| Pemalite said: Nintendo have always pushed the limits of their hardware. Mario Kart, Smash, Breath of the Wild and so on were all examples on the WiiU. |
Nintendo games look great because they're backed by strong art direction and aesthetic design. They actually don't try to challenge themselves to make the most bleeding edge graphics possible, but rather make great use of the relatively limited hardware.
| Hence my question and why I didn't throw in a statement instead. |
Understandable, I'm just saying that Labo isn't a failure. In fact, it's far to early to say anything about it really. Christmas should really be its true tests in the market.
| Irrelevant. A Re-release is still a bloody re-release no matter the excuses you try and make. |
You'd have a point if these were re-releases from a console people loved. But this was the Wii U, a console nobody wanted, and most have never heard of. As far as those people are concerned, these might as well be new games, even if they are just re-releases.
| Why not just turn that into several big releases and tap into the stupidly massive PC/Android market instead? |
The Switch is a very different market from both traditional mobile gaming and mainstream home console games. It's unique hardware and power allows it to do stuff phones can't do, at least not nearly as well, such as Nintendo Labo. So letting developers toy around with the Joy-Con and Switch to make lower budget releases can be a good way of diversifying the catalog and audience. And besides, Nintendo is already making strides to be more successful in the smartphone arena.
| And props to them, it's a very sound business model that obviously works and continues to work. They are certainly the polar opposite to say... Microsoft that's for sure. - But that is not always a bad thing either, because a game like Minecraft gets exposed to more gamers, more platforms and the consumer ultimately wins, even if Microsoft itself doesn't. |
Agreed
| But... Have they? Just stating "can" is not a definitive answer. |
I already listed examples of them doing so, so they're more than willing to do so it seems.
Last edited by TheMisterManGuy - on 21 May 2018
