Alcibiades
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ok, so after a somewhat healthier August:
http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=8492
it's time for Nintendo to show who's going to take charge this holiday season...
The September success will come for the following reasons hopefully:
1. Pikmin 2 will cause some waves, the impressions so far have been great, and the demo in the kiosks absolutely ROCK! Nintendo is kicking off it's holiday season with an innovative title that doesn't really compare to much else. Expect this to stand out from the normal flurry of traditional character franchises Nintendo puts out and to garner special attention. This looks to become quite a force this Christmas and should have strong sales throughou the holiday season, but it will hit most stores around September 1st. September will rock for Nintendo for a lot of reasons, but Pikmin 2 is the biggest factor.
2. POKEMON IS NOT DEAD. Pre-orders are already going strong for Pokemon FiLe (I reserved Leaf Green today to get that booklet). Pokemon RuSa is still going strong (outselling Halo in July), so Nintendo is going to have people going into retail stores for one of it's most popular franchises. Hopefully, kids notice that the only console with Pokemon on it (so they can battle w/ connectivity in glorious 3-d) is the Gamecube.
3. Donkey Konga is already causing a lot of buzz, people are definitely talking about this game. While Namco's Taiko game will lessen the exclusivity impact of this, I'm sure a lot of kids are going to want the one with the Donkey Kong theme, and with the GCN at only $99, parents might give in.
4. The Metroid Pack has been pretty successful from what I can tell (I actually demoed the game for customers twice where I work, supervisor/maganers actually let me bring games and component cables for hookup on big screen Toshiba HDTV. I took Prime, F-Zero, Mario Kart, and Smash Brothers, and sold a few systems letting consumers have try. F-Zero floored people for sure. Also, the only two times I hooked up Metroid to show cusomters some gameplay, they took the bundle, cool deal). Hopefuly word-of-mouth is spreading about this since it's limited time only.
5. Nintendo is starting it's commercials-with-edge thing for GCN now, so hopefully the system remains in the public eye with a "cool" perception.
So while Microsoft will have it's 2nd most important title of the year with Fable, and Sony has finally ended the "shortage" a couple of weeks ago, Nintendo is giving quite the effort this September as it marches into the holiday season.
http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=8492
it's time for Nintendo to show who's going to take charge this holiday season...
The September success will come for the following reasons hopefully:
1. Pikmin 2 will cause some waves, the impressions so far have been great, and the demo in the kiosks absolutely ROCK! Nintendo is kicking off it's holiday season with an innovative title that doesn't really compare to much else. Expect this to stand out from the normal flurry of traditional character franchises Nintendo puts out and to garner special attention. This looks to become quite a force this Christmas and should have strong sales throughou the holiday season, but it will hit most stores around September 1st. September will rock for Nintendo for a lot of reasons, but Pikmin 2 is the biggest factor.
2. POKEMON IS NOT DEAD. Pre-orders are already going strong for Pokemon FiLe (I reserved Leaf Green today to get that booklet). Pokemon RuSa is still going strong (outselling Halo in July), so Nintendo is going to have people going into retail stores for one of it's most popular franchises. Hopefully, kids notice that the only console with Pokemon on it (so they can battle w/ connectivity in glorious 3-d) is the Gamecube.
3. Donkey Konga is already causing a lot of buzz, people are definitely talking about this game. While Namco's Taiko game will lessen the exclusivity impact of this, I'm sure a lot of kids are going to want the one with the Donkey Kong theme, and with the GCN at only $99, parents might give in.
4. The Metroid Pack has been pretty successful from what I can tell (I actually demoed the game for customers twice where I work, supervisor/maganers actually let me bring games and component cables for hookup on big screen Toshiba HDTV. I took Prime, F-Zero, Mario Kart, and Smash Brothers, and sold a few systems letting consumers have try. F-Zero floored people for sure. Also, the only two times I hooked up Metroid to show cusomters some gameplay, they took the bundle, cool deal). Hopefuly word-of-mouth is spreading about this since it's limited time only.
5. Nintendo is starting it's commercials-with-edge thing for GCN now, so hopefully the system remains in the public eye with a "cool" perception.
So while Microsoft will have it's 2nd most important title of the year with Fable, and Sony has finally ended the "shortage" a couple of weeks ago, Nintendo is giving quite the effort this September as it marches into the holiday season.
