Matt Casamassina: Nintendo is Lazy!

[LordTheNightKnight]

theRepublic said:

the2bears said:
If it was so easy others would do it. They don't. Connect the dots.

Short.  Elegant.  To the point.

I like it.

There was a guy who found the solution to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which was actually leaning a bit too far to structually hold. His solution was to put a bunch of weights on the other side, and reverse the lean to a safe point (to where it was still leaning, but stable). A buy on the news said "I could have thought of that". "Then why didn't you?"

All this hard and complicated work to get gaming accepted by the mainstream, and Nintendo does the simple things. And they didn't need to spend millions of dollars trying to tack a mature story onto a game.

Not to knock those games, but those are not the way to make the mainstream care about those pasttimes. They blow millions to act as though gaming is important because of those things, and Nintendo gets the mainstream to like games by simply finding what games those people would like to play.

Simple, yes. Easy, perhaps. But lazy, only if they didn't want to bother finding out what games people liked.