Nintendo's Doing Something Right (response to Hating on the casuals thread)

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Xeta said:

I believe a game holds incredible potential as a storytelling medium, though most of the time the medium does not even begin to take advantage of this vast potential. This is actually why I am happy with Nintendo's expansion of the gaming industry - it helps games become a more popular and natural medium, so that more people and demographics play games. This in turn will allow for a larger group of gamers to appear who are actually interested in excellent storytelling, which will push the industry in that direction far more than any number of excellent stories can alone.

Believe me, there are still plenty of people who are interested in excellent storytelling, but have no interest in the currently immature gaming industry. These people need to be brought into gaming, and it won't happen just because a good story arose in an obscure medium. Nintendo is just shaping the industry into what it should look like - concentrated on entertainment and constantly changing and innovating, and thanks to this able to sustain things like classics which may have less appeal but more value in its story. Therefore, I am extremely pleased right now that the industry is taking its time to expand.

 

Good post all around.