Nintendo always put gameplay first and sacrifice storyline and such?

[DaBuddahN]

Well, I haven't played many current-gen Nintendo games, but I did play a lot of last gen ones.. and a couple of gens before that. Personally, when I play a Nintendo game I don't play it for the storyline as much. Many first party Nintendo games (except for Metroid prime) in my experience have weakish/predictable stories to them.