| Demotruk said: I don't think they are lazy at all. AC:CF and Wii Music were the results of misunderstanding what people wanted, with AC especially they were too cautious taking an "if it ain't broke" approach. When Matt claims that Nintendo are lazy, what he's really saying is that Nintendo are not focusing their energy on what Matt wants. Most people don't actually care about having new characters in NSMB, but he calls the fact that the two toads are just different colours as "lazy". I wonder did he notice that Luigi is just a green, slightly taller Mario... The truth is Nintendo recognize that the characters are not actually very important, just as HD graphics aren't that important. That's not laziness, that's being focussed on what matters. NSMB was made in a shorter time frame than most of Nintendo's key titles. If they focused on all the unimportant things that Matt deems to be crucial to his gaming experience, are we sure they would have made it on time? |
I won't argue most of what Matt/IGN/gaming elite think Nintendo should do would be pointless for what Nintendo is going for. Including achievements. However...
NSMBWii should, without question have had online. After supporting online with Brawl, Kart and even Excitebots why are they ignoring it with NSMBW, WSR and Punchout? All three would have benefited.
WiiFit Plus should have had much more new content as far as exercises were concerned. That is the main reason for buying WiiFIT after all. 6 new exercises is hardly worth shelling out more money, although 15 new games are welcome. And WHY oh WHY doesn't it support WM+? That would have enabled a lot of new exercise types, helped push WM+ sales and made sense with the name to boot.
AC:CF was far too close to AC on GC or DS and not worth a purchase for anyone who owned those versions. It may not be broke but if your going to make a new version you have to make it different enough to be worth purchasing.
Wii Music also didn't go far enough as far as social gaming goes. GH/RB were already superior on and off line music experiences to play with friends and make your own music. Music selection was questionable at best too.
Plus Nintendo has always been lazy in supporting their own peripherals. Where's the BB and WM+, WiiSpeak support? Almost non-existant to this point.
I could go on (and on and on) but while I love what Nintendo is doing, they do leave a lot to be desired too.
