If they would start to create mediocre games like 95% of the other devs Games that lose value/drop in price superfast (like today $60 bucks next month $30 already) because they are everywhere (PS PS3 360 Vita whatnot)
Then they might lose me. Also when they start to be like everyone else (boring).
But since their games are mostly great and keep their value/price for like 10000 years I buy most of their games full price.
I mean I can play Mario 64 and Galaxy and both are the same IP/genre etc but both are completely different games. Whereas Fifa 11, 12 and 13 become useless when 14 comes out.
Plus Mario 3D games for example don't really get better. They are great and the next installment is also great but in a different way it's like Simpsons episodes that actually have no real connection to the next one (thats a cool thing).
This has an advantage:
Some games are trilogies. The first game was new and had some flaws and the next installments are more polished but since its the same story that is told across the three games it somehow feels dragging.
And when you finished the last game and try to replay the first one the gameplay feels old and unpolished.
In Mario for example every game is its on little story and you dont feel that the older games are really old because their gameplay is perfect for the game its supposed to be in.
Plus most of their games age well because of their artstyle I prefer colorful artistic over realism. I mean Twilight Princess for example is my least favorite 3D Zelda it looked old when it came out Wind Waker on the other hand still looks fresh. (TP also had an emtpy hyrule field, no holes/caves in the ground to discover, ugly chickens with human heads and boobs, translation mistakes etc.. there was alot wrong with this game)
Plus Nintendo is just different and thats what I like about them they might rehash NSMB for example but 4 games in what ?5? years is still more fresh than 10000 shooters in 2 years.
Plus their games feel complete. When I buy their games I dont have to worry about buying half games and adding the rest. Sure they are thinking about DLC but when I look at Fire Emblem Awakening their DLC seems to be "okay" meaning I dont need it and not owning it doesn't ruin my game.
