Iwata: USA slow to react to trends.

Actually isn't it Nintendo who was always slow to react to trends? Isn't that how they ended up going with the Wii strategy in the first place? They were always slow to give the gamers what they wanted in terms of hardware & 3rd-party software support. If they were quicker to react to trends or just not so stubborn, like CD's, demo's, controller design, mature games, etc over the years, they likely wouldn't have lost so much fanbase pre-Wii.

.....hehehe, pre-Wii....

edgecrusher said:

Iwata: USA slow to react to trends.

Actually isn't it Nintendo who was always slow to react to trends? Isn't that how they ended up going with the Wii strategy in the first place? They were always slow to give the gamers what they wanted in terms of hardware & 3rd-party software support. If they were quicker to react to trends or just not so stubborn, like CD's, demo's, controller design, mature games, etc over the years, they likely wouldn't have lost so much fanbase pre-Wii.

.....hehehe, pre-Wii....

I thought you were trolling there, but damn it, you are right!  And look at the Gameboy -- except for the casing that stayed in stasis for a decade.

Iwata

“I think Japan is a nation where the whole society shifts rapidly and dramatically to what is new – maybe the quickest in the world. United Kingdom is similar to Japan in a sense that its market also reacts quickly as well. On the contrary, slower tendency can be seen in nations like Germany. And the United States, whose market is often thought of as in-depth, has so many slow reacting consumers (along with rapid ones).

This trend can actually be seen with the gaming population expansion. While Japan once haltered in its expansion, U.S. kept continuing to expand, due to the different tendencies of each market. Thus I believe we will see a huge difference among countries on Nintendo DS sales after we actually make new proposals with Nintendo 3DS, due to price gaps between Nintendo 3DS and existing Nintendo DS family, and consumers’ acceptance of it.”

edgecrusher said:

Iwata: USA slow to react to trends.

Actually isn't it Nintendo who was always slow to react to trends? Isn't that how they ended up going with the Wii strategy in the first place? They were always slow to give the gamers what they wanted in terms of hardware & 3rd-party software support. If they were quicker to react to trends or just not so stubborn, like CD's, demo's, controller design, mature games, etc over the years, they likely wouldn't have lost so much fanbase pre-Wii.

.....hehehe, pre-Wii....

I think Nintendo has been trying to create new trends these days at a low cost. Not so much giving gamers what they want in conventional thinking, but giving gamers what they don't know they want yet. Or showing the other possibilities out there.

But all at a low production cost for themselves.

aspro said:

^Me too.  Only criticism I've heard of it is that it's glitchy (like all Bethesda games).  Acceptably glitchy.

My complaint was that they killed off Patrick Stewart in the first 4 minutes of the game.  Oh shit -- SPOILER -- I guess.

-- going to bed --

You've ruined it for everyone.

It's glitches were funny. I remember though when I got bitten by a vampire because I slept in a cave at night. It put you on this unbelievable quest that was such a pain in the ass it became legendary. And in the end Bethesda made some fountain or something DLC that you had to pay for, to remove the vampires curse.

Foolz said:

gamingeek said:

You've ruined it for everyone.

It's glitches were funny. I remember though when I got bitten by a vampire because I slept in a cave at night. It put you on this unbelievable quest that was such a pain in the ass it became legendary. And in the end Bethesda made some fountain or something DLC that you had to pay for, to remove the vampires curse.

Yup, the glitches were the best part!

There were so many niggling things in it that really annoyed me, but it was good overall.

The only thing that I found a little pointless was making a world so large that it took so long to traverse, you pretty much warped everywhere anyway and endured loading times anyway.

It's the same for games that put tons of enemies on screen and you can only interact with the ones closest to you anyway.

Iga_Bobovic said:

Foolz said:

SMG: too easy.

SMG2: too hard.

People reading Game Informer Reviews

People reading reviews.

Foolz said:

Yup, the glitches were the best part!

There were so many niggling things in it that really annoyed me, but it was good overall.

Ninininininininini.

I'd pick Morrowind over Oblivion any day of the week. Still, Oblivion is a very enjoyable game.