| puffy said: I'm comparing Nintendo as a company, not NoA, basically just a distributer. Also I agree with KylieDog, to an extent but this is just looking at the fact people claim Nintendo make fewer games nowadays. It's third parties that need to lift their game. Some may say, but sales won't be as high for them! Well they should have thought of that before 2 years had passed and people had pigeon holed the Wii as it is today. There isn't a hardcore userbase because third parties didn't try to make one. |
Comparing Nintendo as a company is pointless to the average gamer you're trying to prove something to though. They want games from Nintendo, but they want them in their region. If Nintendo makes 20 games a year, but only 5-10 show up in your region, then what do you care that ten other games were made? You can't play them. A lot of people here don't pay enough attention to the situation to understand what's really going on. They see few games being made and they call foul. Others such as myself, trestres and a few other complainers see the problem being Nintendo pushing forth niche products and otherwise second tier "core" offerings for the Japanese audience, leaving the Americas and Europe out in the dust. Why should I care that Japan got Giftpia, or Fatal Frame IV, or Captain Rainbow? If they don't come out in my region, or at least in my language, then they are worthless to me as a consumer. They basically don't exist.
The problem exists with Nintendo of Japan not pushing forth smaller scale traditionalist offerings for audiences outside of Japan, catering to it's smallest region, and it's also the fault of NOE and NOA for not localizing those Japanese offerings and giving us some smaller scale titles to look forward to. It happens on the DS far too much also, just that nobody notices what they're missing because third party software is fantastic and acts as a buffer.
If you want to see the real situation at hand, do three lists, one for each region based on that region's release dates. That will let you see precisely why people bitch.
Tag: Became a freaking mod and a complete douche, coincidentally, at the same time.
