Over the past couple of months I have heard a lot of things about Nintendo from friends and family. I would say 100% of it is bad.
I was in the car with a couple of my friends and I was reading EGM. My friend saw what I was reading and saw an article about how the DS is selling out in Japan. And Everyone(except me) was saying how the DS was the "stupidist handheld ever" and that "It is nothing compared to the PSP". I was shocked because among the "hardcore gamers" the DS is one of the greatest systems. I asked if they have ever played one and they all said no......they thought it was stupid because of the concept of the DS and how Nintendo is a kids company.
Another incident happened when the Wii was announced as the new name. I had told my mom the new name of the Revolution without telling her what the Wii was. She thought it was "some-sort of new cell-phone". And when I told her that the Wii was the new Nintendo console she said "that is the worst name".
The last incident happened today and that is why I finnaly wrote this blog-post. On the cover of an old EDGE magazine cover had the DS lite on it. My dad asked what it was, he seemed like he thought it was cool. I said it was the DS. He asked what the DS was , and I replied the Duel Screen. He then said "oh that stupid Nintendo thing, at least it looks cool":shock:
As you can see, Nintendo is seen as a kids company and as "stupid" by the average consumer(not all, I know). The only way I see Nintendo rule gaming again in America is by:
1)Changing the name of the Wii too something that isn't.....weird
2)Start getting some more mature games
3)And get a lot of third-party support
Please, no flaming.:| I do not hate Nintendo(I like Nintendo), I'm just stating facts that I have seen lately.
(I don't know if what I wrote even makes sense, it's 12:10 AM so I'm kind of out of it:P)
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