| curl-6 said: > Taking Sean Malstrom seriously |
Pretty much. His arguments are completely idiotic here.
"There was an interview I read a long while back with someone who worked at Nintendo of America. This person wasn’t a top guy but an under-guy. He kept saying, “Despite what people say, EA is an amazing company. Look at the profits they bring in.” If an underling at NOA is expressing such admiration for EA in a mere interview, this suggests to me that the underling is mirroring what his superiors are saying."
So his most solid piece of evidence in this facepalm-inducing theory is one unsourced, undated comment from a Nintendo staffer that he himself admits isn't particularly high up the food chain? LOL okay.
"To those who don’t believe this, imagine if Nintendo did look at their games as ‘sports iterations’ as EA does. What would the sales be? The sales would be extremely bad because no one associates Nintendo as EA. When we look at the plummeting 3DS sales and dead Wii U sales, we can make a connection with the software being terrible. The Nintendo software is terrible because it is being designed as an EA yearly sports iteration. Gamers sense it, and do not wish to invest in ‘iterations’."
So his arugment is that Nintendo's software are being damaged because they've becoming iterative...and argues that it can't work for them as well as it does for EA, who is notorious for the exact practice and makes off like bandits with Madden and Fifa every year. Way to talk out of both sides of your mouth buddy.
And it only gets better from there:
People have said to me, “Malstrom, if you say that Wii U is selling poorly due to low quality software, then why is the PS4 selling well? Is it due to Knack being high quality? *snicker* *snicker*” The answer is YES. Knack isn’t intending to be a yearly iteration EA sports game. It’s just a game. The Mario or Zelda games won’t be just games. They will be “iterations”. They will have lost their uniqueness. They will have little value to the consumer.
So Super Mario World has won GOTY awards and been heralded as one of the best game releases in years by the press and gamers alike, while Knack has been treated as middling at best. Yet Knack sold better, so it obviously means that Knack is a better game? If that's the case, then Call of Duty--again, the poster boy of the supposedly poisonous "iterative" strategy--must be the greatest franchise in the history of gaming. After all, it sold WAY better than both, despite being part of a long running yearly franchise whose creators state outright that they don't want to change each entry too much.
In fact, most of the top selling games on the PS4 and Xone have been sequels to annual/bi-annual franchises. Why is it that that same strategy that's supposedly killing Nintendo games isn't stopping people from flocking to Battlefield, CoD, Madden, FIFA, Assassin's Creed, or NBA2K?
He has no idea what he's talking about. -_-
