When Young Morons Want To Give You A Nintendo History Lesson...

[@HappyConsoleGamer]

Stop yelling at me Rich I am sorry!

[@l34CoNCreepy]

you got a lot of balls comin in here...... :P

[@grandpulse7970]

Bacon Creepy Not bigger than mine though :3

[@Naptacular98]

LOOOOOOOOL!!

[@HappyConsoleGamer]

Stop bragging...

[@l34CoNCreepy]

who's braggin?

[@World11HQ]

Rich I own a gameshop and I have a lot of young Nintendo fans try to preach to me about Nintendo/video game history. Most of the time their history starts around the GameCube...........

[@deadi.d.4268]

World 1-1 mine started with the game cube

[@SonicSkychaser]

World 1-1 My history started at the good old NES

[@World11HQ]

I still sell original Nintendos, Snes, and all retro game systems at my shop. I'm pretty knowledgeable at games/history and I'm always looking for more knowledge. I get at least 10 young guys/gals that will try and tell me how gaming was in the 80's. Most of them are in their early 20's. I politely tell them that I lived during those eras so I feel like I have firsthand knowledge. They tell me they watched a few KZbin videos so they know how it was. Makes me want to bang my head on a wall.

[@pinkshinju360]

Oh, nice! I just watched a few of your guy's videos and they're pretty good! :)

[@bluechiefawesome5587]

What's wrong with that ? The GameCube had the best Metroid, the best 3D Zeldas, the best Smash Bros, the best Resident Evils, excellent hardware and plenty of multiplats. It was a last great Nintendo console.

[@brandonsoto7225]

All Nintendo had to do was make a powerful console with a regular controller, but nope, more gimmicks.

[@Element7099]

Brandon Soto agreed the motion controls were really dumb to include. 1 2 switch looks so stupid -_-

[@taylord5381]

gaming would be pretty boring then

[@Bogan360dude]

Brandon Soto Because a knock off PC clone is exactly what I want for a handheld console. No thanks.

[@veodok2343]

I feel like people have yet to make the distinction between motion controls like the Wii had and gyro controls. The base Wii controler was a gimmick, nothing more. It was just a slightly less convenient way to press a button. Gyro controls, at least in my experience, have been pretty damn good for the games that implemented them.

[@gr8645]

Nintendo tried that with the GameCube.

[@diegopinzon6779]

You said everything I think about Nintendo in less than 12 minutes. It's so frustrating to watch Nintendo making the same mistakes over and over. I love Nintendo, but I'm not blind to see this mess.

[@ssjgotenks2009]

what mess torll what maesie siwht is as alotm out sell wiiu in les then 1 year huh hoa thw maeske

[@pugnacious6290]

@signerleo snyder Wuht? Teh fesh kaks hav jaloponos n tem. Obvscuely tiz un velo so rap tor.

[@oscarperez9783]

How does it feel to be so wrong 4 years later?

[@mynameisdudge]

I agree 100% but I'm 18 so I guess I'm wrong

[@johngddr5288]

exactly, thats when youre wrong :D

[@Crecross]

Luigi Mario how do you know they get their info from youtube?

[@johngddr5288]

Crecross Official he never said they get their info from youtube, he said when they "listen" to "morons" on youtube. Emphasis on "when"

[@Crecross]

John Rambo which is getting info from youtube.........man, dumb.

[@Yaeven]

That's some fucking paradox shit right there.

[@brucecampbellschin8632]

People have to remember Nintendo is a Japanese company and they make products the Japanese will buy.

[@jayronanderson6459]

So is Sony kiddo

[@brucecampbellschin8632]

Jayron Anderson I'm fairly certain Nintendo is bigger than Sony when it comes to console sales and way ahead in the handheld market.

[@TheGemini5]

Are you kidding Drake?? You HAVE to be trolling to make a comment like that! Handhelds, yes...consoles?? FUCK NO!!

[@jayronanderson6459]

Sony made more money this gen I can admit that and I'm an Nintendo lover

[@brucecampbellschin8632]

I said fairly certain which isn't 100% so it's not a troll comment it's a guess never stated as fact.

[@hurkamur1]

When did Nintendo start making video computer games? I thought they were a playing card company?

[@RippahRooJizah]

The 80's.

[@jsmith5212]

No the 70

[@44bigfreeze]

Where have you been for the past 32 years?

[@JLCL01]

This comment chain is fuckin' awesome.

[@ChiplockRock]

The 70's after Gunpei Yokoi conviced the president of Nintendo that videogames were the way to go. They started low, but after the industry crashed they found their opportunity to grow, that avid mind is something I feel they lost years ago.

[@007robotchicken]

"...SO SIT DOWN IN THE CORNER AND SHUT UP! Have a good one."

[@RedX165]

You sure they're young fans defending it? Young gamers don't really care for Mario or Zelda. They like GTA and COD. Older gamers seem to be Nintendo's strong point.

[@spicykaraage641]

I'm one of the older gamers and I'm not a fan of their games. I have a 10 year cousin who screams nintendo.

[@RedX165]

Samuel Fernando Your cousin is one of the few. Most kids talk about is GTA V and COD

[@spicykaraage641]

RedX165 Not really a lot of kids in my block are addicted to pokemon. which got worse during the pokemon go craze since a lot of kids asked their mom for a 3ds.

[@Emma_J175]

Don't wanna be the special snowflake here, but im 16 and I love nintendo more than any video game company and a lot of my friends also do so yeah

[@riverm5889]

RedX165 I'm 13 and I love Nintendo. I wasn't there for the n64, the NES, or SNES, but I have played quite a few games on them. I understand why "children" don't have a connection with Nintendo as maybe a 30-40 year old but I respect them because without them, gaming possibly would not evolve the way it is today.

[@Zangelin]

"I was there" isnt an argument to tell that you actually know anything. You can attend spanish class for 3 years without learning a single damn word. That whole segment was completely braindead.

[@Zangelin]

You listed a lot of the history and did it well but that doesn't mean the "I am older than you so shut up" isn't a fucking retarded argument. You have the info and know what you are talking about (well for the most part anyway) But the way you presented and argued it was just completely fucking braindead. If you are smarter, try to act like it too or you are just proving the opposite.

[@thecode187]

What if you were born and lived in spain for 20 years then spanish class tried to teach you something from text books you know is wrong?

[@lauson1ex]

And does that somehow makes him wrong?

[@DrunkenAussie76]

"that whole segment" was about 2.5 minutes of his video, the rest was facts to back up his claim. ps how old are you?

[@Capnsensible80]

Okay then, it should be perfectly fine for you to go up to a Vietnam vet and explain to him what the war and 70's politics were all about as if you somehow know more even though he experienced it first hand and you only read about it? Ridiculous. Of course someone who actually lived through it would know more because they have their own experience and observation to fall back on, not just the spin put on it by whatever source you read about it from.

[@ahmeda.934]

"Nintendo never cared for third party support." -99% of Nintendo Fanboys that started with the N64.

[@ahmeda.934]

***** A lot of them say that though.

[@patyos2]

Even Gamecube and Wii had third party support....

[@ahmeda.934]

+patyos2 Very lackluster though.

[@JXEIO]

the Wii actually had a lot of third party support lol

[@ThreeDaysOfDan]

fuckthefucknshitfuck As in shovleware

[@DrakusRecords]

As an old nintendo fart i can relate. All these younguns that never played kung fu back in 1986 trying to tell me the history of 8 bit gaming is pretty hilarious.

[@336025abC]

I don't know... but drakus79... Kung Fu was one of the main reasons I got into gaming with the original nintendo to begin with... it was SWEET! Boy those old black box games sure are nostalgic compared to the newer ones where they put full box art on them!

[@jur_esque]

hah Nintendo Fart

[@mysterio1967]

Drakus79 you are a fart?

[@sephrah]

playin' some Nursery Cryme in the background while you play too? you truly are a fart :P

[@miriamluthi1306]

Drakus79 I’m actually so young the first time I played mario is with a ps2

[@thejackbull210]

Rich, I love yah and I agree with everything you said, but you need to remember, we live in an age where the truth doesn't matter anymore.

[@ReviewTechUSA]

Jim Payette sad but true.

