Do they though? I'm willing to bet that Nintendo can make games with more universal appeal than they're currently doing. When was the last time you heard even the "hardcore" say that they hate 2D Mario, for instance? The (few) complaints I heard about NSMBWii were that it rehashed the old games too much, not that 2D platformers are a thing of the past. What part of Wii Play Motion is meant to serve multiple segments? Can we really say that Wii Party was meant to have universal appeal?

I don't see how your story has anything to do with what I said.

Racing has always benefitted from 3D, because it does not change the fundemental gameplay.

2D to 3D platformers are way different. Your analogy does not apply outside of racing games.

That's more explaining the mentality behind their retweaking of franchises like 3D Mario, Zelda, and even Metroid. They're trying to find out how to make those games appeal more because they want to make those games, yet also want them to suit needs that games like NSMBWii suited. They make many games that just suit one kind of gamer, but they've been orienting a lot of franchises towards the middle

But as you pointed out earlier, they don't have the resources to do everything themselves, so why would they spend time targetting just one type of gamer? More importantly, if you have finite and insufficient resources to accomplish something, would you throw out a proven winning formula? Especially when you're hoping that others will soon come in and patch any deficiencies you might have?

There's a discrepancy between what Nintendo's actually doing and what we've posited they might be aiming for. Either they're fools who aren't doing what's logical, or they've got a different goal.

I wrote that poorly.

It works for every type of games. Thats why Polished games do much better then ruff ones.

Technology is being used to fix a problem that was stomping casual players from enjoying the game.  List of things that make 3D worlds no fun and make me quit them.

-Annoying camera view   (most 3D games iv been able to play to the end have very polished camera work)
-Hard to look around with ease
-Can't judge distances for jumping

If you take away the above problems Ill start enjoying and buying 3D games. The same way I now am looking forward to more racing games on the 3DS.

Or instead lets Turn everything into a 2D platformer Like that genius Malstrom says.    Wahoo!! 2D race games.  

Just like adding  Motion Control's last generation. This gen they will add tool's to smooth out whats been keeping the casual crowd from jumping into hard core games, by making the experience more intuitive and easy. 

And at the same time, that will set it apart from the competition.

But they also made Wii Party and are making Wii Play Motion. I think they are making games for as many segments as they can. The 3DS is ticking along okay. It has a decent range of software with NES, SNES, DS and Wii values. I show people the AR and Face Raiders and they get very excited. I think this may well do better than Malstrom thinks. It remains to be seen, however, and he has valid concerns.

Tricky position for Nintendo as Brain Training and Nintendogs are not games that need graphical overhauls and those are the games that really kick-started the DS.

But it can hold a flamethrower to those that say Nintendo have stopped making games for the 'casual' market. :)

That the SNES was the wrong direction is a very shortsighted view, and it just shows how even fairly intelligent people like Malstrom, know so much less about this industry than Nintendo.

NES, 64 and Wii were innovators

SNES, GC and Wii2 are, by comparison, pretty minor upgrades.

The short sighted person looks at this and says that the NES outsold the SNES, N64 > GC, and the Wii > Wii2, and that it is of course a bad thing to sell less than ones predecessor. However, it is essential to the whole process to release them anyway. Most third parties still haven't worked out how to make a good motion controlled game, but fortunately next gen will kill off any that aren't able to work it out (Except for a few PCcentric devs like blizzard)

So what are you guys talking about again? Just because Nintendo changes the plan doesn't mean they would've done any better had they kept their original plan or MO or however you wish to describe it.