Slashdot Comments and Nintendo

A anon comment I made on slashdot about Nintendo:

I think that in total numbers sold the Wii could end up being the most popular console ever.

There I fixed your sentence for you.

:) If Nintendo can keep up their momentum till launch they will be breaking sales figures all over the place. Nintendo finally has the right idea. Stop targeting the super small hardcore gamer market. Lets look at some recent system sales numbers coming out of japan [onnintendo.com]:

PSP: 24,457

DS+lite: 177,049

(5/15- 5/21)

With the release of such games like Brain Age and Nintendogs, Nintendo's sale figures have been going through the roof. There is a huge void out there of games for non gamers and Nintendo is being and will continue to be rewarded for filling it.

MS and Sony are welcome to throw a bunch of tech into their machines so they can churn out a couple million more polys per second, so the new GTA game can have more realistic gore. I am sure there are still people out there that are looking for exactly that. But if you are looking to drastically increase sales numbers... that is not the route to take. The people who bought your console/games last time may buy them again, but the people who passed your product up last gen will pass it again for the same reasons.

Sony to force updates with games

Some games are now going to be forcing firmware updates to version 1.50 (So you can still use homebrew if you want). Which ones? Dead to Rights: Reckoning, DUB Racing, and Coded Arms have all been said to not play without 1.5 firmware (There is a download on the UMD to update the firmware if you want to).(Forced Firmware Updates SONY PSP Handheld Games | Portagame)

Portagame then asks the question would I update for a awsome game the points to GTA. For the record GTA is not a awsome game. Updating means: you lose the ability to run homebrew code! How could the GTA60000 be worth the ability to run whatever code you want?

Not only that the updates that are out there dont really add anything. Mostly just attempts to stop people from running homebrew code. There has been no browser update or email or chat or whatever. It just fixing bugs.

Well, you can still use home brew with the 1.50 version. But I am sure Sony will continue to push versions with games.

So, to answer the question on portagame: No!