Honest question. No shitposting. Get it off your chest.
For me, it was when brawl came out in 2008.
>>334951365
When I got into high school years ago and they were still trying to sell me pokemon and mario.
>>334951637
Pokemon and mario are keeping them afloat. Literally if it wasn't for pokemon, they would be long, long gone.
>>334951365
First time I played Super Mario Galaxy
>>334951637
I'm in high school and I still play Pokemon and Mario.
>>334951856
every single person i know that plays pokemon, is over the age of 20.
With that said, i am sorry for your ban.
>>334951365
ORAS
>>334951856
Some of us grow up sooner than others, you will see as I saw. I owned every Nintendo Console minus the WiiU and Virtual Boy. Super Mario RPG is my most fondly remembered childhood game. After 20 years of the same shit I got tired.
>>334952169
So how long did it take you to realize you were the problem and not Nintendo?
>>334952003
You realize people that are 18 can be in High School you retard?
>>334952169
>I owned every Nintendo Console minus the WiiU and Virtual Boy.
literally me. Except that i still play melee and go to tourneys, but that's a different story.
>>334952257
I just got better taste, I also used to listen to linken park and disturbed, but I grew up. Now I have standards and a good PC.
>>334951365
Pokemon XY and Captain Toad.
>>334952343
>melee
Same but only with friends now, I can't stand the body oder of tourney fags anymore.
>>334952356
I don't think I have. Nintendo has games for people of all ages. Xenoblade Chronicles X and the whole Metroid series in general are just 2 examples of this. I still enjoy their games. Even their Mario and PKMN games are still fun to me, even though I'm not buying ORAS anytime soon.
>>334952492
>I can't stand the body oder of tourney fags anymore.
So you must be american. In germany, people have standards. Well except a few people. Let's say a 5% ruins it for the rest of us.
>>334952682
>Nintendo has games for people of all ages.
>>334952356
>>334951365
Who cares. I'll play what I want. Pokemon and Mario will continue to sell.
If you're looking for an actual answer, probably around the same time I got into TF2 and Steam.
>tfw I booted my Wii today
>Last use date (checked via today's gaming logs) was in July of 2013
>Right after I graduated highschool
How sad it is to be loved for seven years and then completely forgotten.
>tfw realizing my childhood died and I didn't even realize, let alone mourn.
>>334952804
Well for the wii u there's bayonetta 2 and........ and....
>>334952386
I liked Captain Toad and I'm a guy who puts my penis in a vagina occasionally.
>>334952925
>mfw Nintenchildren bought a Wii U but not Bayonetta 2
>>334952925
Shovel knight?
In all seriousness, I want Nintendo to do well, I want a reason to buy their consoles, I want them to give Sony real competition. Nintendo being good again is a GOOD thing, but I'm not going to lap up their shit like pigs eating at a trough if they put out 3-4 games a year with no third party support.
>>334952323
Only if they're retarded
When the honeymoon period of the Wii wore off and I realized that the wiimote really wasn't capable of 1:1 control. I felt cheated, because I had been cheated. And it's taken over a decade more for someone to bring actual 1:1 motion controls to reality.
>>334951365
I was never Nintendo's target audience, I've owned every Nintendo console since Gamecube and I only really buy 3rd party games, with metroid, custom robo, and Smash being the only exceptions.
New Custom Robo fucking WHEN
>>334953259
>if they put out 3-4 games a year
2, max.
Nintendo has ip's, a lot of ip's, but they have few devs. They had to use the wii and DS money to buy entire dev studios like they did with monolith.
>>334951365
When they all but abandoned several of their IPs and stopped making most of their releases in-house.
>>334951365
I was at the right age to enjoy brawl, pokemon battle revolution, xenoblade chronicles, other virtual console games like oot/mm, and the pokemon games on ds. homebrew pretty much saved the wii and made it a great experience.i played project m too
The wii u is so unappealing to me i could never bring myself to buy it. 3ds is pretty okay for a $99 purchase now with homebrew
>>334953404
>I've owned every Nintendo console since Gamecube
So you were born around 1997. I can't take you seriously, sorry.
When the sewing machine ads started coming out.
>>334953259
Yes please! Competition is a good thing. Right now, Sony is just cleaning house without any effort. Xbone and WiiU both shat the bed so now PS4 is the winner by default.
If NX is a hit then it'd make Sony raise their game. This is good for everyoneexcept Xbox Juan which is still crap.