[@thatslegit]

More like the truth being buried under piles and piles of lies claiming to be true and stamping themselves to say they are the source of all truth and wisdom...even IF you decide to correct or challenge it, you lose by popular opinion and the brainless wins and gloat unethically without thought because they feel good about themselves and themselves only.

[@cacao1312]

Thats Legit sounds like the democrats on twitter saying they wish trump got killed then adding hashtag "kindness"

[@ArcaneSurreal]

Spot on. The replies here remind me of a Pigeon that plays Chess. Flaps its wings like crazy, shits all over the board and knocks all the pieces over and then struts around like it won.

[@crlake]

Yep....preach it man.

[@Blood-PawWerewolf]

For me any game on any system the graphics don't matter. If the game is fun to play, I'll buy it.

[@randomstuff7962]

Bobby Albert yeah but playing in 144P isn't very fun isn't it....

[@Blood-PawWerewolf]

***** it doesn't matter if I'm playing at 110p vs 1080p. I would still buy it

[@ahchurro111]

Random Stuff Thomas Was Alone might has well have been 144p and people still played and loved it (myself included). Games are meant to be played usually. If I want to be wowed by visuals, I'll watch a high budget movie.

[@xenocrimge6660]

Everyone says that. If you had a choice between the visuals of a modern game and an N64 game you would choose the modern one.

[@Bogan360dude]

Bobby Albert I mean I don't care too much for graphics, but 720p 30fps is a nice minimum standard nowadays imo. I'm ok with less, but having more is nice. As long as the game is fun, then yeah I'm up for playing it.

[@MFD00MTR33]

Is it me or is Rich a bit......Triggered?

[@yaboypowda]

IF U SEEN THE VIDEO HES REPLYING TO UD BE TRIGGERD 2 LOL U SHOULD SEE HOW MANY COMMENTS I LEFT ON IT I WISH HE SHOWED WHAT OTHER PPL SAID BUT HE JUST DID SUBLIMINAL DISS

[@mickgerritsen1664]

D00MTR33 He likes those third party systems more than the Nintendo systems I think. But if he does care so much about graphics, why buy a ps4? It is all about the games for the system and how fun they are to play. I think that we have seen too much shooters to this day so a Nintendo system would be welcome.

[@stevestevenson2994]

What video?

[@PikaLink91]

You're imagining things

[@stevestevenson2994]

PikaLink91 Imagining that he is triggered?

[@cynthiautz6702]

Funny how Rich mention Doom on a Nintendo, and now we got Doom 2016 on Nintendo Switch coming soon.

[@GreatDood5]

Inaccurate fact kids are annyoing as hell, but I don't think age should have to do with who is a bigger fan imo.

[@itssovalentine]

John Did you hear him say that people in their twenties were included in the group of people who have a go at him?

[@GreatDood5]

Finn Diggle my point I was trying to make was someone that is 15 might be a big fan and have searched and read all the info they can on the subject. just because he is younger shouldn't mean his point isn't worth as much as this guy. I do agree the know it all people that have no idea what they are talking about should stfu though

[@kronic66]

John he is not saying he is a bigger fan. There is a big difference between reading about something and actually being their when it happened. Research can be tainted by listening to bad or inaccurate content.

[@RampantLeaf]

kronic66 Actual experience can be tainted just as easily by emotions and nostalgia. I agree that someone who experienced it would know more about the time and some of the history, but their facts can be clouded too.

[@JoeDirtisawsome]

@@kronic66 just because you were there to experience an event, doesnt mean that you understood all of the complexities and nuance of said event. Rich was a kid when he played the nes. what did he know about specs back then?

[@RogersBase]

This is DEFINITELY a video response to TheBitBlock, LOL

[@Arunnejiro]

I actually agree with a lot of what the bitblock said, he largely stated what was mostly his opinion and what he liked and enjoyed. Unless your going to say that his opinion is wrong. I'd have to rewatch his video if he talks about power.

[@mathieul4303]

But BitBlock is right tbh

[@Yaeven]

+Mathieu L Rich stated facts contradicting what TheBitBlock said. How the fuck is TheBitBlock right?

[@patrickatilano2014]

DEFINITELY. i agree with with what theBitBlock tho.

[@arcadeperfectreviews2653]

RogersBase too bad his argument of "I'm old" is retarded. I don't even like "thebitblock" and I skip the videos you do with him, but as a 30 year old man I can tell you that I learned a shit ton more about video games from reading books (like "the history of Nintendo" series) then I did from just being alive.

[@SnowBunneh]

I was born in 96. My uncles begged my mom to buy the Nintendo 64 because it was the most powerful and the same for the game cube. Then the ps2 took over with its more in-depth the content on full DVDs. Nintendo took a gamble with dildo controllers and now it is like they forgot how to make a game console in general. I feel like I wasted my money on a wii-u and I still feel pretty disappointed in Nintendo. For the sake of the gaming market as a whole I hope they either succeed or are swiftly replaced. I see them making the same dumbass mistakes and I refuse to support the switch. Its a really bad idea to run XP when everything else is on windows 7.

[@MarveliciousG]

"Dildo controllers" xD I cant anymore you are killing me

[@evillecaston]

I wish the GC had done better, instead of the Wii. Before the Wii, at least Nintendo tried to make solid consoles, even if they had flaws. Now they seem to only care more about standing out with gimmicks. I'm glad I moved on from them, because I wanna play games, not dildoes.

[@SnowBunneh]

Eville Caston I tried putting a condom on a wii mote and the bloody thing was rubbish. I'd rather spend the $50 on a proper vibrator.

[@evillecaston]

Snow Bunneh Leave it to Nintendo to force you to put a square peg in a round hole :^)

[@SnowBunneh]

Eville Caston The front was kinda curved and that was not the problem. The D-pad hurt like hell.

[@stewhv94]

It's funny that you bring up the new Doom on a Nintendo console...

[@marcywantsto7553]

and now its out lol

[@damiannunez9965]

Rumor has it that it flopped

[@kelinjohnson7421]

must to have been enough get get doom eternal confirmed bitches

[@MaskOfCinder]

The Switch port of Doom is clearly the worst version. The graphics and framerate took a major hit so it could be playable on Switch. PS4, Xbox One and PC have the real version of Doom.

[@cdcdrr]

I played Doom on the SNES. I quickly noticed the tech specs weren't up to snuff. It at least had nice audio.

[@youtubemoney843]

ComplainTechUSA

[@mikedome9475]

Come on, this video was hilarious.

[@DevinAK49]

KZbin Money KZbin drama USA

[@youtubemoney843]

Miguel Rose They're two completely different consoles!! Why the fuck are people comparing them

[@itssovalentine]

KZbin Money He's just fed up with ignorant, stubborn people talking about topics they don't really understand.

[@imnotbeyonce]

switch at launch: $299.99 ps4 at launch: $399.99 xbox one at launch: $499.99 Bam

[@wiibaron]

Gamecube;: $199.99 . Wii:: $249.99. WiiU: $299.99. Nintendo forgot to add $50.00 this time around by not including a game...

[@Miuranger1]

No Don't ahhhhh PS4 had much More power then switch

[@Miuranger1]

True Pride and a console that is more powerful is the same price

[@Miuranger1]

True Pride incentive? Of what? Casual gamers will probably buy a cheaper product with much better games

[@thunn35]

No Don't PS4 is about twice as powerful and came with a 500GB hard drive and a real controller

[@evillecaston]

Richie, the problem isn't that the fanboys are too young. It's the fact that they have to make up elaborate lies and move goalposts just to defend Nippletendo at all costs. Remember, these are the same people who think the Wii U won the 8th generation. They're profession truth-dodgers.

[@TheHeroicJunior]

Richie XD

[@TheVectorSilver]

"Nipple-tendo." Lmao Also, I don't think anyone thought the wii u "won." More like people thought the games were better. There were a lot more games on wii u that I cared about.

[@ItsRetroPlanet]

Who won? None of them. I don't really get it when people say a console won a generation. It's a game console. I get it if a game console sells decently, sure, but to win? Win what?

[@MaybeMysticc]

nippletendo

[@unapologeticasshat9214]

damage control

[@NotWhollySane]

I'm almost 33, and I can't tell you how many times I get pissed off by some early 20's guy trying to lecture me on graphics.

