curl-6 said:
Nintendo's "changes" are too small. They still don't understand the modern gaming mainstream, as evidenced by recent decisions like no voice chat in Splatoon, no online play in Mario 3D World, the clusterfucks that are Mario Party 10 and Amiibo Festival, this year's terrible E3. If they'd really recognized their problems and were trying to turn things around, none of these things would have occurred. Nobody is saying they need to abandon Mario and co and become a clone of Sony, but they do need to start making more games that target the 13-30 male demographic if they want to stay relevant. They need to diversify, to make more than just E-rated fare. And as I've previously said, yes, I consider it highly unlikely Zelda U will approach Twilight Princess level sales. It lacks appeal to gamers who aren't already fans, and it will be on one dead console and another totally unproven one. |
How exatly all thing that I wrote are too small!? They are huge changes, espacily Mobile games and new unified platform. They already said why there is no voice chat beacuse that their view of whole game, same like rotation of maps, and that certainly isnt big problem beacuse game is great. Today not every game have and needs to have online play, Mario 3D World is great game for local co-op and single player. Mario Party 10 and Amiibo Festival are just filers beacuse of Wii U delays and NX, nothing more nothing less. Terible E3 is also beacuse of NX. I really don't understand how you dont see that things like bad E3, Mario Party 10 and Amiibo Festival are direct sequences because of preparation of good NX launch.
Agree about need for diversity, and exatly that why we have game like Bayonetta 2, Fatal Frame, Xenoblade X..and we need more game like this (Metroid is certain for NX), but we definitely don't need Nintendo changing own great IPs (espacily Zelda).
If you saying that first HD, true open Zelda with biggest world ever, that looks beautiful, and what seems Zelda that will be one of the best Zelda games ever, very hyped game, that will probably be released on two platforms on which on one will very likely be launch title, will sell only like Wind Waker on GC, you are totally unrealistic. And I will remind you that Zelda WW on GC sold 4.5m.