>>334953570
>and stopped making most of their releases in-house.
outsourcing is not a bad thing, most of the time.
F-zero GX for example.
>>334951637
Meh, I'd still be fine with them shilling Pokemon and Mario if they hadn't killed those series. Gen 6 has been the weakest Pokemon gen by far, Mario 3D Land was casualized to all hell, and they have killed the Paper Mario brand. Luckily they are pushing other IPs like Fire Emblem and Bayo or this console generation would have been an even bigger disaster for them.
>>334951365
Probably 2008-2009, when the Wii entered its dark age after the meme was worn out and suddenly my PS3 started seeing a lot more use. My Wii has literally been in the same closet ever since. I never abandoned a Nintendo console so quickly before. With the N64 and Gamecube, a lot of gems for each came out at the end of the system's life that kept me coming back, but not so for the Wii. It got Xenoblade in 2012, but I don't think there was much else of note in the console's last 3 years.
>>334953645
I grew up with Playstation. I'd take Playstation over N64s shitty library any day of the week.
Nintendo tries too hard to be innovative and fucks up what made their games enjoyable. They could re-hash their games with new content every other year and people would eat that shit up, instead they make garbage like Paper Mario Color Splash.
>>334953770
>and they have killed the Paper Mario brand
Like, how could something like a new paper mario game be already completely vanished from my memory just 2 months after it reveal? THATS how dead paper mario is.
>>334953824
>>334953404
Be honest, were you too young for N64 or SNES?
Why can't all JRPGs have good NPCs like this? Trails in the Sky first chapter and second chapter had the best NPCs I've ever seen in a JRPG. I've gotten so used to having good NPCs who have stories, personalities, and lines that change as events in the game take place; that I don't want to go back to signpost NPCs that just stand there all game and have one line- and a boring line at that.
I suspect that Final Fantasy XV will have crappy NPCs. NPCs without names, just standing there all game, giving the same line every time, no personality, nothing special about them. It seems that the more serious the theme of the JRPG is, the worse their NPCs are. Most of the good NPCs have been in lighthearted JRPGs like Grandia, Threads of Fate, and Lunar- while the bad NPCs have been in the Final Fantasies, Rogue Galaxy, and Lost Odyssey.
>>334953727
Xbox and WiiU sucked soo much that console sales are at an all time low since the last game market crash.
My first console was an NES in 1990. I've had every Nintendo console since, and the Gamecube was the first one to disappoint me (although it had some great games). I almost gave up on Nintendo after the Wii (which still had some great games), and that's when I thought I was no longer Nintendo's target audience.
Then the XBone's disastrous unveiling happened in 2013, which turned me off from ever buying another Microsoft console (I have an XB360), and the PS4 didn't have any launch titles I wanted to play. Super Mario 3D World looked great, so I took a chance on the Wii U.
The Wii U is the best console I've had since the SNES, and I'm very optimistic about Nintendo, though I'm not buying the NX until it has games I want to play. I've learned my lesson on that, after the Wii.
>>334953770
>With the N64 and Gamecube, a lot of gems for each came out at the end of the system's life that kept me coming back
Hell, I don't think I put away my N64 "for good" until like 2003. I was still replaying the late releases like Conker, Majora's Mask and Pokemon Stadium 2 long after the Gamecube came out.
My Gamecube still has a place of honor at my TV stand.
>>334954482
>The Wii U is the best console I've had since the SNES
ah dude... ok yeah. fuck it.
>>334954219
>Like, how could something like a new paper mario game be already completely vanished from my memory just 2 months after it reveal?
They've fucked their biggest franchises
>Mario Party is trash
>Animal Crossing turned into home designing and shitty RNG board game that plays itself
>Metroid series is shovelware
>Paper Mario did a complete 180
>Smash 4 has been very successful as well as Mario Kart 8, but I wasn't super excited for them
>3D Marios are shit until they have something like Sunshine or Galaxy again
The lack of JRPGs on Nintendo consoles is jarring.
>>334954221
I was born in 93, first game device was a Game Boy Pocket and the only game I ever had for it was Bugs Bunny: Crazy Castle 2. I started with Playstation, and it lasted me until 2003 when I got a Gamecube. My parents were religious nutcases so I did not get to play pokemon until I was 13. Maybe I just wasn't raised to be a Nintendrone, but I have a lot more love for Crash/Spyro than any Nintendo IPs for sure.