[@JoeDirtisawsome]

age is irrelevant. if a person is wrong they're wrong. my dad was alive during the nes era,but he doesnt know crap about this stuff.

[@franziv4593]

Well, by this logic you shouldn't lecture anybody older than you and that would be just stupid. I am as old as you are, still there is a solid chance that I know more than a 50 year old or less than a 15 year old when it comes to their favorite subjects. Especially graphics is a very complex topic in which it is easily possible for a dedicated 15 year old to know more than us. He just needs 200 hours to invest into learning about graphics and he knows more than me, easy.

[@sparcx86channel42]

@@franziv4593 in terms of History, recent history, its hard to give lessons for a person who actually lived at the time. its very hard because the people actually stood there. you should sit and listen. about other topics you can have a chance to argument but this is about the time when things happened.

[@redseagaming7832]

I'm 29 and I know more about the history of PlayStation than the kids who are 12 or 13 trying to tell me the history of it

[@Dr.Longest]

Being a child during a specific time does not qualify someone as knowledgeable on a company.

[@drownsinkoolaid4203]

ShortChangeHeroes He's talking more of the evolution of Nintendo over time, he was there to see it grow and fall first hand, rather than hearsay through biased people, that's his point.

[@squires9373]

Don't insult their age, insult their ignorance. If someone half your age had been studying the history of Nintendo their entire life, I mean the very little details they'd probably know more than you. Just like if a 30 year old dedicated 15 years of his life to studying the Beatles he'd know more about the Beatles than someone born in the 60s. Age does not determine knowledge.

[@nelsonw9483]

Those who say "Nintendo consoles were never powerful" were probably still toddlers when the Wii came out.

[@korr1571]

I feel you rich since I grew up with NES too (i'm 36 years old)

[@olivialambert4124]

Why are people comparing the graphics of a console? If you care about graphics don't buy a console at all. The PC makes all consoles look as bland as the Switch screenshot. Hell the first screenshot, I genuinely thought that was the PS3 until Rich said otherwise, and I'm not even running a 1070. Anyway, I'm 20. I don't know a whole lot about Nintendo, but lets school Rich who certainly is old enough to be my father. I've owned a SEGA Master System with built in Sonic. I've owned an N64 and worn out more controllers than I can count, not that it was hard to do with the N64. I haven't had the SNES but I've certainly emulated a lot of the games and read far too much on the history of the console. Yes, it absolutely had some graphical capability. You say the Gamecube wasn't popular because of its tiny disk space? Sure thats true but you seem to forget the N64 was up against the PS1, Dreamcast, and SEGA Genesis with CD format and was still popular DESPITE its tiny cartridge space. You said that the Gamecube wasn't popular because it pissed off developers? The SNES pissed off developers royally and then some. Some of the workarounds and weird moves developers had to pull to get SNES games looking the way they did were insane, it absolutely pissed off developers. Or how about the PS3, one of the most popular consoles ever made and I imagine a console you'd support as the most powerful of its generation, in a generation where multi-platform games were key, but it was also quite possibly the most developer-enraging console ever made. It was designed with the intent of pissing off developers. The CPU was intentionally made to be so different to every other console that Sony hoped games simply couldn't be made as multi-platform and yet it still got every major title. Now I like you Rich, and I agree with your main point of it requiring some degree of power (which it has), but you seem to be going a little overboard demanding it be hyper competitive even though it simply won't be possible to put Xbox One power in that tiny form factor with a half decent battery life and competitive graphics, let alone at a viable selling price. But more than that I just don't like backwards logic and a lot of your points are contradictory. It seems like you're just picking out whichever point suits your argument rather than stopping to think what really makes sense. Some of the major points being that Nintendo's attempt to grab exclusives went too far on the Wii, games were excluded as business decisions not because of poor hardware, and their target audience is killing the console in a western world where little children want to gun down an airport lobby with a group of Russian terrorists. Quite frankly the Gameboy and all its iterations did quite well, including recent DS, much better than Sony's far more powerful PSP especially in the west. The biggest problem with the Switch isn't the graphics, its that the casual target audience (who don't care much for graphics) won't pay for a monthly subscription on a console they don't use much. And once again its the CPU which matters with multi-platform games, not the GPU. As you can clearly see games can still be ported over to a weak GPU just by turning off effects, cutting polygons, and dropping the resolution.

[@techguypaul]

Except you can't play Breath of the Wild on a PC. Try again, dumbass. 1/10

[@megamanx1291]

Yes you can, WiiU emulator, 1080P 60FPS unlike the console itself. ._. I could run it on Pc a couple of weeks later, but I'll get it on the WiiY

[@WOGBOY]

omG GAMER grILL XDdd

[@twistedobsession3659]

Olivia Lambert I think Rich knows that because of the form factor the Switch can't be as powerful as it would have to be to directly compete with the competition. The whole point of the video was to make a point to people 20 and below that are spreading misinformation that he knows first hand the history of Nintendo and can tell them that; Nintendo used to actually care about power. The only critic I have about this video is the fact that age shouldn't be such a big deal. I'm 20 and I knew all of what he said in this video before I ever even subscribed to his channel. Age doesn't mean a thing here, I may not have been around during the release of the SNES, but I have played multiple times and looked into it extensively.

[@twistedobsession3659]

Olivia Lambert One more thing, while handhelds are consoles. The home console market is drastically different from the handheld market. Horse power in handhelds isn't a huge factor when it comes to success on portable consoles. everything else I totally agree with though

[@Turk3yFilms]

clap your hands 50 more times please

[@LongAct94]

In your ass?

[@PlayStatiowned]

I'm 20 and I know more about Nintendo than Rich. I have a PhD in Nintendo Sciences.

[@vargue]

Pfft you probably got help from your uncle

[@Immortalcheese]

Impossible. University starts at 17-18, meaning you'd be 21 at minimum before starting a master's degree. You'd be minimum 22 to have a PhD

[@PlayStatiowned]

Immortalcheese Is it impossible to be boosted 2 years for being a natural Nintendo wizard?

[@PlayStatiowned]

KaL Rynzler UHH I have a job... at mcdonalds...

[@danielclark920]

PlayStatiowned you are literally too young to have a phd in shyit

[@retroryguy2821]

I can imagine its hard to ignore these youngsters who never peeked past their keyboards and camaras to try to do some actual research on Nintendo. Speaking as a not blind Nintendo enthusiast, i agree with everything you said. Despite not being happy with some of Nintendos decisions, they can't be ignored.

[@Avaitor_YT]

They should be ignored, if there just kids then they really should.

[@kevythekevlar]

Living through an experience doesn't mean you understand a situation, or understand it better than others. It only just means you have an advantage over others that haven't lived it in regards to understanding it. Living through Nintendos gaming life doesn't inherently mean you understand it better than those that haven't whatsoever.

[@kevythekevlar]

You are mostly correct here, sure. But still it doesn't inherently make you understand it better

[@m.kakazu]

What makes Nintendo "Nintendo" isn't the specs, it's how they aren't afraid to shake things up. The NES and the Gameboy revolutionized the market, the SNES improved on what they had built and added a few 3D games, the N64's joystick and rumble pack, the Virtual Boy's attempt towards VR, GBA's e-cards and then the GBA SP's rechargable battery and backlit screen, DS's touch controls, Wii's motion controls, 3DS's 3D, Wii U's reattempting the GBA-Gamecube link and now the Switch is trying to bridge the gap between home console and handheld. They only cared about specs when caring about specs was something new. Otherwise, they wouldn't have made the gameboy monochrome, the virtual boy red, the SNES weaker than the Neo Geo, the N64 use cartridges, the Gamecube use miniDVDs and the DS.

[@sarahujik]

Martín Kakazu ohh gee I wish I was as old and knowledgeable as you are....oops right 36. I've had all of the nintendo and Sega consoles and handhelds. oh wait if you don't know game gear then we have issues.

