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nemo37 on 22 May 2018
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JRPGfan said:
AlfredoTurkey said:

Nintendo gave up directly competing when Iwata took over and that hasn't changed. They don't want to take on Sony and Microsoft because they fear getting their asses kicked in like they did during the Gamecube era. This sounds overly mean of me, but I'm just being blunt. Ever since Iwata took over, the idea was "if you can't compete, don't double down and try harder against them. Run from them and make something else that people will want." 

It's not going to change, sadly.

Wait.... its sony fault that Nintendo has made 3 bad Paper Mario games in a row? O_o

What I ment was Nintendo do dumb sh*t with their franchies too, there was nothing wrong with how the old Paper Mario games where, they where badass. New ones kinda suck or are okay at best. This has nothing to do with red ocean or blue ocean, it has to do with nintendo being oddballs for the sake of being oddballs, not because they have too. Paper Mario didnt have to go through all these changes, the "core" of the game was solid.

Like Im sure hardware isnt a issue either, paper mario isnt that demanding.

I think your criticisms ought to be directed to Intelligent Systems (the people that make Paper Mario and Fire Emblem) as opposed to Nintendo EPD (who are group referenced in this article). 

Just as an aside, I find the evolution of Paper Mario to be quite odd, it sort of seems to have changed genres. With the levelling system being removed and the role playing aspects becoming much more limited, it has turned into a turn-based adventure game, which is interesting, but certainly something I wish did not happen to the series :P Hopefully with the success of games like Mario Odyssey (which went back to the more collect-a-thonish non-linear roots of the older 3D Mario games), Intelligent Systems will try to cater to RPG fans again as opposed to continuing with the simplification of the series (although Super Paper Mario and Paper Mario Sticker Star being the top selling entries in the series might result in them trying to do more of the same).