The Shrine

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-BestS ... tm">wow</a>

Wow, Nintendo had 6 of top 11 games in Japan for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Glad to see they're still screwing their own 3rd party developers for profit.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Pokemon, Mario, Kirby, Zelda. There's a big surprise. I think I'm gonna have a heart attack and die, from NOT surprise.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>They released a Biohazard 'Cube set in Japan for cryin' out loud, since when have they accepted a third party like that? As well, Capcom has developed the last 3 Zelda gameboy games (Seasons, Ages, and Link to the Past/Four Swords). They and Konami have a joint development house (Mobile 21). They're partially funding Final Fantasy Chronicles. Speaking of that, they were able to get Square back, guess that means they're still screwing the third parties. They dropped their prices on the 'Cube royalties to basically match Sony's. Not to mention the $1.5M in advertising they're putting towards Soul Calibur here in North America.

Really, it's not a matter of NIntendo screwing the third parties anymore. It hasn't been that was since about 2000. That's just the Nintendo-bashers talking. Just because the third party games aren't doin' well in Japan (they're still doin' fine here) don't mean Nintendo's still up to their old tricks.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I was also referring to the fact that everyone is talking about how the 'Cube is completely dead when it had 3 of the top 11 games in Japan. It's not doin' as well as Nintendo had hoped, but it's not Xbox dead over there</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>How so?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The only person who was saying that Nintendo was dead in Japan was you Zeus =P</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Top selling games just means there are no reasonable alternatives. The number of games people buy is fixed. If there are 10 Nintendos each producing the same number of *quality* games, none of them would be anywhere close to the top 10. That's the case on the PSX2</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I can't wait till they go games publisher only...imagine Mario on Xbox...sweet.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Truely.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>We'll see. They get one more round, if that fails like the 'Cube, they're out. But they'll always have the Gameboy in a hardware sense</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Well it isnt hard to achieve that. Ever since Yamauchi pushed away all the developers away from the N64 and towards the PS anything different is bound to be better.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>For sure. The best thing that happened to the company in recent years was him leaving. It's gonna take this generation to recover from what he did</div>