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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Nintendo planning unconventional software for Switch

What's working for Nintendo right now is taking popular genres but putting their own spin on it.

Zelda: BotW takes on the popular open-world RPG genre.

Splatoon the online shooter.

ARMS looks like a take on the 1-on-1 arena fighter.

Nintendo should do more of that. Look at genres that are popular to today's audiences and make it Nintendo-like, in that process the game becomes unique and different anyway because no other studio approaches design like Nintendo does.

Stay away from 2D platformers and party games I would say. Too much of that, a few 2D platformers are OK, but too many like the Wii U was a problem.



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Let Nintendo make a couple of amazing tripple a story games and I'll buy a switch.



 

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Well hopefully it will be more interesting than 1-2-Switch and Arms...



I wonder what can they really do with those joy-con games given that the also need to attrack the audience that uses Switch as a handheld.

In any case, trying new things is always positive as long as they don't forget to do the already established ones that work.



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Unconventional software is a risky choice of words. As the article itself suggest, it would mean games that have to (forcibly?) use the joy-cons; while there's nothing inherently wrong with that idea, it's also an approach that doesn't really have to work, and we could see ourselves again with the situation where Nintendo tries to enforce some sort of joy-con gameplay mechanic (like the tablet in the WiiU) as detriment of the software itself that sees it used. That's certainly not a desirable scenario, and I don't think creating IPs from the get go that try to employ them for unconventionality sake (but rather, because it's meaningful to what you've created) is a good idea either.