RolStoppable said:
kitler53 said:
RolStoppable said:
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This reaction of Miyamoto also sums up Nintendo's main problem in general: "I am also very curious and I’d like to ask those people: Why F-Zero? What do you want that we haven’t done before?" - Looking at the sales charts, it should be pretty obvious that gamers want more of the same. The presence of sequels or lack thereof make the biggest difference when it comes to sustained hardware sales or lack thereof. While every other company pumps out sequels, Nintendo takes the route of: "We've made this game before, we do not want to make it again." |
nintendo is pleased as punch to "more of the same" when the franchise is selling blockbuster amounts. just look at SSBB, mario kart, NSMB. there are twicks and such but no more than any other sequel out there.
but i do agree with you the "presence of sequels or lack thereof makes the biggest difference when it comes to sustained sales". i just feel like nintendo doesn't respect the games with mid level success anymore. just because a game only sells ~1m doesn't mean the franchise has to be completely changed or put to rest. variety please. some occasional "niche" titles are good for the video gaming diet.
..and especially gen to gen. i don't care if the game has been made before and you don't do anything significant to change up the gameplay. i don't go back and play my previous gen hardware anymore, i just want a new version for the new hardware sometimes. i mean, i still buy every R&C game and that franchise is very stagnant. MOOOORRe!
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I don't think you understood what I've been saying at all. While I don't think that series like SSB and MK need more than one installment per system, a series like Super Mario Bros. certainly does, but Nintendo failed to deliver. The 360 and PS3 keep selling, because Microsoft puts out sequels to Halo, Forza, GeoW and Fable all the time, Sony makes sequels to basically everything that sells more than 1m copies and third parties pump that stuff out at an even higher rate.
What the Wii needed was another Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Country, Wii Sports, Wii Fit etc., but that didn't happen. If Nintendo kept making sequels to these huge games as well as titles that only sold between 2-5m copies, then the Wii would have sold the most consoles in 2011 and it would be selling the most consoles in 2012 too. Nintendo is the only company in this business that doesn't make sequels to 5m+ selling games right away.
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why Mario Kart? why does that game only need one per system and not the others you mentioned? Cant be sales cause the Wii did about as well as the games you mentioned or better. Hell even the 3ds one is doing good.
