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mushroomboy5 on 02 November 2009
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kitler53 said:
Cheebee said:
kitler53 said:
i'm a bit worried about all of these franchising become "hard". i feel like they are trying to pander to the hardcore too much. i'm all for hard games but a lot of people are not so they better have a difficulty setting otherwise a lot of customers are going to feel alienated.

Err, what? You're talking about Nintendo there? :p

lol, apparently my post was popular. xD

 

what i mean is the hardcore has been yelling and screaming for years now that nintendo has neglected the hardcore.  now in just the last year we have a team ninja metroid announcement and an apperantly quite punishing 2D mario.  I feel like nintendo is bending to the wills of the forum going hardcores saying "look at us,...we can be hardcore too!!" to which i say...

1. nintendo needs to keep their eye on the larger market not just the whiny majority.

2. despite the large number of games i play i'm actually quite bad at them...i hate hard games. xD

okay, so 2 points don't make a trend but i'm still worried that nintendo is letting themselves be influenced by the wrong people.  i mean it's a pretty thin like between challenging and frustrating.

Don't forget that in the past NINTENDO games have been more difficult AND sold in significant numbers at the same time  (even during periods when their consoles weren't as popular, some of their major franchises were still successful and more difficullt to boot) so I see no reason why they'd fail (or lose marketshare) now because they released a more difficult game.

Besides, I bet these upcoming games are only harder than recent nintendo games have been, not out and out brain numbingly impossible.