Explore the game by yourself, enjoy the experence and give my salutations to Dr Livingstone

"We're not opposed to Achievements. When they create their games, [Nintendo's designers] don't tell you how to play their game in order to achieve some kind of mythical reward. Basically, the way the games are designed is they're designed for you to explore the game yourself and have this sense of discovery. To that end, I think that when you look specifically at games from EAD [the group long led by Mario and Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto] and a lot of other games that Nintendo has developed a well, there are things you can do in the game that will result in some sort of reward or unexpected surprise. In my mind, that really encourages the sense of exploration rather than the sense of 'If I do that, I'm going to get some sort of artificial point or score that's going to make me feel better that I got this.' And that, to me, is I think more compelling." - Nintendo's Bill Trinen

http://kotaku.com/5740114/a-nintendo-argument-against-achievements

Well, I understand his point but I believe achievements are more for bragging to others that you received the special reward.

I agree. A good game is about having fun in any way you want, not making a checklist.

But for those that like them, Nintendo is merely not making them mandatory.

BTW, did anyone else look at the title, and thought it would end with "... because we are using "Accomplishments", which is totally different"?

Nintendo does not understand epeen yet.

Nintendo doesn't like giving options to their consumers. 

I can't agree with your more. I think they should also set up the servers that the greater the epeen the more your challanged with others of equal epeen size amount.

Nintendo doesn't feel comfortable copying others ideas.

Simple and clean.

Now thats somthing I like to hear

I really agree. I play games for fun, not so I can check them off some list. ^^

i don't give a s** about archievments i just complete my games