Malstrom: 'The Big Picture' problem underlying Nintendo's decline

[Mr Khan]

Phoeniks.Wright said:
Just read those articles, and I must say, he's absolutely right. As long as Nintendo refuses to listen to its majority customers, it will always fail spectacularly. Whatever Sony or Microsoft may try, they can only affect Nintendo slightly, since they're not arcade companies. The failure of the 3DS, 3D mario, all their fault. It annoys me since I like their arcade games so much, yet they refuse to make them.
But what's more interesting is that in that Iwata asks, they repeat their true intentions with 3D mario, for the 3rd time, and still people won't listen. Because the aim of SMG 1 & 2 was to get the 2D mario fans, their sales were a failure. And it pisses me off with what contempt they treat 2D mario fans, like complete idiots, and how they wish to get rid of it.
And of course, this will only lead them to failure. As it always did.

If you could figure out how to make one game to satisfy two markets and your own artistic desires all in one shot, you'd spend a lot of time searching for it too

This is the only part about this malstromism that drove me to abject rage when it was at its peak around here back at the end of 2010, this narrow-minded sense that there is only one logical path to game development, and while i acknowledge that the market clearly exists for 2D Mario, untapped and in need of service, Nintendo as it is cannot provide all things to all people, and so they are bound to try to hybridize styles they have brought forth