>>334954924
>My parents were religious nutcases so I did not get to play pokemon until I was 13.
Sounds like your parents loved you, I hope you are grateful for them. You could have grown up to be one of those 30 year olds still autist playing pokemon.
I haven't, cause their target audience is fucking huge.
Only people I could see that aren't "in the target audience" are people that want really difficult or mature stuff. That's fine and all of course. You need some difference in your vidya.
I've been replaying some of Fallout 4 to procrastinate lately and enjoying it well enough, but I know I'm still going to play the shit out of Kirby on Planet Robobot when it comes out.
>>334954827
their handhelds make up for it though
>>334954827
The 3DS is literally the JRPG console. Also they have never been as bad as Xbox.
>>334955358
>own all Smash Kirby, Dedede and Meta Knight
>mfw UFO is locked behind the new Kirby Kirby Amiibo
I thought the point of Amiibo is that you buy one and it works across multiple games?
>>334953770
Those Nintendo conferences around that time just killed me. Then when they announced the Wii U I just couldn't believe we'd have another generation of the Wii brand name.
>>334951365
Honestly when they started censoring all their games to hell and back. Not just because
>my boobies
but also because they kept trying to make games clearly meant for a bigger audience playable by everyone.
Also motion control fucking sucks
>>334956352
>Honestly when they started censoring all their games to hell and back.
When did that happen? I abandoned them around 2008. Is censoring a new thing?
>>334957039
Not really, just the newest nintendo hate meme.
People got upset over the localization changes from the new Fire Emblem and since then it's been this stupid crusade.
Only change that I think really deserved outcry was them removing the boob slider from Xenoblade Chronicles X.
>>334955597
>>334955739
The 3ds has no good jrpgs, BD was shit, FE and Stella Glow were the only good jrpgish games on the 3ds. Don't even mention DRPGs. Those are just low budget garbage, PersonaQ was ok tho.
>>334957381
Alison pls go
>>334957381
>them removing the boob slider from Xenoblade Chronicles X.
That should be considered a sin.
>>334957663
What else did they censor?
>bought a wii in 2007
>lose interest in wii sports after 6 months, already had TP on gamecube
>no games
>so bored i bought a dreamcast and xbox
>>334951365
When Nintendo started showing off characters for Sm4sh and they were all weebshit Fire Emblem characters
Tfw i just realised ive technically owned every nintendo console bar virtual boy since it never gkt released in the uk.
>>334957832
Their new audience is anime manchildren who are obsessed with anime and will buy the figurines
2015 when that Animal Crossing board game came out.
>>334951365
When they stopped making 2D Metroid, I'm serious.
I realized I'm still Nintendo's audience when they released a great new IP called Splatoon
They just want people to enjoy fun games, anyone who doesn't like Nintendo are soulless heathens.
Gamecube, didn't care for anything on it. If it wasnt for gamefreak and square enix I wouldnt have bought a ds and 3ds either
>>334958172
>he didn't play MELEE
>>334953094
I bought captain Toad for my girlfriend.
Then watching her play I realized that she was doing some of the puzzles wrong and I started playing it. It's fun but too shortInsert penis joke here
when my friend begged me to go with him to buy Wii Music for $60....I gave him this exact look
>>334957967
This,absolutely this. That's when I realized amiibo got out of hand
>>334958229
I didnt like the original smash so why would I play melee.
Brawl made you realize a party game is a party game.
NICE
>>334956329
Probably because of a little thing called "Brand Recognition".
The Wii is the best selling home console Nintendo ever released. Even sold more the NES.
They would have been insane not to use the Wii name in the follow-up console.
>>334958172
Gamecube had a handful of classics with replay value
There's pretty much nothing on Wii U I feel like playing twice and this is coming from an autist that has beat Xenoblade Chronicles four times.
Even multiplayers like Splatoon have no content and Smash 4 gets grating to play with how defense it is online.
>>334958407
?
>>334957719
Someone'll probably post the picture with the list of every minor grievance, but the major points:
>Replaced the skimpy swimsuit outfits in the M-rated Fatal Frame game with Zero Suit Samus & Zelda outfits
>Removed the boob slider and made the 13-year old girl's outfits less revealing in Xenoblade Chronicle X
>Fire Emblem was the big one that really kicked this shit into full shitpost mode: removed the petting portion of the bonding minigame where you rub your units' faces, removed the swimsuits from the dressup section, changed some support dialogues, general script rewrites for some characters.
