| Albion said: 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. |
According to Miyamoto, Nintendo's literally been trying to do this since Mario 64. They've done a lot to tune the games for just this end. They've even included an instructional DVD (...) to do this. And fifteen years later, they're no closer to their goal than they were before; judging from the sales, they've actually regressed!*
Their latest attempt to reconcile the two markets revolves around using the 3D effect to let you gauge depth. Read that again. They think being unable to gauge depth accounts for the 3:1 sale discrepancy between Galaxy and NSMB! Now do you realize how absurd their stance is?!
Now take a second step back, and ask yourself "if they know that 2D Mario outsells 3D Mario, why do they insist on trying to force the latter on the former?" I assume you occasionally hit up burger joints and the like. Suppose that one day your favorite burger place replaced all the ground beef patties with Veggieburgers.™ How would you feel? And suppose that you complain and, in order to pacify you, they try slapping on more condiments on the veggieburgers, or switching the buns, rather than going back to the beefy goodness you've told them you love. Tell me, would you bother going back there?
And if you wouldn't, then why would 2D Mario fans come back for more 3D Mario?
*I don't think this is actually the case, since 64's sales will have been inflated by virtue of being the first 3D Mario, but that's another matter.
