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If Nintendo didn't go all soft in 96 when they released N64, they wouldn't be in this mess right now. Companies like Squaresoft, Capcom and Konami would be making plenty of games for them and they could maintain their reputation. But the fact that they decided to introduce this whole "minimal violence" theme to their system is what let them down. This is exactly why I bought a PS then and not N64. All the good game series left Nintendo and went on to Sony who had no rules about what kind of games they'd market. If Nintendo wants to become equal again, they need to do exactly the same thing - eliminate their high censorship standards. It's rather ironic how their hendheld games manage to be quite good and yet their console games suck lately. And on the question of their disappearance - it probably won't happen. If anything, Nintendo will eventually disappear in a financially beneficial merger with another company. And if it does suddently go away, then sure there will be a big void to fill, but I think Sony and Microsoft will compensate for that just fine. All they have to do is produce more unoriginal games, and people will buy them just because they're there. Sure, older fans might turn away, but a new generation of kids won't give two ***** about "the good old days". So I figure that the game industry will keep thriving anyway, it's just that eventually it will become morphed into something completely different from today.
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