The Fire Emblem one was blown way out of proportion though. Note how none of those actually affect the strategy gameplay of it.
Also, the petting was tedious as hell. To max it out with a character, you had to do it like 30+ times and they didn't have nearly enough shit to make those times unique. After the first 3 you've heard all the lines basically, outside of a small amount you get after marrying them.
And all the functionality of the bonding game was still in. You just automatically got it rather than having to rub their face for a minute between each mission to get it.
>>334951365
Recently with the newer pokemon games. The only nintendo series I still enjoy are Metroid and F-Zero, but one is dying and the other is long dead so it won't be long until I just give up with them. I also enjoyed 2D Marios until they started shitting out lazy rehashes of NSMB. The 3D Marios are fine, but with the latest games they got even more babbified than they were before.
>>334951856
You need to be 18+ to post on this site.
>>334951365
This fucking game. What a rancid piece of shit it was, and it was 95% rehashed Wild World. I knew I had to get off Nintendo's wild ride. Got a PS3 and never looked back.
>>334951365
When I tripped for the first time in Brawl.
All of my friends were playing it together in a Free for all and I tripped as Captain Falcon. My buddy paused and said "what the fuck was that?". We ignored it and kept playing and then it started happening to them and it became apparent to everyone in the room that we had made a grave mistake.
We ended up just playing some Garou Mark of the Wolves, Kirby Air Ride, and Melee that night. We were all so fucking disappointed.
>>334951365
Nintendo's target audience was always children. You liked them when you were a kid and then you grew up, you fucking thick cunt.
Like is it really that hard to piece together?
>>334958581
Lot of good it did them, eh?
When they released the Nintendo 64.
>>334958172
I could see why someone happy with a PC or PS2 during the 6th console gen could be fine with missing out on gamecube, but please don't pretend the gamecube was some massive departure from the N64 in terms of game quality. If you were actually a nintendo fan before the gamecube came out, there were strong showings from just about every nintendo IP on the console: Melee, Metroid Prime, Paper Mario: TYD, FE: Path of Radiance, Zelda TP, Super Mario Sunshine, etc.
Nintendo didn't really change their old formula with the Gamecube (although that old formula was far less successful for them due to a changing market). Maybe you changed.
>>334959564
I feel sorry for you if that's what you think. Because this means you never owned a nintendo console pre-wii.
>>334960583
>implying all of you fuckers aren't in your 20s
What convenient timing that nintendo turned to shit right when you were a teenager.
>>334958581
>They would have been insane not to use the Wii name in the follow-up console.
And yet the naysayers over the Wii U's name have been vindicated after 4 years of flat sales. Funny how that works out.
>>334960487
I have a pretty huge gamecube library that is only eclipsed by my Steam, SNES, PS1, and PS2 library.
I dunno man. I like the gamecube a lot. I don't think it deserves all the flak it gets. I also feel that way about the N64 though. People just LOVE their hyperbole.
>>334960674
Well thanks for proving me right.
>>334951856
Happy 18th birthday, man.
I haven't completely fallen off the horse yet because the Wii U and 3DS both have some pretty solid games for me. But at this point i'm likely to wait out the next generation and hope the one after still maintains backwards compatibility.
>>334959230
I already reported him half an hour ago, but the hotpockets are nowhere to be seen.
>>334951365
>He stressed that developers wasted far too much time focusing on core gamers and would be unable to turn a profit if they did not tend to the average game player.
When Iwata became CEO and blue ocean strategy. They're now babysitters for autist manbabbys.
>>334960984
This. They're going to have to dangle quite the carrot on the NX stick to get me this time.
>>334951365
They still make great games, so... never, I guess.
>>334951365
When they went from hanafuda to playing cards.
>>334961154
And tumblr whores (aka treehouse) which became a thing after Iwata took over CEO role of NOA. He's a tremendous waste of a human being and everyone will spit on his memory sooner or later.
>>334952169
Nobody played Pokémon in HS. In college, everyone was playing pokemon.
>>334951365
Ironically enough sm4sh
Not even a smash fag and I was geniuenly disappointed on how much of a copy and paste the game was on Wii U
Didnt get it on DS because I hate portables.
WII U PRICE DROP FUCKING WHEN
They lost me for a bit during the Wii era, but then the Wii U came out and every game I've bought for it has been a blast.
