| regin2005 said: “If you do the same thing as others, it will wear you out. Nintendo is not good at competing so we always have to challenge [the status quo] by making something new, rather than competing in an existing market.” |
It's why Nintendo makes Mario and Zelda and Pokemon, and not Call of Duty and Halo and Gears of War. They like to do what they know and stick with it, instead of chasing trends. That's why so many older gamers have moved from Nintendo consoles to Xbox and Playstation, because they still love Mario, but all their buddies play CoD and Halo and GTA, so they have to play on the other systems since Nintendo doesn't get the mature game support anymore. That stopped with the GameCube.
It is a weakness, but also a strength. Because no one can argue that Nintendo appeals more to families and children than the other console companies. So sticking with their bread and butter franchises and their family-friendly image is probably what's best for them, even though they must realize at some level that they have completely relinquished the 18-35 male gamer demographic, with rare exceptions.
Certainly there are and will always be people like me whose want to play the newest Zelda or Mario outweighs my desire to play competitive online multiplayer FPS games with friends online. But if I were to take a sample of my ten closest friends, all within three or four years of my age, and asked which genre is their genre of choice, and which console they tend to play on, all but 3 will say the FPS genre on Xbox or PS, and only 3 out of ten will say action/adventure, and Nintendo as platform of choice. And even that is rare, but it just so happens in my particular case a couple of my buddies still love Nintendo, but even they bitch and moan about about how terrible the Wii U looks and how Nintendo "doesn't make good games anymore". I can't tell you how many times I've heard that line in the past six or seven years.
The Screamapillar is easily identified by its constant screaming—it even screams in its sleep. The Screamapillar is the favorite food of everything, is sexually attracted to fire, and needs constant reassurance or it will die.
