The rumors were true: Nintendo games can now play themselves!

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At a first look, this is just about as annoying as autosave function, cheat codes or codes in general, but on a second look, it makes a lot more sense. At this point, all we can do is to guess how the market reacts (keep in mind, none of us is the general market).

I do understand the argument NoName is making, but what value there is for learning how to play videogames? It's not like learning how to write, read, do maths or cooking that you in reality need in order to survive in modern society. If you don't play videogames, you don't need to know how to play them.

Dumbing the games down have been a trend atleast for two decades now, and Nintendo haven't made an exception to the trend (outside the new audience games, Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Wii Music, Brain Training games), but i hope this will stop the need to doing it.

Everyone should ask themselves, how many times the function would have been useful to them? Two games come first into my mind: Bloodrayne and RE4. Bloodrayne for sucking so hard, that it really didn't make any sense to spend additional time to beat the parts that required effort, and RE4 for bad controls (and the game wasn't that good to begin with). I would have gladly skipped the parts i wasn't interested in playing or watch the rest of game, as opposed to the games gathering dust at the moment.

Using the feature will only become a problem when the game doesn't have anything to play outside its core gameplay. How many times did anyone beat SMB, or how many people tries to get all unlockables/secrets in the games they play? The reason for the unlockables excistance is the people who like the game and wants to play it more. If you don't like it, you either sell it or put it to gather dust, and that's where the autoplay comes into picture; it propably doesn't make a difference whether you like the game or not (outside of helping you out of the frustrating parts and that way maybe keep your motivation going), but atleast you get to experience the game in some form, making it safer purchase. In the end, most of the modern games are so story heavy with cinematics, that the cinematic part is where you get your enjoyment.