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CarcharodonKraz on 26 December 2014
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
CarcharodonKraz said:
One could also argue your opinion plays into Nintendo's strategy of weaker hardware as well. The weaker the hardware the easier it is to develop for, giving a higher chance you produce a quality product in a timely fashion. It took probably around 4-5 years for most developers to start getting the best looking/functioning games last generation from the ps360. It took Nintendo and other developers about 1 to get the most out of the wii. Now I will say I think that they swung to low on power with the wii, but I do agree, to a certain degree, on their philosophy. A lot of early games in a generation end up being "practice runs" for the system and, although they end up selling pretty well, don't stand the test of time. Years later their sequels look and play insanely better.


Stop making excuses for nintendo. They ignored third party and when they realized with the wii that Sony and Ms were making hand over first on third party they wanted  to be he cool console too. Nintendo expects third party to dumb down their games when they aren't market leader and even in the event of last gen, the wii was only slightly more powerful than the gamecube. This exactly why epic gamea head didn't even  want nintendo to use unreal 4. The wii u is nothing for them to learn and build upon with slightly above last gen tech. All they would  learn about the console was limitation when themselves, ubisoft and otherw requested 8gb of ram from as far back as 2011. All third party is doing is porting their games....not creating it for he hardware nine times out of ten. As you can see assassin's creed unity, Witcher and batman won't be on last gen tech.



not sure what excuse you think it is i'm making.  In fact, i don't believe i really expressed much of an opinion as much as an observation.  In all seriousness i was just speaking on the op. I'm guessing you found something i said disagree-able.  Kinda hope it has something to do with the "test of time" comment since you brought up assassin's creed unity.  I would find the irony in that most amusing. 

     But again, not making any kind of excuses.  I have no problem pointing out N's faults; Nintendo isn't as popular as the others, it isn't as powerful as the others, it has a weaker online system as the others, it hasn't sold well as the others and it doesn't have nearly any 3rd party support.  Nintendo  does it's own thing.  I'm fine with that.  I keep my expectations realisitic based on their last 3 consoles.  I can't totally blame them for how they roll either.  Hell nintendo could have come out with an exact clone of the ps4, price included, and it would probably still would not have the same 3rd party support or sell as well as the xbox4.  The brand has definitely been damaged in regards to what has become the gaming community and specs on their machine aren't going to magically change that. 

     That's mostly business talk though anyway.  I'm a gamer not an exec, and as a gamer i'm pretty satisfied. So far the nintendo games have been my favorite.  I think only shadows of mordor has been able to come close to the fun i've had with 3dworld, smash, bayo and kart.  Every system had a game drought their first year then started coming out with some good games.    I've bought more games this year than any year previous, i think, ever. Now i'm not saying nintendo has the end all be all product.  I'm glad i have a ps4 as well, but  I'm pretty happy with nintendo as a gamer right now and i don't see why that shouldn't be the bottom line.  There's some opinions for your itchy typing finger ;) :)