curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:
curl-6 said:
| Soundwave said:
Kinda revisionist history here. I was around for the GameCube era, I recall a lot of "you can't judge the GameCube yet! Mario and Zelda haven't even be released yet!" going on for the first year or so before that dream died. The "it doesn't have its killer app yet" excuse has been done to death, the Wii U has a better library than either the PS4 or X1 ... there's just no interest in this product.
Nintendo just doesn't have it anymore in the console business anyway. Fundamentally I think it's almost like they are incapable of making a console without making 3-4 critical mistakes in its design every time.
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I was there too. GCN fucked up Mario and Zelda, that's why they didn't sell. Wii U may yet give gamers they Zelda they actually want.
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If it was 1994, maybe ... unfortunately for Nintendo it's 2014. I really don't think that many people are waiting with baited breath to play the 10th Zelda game or whatever.
It's just over for Nintendo. The answer simply can't be "well lets just release this 25 year old franchise again, maybe it'll work this time".
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This won't just be the 10th Zelda though. It could be the Zelda gamers have dreamed of for a decade; a truly modern darker Zelda.
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Most people don't care. Or they care but not enough to buy an entirely seperate piece of hardware to play that one game.
When they buy a video game console they want the one that has all the games. Not one or two good Mario/Zelda games every 2-3 years.
That formula just doesn't work, no one would buy a movie format that only have 3-4 good movies a year on it, why Nintendo thinks this concept works for more expensive game consoles is kind of a mystery to me really.
Fundamentally this is just a flawed formula that Nintendo tries to keep pushing ... people don't like it, and many people do just fine without Nintendo franchises ... PSOne and PS2 eras proved that and this generation doesn't look any different.
