9 May 2007, 11:39 PM
To explain, that post was posted when Nintendo had just announced the DS, the thing was that the only information they revealed at the time was that it was a called the DS, it had two screens and wasn't that much more powerful than the GBA. This was all long before we got any REAL information on the DS and long before any of us knew what Nintendo was coming up with in terms of Wii.
It was a time when the GameCube was failing extremely badly down here in Australia. And to add to that, at that time I had just gotten sick of videogames as a whole, not just Nintendo. I was about to quit being a video gamer because very little about videogames excited me anymore. Again, this is not me talking about JUST Nintendo, while I don't own any other brand of system, I do play the other systems regularly and like a lot of games for non-Nintendo systems.
So what was the problem I was having with that specific post? The fact that at that point in time Nintendo was a me-too company, they were going down the same path as Sony and Microsoft in terms of simply upgrading hardware, etc. And at that point in time, that's all I thought you could do with videogames so I was angry that Nintendo wasn't following that path.
However the months following, more information about the DS was released, touch screen, microphone, new ways of thinking, expanding the market, Nintendo's next-gen home console will follow this innovative trend. All of these things were revealed to me and it all caught my attention.
Thanks to the DS and Wii, I support Nintendo heavily in their efforts to shake up the industry with new ways of controlling videogames and trying to encourage developers into thinking outside of the box. I still play the traditional videogames, buttons and all, but now I get to touch, point, tilt and use all kinds of motions to play games too.
I was very angry at the way things were going in the videogame industry at that time. But thanks to Nintendo, who are building a new foundation with the DS and Wii, I became a gamer reborn.
It was a time when the GameCube was failing extremely badly down here in Australia. And to add to that, at that time I had just gotten sick of videogames as a whole, not just Nintendo. I was about to quit being a video gamer because very little about videogames excited me anymore. Again, this is not me talking about JUST Nintendo, while I don't own any other brand of system, I do play the other systems regularly and like a lot of games for non-Nintendo systems.
So what was the problem I was having with that specific post? The fact that at that point in time Nintendo was a me-too company, they were going down the same path as Sony and Microsoft in terms of simply upgrading hardware, etc. And at that point in time, that's all I thought you could do with videogames so I was angry that Nintendo wasn't following that path.
However the months following, more information about the DS was released, touch screen, microphone, new ways of thinking, expanding the market, Nintendo's next-gen home console will follow this innovative trend. All of these things were revealed to me and it all caught my attention.
Thanks to the DS and Wii, I support Nintendo heavily in their efforts to shake up the industry with new ways of controlling videogames and trying to encourage developers into thinking outside of the box. I still play the traditional videogames, buttons and all, but now I get to touch, point, tilt and use all kinds of motions to play games too.
I was very angry at the way things were going in the videogame industry at that time. But thanks to Nintendo, who are building a new foundation with the DS and Wii, I became a gamer reborn.
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