Are you angry with Nintendo?

[Soundwave]

curl-6 said:

Soundwave said:
It's more exhausting too, as as Nintendo fan you almost always feel like you're "waiting" for something. Sure you get a nice game or two here and there, but most of the time, it's about waiting for the next thing to drop.

Nintendo's ridiculous secrecy I think really does not do them many favors. I mean just looking at it in hindsight, does something like Yoshi's Wooly World need to be so secretive as if some government secret on UFOs?

What's wrong with just throwing your fans a bone now and again and showing them some damn games?

Nintendo not only mis-markets their games, it's like they go above and beyond out of their way to keep their own fans from seeing their games, lol. It's really a bizarre corporate culture almost designed to suck all the fun/anticipation out of it.

The fact of the matter is it's not like Sony/MS are really copying anything Nintendo does anymore anyway, you can fucking relax Nintendo, Sony is not making Nathan Drake's Wooly World.

Would it kill you guys to be more pro-consumer in how you behave and communicate to your own fanbase? Nintendo just seems to be of the three the one that goes furthest out of the way to keep their own fans in the dark and things like yanking Youtube fan videos and all that ... it's just like c'mon Nintendo. It's a really petty way to run a global business.

Yeah, the secrecy is shit. It doesn't build anticipation, it builds irritation, impatience, and the perception that there's nothing to be excited for. It's 2016, consumers don't like being kept in the dark. They like transparency.

A company like Sony is successful in the console sector because they actively seek to meet the needs of their audience. Nintendo, on the other hand, aggressively ignores what consumers want. They give their fanbase the silent treatment, they make games nobody asked for, they handicap their own games for the sake of being "different", and they regularly leave gaping holes in their release schedule. And where has it gotten them? A home console that won't even outsell the Vita or the Gamecube.

I understand a reasonable amount of secrecy and discretion, but with Nintendo it really is a borderline psychotic obsession on their part.

NX is coming out even with this delay in less than a year but I know more about Putin's off-shore cash accounts thanks to the Panama Paper's than anything about the NX.

Having such a ridiculous culture of keeping your own fan base away from you at arm's length, treating every little morsel of information like it's something your fans need to wrestle out of you and failing to engage with your own consumer base with any type of forwardness is just ... it's exhausting. Being a Nintendo feels ... exhausting. I don't think Sony or MS fans would ever understand it, both Sony or MS would out of business so fast if they tried to run their game divisions the way Nintendo does. 

Nintendo gets away with it because of the brilliance of a handful of amazing development teams that have and the powerful draw of nostalgia.

I mean, y'know how about throwing Zelda fans a bone and giving them 2 minutes of new footage for Zelda. Can't even do 2 minutes? Some of these people have been waiting 2 freaking years from when you said you would launch this game. I mean c'mon. That part of it is really frustrating. And it's like this with virtually every game.

Xenoblade X? Can't talk about it for like 2 years. Yoshi? Can't talk about it. Zelda? Coming out this year, oh wait not coming out for 2 years, here's one piece of art work. We have a new Pokemon game coming out in less than a year but we can't show you any game footage. Not even 2 seconds. Like fuck Nintendo, we're your fans, we're not the enemy, we want reasons to be excited about your products.