SubiyaCryolite said:
Typical response, I wonder if you felt this way when the Wii was mainstream. |
Some mainstrem things are good, like many of the games that you said. Nintendo has many mainstream things too, like everything Mario related, but they have a more niche perspective that I love, with franchises like Metroid, Fire emblem, Pikmin, f-zero, Xenoblade and all that stuff. They are not afraid of making niche games with little teams, even being one of the biggest (if not the biggest) things on the industry, and that´s very good for creative purposes.
And I didn´t love the Wii, I like it, and I love many of its games. But the real mainstream stuff on the wii is not good in my eyes. That´s Wii sports (very original and revolutionay game, but anyone want to play it anymore, because without the novelty is mostly... crap) and mario Kart wii, probably the worst mario kart ever made and yet sold 35 millions. I think that GameCube was better, that was a very hardcore machine, and yet the poor thing sold like shit, why? we´ll never know., the mainstram market is very capricius and irrational. The best selling "anything" is rarely the best. Very rarely.