They have the opportunity to have a huge success with the NX if they play their cards right, but I don't quite trust them to do that.
I don't think Nintendo even understands their target audience. They're honestly horrible at business.
>>334952925
And FE, Xenoblade, DKC, the Mario games and spinoff titles, Pokken, Slaton, etc
>>334953570
F Zero and...
>>334954641
>spin offs mean the main series is gone
I guess they turned Mario into a Kart racing series back with SMK.
>>334960984
Definitely waiting out to see how the NX turns out. I just hope it wont be like the wii U, where i waited, waited and never bought one in the end.
>>334961618
Yes, they are out of touch most of the time.
>>334960984
This is where I'm at now. Just biding my time with 3DS and PC while hoping fervently the NX is the true successor to the Gamecube we've been waiting for since 2006, and maybe I can play the 5 or 6 Wii U games that interest me if it's backwards compatible.
Sadly there are signs the NX will be even worse than the Wii U, especially if they go with a console/handheld hybrid like the rumors seem to imply. Nintendo's recent forays into the mobile market are also disturbing.
>>334951365
When I started shitposting on image boards instead of playing games.
>>334952682
>Nintendo has games for all peoples of ages
>Proceeds to censor M rated games
Yea I love being told what is and isnt naughty at 18+ years old. I fucking love it.
I don't give a shit about being a company's intended audience and never will. I still enjoy some of the games Nintendo puts out today, even if I greatly prefer their old stuff.
That being said, I'm not too interested in the NX due to their recent flubs and strange perception of understanding today's market. Hopefully they'll turn that around.
i just a game console to play games
i already have a smartphone
I already have a netflix machine
I already have a pc
I don't need any of this multimedia bullshit
make some new IPs
keep supporting current IPs
Stop with the gimmicks
is this really so fucking hard to do?
>>334961618
That is why they are rich enough to buy out SE if they felt like it, right? Perhaps a man child on 4chan should teach them how to run their business.
>>334961953
Out of curiosity, what do you feel is so bad about a console/handheld hybrid? To me it seems like an opportunity to consolidate their biggest selling franchises (Pokemon, Mario Kart, Smash, Mario) to a single platform while allowing them to still have a handheld presence in an era when dedicated handhelds are dying. I'm curious to see the details of how it would work, but I think it could be cool to have a unified experience like that if they pull it off.
Watching Color Splash get officially announced completely broke me.
I just don't want to support the company anymore, it makes me ill just knowing they intend to do the bare minimum work on a nostalgia-branded cash-in to attract the hip little kiddies who want to be like the grown-up old Nintendo audience and get an experience away from the smartphone.
Fuck.
>>334962057
Censorship is an issue with literally every company that makes games. But you only bitch about Nintendo. Pathetic, really.
>>334952356
>>334951365
i still like them.
>>334962203
Yeah well if Square Enix wasn't so good at wasting money they wouldn't be able to it'd be the other way around, nintendrone
>>334951365
Brawl was a huge slap to the face of me and the rest of the fanbase who enjoy depth and complexity. I remember the first time I played it and I literally had the same reaction as the documentary crew.
"what the fuck is this shit? where's all the cool control mechanics? why is it so stripped down? Why are shields so gaybroke now? why is it so slow, why is it so simplified, why do the ledges hold your hand now, why are aerials so laggy..."
the list went on and on and on.
But it was also definitely a pivotal turning point for Nintendo, as they basically turned their backs on the core gamers. The games are all just too casual. Zelda, Mario, Smash, Metroid even got hit. Everything about them and how they play, and how Nintendo used to use them to push their respective genres forward was thrown out the window for "LOL WIIMOTES LOOK IM POINTING AND SWINGING MY WIIMOTE WHEEEE ISNT THIS SO FUN?"
All to accommodate the fucking trash nongamers and casuals so they could line their pockets and walk away laughing. Even the fucking WiiU is a casual travesty, the games are essntially wii tier shit without the Wiimote waggle gimmick and better graphics.
I honestly hope that company burns hard.
>>334952356
>disturbed is bad meme
A WAH AH AH AH
>>334951365
When n64 happened but I buy any game I want on any platform I need, as I'm not a console war shitter or PCuck and actually have money.
>>334953350
Confirmed for not knowing shit. Were you home schooled?
>>334962305
How does any of that apply to Color Splash?
