Nintendo has kind of lost me. I'm pretty much over platformers, for the most part. I played so many platformers as a kid that the genre no longer interests me. I don't care about motion controls, either. I don't care that much about graphics, but great game-play experiences are not exclusive to games with poor visual quality. I do enjoy a lot of story- and character-driven games, which Nintendo does not typically bother with. Characters without depth, like Mario, mean nothing to me one way or another.
Personally, I'm not demanding anything from Nintendo. They can go in any direction they please. My tastes have changed as I've gotten older, so it's up to me to find the gaming experience that best matches those tastes. The Wii was not it. The Wii U? We'll see.
What kind of bothers me when reading a post like that, is that it feels as though people are trying to tell me what defines "fun". Fun is subjective. If Nintendo is going to win me back, then it's going to be with Metroid or Zelda, not Mario, or Kirby, or Donkey Kong. The only time I felt moved to buy a Wii was when the Project Rainfall games were released in the US, but the Wii was mostly dead by then.
The attitude that there is something wrong with you if you don't care that much for most Nintendo first party games bugs me. I've been there, the first two systems I bought with my own money were Nintendo. Now my idea of entertainment is different and there is nothing wrong with that--or rather, I guess I should say that the arena has expanded considerably; my tastes haven't really changed, it's just that there is a lot more out there beyond Mario, which I never liked that much, anyway.
I wouldn't necessarily change Nintendo if I could, if people want Mario over and over then that's fine. However, if I could change them, it wouldn't be to get rid of all their platformers, but add some variety in their first party offerings. For me, personally, what puts Sony in front is Sony Worldwide Studios, and how their offerings are so varied. I just don't see that from Nintendo. If Nintendo wants my attention, then they'll look into a few more IPs and games like Zelda and Metroid rather than more Mario spin-offs. If not, then that's fine, too. We'll just go our separate ways.
