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Nintendo success bad for industry says analyst
vbt - Apr 30, 2007
  vbt Apr 30, 2007

  
	
	

		
		

			Although Kaufman Bros. analyst, Todd Mitchell, recent report acknowledges that both "DS and the Wii are taking the videogame industry by storm", it goes on to point out that this it has not all been good news for third party publishers.



Well nobody said Sony success bad for the industry, it's their turn to loose.


Source : http://computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=16...

 schi0249 Apr 30, 2007
I love the line about Nintendo consoles shortening the life cycle. Let me see, as I see it, the industry in general has shorter cycles. Nintendo just has realesed more consoles having been in the industry longer.

 lordofduct Apr 30, 2007
The only Nintendo console with a short life cycle I can remember is the Gamecube... probably because it got its ass handed to it in that generations war. I am not surprised it hopped out there around the release dates of the 360 and PS3 before it lost any momentum at all.

Am I wrong, or is there other consoles that have short life spans by Nintendo... from what I can tell they let there consoles mature and age too much! (the freakin' virtualboy does NOT count... it just failed miserably and Nintendo yanked it, but did not replace it).

 schi0249 Apr 30, 2007
Rough estimates only

NES 11 years

SNES 10 years

N64 6 years

GCN 5 years

GB/GBC 12 years

GBA going on 5 years

DS going on 2 years

I suppose you can say the life cycle is shortening. 11 years vs 5. But how many things last you 10 years these days? Nothing I can think of. Computers and other electronics are "obsolete" within a year usually.

 Kuta May 1, 2007
Why aren't the Tendoweb Forums used anymore?

 dibz May 1, 2007
The Tendoweb forums were never all that popular to begin with honestly.

 Kuta May 1, 2007
True. I just hoped that it would eventually build up.

 vbt May 1, 2007
I thought about posting this topic on the two forums and didn't do it on tendoweb. I still use tendoweb but i did a lot of posts with no reply. The new forum is nice and should attract people.

 Kuta May 1, 2007
Well I actually prefered the old forums to the new one. But that's just me.

 dibz May 1, 2007
I prefer both forum formats -- Personally I just want to find time to update some icons, as the current ones on Tendoweb confuse me. The colors are too similar.

 ratfish May 1, 2007

Kuta said:
Why aren't the Tendoweb Forums used anymore?


Sega > Nintendo

 schi0249 May 1, 2007
If it makes people feel better, I just posted it on NX.