[@MforMovesets]

I lied to myself like that too, until the missed opportunities, crappy presentation and awful controls and decisions on Wii, which had me abandon Nintendo. And as far as I've seen, it hasn't gotten any better. Nintendo-fans have something like "Nintendo blindness", where they are amazed by features and achievements which are already 5 years old and have been done on other platforms. I was amazed that Skyrim was running on Switch, even though this game runs on ANYTHING these days, even the enhanced version. Just because "gameplay counts" (which, in Nintendo's case, is ALWAYS THE SAME or mediocre at best these days), doesn't mean I have to accept playing with years old tech, behind any other thing on the market, while not being much cheaper, especially Switch. People only buy it for the franchises, which are mostly dead except Mario, Zelda and Pokemon, which people keep buying the 1000th version of the same gameplay. Imo, the WiiU only has two good games, Smash Bros and Mario Kart. And there isn't even a Mario Galaxy successor on it. Switch is even lazier, just relaunching games, Splatoon 2 looking just the same etc. It will die SO fast, no matter how many people buy it at launch.

[@Brotlov]

Except the Game Gear was $275.43 when it released, and the GB was only $174.18 when it was released, both adjusted for inflation. Sure, you could buy the more advanced system, but you're paying $100 more. And what games do you get? Sonic, I guess? Goes to show why the Game Gear sold only 10.62 million units, and the Game Boy sold a massive 118.69 million units, a little over 10 times the amount.

[@Melodyofthesea78]

Sony has Jrpg's, survival games, shooters, indie games, Platform games, some visual novels and Racing games. The Wii U has....um.....let me think on that.

[@Melodyofthesea78]

I'm going to wait and see what they got for the Switch I'm not buying it until I know we're getting games my Wii U has 3 inches of dust on it. And I have about three games for it....and that's it.

[@foxstrike7166]

So What's Your point you're old?

[@mrmaxmo1670]

UnfortunatelyProbablyGoingToDieOfCardiacArrestTechUSA

[@thokus9012]

Max_Gamez HeartAttackTechUSA

[@foxstrike7166]

ye

[@envynoson]

kane legacy what do you know about slavery you weren't there. what do you know about the first person on the moon you weren't there. what do you know about marther Luther King you weren't there. what do you know about the evo moment 37 you weren't there. that's a terrible argument, these things have been recorded and documented.

[@vargue]

Also Kane, if you are unable to see similarities with these points don't go calling Envy a moron

[@technologic21]

"Goddamn Millenials!" - Trevor Phillips on anyone in their 20s.

[@georgyorgy2]

I want to know where Rich's ass hairs went to college

[@bluecheesybob]

georgyorgy2 asking the real questions. lmao

[@RemixedVoice]

georgyorgy2 Rich lasered off his ass hair because he was tired of the constant dingleberries and fecal infections.

[@MrFwibbles]

Nintendo college?

[@theghoul2303]

Annoyboy Full Sail unveristy

[@dveeid]

Trump University

[@easygreasy6]

Damn kids and their music

[@DaveFallows]

And games. Mainstream gaming is churned out without a care about quality. How many classics has this generation created so far?

[@weegle.]

only shovel knight and UNDERTALE that's sad

[@wiibaron]

Get off my lawn!

[@leadbones]

Love when some kid tries to tell me why the Saturn failed or how ET is the worst game ever, and caused the video game market to crash, like I haven't been gaming for over 30 years.

[@jsmith5212]

I actually like the et game

[@Rexeljet]

This. So much this. There's so much misinformation surrounding the 1983 crash it's not even funny. The number of people I've heard say that ET single-handedly caused the market to crash, or that the crash happened worldwide, or that the launch of the NES immediately undid the damage, makes me want to punch a cat. Not that I was around at the time either, I just don't like revisionist history (especially something as recent as 30-odd years ago) being spread around and passed off as hard fact. I prefer to do some digging on these kinds of subjects, rather than just regurgitate what Wikipedia or some "general history of gaming" article has to say on the matter.

[@Crayolapup]

leadbones a 21 year old is considered a kid?

[@j23roa]

Ruben Toco yes a 21 year old is a kid. go to any workplace where the ages range from 19 to 35 and youll understand 21 year olds are still kids

[@mynicknameisrovi5399]

Rexeljet But the NES did save gaming

[@felipecampos5908]

Actually, Nintendo didn't stop caring about graphics along the way. Nintendo has always been about innovation. Seeing that graphics innovation was not exactly a big leap anymore it ceased from being innovative, so they resorted to other areas. That decision proved to be the right one with the Wii and they kept their train of thought for the Wii U (the most poorly marketed console in the gaming history). Switch is pretty powerful for a hybrid. The price and life battery has to be competitive, so a Switch as powerful as a PS4 would cost around 600 bucks and would have a battery spam of 20 minutes. Honestly? Glad there is still one company with enough balls to be innovative!

[@MIKE2111ful]

Nah theu are just lazy..

[@LongAct94]

Nintendo switch is a flop and you know it.

[@JohnAmmari001]

HeilEvalionMeinFührer I hope your kidding.

[@fierypanther75]

Ada Palis I don't think you understand how stocks work

[@Element7099]

HeilEvalionMeinFührer i dont think so

[@LuciusC]

A sold-out flop lol

[@DevinAK49]

Ada Palis that is absolutely not how stocks work lol

[@6DADADA]

dammit Rich, I was watching porn

[@ewon9903]

Danny Alves rich is better than fucking porn

[@davefan16]

Reviewtech is better than pr0n

[@LongAct94]

Rich IS porn.

[@nanostar8]

The porn is right here. I'm I the only one jerking to this?

[@killertruth186]

Danny Alves And I was talking about this weird dream that I had after the Nintendo announcement.

[@PeyoteIguana]

You are old enough to be their father, and yet here you are an expert in children's entertainment. You must feel so very mature.

[@James-xx4kb]

PeyoteIguana Didn't know video game companies cater to nothing but a demographic full of children..

[@lholliday198]

PeyoteIguana Children's entertainment? pretty sure gaming doesn't really have an age.

[@X-Cactus]

The guy's a fucking moron. Anyone referring to video gaming as a children's thing need to stop playing games themselves. Saying it's a children's thing when they're on a channel talking about said entertainment. It boggles the mind how anyone as waterheaded as Peyotelguana could call anyone childish.

[@PeyoteIguana]

Not trolling, I am just a guy who thinks there may be better representations for the gaming community than autistic rants from a 45 year old about fucking Nintendo.

[@belstar1128]

If He was my dad he would be a 13 year old dad that is possible but not really something you want to brag about.

[@loganholmes13]

What I got out of this video. Anyone who is older than you automaticaly know more about a subject. (Not to brag, because I hate people who do this kind of stuff. Which makes me a hypocrite) I know more about the history of Nintendo than my dad, and he grew up on the Nes, and Snes. I agree that some people need to get their facts right, but being older than someone doesn't make someone smarter.

[@loganholmes13]

***** ? I got my info from years of watching videos. Not wikipedia

[@saturnjr9136]

+RoboBubble get back into bed gramps

[@lpnp9477]

I grew up with the NES and SNES and I'm not even 30, how old could you possibly be?

[@rkrim2008]

Living it is not like just to knowing it ! :)

Really what I got is that someone who lived through the Nintendo consoles, and has the years of knowledge has more knowledge on the subject than teens who think they know everything and regurgitate information given by knowledgeable people such as Rich, and possibly altered wikipedia articles.

[@EZnihon]

I think Nintendo is the only company that realizes that they''re never going to out do PC specs, unless they want to charge ludicrous amounts of money. So they try to offer unique utilities and gimmicks to compensate for PC's. They want to make console gaming a truly different experience. Yes, they do often take missteps in their approach to making their consoles different, but I still respect the general idea.

[@DoomShroom2010]

Why is this even necessary? They're just kids

[@SparkingYellowPikkon]

+PugShroom Some of them are grown adults who act autistic

[@IVCCXS]

Robbie Rotten Oh yeah, like Rich

[@SparkingYellowPikkon]

Leif Ericcson // 旅 行 者 - 1979 Nah, more like me

[@BahuschBahusch]

Robbie Rotten And I'm an autistic kid. Am I the worst kind of person right now?

[@mintstasteslikefresh3461]

Niklas Universe Me to I'm only 11 and autistic, no your not the worst type of person around don't take offence they just don't understand

[@ShadowTani]

8 months later and we got third party support and the new DOOM coming to the Switch. Rich, your rant shaked the heavens, haha.

[@leoscar999]

Stfu did you even watch the video?

[@jncubed1287]

i'm a younger fan of nintendo. and i thought they never cared about graphics because the gameplay was always on point, so i thought they were more concerned about having fun than anything else. thanks for the history lesson!

