Nintendo making future Mario and Zelda iterations for non-gamers

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Sky Render said:

What Miyamoto is actually obsessed with is the same thing he's always been obsessed with: making games which appeal to as many people as possible. This is nothing new or surprising, nor is the outrage towards it, sadly. 20 years ago, the same outrage was being brought up by the hardcore gamers of the day, and Miyamoto's ingenious Super Mario Bros and Legend of Zelda games were being derided as "casual games" by jaded PC gamers. The cries that Nintendo was killing the game industry rung sharply, and the unprecedented success of these "casual games" they kept putting out enraged the PC gamers of the day, since they were all simple 4-button-at-most games that had little depth, but a lot of gameplay in spite of that.

Don't make the same mistake as the hardcore of the 1980s did. Embrace the change. When an industry shifts, it doesn't ever revert back to what it was. Though it will again emerge as a core-centric industry, that core is currently being weaned on Wii Sports and Mario Kart Wii, not Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime 3.

 

Agree.

 

Why all the panic? I clearly understand it will be something similar to Phantom Hourglass. And why you think kids are casual gamers? They probably play more than all of us combined. Mario Galaxy too difficult for them? LOL, when we were kids we played and most of us finished Mario Bros, Zelda, Metroid, Ninja Gaiden... harder games than today standards, and kids today will do the same.