this gaming giant has made its fair
share of mistakes Oh welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down the top 10 biggest
Nintendo fails number 10 the 3ds kicking
off our list is the latest failure by
the big n the 3ds Nintendo has always
maintained complete handheld dominance
however it has recently made several
poor decisions in the face of Apple
smartphones and Sony’s PlayStation Vita
these included an overblown launch price
screen that caused 3d related nausea a
total absence of must-own launch games
poor battery life and a lack of a second
circle pad for modern game design sure
Nintendo eventually dropped the price
released some games and created a
hideous circle pad attachment but the
damage is done number nine we
shortsightedness okay there’s no simple
way to say this the Wii has ugly
standard-definition graphics it is also
absent of many other basic features like
playable demos a hard drive and a proper
voice chat feature overlooking these
issues SD made sense back in 2006 when
few people had sweet flat panel displays
unfortunately that decision has caught
up to the company in recent years
costing it the momentum it gained early
on number 8 DVD playback and online play
this may not sound like a doozy in 2011
but in 2001 DVD playback was a big deal
shockingly
Nintendo was the only one to omit it in
favor of keeping costs down for the
Gamecube they have similarly steered
away from supporting online play
something they haven’t really improved
upon in the last decade despite
masterful offerings by the competition
number 7 GameCube design beyond its
limited playback options Nintendo’s
GameCube went one step further
basically it scared off many mature and
hardcore gamers with its flamboyant use
of purple as its flagship color and its
inclusion of a lunchbox style handle bar
number 6
censorship gamers like movie watchers
prefer to choose for themselves
Nintendo however had to learn the hard
way that it shouldn’t police what we
want to consume the major talking point
here is the censorship of games like
Mortal Kombat during the SNES era gamers
began flocking to the Sega Genesis for
the real deal and Nintendo forever
cemented itself as a kiddie brand
number five losing square support there
was a time when the Final Fantasy series
and its developers Squaresoft now called
Square Enix were synonymous with
Nintendo
all that changed with the arrival of the
original PlayStation and Nintendo’s
refusal to adopt CD technology as a
result we may never see another major
Nintendo bound final fantasy release
final fantasy shoes
scram number four and 64 sticking with
cartridges not only costing Nintendo
high-profile partnerships there Nintendo
64’s use of cartridges was enough to
shift the entire balance of power in the
console wars
despite their loading speed and
child-friendly durability they couldn’t
give developers the memory they wanted
and were very expensive to manufacture
number three the Virtual Boy the 3ds is
at Nintendo’s first attempt at 3d
virtual boy was an ill-fated device that
featured monochrome visuals tabletop
head mounted display and a lack of games
Virtual Boy didn’t destroy Nintendo but
were certain that many of the company’s
top brass must still lose sleep over
this mega failure yeah I’d never heard
of it either
number two Philips CDI in 1991 Nintendo
abandoned their plans for a disk based
attachment for the SNES instead they
broke ties with their then partner a
little company called Sony who were
forced to then partner with Philips the
result was a horrific system and a slew
of so-called games based on Nintendo’s
mascots trust us these games were bad so
bad they spawned the youtube poop series
you’ve got to be kidding number one
inadvertently creating the PlayStation
taking the top spot on our list is the
biggest and most long-lasting fail in
Nintendo’s history not only did Nintendo
do the unthinkable by screwing over a
fellow Japanese company with their CDI
fiasco but this also caused Sony to
realize something namely that their
product could become its own system
called the PlayStation and that they
could kick major ass by themselves
share of mistakes Oh welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down the top 10 biggest
Nintendo fails number 10 the 3ds kicking
off our list is the latest failure by
the big n the 3ds Nintendo has always
maintained complete handheld dominance
however it has recently made several
poor decisions in the face of Apple
smartphones and Sony’s PlayStation Vita
these included an overblown launch price
screen that caused 3d related nausea a
total absence of must-own launch games
poor battery life and a lack of a second
circle pad for modern game design sure
Nintendo eventually dropped the price
released some games and created a
hideous circle pad attachment but the
damage is done number nine we
shortsightedness okay there’s no simple
way to say this the Wii has ugly
standard-definition graphics it is also
absent of many other basic features like
playable demos a hard drive and a proper
voice chat feature overlooking these
issues SD made sense back in 2006 when
few people had sweet flat panel displays
unfortunately that decision has caught
up to the company in recent years
costing it the momentum it gained early
on number 8 DVD playback and online play
this may not sound like a doozy in 2011
but in 2001 DVD playback was a big deal
shockingly
Nintendo was the only one to omit it in
favor of keeping costs down for the
Gamecube they have similarly steered
away from supporting online play
something they haven’t really improved
upon in the last decade despite
masterful offerings by the competition
number 7 GameCube design beyond its
limited playback options Nintendo’s
GameCube went one step further
basically it scared off many mature and
hardcore gamers with its flamboyant use
of purple as its flagship color and its
inclusion of a lunchbox style handle bar
number 6
censorship gamers like movie watchers
prefer to choose for themselves
Nintendo however had to learn the hard
way that it shouldn’t police what we
want to consume the major talking point
here is the censorship of games like
Mortal Kombat during the SNES era gamers
began flocking to the Sega Genesis for
the real deal and Nintendo forever
cemented itself as a kiddie brand
number five losing square support there
was a time when the Final Fantasy series
and its developers Squaresoft now called
Square Enix were synonymous with
Nintendo
all that changed with the arrival of the
original PlayStation and Nintendo’s
refusal to adopt CD technology as a
result we may never see another major
Nintendo bound final fantasy release
final fantasy shoes
scram number four and 64 sticking with
cartridges not only costing Nintendo
high-profile partnerships there Nintendo
64’s use of cartridges was enough to
shift the entire balance of power in the
console wars
despite their loading speed and
child-friendly durability they couldn’t
give developers the memory they wanted
and were very expensive to manufacture
number three the Virtual Boy the 3ds is
at Nintendo’s first attempt at 3d
virtual boy was an ill-fated device that
featured monochrome visuals tabletop
head mounted display and a lack of games
Virtual Boy didn’t destroy Nintendo but
were certain that many of the company’s
top brass must still lose sleep over
this mega failure yeah I’d never heard
of it either
number two Philips CDI in 1991 Nintendo
abandoned their plans for a disk based
attachment for the SNES instead they
broke ties with their then partner a
little company called Sony who were
forced to then partner with Philips the
result was a horrific system and a slew
of so-called games based on Nintendo’s
mascots trust us these games were bad so
bad they spawned the youtube poop series
you’ve got to be kidding number one
inadvertently creating the PlayStation
taking the top spot on our list is the
biggest and most long-lasting fail in
Nintendo’s history not only did Nintendo
do the unthinkable by screwing over a
fellow Japanese company with their CDI
fiasco but this also caused Sony to
realize something namely that their
product could become its own system
called the PlayStation and that they
could kick major ass by themselves
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