Rumor : Retro/Nintendo conflict

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Dodece said:
@Erik Aston

Yes those phrases have meaning. What rock have you spent the last decade living under? Nintendo got lambasted in the previous two generations for neglecting the mature audience. This generation Nintendo still hasn't stepped forward to address that problem. They really need to address it otherwise its going to come back and haunt them.

The market changes over time that is what has given Nintendo a chance to reassert themselves. Nintendo hasn't changed over the last ten years. The market changed and it is likely that it will change again like a swinging pendulum. That isn't so much good strategy as it is dumb luck. They are still marketing the exact same gaming experience they were marketing ten years ago.

Nintendo is like the third world country that has one marketable resource. When that resource is in demand they do well. When that resource is not in demand they do poorly, and that is why most third world countries remain third world countries. They have no control over their position, and when their product is in demand the forget the cardinal rule of economics diversify.

That is what Nintendo should be doing right now. Diversifying their offerings. Generating franchises that appeal to the mature audience. That way when tastes eventually do change as they will they will not repeat the previous two console generations again. They will not end up marketing a library that doesn't match the publics tastes.

Your probably not going to understand this, and in six years if Nintendo did not diversify their first party offerings you will talk about how Nintendo lost touch with the consumer. When the reality would be that Nintendo never bothered to diversify so it would be harder for them to completely fall out of favor.

You know, you apparently don't have any idea what's going on. Look at the titles that Nintendo have, that appeal to mature audiences; Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wii Fit, in general the random "Wii" title, Brain Trainings for the DS, and what else do they have that i don't interested in digging up at the moment. Then the different approach to mature audience, such as Nintendos IP:s from (more than) 20 years back, what people my age played as a kid and became fans. What Sony and M$ are doing, is the exact same that the industry has been doing the last ten years, it's not Nintendo who haven't changed. You could say that the market haven't changed, since the different demographics have always been there, it's just that nobody have catered for them before (or have, if you look at supermarkets toy section with those handheld Tetris etc. games), at least in similar scale that Nintendo is currently doing. You really need to make a difference between mature audience and kids that play mature rated games, since they don't equal. The thing is, that the industry have heavily focused on teenagers, the "mature audience", while younger and older people have been dissed nearly completely. As what it comes to this "rumor", can't say would it be a good or a bad thing if Retro Studios would get integrated to Nintendo. Both options would have ther pluses and minuses.