an XBOX 360 in my collection. Chances are good there will be a 'greatest hits' package with all of them on some future platform that's worthy of owning in a few years anyway. I won't go into my complaints about Windows because you can (and probably will) have those exact same complaints about any other operating system on any machine.
So, in conclusion, the Media is as full of shit as ever. Take anything they say with a grain of salt.
- Lord Publius
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