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Soundwave on 12 August 2013
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

Given that the NES/SNES had tons of third party support it's not a fair comparision as they wipe the floor with post-Playstation-era Nintendo consoles before the CD-ROM decision pretty much changed Nintendo's fate in the console business.

So we aren't allowed to call the N64 and GC trash?


Nintendo made a few odd creative choices with the GameCube, but the N64? Mario 64, Zelda: OoT, GoldenEye alone are all probably among the top 10-15 Nintendo published games ever.

Nintendo's design philosphies with the Wii began to favor a lot of laziness too ... the "NSMB" concept of using bland art assets and quickly churning out sequels, turning Wave Race into a Wii Sports Resort mini-game, ditto for F-Zero in Nintendo Land, rather than giving us real versions of those games.

Aside from the great Mario Galaxy games, which really are based more on the design philosophies and vision of Nintendo in the 1990s rather than the Wii/DS-era, I don't hold the Wii era with any great reverence just because it sold so much more than the GameCube to overweight soccer moms who thought Wii Fit would give them a beach bod because Ellen told them so.

Yeah the whole "oh look, uncle Ted is trying to play Wii Sports, look at him swing that controller, it's hillarious!" thing was funny ... but once that wore off, the actual core games on the Wii weren't any better than the GameCube really.