I don’t want Nintendo to stay the same.

I recently purchased another Nintendo system – the 3DS. I didn’t buy it for the system, I bought it for the games. And the price. I purchased the system for $120 at a target 3 day sale. I decided, with that price, what could go wrong?

The answer, in short – Everything.

I used to love nintendo, they were, for quite some time, industry leaders. The fact of the matter is, they were never very big into hardware. the games they carried were great, they were easy to understand, original, and fun for all ages. The problem is this: The graphics were never quite up to par with other systems. And, there always seemed to be some kind of fluke in the systems which a accessory would need to fix.

I remember the days of the game boy advance. I was always jealous of those kids, you know, the ones with the GBAs. My Mom never wanted me to have a portable gaming system, she thought it would destroy my creativity. Actually, I’m pretty glad she did that, for if she did let me have a game boy, I might have never had discovered comics books, my true love.

Anyhow, the whole purpose of the GBAs was to allow kids (or the kids in us) to play console quality games anywhere. The real problem of the system, was that it didn’t have a back light. This prevented use in dark areas, at night, and playing outside. So, what did Nintendo do to fix this? Nintendo left it to the third party developers to give us a freaking light bulb attached to a magnifying glass. Job well done, Nintendo.

There are countless flops in hardware that Nintendo has done to us, but I shall discuss one more.

The game cube. I owned a gamecube, and I really like it. The graphics were poor, comparing to other systems out at that time, and it had stupid micro discs. They couldn’t have made the games DVD sized and added a DVD player? The real problem, with it for me, was backwards compatibility. In order to play game boy games, a consumer would need to first buy a $60 gameboy adapter stuck to the bottom of the system. One thing I never could understand was the handle on the back, did people actually carry their gamecubes around?

The main reason I don’t like my 3Ds, is the fact that the games are just crappy. There made for children. There are very few games that I would ever play. I use to love Nintendo because of the fact they made original games. The sad part is, Mario kart 7 is almost the same game as the gamecube version. The majority of the maps look or have been recycled, and the rubber banding is terrible! After overlapping the other cars, you might find one somehow pass your car and be ranked as ahead of you. It’s simply a poor game, just as is the other games I have played for it. It seems that many of them are rushed out and poorly made. Yet, for some reason, I still want to play those games. I grew up with mario, and i loved the classic console games.

Here’s my problem, Nintendo needs to stop putting it’s resources into making crappy gaming systems and start putting them into things we want. I want more games, but I also want to play games portably. Why can’t nintendo team up with Apple or Android and let us play emulators on our phones? Sure, there are already emulators available, but they are constantly being removed by Nintendo. Why can’t they do this!

Another thing, why can’t they cut their systems and start selling their games to the ps3 and the 360. There systems are actually good, they have the power closest to that of a gaming PC. The nintendo systems stil look like systems from the early 2000s.

The bottom line is this: Nintendo has so many options for their gaming systems, but what they really need to do is stick with their games. Branch out the games to other systems, your consoles suck!