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Soundwave on 12 September 2013
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orniletter said:
Soundwave said:

Nintendo fans deserve the most love I think because I think they put up with the most garbage. If Sony or MS tried to do some of the same things Nintendo does (slowwwwwww OS, no account system, no third party support, outdated hardware, console droughts galore, reusing art assets in their biggest franchise) they'd be abandoned in a heart beat by their "fans".

As much flak as MS took for example with the XBox 1, they very quickly changed a lot of their policies after listening to their fans ... lol, Nintendo just does whatever they feel like. For years we had to put up with 512MB of storage on the Wii and the "fridge system" of deleting/redownloading Wiiware/VC content, lol, because Nintendo didn't feel it was prudent to open up SD Card support.

It was only after years of complaints that they allowed for some actual SD Card support. Stuff like that is just one example.


thats a pretty shitty list of reasons to" leave " Nintendo

-the slow OS was nowhere near as bad as the typical internet hyperbole wants you to believe (and switching brands because of a slow OS? please)

-funny that you mention the accout system, an account system means jack shit in my books if it isn´t used to carry your purchases to the next console, I take the seperate Wii mode over "when hell freezes over" and "maybe far in the future when your Internet connection is super fast and you live in america (Gaikai won´t fucking work for the majority of people)"

-oudated hardware? ...what counts are the games, you don´t play hardware

-reusing assets `? Majoras Mask, Oracle of Seasons/ Ages were better BECAUSE Nintendo didn´t have to fuck around with creating new assets/ wasting time

-third party support and game drought are valid though (but there is only so much blame for the lack of third party support you can sling at Nintendo....when you look at the third party launch line up of the Wii / WiiU )


Who said anything about "leaving Nintendo" (by the way it is possible to own multiple consoles without the universe imploding)? I was saying that as Nintendo we do get to enjoy some incredible games, but we are asked to put with an awful lot to do so. If Sony/MS adopted a lot of Nintendo's policies towards online/system OS/and the same policy to third parties, both would be out of the game business long ago, just like Panasonic (3DO).

We do get crapped on a lot by company policy with regards to hardware/OS/online services and software support. It's simply why there's more strife within the Nintendo community as opposed to the Sony/MS fan communities, because Sony/MS generally just give their fans what they want most of the time (ie: MS caving on several big policy decisions on the XB1 within weeks of E3 ... Nintendo didn't give one poop about the ramifications of going CD-less in the N64 era and wouldn't have listened to anyone else).

It's just the price that's paid for being a Nintendo fan. Majora's Mask reused the OoT engine, but Wind Waker and Twilight Princess did not ... which is a difference, the NSMB asthetic now has been used 4 straight times (not the case with the older 2D Marios). That's what I was referring to.

And you do play the hardware and you pay for the hardware, and quite frankly in terms of bang for the buck, you should be getting more than something moderately better than a 2005-era XBox 360 eight years later for $350.