"Analysts: Nintendo facing its biggest challenge"

[Clashman]

I was not able to find any evidence that Nintendo had their own line of sports games since the original nintendo, if they even did then. It's just that back then all the 3rd parties would work with them. I think that maybe Acclaim's NFL Quarterback Club Series was on N64 and not PS, but I thought it was on Saturn too. And that ended after 99 or so, if it even went that far.

Edit: By the way, I wasn't including Mario Golf or Wave Race as sports games, because they aren't mainstream sports titles, (ie American Football, Basketball, Soccer, Hockey, etc). They certainly haven't had a franchises covering all the bases in a long time.

 

[Fox5]

Well, no, nintendo never had a full sports lineup, though they have had exclusive sports games from other companies.
But they had Wayne Gretsky's 3d hockey(not sure who made that), some Ken Griffy Jr. games(I think by rare, who had never even seen a reallife baseball game prior to making the game), excitebike 64 sort of counts, right?, and they had NBA Courtside.
I wasn't counting mario golf or tennis as sports titles, but I was counting 1080 and wave race, though racing is pretty much an entirely seperate genre from sports, even if there are tricks to do. 1 on 1 sports(like tennis) don't really count as sports either, as most people are looking for team sport games that involve running around some sort of court, field, or arena.(yes, tennis has 2 on 2, but it is in a small area with the teams limited to 1 side, and 2 people isn't really a team...)
Oh well, nintendo may not have a full sports line up, but wave race, sega soccer slam, and beach spikers are about as much sports video games as I care for.(I'm not big into most sports, and I prefer the real things to video game versions)

 

[Clashman]

Most of the games listed were pretty bad, and most were only one trick ponies, (IE they weren't turned into multiple year series. Even so, I think last generation Nintendo had a significantly better standing with the sports crowd than it does this gen. I could be wrong, though.

 

[Teasy]

If all you care about is sports games, and unfortunately there's plenty of people who fit that description, there's no compelling reason to choose Nintendo over Sony and Microsoft, as both consoles have everything Nintendo does in that department and more.

For the most part yes, but not completely true for GC vs XBox (100% true for GC vs PS2 though). XBox has no top Football games while GC does have at least one awesome one (Japanese but still awesome ).

 

[Clashman]

For the most part yes, but not completely true for GC vs XBox (100% true for GC vs PS2 though). XBox has no top Football games while GC does have at least one awesome one (Japanese but still awesome ).

Yeah, but in the U.S. the only football that matters is the kind you throw, and which has no goalies.

 

[Tahir2]

For the most part yes, but not completely true for GC vs XBox (100% true for GC vs PS2 though). XBox has no top Football games while GC does have at least one awesome one (Japanese but still awesome ).

Yeah, but in the U.S. the only football that matters is the kind you throw, and which has no goalies.

Surely that isnt a REAL sport either like Tennis isnt as Fox5 said.

Don't kill me guys me joking!!

 

[Teasy]

Yeah, but in the U.S. the only football that matters is the kind you throw, and which has no goalies.

I missed the bit when you specified the U.S market only. Not sure why though since I think having an exclusive sports lineup would be a big plus in pretty much every market.

Anyway Football may not be one of the big sports in the U.S, but its still a sport GC has covered that XBox doesn't. As I said though its the exception and your comment was 99% correct anyway.

 

[Clashman]

No, you're right. It wasn't meant to be U.S. specific, and a great soccer game released in the U.S. would probably go a ways to improving nintendo's anti-sports image. It's just that the U.S. seems to have the biggest problem with GC not having much to offer in that department. And in the U.S., the big sports to have are Football, Basketball, Hockey, and Baseball, (probably in that order). Soccer probably comes next on the list, though. Although I suppose if you count golf as a sport that would be up there, too.

 

[YeuEmMaiMai]

Nintendo is also debt free unlike their other two competitors

I mean whether it's second or third, it's gonna be by a difference of a very few units (around 1-2 millions)... So why get all worked up with silly secon-third-place discussions?

Surely the reason why its important is obvious? The last numbers we saw for all territories (before the GC price cut) showed GC ahead by around 500,000 worldwide. If this analyst somehow thinks XBox is ahead despite those numbers then he either doesn't know what he's talking about or he's biased towards XBox. You don't think that matters?

To be clear I haven't even read the interview and so I have no opinion on wether he is right or wrong.

HARDLY

Erm what?, Nintendo have over 7 billion to spread around if they want too! You think that's not enough money to attract third parties, get third party exclusives and make a console with all the home entertainment features that may find there way into PS3 and XBox2? Even XBox (with its off the shelf parts) won't lose MS more then a couple of billion.

So I suppose if you think Nintendo doesn't have the money to do that then you also think Sony don't either right?