| RolStoppable said: The Nintendo 64 focused on 3D games, and early 3D games feel clunky and stiff in comparison to the brilliant fluidity of the gameplay in the 16-bit era. Super Mario 64 may have been the foundation for a lot of 3D gaming, but it pales in comparison to how good SNES games were. Nintendo's direction with first party software did more damage to the Nintendo 64 than the loss of third party IPs to Sony's PS1. |
Do you really believe this or is a made-up narrative that pop up from your mind because you refuse to believe people actually do care for 3rd parties and Nintendo systems just failed to delivery it?
Your point makes me wonder if Nintendo customers who owned a SNES dropped console gaming ignoring PS1/Xbox/Saturn existence until Wii was back so they could play arcade games or whatever (because Wii sports is for sure a very arcade-like experience) again
People jump from SNES to PS1 because 3rd party line up was stronger on PS1 than on N64. Nintendo 64 games were just as good as PS1 games and still just as well liked, but PS1 library was unbeatable in quantity. People in no way dislikes N64 games, nor those games alienated Nintendo fans you are in reality the first person I see saying such a thing
The only market I can agree with you that really behaves like this is Japan, as they really seems to cherish Nintendo 2D roots and home consoles from Sony/Microsoft never got as big there as Nintendo systems, but elsewhere...? Well, not really
The truth is most gamers (even current Nintendo owners) aren't 40 years old boomers who grew playing NES. Most of gamers know console gaming from 3D afterwards or from late 90's/early 00's handhelds. Those gamers expect a experience (as you call, PC gaming experience) and MS and Sony just made a better job doing it (well, according to sales), hence Nintendo need to change strategy to difference itself and recover some of its past market share
And saying Wii U was made thinking on 3rd party is quite a stretch when we compare its hardware to PS4 and XBONE. I'm curious why do you think a platform that had a Gamepad and Xbox 360 hardware power was supposed to attract 3rd party when all that 3rd party did was avoid that said system?
