| IcaroRibeiro said: Since the moment Nintendo started to offering "premium" versions and increased the original price of Switch online. What was supposed to be a low cost service to cover servers and infrastructure turned to be another money revenue, going as far as limiting release of digital ports (with Pokemon being so far the only exception) as an incentive to lock users inside a fixed subscription Let's just be intellectually honest for once: If the point of Nintendo online was not to generate revenue then it would be free The rant abou Wii U being focused on power is a misconception. It wasn't. It was indeed relatively underpowered and above average price tag relative to its power due to the controller. The graphics of Wii U had a big leap mostly because at this point Nintendo needed to learn how to develop HD games, but the focus even on Wii U games were not graphics either In fact I fail to understand what's different on Nintendo 2026 compared to 2012 in terms of software development. It's the same Nintendo in my eyes. The changes has been primarily in sales and marketing, not software development Needless to say, Furakawa knows jack shit about gaming development and focus mostly on finance, accounting, marketing and branding |
Nintendo’s been doing this “premium” edition all the way back since the GBA, with their ports and remasters of NES/SNES releases at $20-40USD a pop. Same with “New Motion Plus” on Wii.
Nintendo hasn’t done a price hike on NSOnline. There’s one coming in JP but that’s it (and that’s only after having exhausted the route of using software to cover increasing production costs).
Nintendo has only done two limited edition re-releases (Fire Emblem & Mario 3D All Stars) during FY21. Never happened again.
I know Wii U was underpowered compared to the competition, that goes without even saying. All Wii U was, however, was Wii HD packed with an expensive accessory. That’d be like packing in a PSPortal with PlayStation 5 and calling it innovation.
If you think the software pipeline is no different today than the Wii/Wii U period, then you haven’t been in the Nintendo ecosystem these past 15 years. Wii U didn’t even get a Zelda, there was one Mario sports on home consoles during Wii U and Wii was a massive step back from GCN. There wss no Fire Emblem nor Mario Party releasing every three years, the Wii didn’t get a Pikmin game, and you’d never see anything like Emio nor Endless Ocean drop on Wii U.
