Give Us Back The Old Nintendo (Nowgamer article)

[MaxwellGT2000]

Boutros said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

Boutros said:

forest-spirit said:

I don't get people whining about wanting the old Nintendo back. Today's Nintendo is the old Nintendo.

 

Honestly, the world of gaming would be a much better place if the whiners just sold their Wii's (for real this time), stuck to their favourite console and let the rest enjoy their games, hardcore or not.

Then how do you explain this huge difference between the Wii and the Gamecube?

It's a difference I can't see with the PS and the PS2 and the PS3 or the Xbox with the Xbox 360.

Gamecube was not up to old Nintendo quality?  Really I hated last gen, it was simply bad all around, PS2 had a lot of crap games, Final Fantasy fell from grace, not even N64 level of support for the GC, and Nintendo didn't make as many just purely great games.

Tell me one Gamecube title that changed gaming as much as OoT or Wii Sports?

That's the thing. They didn't try to change gaming last gen.

There's so many good games on the Gamecube. I don't know what you're talking about!

Smash, Zelda TWW, Zelda TP, Sunshine, Paper Mario, Animal Crossing, Pikmin, and Mario Kart... which all except Paper Mario have superior Wii sequels or just improved Wii ports (in the case of Pikmin which I still don't care for) then the Gamecube was FAR worse for quality third party support... then you add in Nintendo creating new fun IPs and experiences with Wii... same way they created new experiences with 3D games for N64, advanced gameplay on SNES and defined games during the NES era... Gamecube era WAS the time they were a shadow of themselves not now, just now that lowly opinion and animosity people had for Nintendo last gen is amplified by being the "in thing".

The article (which is a complete joke) itself talks about having Nintendo parties when they were younger and that Nintendo no longer brings experiences like that anymore... when that IS the appeal of the Wii that is what stirred all the love for the Wii to begin with, going over to your friends house to play Wii Sports, having fun, having these "Nintendo Parties", it wasn't Nintendo that changed, it was what they wanted out of games, period.