Article: Why Nintendo is always ‘doomed’

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disolitude said:

ItsaMii said:

 

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I see you can quote people, as well as consider that your opinion is the only opinion around... This time you actually have a few points arguing along site usual rubish comments like "Ninja Blade is shovelware". Tell that to this guy at gamepro who gave it 5/5 and a game of the month award. You call it "cheeply made"...kinda like Wii Fit and Wii Music? 5 bucks says you never even played it...and are a sheep quoting the rest of the flock.

http://www.gamepro.com/article/reviews/209623/ninja-blade/

Anywho...if nintendo games are the ones selling the wii in such great numbers and it has nothing to do with controls how do you explain the great success of the wii and failure of gamecube.

Mario Sunshine vs Mario Gallaxy

Zelda TP vs Zelda windwaker

Mario Kart Wii vs Mario Kart double dash

Smash brothers Mele vs smash brothers brawl

Metroid prime vs metroid prime 3

All the same games were there last gen, with excellent reviews and they sold good individually but they didn't shift hardware nearly as much as Wii is sold.

Only new relevant software around for wii that wasn't around back then is Wii sports, Wii fit... both of which are fun games and great advertisements for new controllers. Is malstorm talking about those games when hes saying that Nintendo games move hardware? Cause the other games nintendo released for the wii certanly didn't move hardware last gen.

 

Ninja Blade is shovelware. From Software is well know for low budget, low quality games (to be fair I enjoyed Kuon, but it was far from a great game). You must really be desperate to use that Gamepro review like it is a opinion shared among a lot of people. It was the only 100% review that this shitty game got. It has a metacritic average of 68, more than half of the reviews are below 75. Why don`t you tell this guy here http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=211632 how great the game is?

There is no point in arguing with someone that can`t understand a concept as simple as "cheap". If you look at the trafic in the streets you will see that they did not bother to render the cars, they are just red lights (easy to do in stage 2 and some cutscenes). Would you call this cheap? On rails shooting parts and QTE are not what I would call expensive assets either. Ninja Blade is full of bugs, like 1) getting stuck in the scenario, 2) enemies attacking thru walls, 3) floating enemies, 4) the well know glitch that screws up your results screen and make it (almost) impossible to get some clothes and achievements. The game last stages 7,8 and 9 are made with pieces of the earlier stages (stage 2 in particular). Some of the bosses are rematches (without a intro). Gametrailers mocked it saying that the game is not ashamed of it and call the achievement for completing mission 7 "deja vu". The graphics are ok at best outside cutscenes and several textures look very poor (rocks, debris).

100 bucks says that you would not take a avatar/sign bet that I have played and finished NB.

Also, I think that the marketing budget for Wii Fit alone may be bigger than Ninja Blade budget (and several other From Software games). It may be a shock for you, but expensive does not mean good looking game. Wii Fit had a much longer development cycle than NB, just the research to make the balance board must be more than expensive than NB. I bet Nintendo also did extensive "tests" with potential consumers, that could delay or bring up the costs of the overall product. Some people take their time improving the gameplay and making sure that game run well, others just add QTE on a buggy game and call it a day. As for Wii Music, I have no idea about costs, research or development cycle so I will not make any comments.

As for the GC vs Wii comment,  It is not like you would understand it (even with I explained using colorful drawings and made puppet show). I say you should e-mail Malstrom.