Malstrom: Why Project Cafe will fail

[noname2200]

Mr Khan said:

noname2200 said:

Mr Khan said:

Quite frankly they don't have the capacity to, and hence why they try to serve multiple segments with one sitting.

Do they though? I'm willing to bet that Nintendo can make games with more universal appeal than they're currently doing. When was the last time you heard even the "hardcore" say that they hate 2D Mario, for instance? The (few) complaints I heard about NSMBWii were that it rehashed the old games too much, not that 2D platformers are a thing of the past. What part of Wii Play Motion is meant to serve multiple segments? Can we really say that Wii Party was meant to have universal appeal?

That's more explaining the mentality behind their retweaking of franchises like 3D Mario, Zelda, and even Metroid. They're trying to find out how to make those games appeal more because they want to make those games, yet also want them to suit needs that games like NSMBWii suited. They make many games that just suit one kind of gamer, but they've been orienting a lot of franchises towards the middle

But as you pointed out earlier, they don't have the resources to do everything themselves, so why would they spend time targetting just one type of gamer? More importantly, if you have finite and insufficient resources to accomplish something, would you throw out a proven winning formula? Especially when you're hoping that others will soon come in and patch any deficiencies you might have?

There's a discrepancy between what Nintendo's actually doing and what we've posited they might be aiming for. Either they're fools who aren't doing what's logical, or they've got a different goal.