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logic56 on 01 May 2012
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RolStoppable said:
logic56 said:

hmmm

counter argument

if Nintendo creates a market that exist for them, then they have a market that they can almost always depend on

if Nintendo spends their time chasing what's popular they risk missing in that area with no core to fall back which could lead to bigger problems

if the wii's job was to get people interested in Nintendo games then that was a smart strategy on their part imo

the casual market is fickle, easily swayed by passing fads with those fads being next to impossible to predict or see coming like catching lightning in a bottle

put simply:

consumer saying they want to play the next Mario game, is very different from consumer saying they want to play the next fun game

the next fun game could come from anyone and more importantly anywhere as such that consumers sale could go to anyone and anywhere, the next Mario game however, is only ever going to come from one place to which that sale is going to go to

That's not really a counter argument, it's basically supporting Malstrom's stance: Extremely simplified, make more Super Mario Bros. games.

Nintendo's problem was/is that they wanted to lead consumers to only certain Nintendo games, namely those that are similar to the games they made on the Nintendo 64 and GameCube, their least successful home consoles. But time and time again, the massmarket doesn't really care for these games which results in Nintendo's consumer base shrinking to the diehard Nintendo fans who buy the products regardless of what they are.

The major difference between the Nintendo games of the N64/GC era and Super Mario Bros. is that the former pretty much only sell to existing fans while the latter sells to existing fans and adds new fans to the pool.

not the vibe I was getting from the article

"Nintendo is not asking, “How do we make games for the masses?” Nintendo is asking, “How do we get the masses to like the games we want to make?” The latter causes harm to the cause of gaming"

unless I'm misunderstanding something

and didn't Mario Galaxy do really well?