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Albion on 23 April 2011
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RolStoppable said:
Albion said:

@RolStoppable

what you and malstrom don't see is, Nintendo is trying to expand its market.  They want to use technologies to make the Game cube and N64 3D games so easy they become fun to the normal people. The none tek people like malstrom says.

Bring the Hard Core games to the mass markets by taking all the annoying things out with  tools so they are as simple as 2D side scrollers

I don't know if they can pull it off. but if they do. they are opening up a new market to tap into.

Um, that's exactly what Malstrom sees Nintendo doing. What Nintendo is trying to do isn't unlike trying to add ingredients to chocolate ice-cream until you can sell it as vanilla ice-cream. Now the obvious question is: Why don't you just sell chocolate ice-cream AND vanilla ice-cream instead of trying to replace vanilla with fake vanilla? People know what they want and if they order vanilla ice-cream, then they better get vanilla. If they don't get served, they go elsewhere. And if they don't get served elsewhere, they buy nothing. In either case, they don't buy Nintendo products. That's the risk Nintendo is running into and they have been there before (Nintendo 64 and Gamecube).

How does an ice-cream business expand? By offering as many flavors as possible and by keeping the quality of its bestselling flavors as high as possible. What does Nintendo do? They seriously consider to reduce the selection for the customer and even worse, they try to replace the source of their success by something else. This is insane.

Yes it is insane.  (the Wii looked insane too)

But Nintendo will try.   I still say if they do it right they can succeed. Small chance but still could work.

Why?  Cause I have always hated racing games all my life and with 3D on the 3DS i can now judge depth and all of a sudden I cant stop playing that racing game. Its Fun as Ballz.  Cause the frustration is gone.. Its just me and the game and pure fun. Its like Malstrom explained why Normal people don't play 3D games. Things get in the way of the fun.

Thats what Nintendo wants to do. I wont count them out until I see what kind of tools they will add to make 3D worlds frustration free.   Once i see the product will all be in a better situation to judge. including Mr Malstrom.

Malstrom is saying normal people don't want frustration in there games and Nintendo is saying your right. Will take away the frustration with technologies next generation.