Whats going on with Retro???

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spemanig said:

Miyamotoo said:

Metroid is good example, its exclusive and similar game to those games and never had great sales, it had only OK sales.

No, it's not. People need to stop saying that. Just because Samus is an adult and you shoot things doesn't mean it's at all similar to those games. It's a very obtuse (when it's good) franchise that is very demanding of the players intelligence and critical thinking to progress. It's a very methodical franchise that is far more of a cerebral experience than a fast-paced one. That kind of experience is extremely boring to a lot of people. Playing Metroid is like playing Dark Souls if the map was 5 times larger and the enemies are easy to kill.

The entire allure is getting lost in a giant, quiet, alien labyrinth and the idea of that is extremely boring to a lot of people, even when it's done expertly, so it's absolutely obviously why it doesn't get sales like those juggarnauts that are made to be easy, straight forward, and accessable by comparison.

Nintendo should've just signed a life time contract with the James Bond production company (EON) after the huge success of GoldenEye. That character is perfect and he's always "fun" but still appeals in a huge way to teenagers/adults as he's the iconic alpha male. 

And parents will shrug aside any/all violence and sexual inneundos from Bond because they grew up with Bond too so it's not something alien to them. 

He was really the perfect fit for the Nintendo brand of being cool/bad ass but not so far that it was like going from Mario to hyper-violent M-rated stuff like Devil's Third that just doesn't work for Nintendo.