If Nintendo wants to be like Hollywood why....

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Dinomax said:

Are they so obsessed with ""surprising"" us with ""new things"" when Hollywood doesn't even bother to do this?

If you haven't noticed, the majority of releases in the cinema have being remakes, sequels or very late sequels to older movies, even remaking comic books, pop culture, cartoons, books, TV shows, into movies which has being done since the silver age of cinema.  3D movies has being around so long since the 1950's.

The highest grossing movie Avatar (well gone with the wind can be argued also), really doesn't do anything new which it gets compared to movies like Dances with Wolves.  Hollywood obviously gives what its audience what it wants, familiarity.  Which is why we always see usually the same actors in a lot of films and  films that still stick to the oldest formulas of protagonist, antagonist, love interest formula not only bankroll but go on to win Oscars.

Why doesn't Nintendo learn from Hollywood and give people what there familiar with in video games or there franchises?  Instead of trying to ""surprise"" us and just make games we are willing to pay for?  Isnt it there job to sell as many videogames as physically possible instead of ""surprising"" us? 

Nintendo has never tried to be like Hollywood.  If anything, they've become so successful because they do the opposite of Hollywood.

And I find it ironic you're complainnig about Nintendo trying too many 'new things' when people have critisized  Nintendo this gen for focusing too much on their older series and the 'Wii' lineup.

HappySqurriel said:

Now, in my opinion the logical conclusion to this problem is that Nintendo needs to release a system with significant potential to attract early adopters again while doing everything necessary to get decent third party support to ensure that their system's potential is actually realised later in the generation.

This is indeed what Nintendo needs to do, and what it looks like they're trying to do.  But its also what they tried to do with the N64, GameCube and Wii.  And each time third parties avoided Nintendo like the plague.