[@walmartian422]

I remember the older consoles. Personally I had a genesis and then a playstation but I remember seeing some super nintendo games back then and wishing sega had some of those beautiful games. I also remember gamecube being incredibly underrated and despite not having many games it looked and ran much smoother than the ps2.

[@XanderVJ]

FOR THE GAJILLIONTH TIME, NO, MINI DISKS DIDN'T HURT THE GAMECUBE! THAT'S NOT A FACT AT ALL! AND I WAS A GAME JOURNALIST BACK IN THOSE DAYS, SO I WAS THERE TOO. HECK, THE GAMECUBE EVEN HAD A SUBSTANTIALLY BETTER THIRD PARTY SUPPORT THAN THE N64 BECAUSE OF THAT! IF A GAME DIDN'T FIT IN A SINGLE DISK, THEY JUST USED A SECOND DISK A CALLED IT A DAY! THE GAMECUBE CAME RIGHT AFTER THE FIRST PLAYSTATION GENERATION, WHEN THAT WAS A VERY COMMON OCCURRENCE, SO IT WASN'T CONSIDERED A BIG DEAL! Seriously, not only did I write quite a bunch of news back then, but I also attended presentations, and I never got from developers, neither explicitly nor implicitly, that they didn't release a game for the GameCube because of the mini-disk. At most, they maybe cut some soundtracks down by a few tracks, or didn't include multilanguage dubs (that happened in Europe, where I live), but the game was still released on them. There were some extra compression, yes, but that's hardly a major reason to not release a game in a system. However, you know what I did hear A LOT? Developers saying "our audience just isn't on the GameCube". Which back then was code for "only children play the GameCube and our games ain't for children". People tend to forget this, but Nintendo had a really, REALLY BAD REPUTATION during Console Generation 6 (which started in Console Generation 5) of being a kids console in a time when most gamers were either teenagers or people in their early 20s at most. The first gamer generation hadn't reached later adulthood back then yet. And most people in that age bracket didn't want to be perceived as children as if their lives depended on it. The nostalgia boom hadn't kicked it just yet either, so we didn't have that "excuse" to play classic Nintendo games. That perception is what provoked the infamous backlash against the art style of "The Wind Waker", for crying out loud! It was also a time when both gamers and video games developers really started to want the medium to be perceived as a serious art form, so they wanted more "mature games" for more "mature players". Nintendo even tried to shake that up with the exclusivity of the "Resident Evil" games, which as we all know now, didn't work out. In that regard, the fact that the console's main color was a Fisher Price toy-like purple hurt way more than mini-disks ever did! There's a good reason why Nintendo dropped that color later on in the console's circle and focused more on the silver model. Although unfortunately that was too little, too late. Still don't believe me? OK, then explain me this: WHY WASN'T THE XBOX 360 HURT BY THE SAME PROBLEM? Have you forgotten? The XBox 360 had DVDs while the PS3 had Blu-Rays. What happened when a game for 360 didn't fit in a single disk? That's right, they used several disks, sometimes with extra compression. Heck, pretty often they designed the game from the ground up to fit in a DVD, hence not having to use the extra space of a Blu-Ray at all! However, the 360 had exactly the target audience most companies wanted, so they had no qualms about fitting their games for it.

[@notafan5573]

To anyone in the future, don't go any further, it's cancer down there.

[@BileDuctBalderdash]

this made me laugh and every1 getting offended must be the ppl he is talking about or they would have kept there mouths shut lol

[@omiomi8691]

Thank you for the warning

[@BeautyMommysUnite]

Lol now I have to keep going just to see. Wish me luck!

[@HalfBreedMix]

Hey Rich, remember when kids weren't allowed to even touch dad's computer from work?

[@conexiongamer]

I remember when Nintendo advertised with: "Now you are playing with power". Great times. Also, during the N64 era, they bragged so much about the Nintendo "Ultra" 64 being so much more powerful than the competition. I remember an advertising showing Killer Instinct arcade while a voice spoke these lines: "If you want to win the battle between the next generation videogame machines, you need to have the power to do so. With Nintendo's new Ultra 64, you have the power to win the battle". I saw that on TV back in the day. The console was still refered as "ultra" at the time, before Nintendo renamed to just Nintendo 64. It was always about the specs, about the power and superiority, until Wii happened. Great video, keep it up!

[@SignedNaz]

I love when richie is mad and goes off into rants

[@NoFace-Killah]

This is like if Cenk Uygur reported on video games

[@enjoi0555]

It really is.

[@sidequest2230]

im like fucking 20, and even i know Nintendo used to be aggressive in marketing and had power hungry systems. plus it doesn't take more than 5 seconds to figure "maybe they could use the power in ways that AREN'T making games look practically realistic." or that "just because they don't wanna compete; does not mean they aren't competing." I fucking love nintendo, but even im not this fucking stupid. use your god damn heads!

[@nointroneeded6073]

Dylan Trent If you are any gaming company, you are forced to compete if you want to make money! The whole "They aren't competing" argument is childish and the fact that Nintendo chooses not to compete is a shot in the foot.

[@sidequest2230]

EXACTLY

[@ricechido1089]

After the wii, Nintendo's consoles begin to be a scam.

[@TheJoukai]

The 'low spec' philosophy only really existed on Nintendo's handheld systems, and that was for the sake of things like battery life, something that's pretty important for a system you're suppose to be able to take with you.

[@js100serch]

For your information kids and some grown ups out there. Super Metroid was the Witcher, the Crysis, the fucking benchmark of its time, super castlevania iv melted faces of hundreds with its impressive graphics, sound and art style, and don't forget Donkey Kong Country, Zelda ocarina of time, Perfec Dark, etc... Resident evil 0 was an exclusive title for the N64 later ported to Gamecube because they were the only consoles capable of handling the game's main feature, not even the Dreamcast was capable to do the trick. Resident Evil 4 was one of the best looking games of that generation, the port for PS2 had to be downgraded!. So yeah Nintendo was about specs in the past. But since the launch of Nintendo Wii people invented that stupid excuse about the graphics; "duh graphics doesn't matter", "if the game is fun I don't care about the graphics", "nintendo has never been about specs". I saw this shit born in 2006, before that magazines, fans and tv shows always boasted about how powerful nintendo consoles were. Anyway about the downgrade in this video I think that's lazyness, 1st party nintendo games will always show off the Switch capabilities if developers don't achieve those results, either they don't care of again Nintendo is not giving the devs an accesible tool to work with.

[@Spawn-wt6ul]

YUP YUP and YUP. Spot on dudes. Super Metroid was the game to have man, OMG... to this day, it is still most people's favorite game of all time.

[@336025abC]

Not in my area- all people around these areas talked about was Street Fighter 2... non stop neverending.. at least until Star Fox came out and they were like ooohhhh ahhhh.. and I was like "this is shit, I'll pass on this horrible graphics here."

[@Spawn-wt6ul]

Goldmario79 Yes Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat 1 and 2 were the talk of the town but that started off in the arcades my man... I remember going to the mall or near by 7-11 (because they had SFII and MK) any chance I could to play them, those games aside though when Super Metroid came out it was one of the greatest console games of all time.

[@randomdudewalkingdownthest8158]

I just love the way how he deals with haters.

[@theno1milkman]

Imagine a Nintendo console as powerful as the scorpio. You would have incredible Nintendo exclusives and third party support. Nintendo would once again take over the entire gaming industry. Nintendo for once make a console that is mad powerful so you don't limit yourselves.

[@char_gards]

YEAH! The way they come up with unique consoles and stuff, cool! But I’d trade a Switch for a *BEAST* of a Zelda game, or an amazingly open-levelled Mario Odyssey type game. The main thing people think of bad about Nintendo is the power.

[@johnwatsoniv384]

How would Nintendo take over? They've lost to every iteration of PlayStation except for ps3, and they only even outsold that and the xbox 360 because of a gimmick, not with a good library of games. Besides that, Nintendo hasn't won a single console generation since SNES edged Sega Genesis. The ps2 sold as many units by itself as the N64 (which is admittedly great in its own right), gamecube, and Wii combined. It sold more than everything in the xbox line combined by itself. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out that the various PlayStations combined have sold more units than all their competition combined have sold, from Sega Saturn to xbone x. Besides ps3, PlayStations have typically sold double what all the competition has sold, and triple in the case of the ps2. I love mario and pokemon and everything, but Sony quite obviously dominates console gaming and has since they got into consoles. Quite possibly the single greatest thing Nintendo ever did was piss off Sony and drive them to make their own gaming consoles.

