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Never on 25 August 2014
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Soundwave said:
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Soundwave said:
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Nintendo doesn't need more boring western devs. They need even more awesome Japanese devs.


What's wrong with having both? 


Nothing. But what they need is japanesey games because that's what Nintendo are famous for. Nintendo should focus on games that make them speical. 

I'm sure some western devs are capable of making great Nintendo games too, given the chance, but the suggestion people make, that Nintendo needs more western devs, indicated that they think Nintendo should be making games that are more like xbox games. Games like that won't sell that well on a Nintendo console and they won't win over xbox gamers who already have lots of games like that. Nintendo does need a range of games, but they do need to be Nintendoy.


Those games don't sell well on Nintendo platforms because in large part due to Iwata's mishandling of Nintendo's Western studios. 

Instead of keeping the FPS audience that Nintendo basically owned coming out of the N64-era, they basically just let Microsoft have it without much of a fight at all. If you gotta sell Rare, ok fine, but why not invest in something a little more ambitious than freaking Geist? 

Western games used to sell just fine on the SNES and N64 ... GameCube and Wii U (the Wii is a bit of outlier being a hot craze for a few years which then fizzled out almost as quickly as it built up) is where we see pronunced problems with Western content selling on Nintendo consoles. 

Which isn't really surprising ... if you're trying to sell to Western gamers, shouldn't you have (I dunno) like some actual Western content in terms of exclusives? 


Maybe have my own biased because of my personal taste. I have an xbox 360 and a wii u. I spend a lot more time wishing my xbox had more Nintendoy content than do the other way around. That said, I simply can't see much profit for Nintendo in trying to be a second rate xbox. If they go to the expence of making a fps it's best they try and do something very diffrent and very Nintendoy.

"Which isn't really surprising ... if you're trying to sell to Western gamers, shouldn't you have (I dunno) like some actual Western content in terms of exclusives? "

Plenty of Japanese games are hugly succsssful in the west. Many more so than in Japan. And, of course, vice versa. The location the game is made isn't the only factor in wherether it's going to sell well.

Would say the PC owned the FPS genre back in the N64 era. The N64 had comparativly very little and it never had the spectaular linear intereactive movies or online battles that typify the average western fps today.

Goldeneye was an amasing game. But it was also a very diffrent game. It didn't follow the crowd. It was also primarily a game and not an interactive expiriance. That's something I miss amoungst many of my xbox single player campaignes. Wouldn't Bioshock infinate have been so much better if underneath the awesome set pecies and grippng plot there was some really inventive and interesting gameplay to back it up? Actually, that's something the portal games delivered, but I honestly can't think of any recent others.

I'd actually love to see Nintendo make a fps that's a cross between goldeneye and trackmainia. Learn levels well. Know all the guard placements. Then try to speed run though to get the best time (Just like goldeneye) But have a button to instant reset the level when you mess up (Ok, only 1% trackmainia).