| Soundwave said: 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. Like fuck Nintendo, we're your fans, we're not the enemy, we want reasons to be excited about your products. |
Exactly, it would have cost them nothing to release proper gameplay trailers for Zelda at last E3 and again in December to keep fans satiated. But no, it wasnt enough to delay the game to 2016 and then again to 2017, they had to rub salt in the wound by showing us nothing but a 13 second clip of an area we'd already seen for a year and half.
Why on earth they think it's a good idea to let fans stew for months with nothing to play or get excited for is anyone's guess. If they think radio silence builds hype, they are badly mistaken.
