Do stuff like:
1. Fully embrace online
- as in get better online infrastructure, finally get rid of friend codes and let people easily connect and chat and invite people to games and all that basic stuff
2. Stop letting beloved franchises go dormant for long periods of time
- for example, next gen let's see Star Fox, F-Zero, DK, Advance Wars, Golden Sun, Kid Icarus, etc
3. Really go after third parties to get third party AAA games not only coming out on Switch but coming out the same day they come out on PS/XB/PC
4. Keep building out the classic titles available so that the latest Nintendo system is always the ultimate machine for Nintendo's entire historical library
- ideally add GC to NSO Expansion Pack next gen, or at least port a bunch of GC games to the system, and release Galaxy 2 and Prime 3 and whatever other Wii games are worthy that haven't been released yet
5. Stop making bone-headed decisions
- Some examples:
- Mario Golf Super Rush's content not being ready when they released the game
-Switch Sports not having Golf available for a while and not including Boxing at all and not including training modes so a $40 game was worse than the 15 year old original that shipped included with the Wii as basically just a free (and super fun) demo
- Actually basically all the Nintendo Sports games this gen were shallow experiences
- Adding Mario 35 to NSO and then bizarrely getting rid of it for no reason! Why go through the effort to make a game to add value to their online subscription only to then take it away??
- Super Mario 3D All-Stars only being available for 6 months despite great sales, and also super bizarrely including Galaxy but not Galaxy 2, in addition to not including extra cool perks like the original Mario All-Stars had.
- Randomly holding off releasing Advance Wars for a year-plus just because there was a war in Europe, as if there aren't wars happening in the world at all times
- I dunno how much control Nintendo has over Pokemon but stuff like releasing 3 Pokemon games in 12 months, announcing V/S just weeks after Legends Arceus was released, allowing a buggy mess like V/S to ship were all absurd and if Nintendo has any ability to influence GameFreak they really need to start wielding that influence
6. Realize that price cuts are fine and consumer friendly
- Not talking about hardware here, as there was no need to cut the price of Switch hardware until last year (though they definitely should at this point). Talking software here.
- Ports of old games should not be sold at $60, period. The most absurd case was where DKC:TF's original WiiU price was actually $50 and Nintendo actually raised it to $60 for the Switch port. Unless a ton of work was done to update/improve the game, old ports should be like $40 as a standard price. Hell, look at MP:Remastered, it was so well done it felt like a complete remake, and yet still was only priced at $40 instead of $60, whereas most old ports by Nintendo don't have anywhere near that much work put in and cost $60. Nintendo needs to follow a MP:Remastered strategy from now on. The other great example of where they did a port right was SM3D World, sure they priced it at $60, but that's because they added a whole new great Mario game to the package.
- Bring back Nintendo's Selects $30 games. Why are old Switch games that barely sell still priced at $60? Lots of older Switch games should have been dropped to $30 a couple years ago. Evergreens are fine at $60, but there are a ton of games that haven't been sellers for years that plenty of people would pick up if they were dropped to $30.
7. Just keep the hybrid setup, and make sure to keep systems priced at consumer friendly prices as the Switch has done. Also add a cheap "Home" model next gen to go alongside the hybrid and Lite models.
8. Actually fix problems when avoidable problems occur - for the Switch it was joycon stick drift. As soon as that problem became prevalent Nintendo should have done whatever little re-engineering was needed to fix the issue for all joycons manufactured in the future. Instead they basically just said sorry that's just something you have to deal with on the Switch.
All these things together would help grow the user base, and even make people who never buy Nintendo sit up and be like okay yeah Nintendo is finally really pulling out all the stops to be by far the best company in the industry.
Last edited by Slownenberg - on 26 October 2024
