Retrospective about Nintendo

Among the video games social middle, we often agree that the PC is above the video game platforms, with games of better quality. However, it should be underlined that there used to be a nebulosa of creativity with the beginning of video games in the 1980s, with games through glasses, arcade games rotating 4π steradians wide... It used to much more prolific, there were no standards at that time.

Nintendo has won the war of mobile video game platforms in the 1990s by offering a much better autonomy. Being humble with a small shades of grey screen, powered by 4 LR6 batteries, made the Game Boy better than the other platforms, which had color and a larger screen, but poor autonomy. And Nintendo could carry on with the Game Boy Advance, which had color, large screen, trigger buttons, 15 hours autonomy and good games. In my opinion, the Game Boy Advance was the most balanced mobile video game platform.

A Game Boy Advance.

The war of video game platforms was terrible, with Sony betraying Nintendo, who was supposed to make the Nintendo Playstation until Sony disrupts and leaves Nintendo with a cartridge platform, the Nintendo 64. It was a hard time for Nintendo, and it is said that without a few games (Mario 64, Zelda Ocarina of Time, Pokémon Stadium and Goldeneye), the Nintendo 64 would have been a failure.

But Nintendo carried on. When they launched the Gamecube, they realized that all platforms had become powerful, and that they needed originality to make a difference. Nintendo understood that a race of performance would be like a war between dinosaurs : it would hurry up their end.

This is why Nintendo made the Wii in 2006. Small, convivial, energy saving, powerful enough and with a move detecting controller, the Wii had both the muscles and the brain. At this time, everyone was talking about it, everyone wanted it... Unconsciously, the people felt that Nintendo had won the platform w

Shigeru MIYAMOTO made us dream with Mario and Zelda, and we got attached to the characters of Nintendo, contrary to Sony who never succeeded in making something affectuous. Nintendo games may look childish, but they are based on pleasure, contrary to the darker Playstation games based on hard violence. We must thank Nintendo for making us dream.

Today, Nintendo produces the Nintendo Switch. After a lot of creativity and inevitable failures like the Wii U, Nintendo seems to have chosen a small originality, taking little risk.

In my opinion, the Wii was the best. Compatible with both controllers and games of Wii, Gamecube, Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, the Wii offered a gaming experience that was used to only 10 % in my opinion. Using the Game Boy Advance as a Wii controller offers a screen within the controller, the Nintendo DS offers a tactile screen. This WGNG (Wii Gamecube Nintendo DS Game Boy Advance) system has been considerably underestimated in my opinion.

As its launching name said, the Wii was a revolution. If it had kept its name, we could have said : "Hey, you wanna play the Revolution :-) ?". Even though the Wii was not the best sold Nintendo platform, it has conquered the heart of gamers, as well as non-gamers.

I wish Nintendo produces Wii again. Instead of taking a new risk, releasing new Wii games, but with better quality and better use of the possibility of all the possible controllers, would be a blessing for Nintendo fans.

I admire Nintendo because of their creativity. Attaching characters, games of quality, non-stop innovation... We can say now that Nintendo has won the video game platform war. They deserved it.

What is the future ? Analogic ? PC ? Producing new Wii ? Cartoons ?

In my opinion, the numeric support will crash on the long term. We know that in 2050, the rare earths used to produce numeric devices will be depleted... In practice, the semi-conductor industry has been lacking materials since 2021. And the newspaper said that recent video game platforms were unfindable because of this shortage.

If we have to connect to the Wood Wide Web and switch to analogic, we should conserve the best numeric video games. Whatever the technology, we are attached to our favorite video games, and if we have to come back to analogic, as everything seems to come back to its origins, I wish Nintendo makes the change and survives.