>>334962540
Donkey Kong Dong Freeze is actually pretty good m8. Metroid Prime 3 was also pretty legit.
other than that I agree
>>334962725
It's not the game he wanted it to be so he's mad. He deserves HIS game, not whatever game the developers at Nintendo want to make.
>>334962457
>Nintendrone
>because I pointed out the company is successful financially and you are a bottom feeder on an anime message board
Okay, sure thing.
>>334962305
Why is 7 so much better than the rest?
>>334951365
Never?
They still make games and I still enjoy them.
>>334962540
You sound a like a whiny cunt.
>>334962540
>as they basically turned their backs on the core gamers
Exactly what brawl symbolizes for me as well. It was THE turning point.
>>334953259
>SHovel knight
It released on the ps4 and pc as well. theres probably a vita version too if i'm not mistaken.
>>334962795
>Prime 3
>legit
Really?....Prime 3 shoulda waited for the Wiimotion+ because that shit was garbage.
>slow as fuck even on max sensitivity
>have to touch the side of the screen to turn
>had lots of issues with motion based shit staying synched or working right
Everything about it woulda been better with wiimotion+, as it is it felt like gamecube controls slapped on a wiimote pointer, not a natural extention of aiming at all.
And Dong freeze is ok, but it has lots of issues with level design pacing that people freak out when I mention it. Your characters are literally too fast for some levels and it just sends you barreling off ledges into puts or into obstacles. This compared to DKC1, 2 and 3 where the design was proportional to the actual control mechanics and speed of the kongs is why I cant enjoy it. It's like the devs behind dong freeze didn't even test their levels, they just slapped them together, said they're pretty and went with it. When you dont get a level like that it's solid as fuck, but they're literally littered throughout the game.
>>334951365
Eh, as long as they keep on making real games as opposed to "experiences"hell they can make experiences too as long as it doesn't affect the gameplayas far as I'm concerned I'm still part of their target audience.
Just like I'm part of the target audience for the other two because they still have real games.
Just to a lesser degree.
>>334962820
just shut the fuck up dude. Stop shitposting for once in your life.
>>334951365
When the ps one came out.
>>334963232
>jojo avatarfag getting booty blasted
CUTE
>>334963757
Le spooky skeleton.
wow you are one old school /v/ user. Damn....
>>334962894
>>334962203
your replying to a different guy, but seriously they don't have a target market. They think they're targeting children but they're actually hitting 20+. That is horrible business that will eventually catch up to them unless they have a shift in leadership. Also no need to be so autistic just because some other guy called you out, we're both just pointing out that although they have money they won't get much more of it if they keep going the way they are now.
>>334964049
you're*
you fucking american shit.
>>334964049
>eventually catch up to them
>eventually
>wii u died in 3 years
>eventually
>>334964096
>disregards everything I write because of a typo
not even American, but cool bias douche
>>334964216
exactly my point they have a lot of money but the point of them existing is to make more money not lose it
>>334962253
Going handheld would mean less graphical power, and honestly that would kill nintendo given that they are already two generations behind graphically.
Knowing nintendo I doubt they would make their next handheld more powerful than a Vita.
probably when the Wii U controller was announced and it became apparent that they were going to give us another underpowered gimmick machine instead of a straight-up games console
This gen honestly.
>Amiibo
>Region-Locking
>Game tied to hardware
>Censorship
>First party games are losing their quality
I can't honestly say anything positive about them anymore
>>334964590
That's why I'm curious to see how it's going to work if they're really going that route, because the same rumors that have suggested console/handheld hybrid have also suggested slightly-above-PS4 power. Which isn't exactly possible on a reasonably-priced handheld right now.
MUH CONSOLE WARS
>>334965702
>game tied to hardware
Elaborate
>>334964590
>Knowing nintendo I doubt they would make their next handheld more powerful than a Vita.
What do you mean?
The company that used 15 supercomputers running 24/7 for 7 days to develop a chip equal to hardware that costs $50,000 and remained the only 3DFX chip on the market for 4 years time? You know, the biggest technological leap in history, ever?
The same company that was still not satisfied and wanted to create a Disk Drive attachment that utilized magnetic strip saving to create games where your actions were recorded and affected the world?
You THAT Nintendo?
>no longer Nintendo's target audience
>they still release niche games like Star Fox, Xenoblade, Fatal Frame, Devil's Third, The Wonderful 101, Bayonetta 2, #FE, etc.)
As long as they keep supporting those games they still have my dollar.