Why is "Nintendo" used as a qualifier for games?

[bigtakilla]

the_dengle said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Most of those genres are linked though. A platformer is still a platformer whether it's 2D or 3D. Action and action/adventure games aren't much different either (can't even think what games Nintendo has even developed that could be called one of those...). The puzzle genre is also very similar to platformers. Party games are just a bit of a mix of other stuff, so hard to call that a genre of its own.

I can't imagine a more incorrect statement. Professor Layton is like a platformer? Zelda isn't much different from Bayonetta?

Generally party games refer to mini-game collections. Game & Wario, Wii Party, etc. Anything with 4-player local multiplayer could also potentially be considered a party game, not so much as a genre but in terms of an appropriate time to play them.

I can also agree with this, while many Nintendo 1st party games follow a general guidline (which I written about earlier in this thread), there are a variety of genres Nintendo offers (which I wish they would share ALL of them overseas) which stand out completely by themselves. Link is nothing like Mario, which is nothing like Marth, who is nothing like Samus, ect. The experience  the player gets from all of these games are vastly different.