Why did Nintendo chose not to implement a system wide achievement system? Stubborn or missed the boat?

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baloofarsan said:

Skratchy said:
I think they're stubborn, but they really should embrace it, and possibly build off it. Wouldn't it be cool if getting so many "trophies" or "Nintendo Points", whatever they want to call them, actually MEANT something? Like you could use the points to unlock rewards, or amiibo related stuff, or get stuff added to your account for discounts? I don't know, something more than just bragging rights...

I do not know much about Achievements. Do you get more than bragging rights for them?

 

EDIT:

Looking into it a little more. Let's take Halo 5 and Mario Kart 8 as examples.

Halo 5 has 65 achievements and earn a total of 1000 gamerscore. At least half of them are very simple like completeing a mission, spectate a game or change your Spartan's gear.    http://www.ign.com/wikis/halo-5-guardians/Achievements

Mario Kart has more than 65 unlockables. Most of them comes from completeing simple tasks. Each gives you a new kart or part. Additionaly there are unlockable modes, alternate ending credits and stamps.    http://www.ign.com/wikis/mario-kart-8/Unlockables

The thing that differs between achievements and unlockables, as far as I can see, is that achievements give you a number to brag about and unlockables gives you some kind of visual gratification (gears, stamps etc).

You might want to look a bit more into some of the achievements, from Halo3/4/Reach at least if you done certain things in the game and unlocked certain achievements then you unlocked game specific gear for your Xbox Avatar, something that you could then have equiped in other games, nothing quite like running about in a World of Keflings dressed up as Sonic or as the Master Chief.

There was a good few games on the X360 at least where you had the option of playing with your Avatar from the dashboard so you could bring your achievement based items from one game, into another, even if it was just something like a Guitar Hero Tshirt or the Crown from completing Fable, Good times...