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fireblazerx17 on 29 December 2013
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prayformojo said:

3D Land is a product of Iwata's Nintendo, which is a Nintendo that likes to port successful handheld games to their consoles to save on cost and time. Everything about modern Nintendo is about saving on costs and time. Before design, concept, gameplay and anything else, comes cost. Everything MUST be done as cheaply as possible before it's even considered. That's why the Wii was a Gamecube with a new controller and the Wii-U is a 360 with a new controller. It's why the 3DS and Wii-U doesn't have capacitive screens. It's why 3D Land exists instead of a modern Mario64 ( a game that DWARFS 3D Land in ambition). It's why none of their games have extremely deep online gameplay. It's why it took so many years for them to finally start using real music instead of midi. It's why they STILL refuse to start using full voice acting and cutscenes.

People want to believe them when they say they have a reason for excluding this or that, but it comes down to Iwata and his business sense. He is all about investors and profit margins. He will not green light big projects if there is even a moderate risk of not creating a huge bottom line. Sometimes it's paid off, other times, it hasn't. I think going forward, he's going to have to get with the times and spend some of that capital. Nintendo's console games are starting to become love letters to an era that doesn't exist anymore.

This... sounds so true, sadly. So true it hurts really badly. I wish Nintendo would bust out some cash and really go all-out on games a little more often, and do everything they can. I think in terms of raw potential they have some of the greatest there is, not that there aren't other great game developers out there but yeah... As for hardware, I think everyone knows not to expect super hardware with crazy specs from Nintendo, so as long as they keep up in general I think they're fine here--the 3DS graphics aren't overly impressive but the 3DS is still selling like crazy.

That being said I think you were a bit too tough/extreme with your opinion but in general you have a point, and it only hurts because I'm a Nintendo fanboy haha. The main thing that I think would benefit them right now is some deep online gameplay--if they can get a better infrastrature for Mario Kart and Smash up, like a TRULY good one, that would be great. Miiverse is a great social aspect to it and they usually include great local multiplayer, but I think getting people addicted to games with online gameplay is something they like, don't do, whereas other systems have plenty of games where people are spending hundreds upon hundreds of hours online.

And hey, all their online is free right now, which is a huge bonus, but if they need to start charging to maintain better servers or whatever, I doubt a ton of people are going to complain given the status of Xbox One and PS4 online...