[@char_gards]

John Watson IV I won’t deny here that what you’re saying makes sense, but the switch is a brilliant concept - and probably the only good one. But a Nintendo console with the power of a PS4 pro or an Xbone X would still be amazing. There’s no doubting that it probably won’t happen, Nintendo are set with the switch, and I’m not sure if they’ll take the 4K route, but by god if they do, it would be good

[@johnwatsoniv384]

Gardscoigne Vids I don't disagree, and really for what it is the Switch seems like a fine console outside of the fact that it only has 32 gigs of memory, but I don't get how people think Nintendo has always dominated console gaming when the only two gens they've won have been the two closest ones there were, and every other console war has been Sony wiping the floor with everybody else.

[@damiannunez9965]

I feel like the WiiU had potential if they would've marketed it, made it super powerful, added a Blu-ray and have better online. When I first saw it I was imagining playing a game while messaging a friend online without pausing the game and loading up miiverse or going on Netflix with the WiiU and playing Zelda on the gamepad.

[@pherasabraxas]

My nephew told me he could beat any NES game because he was younger and "more hardcore" ...I handed him my NES copy of Silver Surfer and told him to prove it.

[@thegreatlemmon7487]

64 was my child hood

[@killertruth186]

Knight of Shade Same.

[@RantechRadio]

Well said man. I had to laugh a bit when you included some life-history in on that gaming passion. It certainly added a bit more to actually be alive when the media of that time was touting and hyping things at the time. Just because one can wiki the history, doesn't mean they have the full picture of what the actual experience of that time was like. Little nuances and details get lost with textwalls vs being there. I distinctly recall Nintendo having constant pissing contest with Sega of "specs". I also recall the fanboys of the time using the buzzwords and "Bits" to tout how much "better" their system was. Much like PC to PC fanboys. Old traditions never change, but it seems Nintendo has..and not entirely for the better. Curious to see how the switch gimmick plays out in the long haul.

[@VideoPine]

Im 34 yrs old, I was alive for the nes, snes, n64, sega master system, megadrive (aka genesis) Neo Geo! Hah remember that one?! =D, yup i was alive and gaming for all of it. And yes nintendo was about the specs once upon a time but does days are gone now. Nintendo can't compete anymore at a spec level with big green and big blue so they are now today about the first party software and providing a different experience. They have pivoted over the years to become a nintendo experience machine. So they don't need third party support, they just need awesome first party titles and a very affordable price point to stay in the game. nobody else can provide the nintendo experience and as long as they are doing that, people will play nintendo games =) Yup i say it again, it makes no sense for Nintendo to try and beat the specs of Microsoft and Sony and they really don't have to thats all I'm saying. By the way I never said that Nintendo never was about the specs ;). If I already own a PS4 then I really have no interest in a Xbox One that is essentially the same thing, I would much rather get me some Nintendo Fun as a second gaming console, especially if I don't already own a portable gaming device =) then I get two for the price of one! its a done deal! Nintendo just have to work hard at getting does first party titles out there, at least two a year and I'm good! So far it seems they have a pretty good line up for year one, Zelda and Mario! hell yeah! oh and I never got to play the latest Mario Kart so that makes it three killer titles for me to look forward to =)

[@Mario123007]

Betongbarnet By the way, nobody can live up to Nintendo's entire 126+ years history. If according to Rich's thought in this video, nobody can talk about Nintendo's whole history. I'm pretty sure there are still some people don't know Nintendo used to make cards, toys, love hotels etc. However, Rich does make a few good points, but his view on Nintendo's previous decisions and failures are inaccurate. PS2 was a success because it has DVD player and lots of killer apps. GC does have it's flaws but it was still a decent console. Technically the only console that was an absolute failure by Nintendo was the Virtual Boy. That failure made the creator of Gameboy kicked put from Nintendo, which was sad… That Dragon quest graphic comparison video shouldn't be taken as a true credit, Switch port hasn't released so there can still be improvement.

[@Bazonkaz]

Nintendo's legacy is carried by their nostalgia. I agree with you; the "Nintendo" experience is unique. That is why I hope they actually make games like they used too instead of trying to be innovative for the sake of being innovative and not bringing more quality games to the table. They have all this creative genius and squander it on gimmicky games like 1,2 Switch.

[@Dailyblazer19]

Betongbarnet but that's the problem. Nintendo as a business has been failing for the past 3 years. The Wii U flopped; it had good 1st party and 2nd party support, but the titles like Cod, Assassins Creed, etc... that attract buyers of the hardware en masse didn't stay on the platform; after 1 year there was no incentive for most people (many of which don't have that nostalgia) to buy it. Now aside from Skyrim, which ppl can't seem to tell if it's the SE or not, third parties have extended even less of an offering this generation. Steep, FIFA, Skyrim.....that's the best third party support on offer right now. No Battlefield 1, COD, FFXV, hell no real franchise that has a hefty following behind it has landed on the Switch besides a 5 year old game, and the last generation port of FIFA 17. Nintendo needs to really sell this hardware to incentivize other studios and publishers to come on board or survive yet again another train wreck to hopefully realize that the market left them behind almost a decade ago. Otherwise they'll go bankrupt because the last thing Nintendo will ever do is quit making hardware. It's been apart of their business strategy for years and without control over that element then they'll fall apart as a company.

[@VideoPine]

KuroTengetsu91 Nintendo had some bad years between 2012 and 2015, but they are profitable again thanks to certain lucrative first parties and the 3DS family. There isn't room for a third high end console in the market, so nintendo has to go a different route in order to stay profitable. As long as they are highly affordable and can offer a great first party experience like Mario Kart, Zelda, PikMin, Super Mario, Metroid, Pokemon, then they will be a great second console for a lot of people. Why would I play Assassins Creed on a nintendo console when i have a ps4? Handheld is a smart move for them, they have proved time and time again that they are the kings of handheld, nobody can touch them there =) Just look at the latest numbers for Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon.

[@Chris_Redpilled]

Exactly! This is why the Wii U was a success. To hell with specs and 3rd party. All I need is a few first party games, and a console with a gimmick that makes it different from the others.

[@Mechaghostman2]

eh Nintendo's consoles stayed competitive up to the Gamecube with regards to its specs, but not so much with its handhelds. The Gameboy was outdated at launch. When the Wii came around, that's when Nintendo switched their focus to the casual gamers over the hardcore ones. The Switch's graphics are forgivable though, considering it's a handheld.

[@ASHtheSLUGCAT]

people say that the wii started the gimmicks but R.O.B. was a gimmick and so was the virtual boy. The reason Nintendo doesn't try to make "normal" consoles anymore is because they realised the best selling consoles did not sell well because of graphical capabilities alone but for other reasons as well. I know Rich said most of them already but I'll name some again. NES sold well because of R.O.B., gameboy sold well because of portability, playstation sold well because It had more 3rd party support due to the cds, ps2 sold well because of it's use as a cheap dvd player, wii sold well because of the motion controls. I know all the console's sold well for other reasons to but you get my point. nintendo switch seems like it wants to combine the portability of the gameboy as well as a combination of VR and motion controls. If consoles now aren't gimmicky then why does playstation have VR? or why did the ps3 and xbox360 try to copy the wii?

[@ASHtheSLUGCAT]

also wasn't the GameCube less powerful because they wanted to make it more affordable? don't hold me to that though.

[@jsmith5212]

hey one of the greastest mind in video gaming made the VB so you show it some respect

[@ASHtheSLUGCAT]

J Smith What? I didn't disrespect anything. Was it because I said gimmick?

[@omegaxtrigun]

The thing is, those were never successful so Nintendo dropped them. But ever since the Wii they think they can build a console around a gimmick and be the best seller.

[@ASHtheSLUGCAT]

omegaxtrigun as for the virtual boy yes but as for the R.O.B. no. The R.O.B. helped save the nes and allowed it to build a player base. Either way my main point was that gaming in the past 30 years has had gimmicks and the most successful consoles were gimmicky or like the ps2 had the dvd feature.

