Arlo - Addressing the Alleged Switch/Wii U Hypocrisy

[Azuren]

SKMBlake said:

DialgaMarine said:
I think the problem is that Sony and PS4 got a lot of criticism from Nintendo users about how they were putting out too many remastered early on in the gen, yet here we are and Nintendo is pretty much banking on Wii U ports after a decent first wave of exclusives. I mean, besides Kirby and the recent Mario Tennis, has Nintendo even put out a AAA Switch exclusive since SMO? Kindof disappointing, considering neither of games are quite up to par.

Yeah but how many consoles have 2 97/100 metacritic games in their first year ? Or even per year ? Pokémon and Smash will be 2018 AAA titles. I do not expect them to hit the 97/100 mark but still, 2 big games every year is something, especially with a lot of great smaller games. And I'm sorry but "already released on Wii U" doesn't make a game bad or not worth playing.

How many other IPs have the advantage of 30 years of nostalgia? I've learned not to trust review scores on Mario or Zelda games, because even if they were bad (*coughSkywardSwordcoughcough*) they're still going to get great scores for fear of crucification. And that's not even something without evidence, as we saw what happened when Jimquisition gave a review on BotW. And while fan backlash against middling reviews isn't exclusive to Nintendo IPs, dammit it was a whole lot more intense when Zelda got a 7 than when God of War got one.

 

I have no doubt that Smash and Pokemon are going to rock the industry, though. Smash will probably review an MC of 85-94, but Pokemon will likely suffer from the casual aspects and get an 82-87.

 

A game being on the Wii U matters significantly less than it being on XB360 or PS3. It's harder to expect someone to rebuy TLOU when it sold gangbusters on a system with 80m+ users. But the Wii U didn't even break 15m. It has less than an eighth of the people who bought PS3/XB360, so people are significantly less likely to have played Mario Kart 8 than, say, Prototype. So it's not that Nintendo fans are hypocrites, it's that new and returning Nintendo fans are getting a chance to try out great games that they missed.