I hope you don't also think that Seppuku is a Noble Samurai Philosopy, and envision Nintendo as the last lone noble Samurai amongst electronic game makers.
Seriously though I don't hear many people rant and rave about how great MS and Nintendos online services are, but I do hear many people loving what Steam and PS+ are offering. I really always look forward to my weekly sales on Steam and PS+, and then I look forward monthly to new free games available on PS+. Yeah it costs 49.99 a year but I'd much rather have that option than no option, and get games at affordable prices. They just ahd aJapanese games sale and a sale with most Rockstar games for 4.99 RDR, MP3, LA Noire, GTAIV etc. I bit on the Japanese sale mostly because I don't mind discs and already have RDR and need to make sure I use my HDD space effectively.
As to whether SM3DW would have been better with online functionality implemented? Well no one will ever know for sure, because Nintendo cut that thing off at the head. And like everyone has noticed Knack outsold the latest and greatest Mario! You have to wonder what they can do to boost interest and maybe following current market trends would help Nintendo. That's all I'm trying to say. I want to buy a Nintendo system that has variety and I'm not seeing much of it on the Wii U, so I'm holding out until they decide to compete. Same with PS4 I'm waiting on a couple of features to be implemented before I decide to purchase that, and if XBOX1 ever gets that camera to do something innovative in some GAMES I could be interested with that console as well. 1 thing is for sure I like Steam sales and PS+ sales, and that's not changing anytime soon.
And another thing Nintendo catering to kids was when they SNES and pre SNES. Once MKII came out of teh Arcades and into the home the video game industry created this thing called game ratings. So You shouldn't state that Nintendo caters to familys/kids/purity of mind/nobility or whatever because Wii U owners are getting Bayonetta 2 hee hee. Check out the ass on Bayonetata! Check out the cleavage comon man?! You might be seeing what you want tpo see when it comes to that Nobility. So yeah Nintendo stopped in 1992 caring about violence with Mortal Kombat II on the SNES because the Genesis MK outsold their family friendly version. ;) They don't care about sex with Bayonetta obviously too. But hey that was a long time ago....but maybe you have a point when it comes to Nintendo and drugs. You got me there.
