Nintendo Fans: Creative Freedom vs What makes Business sense

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"if it isn't broke don't fix it" is also, in some instances,  a way of saying "it's ok to leave money on the table". At that point it becomes a bit more philosophical from a business standpoint. I think Nintendo lucks out because, in many cases, what they want to make is what people want to buy. I think they are a little too conservative however. For starters, why aren't there microtransactions in their games when it's suitable? I hate lootboxes and prefer those to die off, but if splatoon had some cosmetic variations that you could just buy to make your current gear look different i'd love it. In turn they could continue to profit on a game that requires extra work after it's release to maintain without receiving additional revenue. That's a mistake and an example of leaving money on the table. Also, I'd love it if i could buy just one console where i could play zelda, metroid while still getting 1-2 great AAA single player games that i'm really into and a couple cool online games to sink my teeth into. Nintendo could do this on their own imo. Hell i think they may have done it back on the gamecube (pre online of course), but they don't. I really feel they could still make all the "weird games" they take chances with while still supporting a solid library, I don't feel they do that however. I was hoping that combining the handheld & home console libraries would do that, but i wouldn't say that's the case necessarily. I'm hoping that's changing a bit through 2nd party/3rd party partnerships. Starlink was a cool attempt at expanding their higher budget game library using the starfox property. It felt like an attempt at the modern starfox nintendo should have created on the wii & wii u. Pit made a return on the 3ds, but they could still go so much further so i'm HOPING for an announcement that ubisoft will once again partnering with nintendo to make "gods and monsters" feel like the newest "kid icarus" adventure title. So yeah, nintendo is currently doing FINE. but that doesn't mean there's not room for improvement.