[@lollz3356]

Do u think he survived anorexia

[@FelipeRiveraV]

Lollz no, he will die

[@mjarbo]

You saw Mario like such a East Coaster. lol

[@grnpyro5110]

Rich yelling about Nintendo and kids is so fucking entertaining

[@FalloutZone]

Wii U 2.0.. God I hope I'm wrong but I've lost hope in Nintendo, they just can't get the third party games. Also I understand their first party games rock but I'm looking at it as competition for the other consoles

[@Element7099]

The Bruce Campbell yeah it's not very good as a stand alone console. It makes more sense as an addition to playstation xb1 or pc

[@gracefullynadine864]

Man. Rick really got triggered.

[@WeirdSmellyMan]

Damn, so if it weren't for the tiny discs we could've had GTA San Andreas on the GameCube.

[@yang6642]

Possibly, after all ports of GTA 3 and Vice City were actually planned to be released on the Gamecube but were cancelled, likely due to the discs.

[@aeok18109]

God damn! PREACH RICH PREACH. My nigga went off the handle lololololol.

[@Monoplacophora]

graphics graphics, I personally do not care,...is the game good? It's obviously all opinionated, but, shit, too much emphasis on graphics.

[@336025abC]

yes, I agree completely. but owayward up above seems to be of the mindset "triple a titles are the only important thing and if specs arent ps4/xbox one then its complete garbage and only morons enjoy those. Now that is a pretty enlightening and smart assumption to make isnt it.. considering it was never true to begin with. there is a word to describe those people... its called "morons"

[@judah_macabe]

the the Its because systems cant sustain themselves, companies cant survive for long without 3rd party games. Ms, Sony, Nin make money off all games sold on their system and since there are easily 20 3rd party games to every 1 1st party game, those companies live and die by how many 3rd party games sell on their system. And people tend to buy systems that offer them the best graphical version of that game. Now if there is minimal differnce then gamers will go off brand or controller or 1st party catalog, like back in the nin v sega days, or ms v sony...but for the last decade nintendo hasnt offered gamers the same graphical experience for 3rd party ganes and you can see how ms has taken nintendos spot since the wii came out. sure the wii sold a lot of consoles but it didnt sell any games. it had a horrible attach rate whereas the 360 had a phenomenal attach rate. wiis collected dust, 360s and ps3s were used daily.

[@athenagaming5496]

I find it funny half of the people bashing The Switch's graphics aren't even PC gamers, if you want top of the line graphics invest in a PC and move on. I'm a PC gamer who also happens to game on consoles as secondary platforms and i'm fine with The Switch as long as the games run decently. But as far as the Nintendo fanboys go they are pretty much off their rockers, that's no surprise whatsoever.

[@Axisoflords]

The House Of Gaming Not an excuse. The Switch is underperforming and overpriced and it's going to hurt it, just like it hurt the Wii-U. Hardware too weak to handle many of today's AAA titles, so third party support is leaving me highly Skeptical.

[@athenagaming5496]

Same too, The best hope for the thing right now is Nintendo dropping its price and taking more aim toward "3DS like" experiences. The home experience on the go didnt work with the Vita and it wont work with the Switch.

[@AnimeFanFTW25]

The Wii U wasn't hurt from underpowered hardware or being overpriced. It was hurt because of how poorly it was advertised. Judging by how the Switch is being pre-ordered massively, it's not being hurt by anything, it seems. And too weak to handle AAA titles? Last time I checked, Nintendo is a AAA company, and all their consoles run all their games fine.

[@jesuszamora6949]

You forget the Master System wasn't what Sega released against the Famicom in 1983. That was the SG-1000, a system on par with the ColecoVision. The Famicom throatfucked that system mercilessly, forcing Sega to make the Mark III (Master System) later on.

[@thealexexperiment1677]

Jesus Christ this guy needs to smoke some weed, or at least take a chill pill.

[@lachd2261]

I'm a Nintendo fan and I enjoyed this video. I do have one critique - would people play Doom on a Nintendo console if it was the most powerful one on the market? Nintendo obviously believe the answer is no, which is why they keep doing something else. For better or worse, the Wii was the third best selling console of all time, and it's the only Nintendo console in the last four generations to win. People also forget that system had fantastic first party games - two Zelda, two mario galaxy, two metroid, plus smash bros, mariokart, the pack in Wii Sports game, and a bunch of other stuff. One billion pieces of software were sole for it - at 9-10 games per console that's not bad at all. Nintendo concluded, for better or worse, that there isn't space in the market for three superpower systems, and their system needs to have a unique selling point. I think the Switch does this - it isn't the most powerful, but it's powerful enough to run modern open world console games wherever you want. Nintendo are also supporting it with big first party games in the first 12-18 months - Zelda, Mario, two fire emblem games, Splatoon, Mariokart and a smattering of third party games. I think the Switch will do way better than the WiiU.

[@Chefbigpp]

Lachlan Drummond yeah they learned from the gamecube xd

[@madfinntech]

But they did this to themselves by them self. Imagine if they never lost the third party games in the first place.

[@doctorale666]

You play Doom on the PC with mouse and keyboard in 4k 60fps, if you like AAA graphics orgasms play on PC, if you don't have the money wait and save up for a PC and when you want a console buy Nintendo because it's different and not trying to compete with PC on power which is stupid.

[@4473021]

doctorale666 ++++++ Honestly it's pretty dumb hearing how much PlayStation and Xbox market their system's power. It's a fucking joke compared to a PC of the same price and basically no selling point besides some mediocre exclusives and 1-3 really good exclusives. So far there's not a single game on the PS4 and Xbox one that have convinced me to even think about buying the consoles. Maybe KH3 but if it comes out on switch I'll just get that then LUL

[@AlbertoSalviaNovella]

What's the disadvantage of having Doom in your favourite game console?

[@lynestrotheconqueror5010]

I'm a Sega fanboy and I clicked on this video thinking, "Oh God, what are the idiots my age saying now?" and I've gotta say BOI. I am a Sega fanboy. I chose the Genesis over the SNES, I chose the Dreamcast over an Xbox (original OR newer) and I new ALL of this stuff and find it ridiculous that people my age try to sound smart like this. I am only 14 and I cringe so much at all the crap people my age AND EVEN OLDER say about retro systems and companies nowadays.

[@RadiumBadger]

Trying to work out how you chose the Genesis over the SNES when you are only 14. Not having a go at you or anything just find that part of the comment funny. I'm 26 and I barely remember the NES or SNES and you weren't even alive then.

[@lynestrotheconqueror5010]

I know. I buy retro consoles and stuff because frankly I enjoy using them more. I chose the Genesis A) because I got one free and B) because at the time I thought the graphics were better. I learned otherwise from a technical standpoint after a couple years.

[@sweetmeme9528]

14 year olds...

[@WastedGoatFR]

Your 14... you werent born when the genesis came out...

[@CAMERABOI]

This is one of my favorite videos from Rich.

[@bruhmaxxer]

it's main competitor is the rest of the portable market.

[@Element7099]

iohanan metellus nintendo has marketed the switch as a console experience you can take anywhere though

[@thegamesresearcher]

So they are competing with themselves...what?

[@electricattika]

BlackBerry's main competitor is the rest of the "phones with keyboards" market. You can't compare it to the iPhone, that's not why it failed! No one cares about using apps on their phone, they just want email and multimedia texting!

[@trashaimgamer7822]

Sony did the same with the vita, except thex fell short on the home console experience.

[@bloxyman22]

So that is why Nintendo replaced the Wii U and stating that it is a console first and a handheld second?? And guess what is the competition in their portbale market?? Their own 3DS system!! All it is going to achieve is split up that userbase further. The only other competition is mobile gamers who play casual microtransaction filled games on their smartphone, while refusing to buy full fledged games that actually costs more than a few bucks. You really think the switch will impress them so much that they will lug around a second device and pay 300 bucks or more to do so??

[@KTSpeedruns]

What bugs me is people take these comparisons as a definitive stance on how good a console is and how good the games are on a console. So it won't be as powerful, so what? If the game are fun, then that's what should matter. But too many people are too big of graphic whores that they won't even consider playing a game or rating it above a 1/10 if it's not 1080p.

