KLAMarine said:
A controller with a screen on it? |
The first with proper Indie support? Sony made final adjustments after Nintendos approach, Microsoft followed after shitstorms. They made Bayonetta 2 possible. That is not bussiness related in sense of EA, Ubisoft and others, as the original didn't generate much money. Same for Devils Third, without Nintendo it wouldn't be here.
With Splatoon, Project*, Captain Toad, Pikmin and others Nintendo shows well, that they can bring other ideas to live. Ideas others would never have released or even developed them. Except Indies, they don't care, they do what they like, not what analysts want. And for me Nintendo feels like the biggest Indie. They are just like that. Throwing gimmicky hardware extras at us (Wiimote, GamePad, BalanceBoard), fresh ideas (the above), suprise 2nd Parties (Platinum, Monolith, Level-5, Intelligent Systems).
For me this is much better than what Sony and MS do. But people in the West are craving for FPS and Soccer. I don't actually get it, but I don't have to. I mean, nothing against FPS, if it's a good one, but we are primarly talking about annual releases with only incremental improvements. Not to mention FiFa, there is for example the HSV in Germanys 1st league. They never went down into the 2nd league since ever. Still even those players that are there for years only have generic faces. Not that I care about HSV (I'm from Nürnberg*, not Hamburg), but you'd expect more in a major soccer league after 10+ years of 3D FiFa, especially for annually 60 €. That's almost like an yearly subscription if you ask me.
Conclusion: what does Nintendo do better: many things, especially when it comes to experiments and unusual stuff. Sometimes successful (Wii), sometimes not so much (Wii U). Kicking EA's ass for not allowing Nintendo-Servers run on Origin, so that they can't spy on Wii-U-Users. What does Nintendo do worse: attracting 3rd Party (other than NSeA). Gobal same-day releases. Development time is tooooooooooo lllllllllllllllloooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnggggg - that creates bottle necks in terms of months of no games.
*I refuse to use the english "Nuremberg" that pronounciation hurts my ears.
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