Human Trashcan
Banned
The Wii U
This and the component cables might be it.No AC adapters for New 3DS's..
Releasing Xenoblade as a GAMESTOP EXCLUSIVE, like two years after its Japanese release. It was their best Wii game and they didn't care. Of course, now they're acting like they've cared about the IP all along.
They also gave Pandora's Tower and The Last Story, two excellent and underrated games, to third party distributors because they didn't want to localize them themselves.
NOA used to be straight up garbage. I'd say right up until the Bayonetta 2 era.
Weapon durability in BoTW.
Lol did OP just get a tag for this or was the tag redirected to this thread?
On topic - n64 + cartridges was a pretty hot topic for arguments
Actually yeah this is the real answer."LOL yeah right, go ahead and make your own console Sony heh heh"
"Squaresoft wants to make the next Final Fantasy on the Playstation? Well fuck em then"
They literally created their biggest competitor because of greed and their ego
"LOL yeah right, go ahead and make your own console Sony heh heh"
"Squaresoft wants to make the next Final Fantasy on the Playstation? Well fuck em then"
They literally created their biggest competitor because of greed and their ego
Voice chat through a smartphone app. Fucking friend codes.
Jury's still out for me on the bolded.
Going all out for the NES classic with the. NEw console just 3 months away that's going to replace their 2nd biggest failure would be the most baffling Nintendo thing ever
I'd say N64 going with cartridges. That was a huge turn off to third-parties and gave Sony a huge advantage with the PS1. Still loved the system, but man...
I actually kinda like being pushed to use different weapons otherwise I'd probably just stick with the master sword or whatever all the time, but I do think it could've been done better.
It's easy to think this, but all they really lost was market share in the console space. They still made an absolute ton of money, more than Sony during this era in fact.
I guess its a good thing Nintendo doesnt make consoles then? I mean, i dont get why its "only" market share. Sony's lowest selling console of all time was pretty damn close to the Wii at the end of the day, and Sony has absolutely demolished them in console sales in every other gen. Even the PSP was pretty close to the DS. Vita I'll grant you was a flop but it's turned into a Dreamcast scenario where the fanbase is diehard and the library is amazing.
Also there is absolutely no goddamn way Nintendo made more money than Sony in gen 5.
RARE RARE RARE RARE - stupid
Nintendo's decision to stick with cartridges absolutely made sense...at the time. Sure, in hindsight everyone probably wonders what they were thinking, but remember, Nintendo was making a killing charging third parties for cartridge production. It sucked for them, but it was great for Nintendo. Furthermore, Nintendo had no idea that they would have so many people jump ship, especially to a fledgeling newcomer.
This one is pretty high on the list of inexplicable idiocy.
NOA eatablished a box art style like this:
Half a year later, NOE decided that the style doesn't quite work for their market. So they must create a new design system for Europe:
Scandinavian markets (and probably others) protested all the way through to launch, but the idiots at NOE wouldn't budge.
Selling Rare (the ips, anyway. I get why they sold off the scraps that remained of the talent) and not making an effort to hold onto the shooter and racing markets they built on the N64
profit vs selling at a loss
ps3 wiped out all of the ps2 profits
Also there is absolutely no goddamn way Nintendo made more money than Sony in gen 5.
Wii U.
Canceling the deal with Sony has to top any list.
What world would we be living in, had Nintendo gone through with it?
Squandering the console FPS audience they had on the n64.
They surely could have done better than Geist.You think any FPS Nintendo could have come up with without Rare would have stood a chance against Halo?