Now that Nintendo’s up to 17 million 3DS handhelds sold, and that number is only going to continue to grow once NSMB 2 hits this summer, not to mention that the company is expected to start making money off of their hardware by just a bit after that point, you can see why I can’t take your opinion seriously.

Sony is in much more danger of going bankrupt with the way they’ve been hemorrhaging money the last six years. In fact, they lost way more than Nintendo did in the last fiscal year, yet you want the company that just posted its first ever (I believe) fiscal loss to sell to a company that might not even be around in 5-10 years? Okay…

Face it, the 3DS is growing in popularity and in a few months will earn Nintendo money, I’ve seen actual gameplay of the Wii U and it’s good enough to win over the hearts of the people…

…there’s no founding basis on this what so ever. 

Yeah really. I feel like I’m reading something that resulted from “bring your son to work” day.
It’s extremely nonsensical given even the last few years’ company history, let alone taking their performance from the 80′s to present day.  Hence some of the flames.
I don’t like the Wii at all, and have spent several years just about hating Nintendo for some of their business antics and console decisions, but ffs, to conclude they’re in trouble or should deviate from their business model can only be attributed to wishful thinking.

This article is unwarranted and nothing but wishful thinking. Much ado about nothing.

I like comparing Sony to buyout companies, taking credit for stuff they don’t make.

Or forcing everyone to use their manufactured goods (Almost all CD-Rom drives have a Sony component in them)

Sony sucks balls. They have never made their own stuff, and never will. If they did, people would see just HOW unimaginative they truely are.

I wonder how long it will be before this guy offs himself, because he got BUUUUURNED by SO many people on here. How can you even want to continue to write on the internet when you recieve such an overwhelming response of less than favorable remarks? I would be so embarrased…

More than just the resolution, I find Nintendo’s gravitation toward gimmicks over substance to be troubling though. I don’t know, it’s all talk anyway. This almost certainly won’t happen, but I like the ‘what if’ in this instance.

     Knowing that the only thing you were going to get was slightly better graphics and a shakier camera.
The graphics quality plateaued years ago, just barrely squeaking out slight improvments over past titles. And, even though technology has far surpased the slim specs of existing consoles, we haven’t seen a leap in development quality because companies like Microsoft and Sony are stifling innovation, so they can push an outdated ecosystem and leverage money saving, cloud based content distribution, over physical media, that relies on a broadband infastructure that is not yet capable of supporting the greater file sizes and download speeds necissary for such content.

Meaning that the last thing you are left with is a shakier camera, and ever devolving language content and grammar(and I am bad at both, that says something right there good people) over story. We need far more variety-diversity in the gaming industry than we currenly have. It is frieghtening to watch what has happened in the game development world today. Just a decade ago we had hundreds if not thousands of software companies involved in serious game development (come on folks, admit it, as fun as they are, cellphones games just aren’t serious games yet), now we have a half dozen major gaming corporations doing almost all of the game development.

At one time, in the far away land of the 1990′s, there used to be somewhere close to 20 companies into the development of graphics hardware and systems, now there is three major contendors in console development and graphics hardware design and implemintation.

I could go on about these issues and the far reaching impact on end user experience, content rights and hardware development for days, but for the last 2 people that actually made it this far in to this drawn out idiosentric rant, I am going to end with this last statment.

   I am hoping that there is some bastian of game development left out there somewhere in the world willing to push the boundries of gaming far past the tired old genre specific platforms we see today. We need a company, a development studio and a hardware developer willing to push the envelope and keep these big corporations on their feet. They are too willing to tread water in the same puddle for as long as possible, relying on tried and true development and sales models, scared to take any chances, for as long as consumers allow it. It is time for a new cycle of development, a new round of gaming riding the razors edge of imagination. I know I am ready, how about all of you?