| curl-6 said: Unifying their platforms makes sense, but it's not just the game droughts, it's their stubborn insistence on aggressively ignoring everything gamers want, whether it be voice chat in Splatoon, a HD Metroid, or online play in the likes of Starfox or Mario Party. I don't really care about any of the above personally, but clearly a big slice of the audience does, yet they arrogantly continue to do what they want rather than what consumers demand. But there's plenty that pisses me off too; making Mario Sports game #42,176 and Amiibo Crossing instead something actually worth buying, for instance. I refuse to be that person who keeps going back to an abusive relationship any longer. Nintendo have shown time and again that they cannot be bothered satisfying my needs as a consumer, so I'm gone. |
Wait, what? Online play in a single-player franchise? I could see being torn up about the lack of a multiplayer co-op option (which, technically, there is) but to be upset that a Star Fox of all things has no online is weird to me. We may as well cry that The Order lacked online at that point. I agree with the Mario Party bit, that's fucked up for sure, but I'd rather that franchise die in a fire. Splatoon is fine, even without voice chat, the game has been otherwise done exceptionally (see, that creativity thing again). And HD Metroid might be lacking more because the series itself doesn't actually have that many fans. When you look back and see that Prime 3 and its rather large budget for the time is going to be outsold by Hyrule Warriors... well... it should put things into perspective. And a Metroid on WiiU, now, would be sent out to die.
And, I genuinely disagree with your assertion that they don't listen to consumer demand or their fans. Look at Fire Emblem, they could have just farted out more Awakening but instead they actually went into it and started fixing it, fixing the systems, expanding the scope and offerings, and giving players of all sides of the coin what they may have been looking for. Now, we're yet to see what the actual breadthe of content within the offerings of the two FE games is and if its really comparable to Awakening per game, but in terms of listening to fans? That's been demonstrated there 101. (Heck, Toad exists because fans wanted a spin-off.) There's a reason that FE:If is seeing such a high first week, so much higher than FE:A, that's because Nintendo built consumer confidence with what they showed and what they were changing.
Also... you know... some people actually like Mario Tennis. In fact a lot of people have been clamoring for Strikers... a Mario Sports Game.
Obviously they can't serve every fan base, though, because that's simply impossible for a company with that many IPs and there respective fan-bases. They've done Smash fans a pretty good one, FE fans could be sitting high, Mario fans are riding high, Kirby has gotten some excellent games, Yoshi is actually getting a good game, Kart fans have one of the best games on their hands, Bayo2 is a love-song for pure-game fans, etc. Heck there the only reason we even get games like Bravely Default/Second, because the parent company doesn't give a rats ass about the western fans.
Metroid, though, that's fucked because its budgets have never really been met with wide support. And the title is used generally as a show-piece... nothing to show on the WiiU. And Tanabe doesn't do 2D Metroid as I doubt Sakamoto would let anyone even so much as touch it.
