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curl-6 on 17 March 2013
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Wright said:
curl-6 said:

No, they don't.

Sony and MS have no adequate answer to Mario Kart, (LBP racing and Modnation couldn't even reach 10% of MKWii's sales) Smash Bros, (Playstation Allstars tried and failed) 3D Mario, or Zelda.

As for Wiis all sitting abandoned and gathering dust, software sales contradict this theory.

And the claim that Nintendo "neglected, insulted, and betrayed their long time core players. Nintendo effectively showed those gamers the door, and told them that they had been replaced." That's false. They continued to release plenty of core titles like Mario Galaxy 1 & 2, Smash Bros, Metroid Prime 3 and Other M, Zelda Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Mario Kart,* New Super Mario Bros,* Kirby's Epic Yarn,* Kirby's Return to Dreamland,* Punch-Out...

*These games may have casual appeal, but they are core to long term Nintendo gamers.


But in all honestly, where's Fallout? Where's Dragon Age? Deus Ex? Metal Gear? Dark Souls? Red Dead Redemption?  I could go on. Sometimes, the core games aren't the exclusive ones. This part here is where Nintendo exactly failed (Not betrayed, that word is horrible) with the Wii, and they're going the same way with the WiiU. They should not be accepting ports; they should be pursuing the core games.

That's not entirely up to Nintendo though, third parties have to play ball for that to happen. My point was, this myth that Nintendo themselves just stopped making core games and switched to making casual games with the Wii only is just that, a myth.