[UPDATED] GameSpot: Nintendo's Failure to Innovate and the Trouble With Nostalgia

[Mr Khan]

NightDragon83 said:

Mr Khan said:

NightDragon83 said:
Judging from the latest batch of announced games for the 3DS, I'd say yes. All Nintendo seems to know how to do these days is rehash their franchises, including even specific games of their franchises. LoZ 3DS is basically ALTTP version 1.5. Same thing with the new Yoshi's Island game... SNES gameplay mixed with 2.5D look of Yoshi's Story.

Back in the day, each new installment of Nintendo's biggest franchises always brought something new and exciting to the table. Nowadays it's the same ol' shit, and they aren't even trying.

Given the fact that Nintendo is making SNES-era gameplay marketable as something other than a $5 downloadable game, i would say that is pretty original. They're giving worth to game-types thought of as worthless.

That's sort of a contradiction considering the fact that they kicked off the generation offering NES/SNES era games for $5-$10 on the VC, and are now charging full retail prices for essentially the exact same types of games, just with a visual facelift.

We've gotten 8/16-bit era downloadable games that are both updates/remakes and completely new like Mega Man 9 & 10 & Sonic 4 that are in the $5-$15 range, yet on Nintendo consoles games like DKC Returns and NSMB Wii and U go for $50-$60 because Nintendo knows how to take advantage of both the "casual" gamer who just buys what everyone else does and the long suffering Ninty fans that need to get their nostalgia fix every so often.

If it were that easy to "take advantage" of the poor casual gamer, don't you think Sega or Capcom would have tried making those games retail games?