| Videokameras said: Mummelman what other franchise that lasted for as long as Mario can compete with it in quality over the entire time?? Same goes for MArio Kart and Zelda... Name one.
I would also have added Fzero if i went by my opinion, because to me its way better than wipeout but because its just my opinion i left it out. |
Why do I have to? There is more to this than having a great running franchise for 30 years. All the other things Valve have done for the industry in the past decade or more counts even more towards their standing as a developer.
Mercedes have had three model ranges out for decades that have gotten awesome reviews and maintained their quality (C class, E class and S class), Mercedes is objectively the best car manufacturer in the world!
This is merely a cop-out from you, tell me what Nintendo has done since 1997 that had the same significance as the digital distribution revolution, the immense impact of the outsourcing of engine tech and developer tools that Valve fronted in modern times (along with Epic), all of which spawned kickstarter and other greats such as Good Old Games, almost doubling your assets every year and maintaining an incredible relation to both Indies and the vast majority of larger developers, all the while releasing critically and publically acclaimed titles and assisting in providing a perfect modding community for user generated content, extending the life and worth of all said released titles (Valve games are massive on mods and user generated content), spawning the most influental competitive online games again and again and evergreens that people still play in their original form almost daily over ten-fifteen years later.
They have managed to balance perfectly a consumer and developer friendly arena, no one else in the world has ever accomplished that. Give credit where credit is due, I'm forcing you...
Don't give me "Mario is great and has been around for a long time, same with Zelda". Awesome, what else have they contributed compared to the above? Handheld domination, sure, once again great news for Nintendo themselves but hardly something that the entire industry has benefited from. From where I'm sitting, Nintendo has antagonized the industry on purpose since they exploded in the 80's rather than cooperating and contributing to the whole. Tooting your own horn repeatedly does not make you, objectively, the greatest developer of all time.
Bolded; class act, mighty big of you, the rest is obviously not simply opinion.
