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

[mjk45]

zorg1000 said:

mjk45 said:
Simply because most gamers when they think of Nintendo think of first party , the two go hand in glove it's why you see all those lines about Nintendo , regarding first party versus third party impact.

But that's kind of the point, Nintendo games consist of many different genres and many of them are vastly different.

Mario platformers, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, Pokemon, Xenoblade, Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Kid Icarus, Pikmin, etc. 

Most of these games aren't really comparable to one another so that's why it's hard to block them all together as one general type of game.

It's not about the differences it's more to do with how Nintendo first party is equated to Nintendo the company ,  and human nature being what it is this gets filtered down to the Mascot type games that people grew up  being seen as "Nintendo" similar to how Anime is associated with large eyed characters stemming from Tezuka , even though in reality it has much more variety in character looks , just remember perception and reality don't allways coincide.