| NightDragon83 said: I don't think they learned anything, because they made all the same mistakes they've made in past generations, only 10 times worse in this generation. |
Nintendo has "learning 1-2 things from last generation, but making 3-4 new mistakes for the upcoming generation" down to an art form.
After SNES-Genesis era
"Yeah! Nintendo finally gets it! They're not being outmarketed by Sega anymore! Yeah Play It Loud baby! Killer Instinct with blood. Uncensored Mortal Kombat! Oh yeah Nintendo going 3D too, man wait till you see Mario in 3D!".
Good stuff ... until they proceed to choose cartridges alienating 95% of the development community, losing key allies like Squaresoft and Enix, and handing the generation over to the Playstation.
After N64-PSX era
"Yeah! Nintendo going with DVDs! Awwww yeah! No more cartridge problem! OMG! Resident Evil exclusivity! Imagine Perfect Dark 2 on this thing!"
Good stuff .... until they decided to make their console look like a purple kids lunchbox, paying for a DVD drive but not allowing DVD movie playback, getting themselves labelled as the "kiddie" platform, letting Microsoft move in onto their FPS fanbase that they had going for themselves with GoldenEye/Perfect Dark, and cutting ties with most of their Western development partners, etc. etc.
Nintendo "learns" maybe 1 or 2 things each console generation, the problem is they find a way to make twice as many new mistakes the next time around. Remember this doozy of a gif that was paraded around before the Wii U launched?
