Does Nintendo suck at making "Core gamer" consoles?

[burninmylight]

Pemalite said:

burninmylight said:

I'm telling you, you really had to have been around at that time to understand just how let down, confused, bamboozled, hoodwinked and outright betrayed many felt. Yes, Nintendo never outright said the first GCN Zelda would have a realistic or mature art direction, but that was the impression we got when we saw that first trailer! That's where we THOUGHT things were going!

But like most things in console land, the hype from people can get very real and very silly, even unrealistic.

That's the only line in your post that matters. Doesn't matter how possible that tech demo was for actual gameplay. It was the fact that it planted an expectation in the minds of gamers, and it built mountains of hype. Then the next time we saw footage of Zelda, it was absolutely nothing like what anyone expected. All this against the backdrop of Nintendo's perception in the game industry, while trying to convince the public to support its struggling console.

I don't see how you missed that.