RolStoppable said:
Did any of Nintendo's most successful games of the last few years get any honest praise from the industry? No. The Wii and DS as a whole? No, the industry looked down on these devices and developing for the Wii was a big no among top developers. Should all this matter to Nintendo when consumers love their products regardless? No. But apparently it does. The 3DS and Wii U were/are made to appease the industry, because Nintendo wants to be loved by them. This decision is made on a purely emotional level and has nothing to do with business sense. Why else would you change a successful formula? As a business it shouldn't bother Nintendo, if others say that they don't make cutting edge products or that their products are backwards. The success gave Nintendo right, after all. We've seen the same thing in reverse from the industry all these past years. From a business perspective it didn't really make much sense to not support the Wii properly, but from an emotional perspective it was the right thing to do. The industry has formed a hive mind and is hostile to gamers who do not fit their world view. |
Ha, that kinda differs from what I'm thinking. My stance on this (mainly WiiU) is that it's being made in order to get a huge piece of that 3rd party pie and not get left out there, and give its owners pretty much every game they can expect, with 3rd party exclusives being pretty much out of the window... regardless of it being successful or not. But with the way it looks, I think that I'm saying what you're saying in different words... I.E it's there to please third parties and make them work for Nintendo.
But I do wonder about whats going on in Iwata's head.
@disolitude: eh... I guess nostalgia got you there. Back when the jaguar came out, I was like... 2... or 3...
