Nintendo won’t be making Call of Duty-like games

[Mr Khan]

Andrespetmonkey said:

Jay520 said:

Andrespetmonkey said:

Jay520 said:

Andrespetmonkey said:
If that means not making military first person shooters and arming Link with an AK-47 then I think that's great, if that means not exploring mature themes then that's not so great.

 Why? If Nintendo's plan works, then 3rd parties will bring the mature themes. Nintendo is structured around games accessible to children.

Because Nintendo have some of the best development teams in the world and I'd love to see them experiment with new themes and franchises, including mature ones. I'm speaking solely as a consumer of course. If I was the CEO of Nintendo then of course I'd continue the current strategy.

What makes you think their skill would transition well to mature gameplay? Nintendo themselves aaid they won't try hardcore gameplay because they aren't skilled at it.

I've seen this transition go well for other developers. Naughty Dog going from the cartoony, all-ages Crash and J&D to Uncharted and TLOU is the best example. 

I'm sure there are many, many ideas floating around the minds of Nintendo's game designers, many of which are bound to explore mature themes. Maybe they don't have the experience with these kind of games, but that's a risk I'd love them to take. 

See, it works the other way. I tend to view the Naughty Dog thing as a tragedy, because they remain a very skilled developer who is too wrapped up in the idea of what kinds of games are "cool." I still remember when someone from Naughty Dog said, regarding Jak II's darker direction, that "no one wants cutesy games anymore" or something to that regard. They used to be a paragon of how it doesn't take Nintendo to do all-ages games well, but now they're near the top of a much more crowded pyramid, making objectively great games, sure, but games of the type that everyone is making.