How many times does Nintendo want to sell me the same game?

moondance

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GameBoy advance, lets give em Mario again. DS, let's get them to buy it one more time. Is it just me or is Nintendo playing everyone for a sap?
 
Down with ports. The only thing they're good for is if you've missed the game the first time
 
As many times as we'll keep buying them. Best selling DS launch game, ya know!

I told some female friends who haven't played a new console since the SNES about the DS, and the one of the first questions they all asked me is whether you can get the old Mario games on it. In other words, there's still a lot of demand for the classics.
 
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Meh, nothing to see here.

*goes back to playing Metal Gear Solid 3*
 
As many times as people are dumb enough to buy them.*






*I would buy a compilation disk of all NES/SNES Super Mario games for GameCube in a nanosecond.
 
bobbyconover said:
As many times as we'll keep buying them. Best selling DS launch game, ya know!

I told some female friends who haven't played a new console since the SNES about the DS, and the one of the first questions they all asked me is whether you can get the old Mario games on it. In other words, there's still a lot of demand for the classics.

Why didn't they ask about NEW Mario games?? :(
 
I would buy Mother 1 +2, Actraiser, Final Fantasy VI, and Earthbound if they came to GBA. I have to admit there's something appealing about having your favourite games from the 90's right in your pocket.
 
I think Revolution is gonna be backwards compatible all the way down to the NES. And they are gonna rerelase ALL games. All on seperate discs for 9.99$!
 
My ex-boss (who used to work at Nintendo Japan) told me this:

It's a question of a resetting marketshare. You're selling to kids. And kids grow up. By the time a 10-year-old becomes a surly teenager and no longer cares about Mario or Pokemon, you can essentially repackage the same title and sell it again to a brand new audience of kids.
 
Sho Nuff said:
My ex-boss (who used to work at Nintendo Japan) told me this:

It's a question of a resetting marketshare. You're selling to kids. And kids grow up. By the time a 10-year-old becomes a surly teenager and no longer cares about Mario or Pokemon, you can essentially repackage the same title and sell it again to a brand new audience of kids.

STUPID KIDS STOP GROWING
 
Sho Nuff said:
It's a question of a resetting marketshare. You're selling to kids. And kids grow up. By the time a 10-year-old becomes a surly teenager and no longer cares about Mario or Pokemon, you can essentially repackage the same title and sell it again to a brand new audience of kids.
That's also why Nintendo will never go out of business. There will never be a shortage of kids.
 
trippingmartian said:
I would buy Mother 1 +2, Actraiser, Final Fantasy VI, and Earthbound if they came to GBA. I have to admit there's something appealing about having your favourite games from the 90's right in your pocket.
Mother 1+2 did come to the GBA...


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MetatronM said:
Mother 1+2 did come to the GBA...


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Useless as I can't read Japanese. Forget the cost of importing. There's already official translations for North America, so Nintendo is either being stubborn or stupid in not bringing it over here.
 
moondance said:
GameBoy advance, lets give em Mario again. DS, let's get them to buy it one more time. Is it just me or is Nintendo playing everyone for a sap?


Is this what we can expect from you here?
 
mumu said:
That's also why Nintendo will never go out of business. There will never be a shortage of kids.

BOOM. You nailed it. Nintendo is a toymaker and always have their market. It's not like people say "Oh, how many fucking times will Mattel re-release Barbie? I want something new! Doomed!"

To survive, I think Nintendo needs to position itself MORE as a toymaker. They can easily do this with stuff like DS, but the console market is extremely cutthroat and the same rules do not apply when your hardware is very similar to the competition (i.e. a standard gamepad with buttons and no gimmicks). (Now, if the Revolution had twisty sticks on the side of it and a giant rubber boob thing in the middle of the controller...)

