Nintendo, the scapegoat of the industry

[tolu619]

bunchanumbers said:

noname2200 said:
A scapegoat is something you pin all your sins on and then cast away so you can feel better about yourself. I don't think that accurately describes what happens. Perhaps you mean that kid in elementary school who doesn't really make much effort to fit in, so all the insecure children pick on him/her?

Actually I'm thinking really a scapegoat. There are gamers who bash on Nintendo to justify their own gaming. 'Yeah I play Fifa and CoD but I play hardcore adult mature games with mature adult stories and mature adult gore and graffics. I'm not some kiddy Nintendo cartoon game manchild.' Those guys actually really are pinning their sin, which is loving gaming, which in the eyes of greater society is still met with stigma and pinning it on Nintendo.

 

Volterra_90 said:

Srassy said:
Really? Nintendo is criticized because they make terrible decisions and they have done so regularly for the last 20 years. I was a big fan of Nintendo games but I'm tired of them now. Nintendo doesn't know how to appeal to third parties. Their games are almost all the same 3 or 4 IP and they keep trying innovate for the sake of innovating.

Their support in countries outside Japan and America is terrible as well.

See, I think this is completely wrong. Both the statements. I don't think any company handles so many IPs as Nintendo does. If you're referring to over-used characters, of course, that's almost undeniable. I don't think it's fair cataloguing Mario Kart and 3D Marios, for example, as the same IP. And, well, I think innovation is what keeps one industry alive, being gaming industry or another. People might not be receptive to innovation, and things like "Wii Vitality Sensor" are just awful imo, but the introduction of motion controls and double screen were very well received, and keeps things fresh. 

 

These. Here is a copy and paste of a post I made on this thread, since it's on a similar topic:
"I game on all 3 platforms (and both portable consoles) and Nintendo is still my favorite. Earlier this week, I realized why I was getting tired of my frequent visits to IGN. No, my love for gaming hasn't dropped at all. I'm currently clearing my backlog. Just beat MGS Rising on Hard (final boss took almost 30% of my total game time) and I've just started Skyrim.
I realized that I was tired of seeing thumbnails that looked more like action movies than video games. No games with aesthetics like Jak and Daxter, Kingdom Hearts and Prince of Persia on the home page of most gaming sites right now. Retro games with 8 or 16 bit graphics don't count. Apart from the occasional Sunset Overdrive or Monster Hunter, most AAA non-Nintendo games are starving me of the kind of worlds I fell in love with that have made video games my favorite hobby.
So with all their mistakes, I still love what Nintendo produces. I may not have "passion" for the company per say, but most of my most anticipated games (including unannounced games) are Nintendo games. Sure, I hope they do better from now on with the NX and their slow realization that they need to take things like online and a universal account system more seriously, but they've given me more games that I actually want to play in the last 2 years than the rest of the AAA industry put together. Indies are giving me almost as many good stuff as Nintendo. Just look at Bro Force or Hover: Revolt of Gamers"