[@FriendlierFetus]

Games aren't that fun when they play at 30 fps, and still look like garbage. Nintendo needs to stop with all these dumb gimmicks, and focus on the actual console and it's specs.

[@Bazonkaz]

That's been apart of their downfall. They don't deliver the same quality games like they used too because they want to create a new gimmick instead of delivering games like Thousand Year Door, and open world Mario, Metroid Prime, ect... instead they do spin offs or gimmick oriented versions of the game. Seeing that new Mario game gives me hope and Zelda, of course, looks like it's going to be game of the year.

[@TheVectorSilver]

What's wrong with spin-offs?

[@Bazonkaz]

TheVectorSilver Their main player base doesn't want them. Metroid Federation Force, Color Splash, Pikmin 3ds, games like that failed miserably because Nintendo likes to be innovative for the sake of being innovative and not actually make quality games.

[@BasiliskEye84]

The only reason I even give Nintendo the time day in this era is because of their "stupid fucking decisions" I am 33 and primarily a PC gamer now, I give absolutely zero fucks about Playstation or Xbox anymore, They barely have any exclusives I would care about enough to even entertain buying one as all they amount to for all their "power" is gimpy bottle necked PCs with proprietary storefronts and apps. The fact that in this homogenized landscape of Triple A sludge Nintendo is the only non indie major company doing anything worth paying attention to, if I want the hottest over hyped 8 hour annual shooter I got a PC that runs it better then the consoles can, Nintendo systems are the only ones I buy anymore because they are the only ones offering experiences you can't have on PC.

[@bemersonbakebarmen]

I lived all those years, and no console won their generations with specs. N64, and Gamecube were monster machines and LOST BIG. NES wasnt about specs was about games, the same with SNES. The most nintendo focused on specs the harder they failed.

[@spiderprime]

I was alive when the NES came out, but I was dead when the SNES came out, I was officially dead for 10 mins after a car accident that I was in when I was in going to buy the SNES. :( But, I was alive for N64! YAHH!

[@anime4everjapan848]

spiderprime it will be snes I nintendo switch!

[@ToaKoran]

That's one hell of a story arc you have there, glad you're still alive, sorry that gaming is a bunch of asshats whining about everything, though. In my opinions, if the Switch has good games, I really don't care how it looks, though I will say the display of the Switch Vs PS4 (Pro?) on that one game was... Kind of staggering. But still, if there's games, and they're fun, I'm buying them. Like for one thing, if the new NieR game is on PS4, I'm getting one. Gaming is about games, sure visuals can really help depending on the game, but I hate when that's all anyone thinks about. Nintendo has always been for more cartoon-ish styles, sure I can understand the 3rd party support issue if the system can't handle the same games others do, but otherwise I just don't see why people just want to complain. My opinion; wait. Wait until about the end of this year, or until a game of interest comes out, that person can buy it, play it, and if they don't like the game, the console, the service, or all of the above, return it, and maybe wait a little longer, if it still isn't satisfactory by the Switch's release date next year, then just ignore the console entirely. that's how I roll with consoles, if a full year goes by, and I don't feel compelled to buy it for something yet, then it isn't worth the time.

[@dcvk6250]

The PS2 was actually weaker than the GameCube. If you look at Resident Evil 4 side-by-side, you can clearly see that the GameCube looked a lot better. Hell, some GameCube games still look great like F-Zero GX, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, and Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker and Twilight Princess.

[@timzel]

Collin S. TP looks like shit lol

[@drewsebastino2889]

You're forgetting two big examples: Star Wars Rogue Squadron II and III.

[@dcvk6250]

I have 2. Looks amazing.

[@Dailyblazer19]

......he said that.

[@mrfuzzer1]

The age is a non sequester. Im in my 30s myself and did grow up on a nes. But someone can do research without having been there. You are right on your other points so why even bring that up?

[@rongrover3650]

There is one important point to add to the discussion, and that is the Game Bo. That was the first example of a "who cares about tech specs" Nintendo success, and Nintendo's handhelds need to be added to the discussion for the whole context. My take on the whole thing is that Nintendo didn't want to court the GTAs, Tomb Raiders, and Halos to tarnish their family friendly image and the "Pixar appeal" of Nintendo games to older gamers ended up not working out. So Nintendo pivoted to bring in new gamers with the DS and Wii and was very successful. The Wii U's issue was that the casual audience that flocked to the Wii and DS moved to mobile or left the industry, leaving the Wii U's appeal to the core audience of Nintendo fans that have always bought their system. (and yes, I am old enough to have played the NES, SNES while new)

[@therealMaXlor]

By far my favorite video, all because of that line: "Asses are gonna bleed because of this video, and I don't care." Love it!

[@alexliu5806]

Not against your point or anything, but you committed the logical fallacy of attacking ad hominem. The fact that you attacked their age and brought it into question when in fact their age or personality is irrelevant to the ideas that they're putting out definitely weakened your points.

[@WoWisdeadtome]

Honestly the only thing saving Nintendo is the name. If any other company had taken as many miss steps as Nintendo has in recent memory the company would have broken its neck from the fall down the stairs. Switch has paid online for one NES/SNES game per month and you need an app on your phone to use it anyway. You, the customer, are doing the work and paying the big N for the privilege in exchange for a retro rental a month. Only Nintendo could get away with this because the fanboys will defend anything but their own interests when it come to Nintendo.

[@WoWisdeadtome]

What do you want to bet that smartphone app will consume your data for the month in a day or so on top of it all.

[@EthanBradburyVlogs]

WoWisdeadtome You can use wi-fi

[@WoWisdeadtome]

King Bradberry At home, sure. Some other places probably, but I'd be careful if using it just anywhere. Can the system even use a wired connection at home though? I'm genuinely curious now but I suspect not. Wi-fi can be fickle at times.

[@Dailyblazer19]

WoWisdeadtome well said....written....whatever. Despite a change in leadership it still seems that the prevailing heads within Nintendo don't understand that they're in competition with Sony or MS. People still compare their hardware and games...or lack thereof. I don't know what it's going to take for them to put out appropriate hardware and messaging to attract developers to their platform, but the titles, features, infrastructure, and customer focus isn't their. They still think people want some quirky little toy to take around or play with at home and refuse to accept their role within the industry. At some point the market will decide that their missteps outweigh their former prestige and leave them behind. There are only so many Pokémon, Mario, and Zelda games that you can make and remake before people stop caring. Maybe these babysteps (Bayonetta 2, Splatoon, No Region-Locking) indicate their willingness to change, but their blatant disregard to consumers' demands won't be admissible forever. I can only imagine how many years they have left.

[@knightsplice]

I completely agree with you, but I am a Millennial and I think all Nintendo's older consoles are great especially with the Super Nintendo Mode 7 and Super FX games like Star Fox, Super Mario Kart and Pilotwings.

[@77ArMyOfDaRkNeSs77]

Well said! Cheers from an NINTENDO fan from 1978 ;) (had/have all the consoles)

[@jadmabsout4834]

Stop yelling into the microphone man

[@jasonmnosaj]

stop turning you cell phones volume up to max you dingus.

[@Mistashiba]

Haha I’m dying

[@hydroastral2830]

People complaining about the Switch,when it wasnt even released for the public. Sorry but how good and usable the XB1 and PS4 were at launch?Yeah thats what i thought.Give it some time,things get better with age.

[@steefie8161]

Even the old (s)nes commericials had the line: Nintendo, now you're playing with (super) power.

[@tasshuffler8905]

Hold up... this guy is old. We can't touch him. We can not possibly say anything about the past because we didn't live through it like this champ. (So pissed off btw that I wasn't around to travel to Leechmere(?) and reignite my dying love for gaming with the n64. Because that just holds so much credibility, your personal opinion on your passion for gaming) Never coming back to your vids homie

[@dmath1490]

Hey, hey hey, hey, *N I N T E N D O I S N T A B O U T T H E G R A P H I C S*

[@genial24]

Dude you have really loss a lot of weight and it's only been 2 years you look great dude on 2019

[@ChrisP-yp6iy]

It's called a n64 for a reason, GODLY SPECS FOR THE TIME. still great today

[@personator]

These are the cries of a triggered man.

[@tgagaming3104]

These are the cries of an offended man