The truth about Nintendo

[Zod95]

menx64 said:

Zod95 said:

menx64 said:
Too long, but I read it all. Sorry bud but I do not agree with you. I use my hard earned money to buy the games I want. I do not own anything to any company nor they owe me anything.

The part that nintendo lacks about investing money back on gamers is a fallacy. The mayority of people who claim they enjoy nintendo games tent to praise gameplay as the sole reason why their games are good, and while I agree they focus a lot on gameplay, reakl nintendo fans know just how detailed crafted those games are. If you really put attention you'll notice the attention to detail put on most of their games is staggering. The may not create those huge GTA/Fallout worlds, those ultra detail racing games or some ultra violent games, but that does not deny the fact that they are tremendously efficient and amazing game crafters.

The OP doesn't say what Nintendo must do, only what they have done.

Personally, I find that gameplay-focus argument a fallacy. Nintendo only invests on cheap gameplay. Not cheap like bad, the games are fun. Cheap in the sense that is really easy to do what they do once you have their talent. Open-world is expensive, simulating physics is expensive, non-linear story telling is expensive, stochastic-animations-based gameplay is expensive, complex artificial intelligence is expensive, etc. Nintendo does none of that. And I'm only talking about gameplay, not graphics.

I, as a gamer, don't care much about graphics. Gameplay and content are what matters to me. And I would never buy a Nintendo console precisely because they only have cheap gameplay.

Cheap? Nintendo mastered the 3D movement with Mario 64. Non-linear story telling? Animations based gameplay? You mean press X to win?

 Did you ever play Mario Galaxy? DKCR? Smash? Mario Kart? Xenoblade? Zelda? Banjo? Fzero? star fox? I guess not since you said they only invest in cheap gameplay... Open world, simulated physics and advanced graphics does not equal better games. Could Nintendo take advantage of  that? Most likely, however it is amazing how making games with symple (I am calling it cheap, since you are really afraid to say what you think) gameplay they manage to outsell the competition by several million units... 

"Nintendo mastered the 3D movement with Mario 64" - This is an opinion, not a fact. I personally think that Sonic Adventure has mastered 3D movement much better than Mario 64.

Non-linear story telling may range from "press X to win" like it is on Heavy Rain (which doesn't mean it is bad) to character full-control like it is on LA Noire. Animations-based gameplay is the opposite of that.

I did play several Nintendo games and I tell you: they are fun but the gameplay is cheap. You, most probably, haven't paid attention to how I defined "cheap gameplay". Read it again, please. I didn't talk about worse or better games, I talked about cheap gameplay, which doesn't scare me at all (what am I afraid of?).

Yes, it is indeed amazing. Nintendo is a good money printer: huge revenues, astronomical profits and obscene ROI are engaging to the eye of any investor.