A good editorial never has to stand behind the "its all their opinions" defense.

I can only speak for myself, but the lack of new ips (like Xenoblade) and outdated hardware (wii, which I own; wiiu is fine) killed my interest in Ninty home consoles. Sure, hardcore fans still love Zelda and Mario, but I'm sick and tired of the Mario games being milked like that (mario golf, mario at the Olympics etc). Super Mario Bros 3 is one of the best games I'ever played, but Ninty really needs to evolve for me. Sure, they have some of the best selling ips, but I really wanna see them pull a Sony like they did with the ps3 and get some awesome new ip exclusives. Hopefully, the lack of success of WiiU will force them to do better (I see it as a blessing in disguise). Bayonetta seems to be a step towards the right direction.

Also, not sure if there is more hate from Gamespot to Nintendo or Nintendo fans to Gamespot.

i think people are too fanboyish towards Nintendo. well they made the Consoles thrive in the 80's. ya but their doing literally nothing anymore. people need to accept the fact Nintendo is gonna die out if they don't improve SOMETHING

wait what??? a 6.5  for LM2? How is that even possible?

And then they go and worship Bioshock Infinite, that game is a carbon copy of Bioshock 1 except it looks different and not really fun.

Judging from the latest batch of announced games for the 3DS, I'd say yes. All Nintendo seems to know how to do these days is rehash their franchises, including even specific games of their franchises. LoZ 3DS is basically ALTTP version 1.5. Same thing with the new Yoshi's Island game... SNES gameplay mixed with 2.5D look of Yoshi's Story.

Back in the day, each new installment of Nintendo's biggest franchises always brought something new and exciting to the table. Nowadays it's the same ol' shit, and they aren't even trying.

You are literally fucking the art of linguistic expression up the arse.

Ninty won't die any time soon. Their handhelds will keep doing well and worst case scenario, they can become third party and sell well on ps3/360. If they start releasing pokemon and Mario games on android and ios, sales will explode.

Given the fact that Nintendo is making SNES-era gameplay marketable as something other than a $5 downloadable game, i would say that is pretty original. They're giving worth to game-types thought of as worthless.

I'm pretty sure Nintendo are aware of what they could be doing in order to stay relevant, but they can't just pull 100 original new triple a ip's out of their asses just like that.