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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.