Nintendo making adult-themed games like ED is akin to Hasbro making those huge foot-tall GI Joes for the collector's market--it's all about courtesy and expanding to smaller marketshares. And the adults who complain about Nintendo not paying attention to them are akin to the collector's market wailing that there aren't enough foot-tall GI Joes. :)
 
moondance said:
GameBoy advance, lets give em Mario again. DS, let's get them to buy it one more time. Is it just me or is Nintendo playing everyone for a sap?

Does Nintendo knock on your door and force you to buy a mario game? No I thought so.
 
moondance said:
GameBoy advance, lets give em Mario again. DS, let's get them to buy it one more time. Is it just me or is Nintendo playing everyone for a sap?

People vote with their dollars, that's the bottom line. No one is forced to pay 20 dollars for Nes Mini classics for the GBA, but a large number of people did so anyway. As long as Nintendo can sell their catalogue, they will keep repackaging it.

Furthermore, there's no need to pick on Nintendo in the end because if other companies could repackage their games as succesfully as Nintendo, they would be milking their catalogue with as much if not more energy.
 
Sho Nuff said:
BOOM. You nailed it. Nintendo is a toymaker and always have their market. It's not like people say "Oh, how many fucking times will Mattel re-release Barbie? I want something new! Doomed!"

To survive, I think Nintendo needs to position itself MORE as a toymaker. They can easily do this with stuff like DS, but the console market is extremely cutthroat and the same rules do not apply when your hardware is very similar to the competition (i.e. a standard gamepad with buttons and no gimmicks). (Now, if the Revolution had twisty sticks on the side of it and a giant rubber boob thing in the middle of the controller...)

Nintendo making adult-themed games like ED is akin to Hasbro making those huge foot-tall GI Joes for the collector's market--it's all about courtesy and expanding to smaller marketshares. And the adults who complain about Nintendo not paying attention to them are akin to the collector's market wailing that there aren't enough foot-tall GI Joes. :)

IAWTP. I've been saying this for awhile. This reason is why I think it would be good move for them to move into animation and focus their hardware and software efforts on portables. It's interesting that we have another thread going on about what Nintendo has done wrong this gen--people tend to forget that the GBA blows the GC away in hardware sales and that Nintendo can still sell 10 year games for a hefty price. Nintendo's problems with home consoles stems more from the industry moving in a direction contrary to Nintendo's philosophy and not so much from their mistakes (and there is no doubt that they have made plenty of mistakes.)
 
For the same reason music and movies are reissued, because not everyone purchases/has access to them the first time around.
 
Nobody else re-releases games?

Or is this one of those Gaming-Age things I don't understand yet?

...sell your Nintendo, it's all over? :-\
 
No one complains about how Square Enix has rereleased all of the six pre-PS era FFs countless times. I count four versions of FF1 and 2 alone.
 
For what it's worth pretty much everything has been re-released now, so we'll either see new games, or re-re-released games with better graphics.

The sad thing is I would be all over SMW with Paper Mario style graphics.
 
My sister never played SM64 before, and she's having a blast with SM64 DS. I asked her about the controls and she said she had no problems with them at all. She said she thought it was really surprising to play as Yoshi instead of Mario, and that they changed "the story" of the game (so that there are 4 characters). I think it's the third ported/upgraded game I've bought (SMB DX and SMB 3).
 
moondance said:
GameBoy advance, lets give em Mario again. DS, let's get them to buy it one more time. Is it just me or is Nintendo playing everyone for a sap?

Agreed bro..this is something that has been going on for the longest time. I use to tell myself when are nintendroids gonna have enough lol :lol ...enough already with the rehashes..lets get some new shit going NINTENDO!!!!!

Dont get me wrong..i enjoy alot of Nintendo games..but they need more variations and selections with what they dish out.
 
It's gamer's fault. We buy all the remakes, why stop releasing them?
Begin by boycoting the classic series and Nintendo remakes and AFTER THAT come here and complain.

Nintendo will sell you their remakes and their almost yearly portable game consoles for as long as you give them your money.
 
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