Carolyn has worse taste in video games than any reviewer alive. She's absolutely terrible and always gives the worst scores to my favourite games/franchises. I firmly believe that she doesn't even like videogames or hates life in general (one of those angry at the world kind of people).

Was going to write a comment about how I agree with this but it's pointless. People will disagree with me and point to the Wii as to how Nintendo are geniuses. :/

Fanboys will accuse Nintend of whatever serves their purposes at the time, to try and make their shallow "why Nintendo sucks" points.

Kind of like how certain folks come up with any old thing you could think of to accuse the President of or blame him on, because obviously he's an evil mastermind of Doctor Doom caliber. lol

Here's a thought, start off with just 1. Miyamoto doesn't have to be the one to create it, there are other talented developers out there. Here's a crazy idea, why doesn't Nintendo create a Western studio? Create an action adventure or shooter. 

Nintendo did actually wound down one of their western studios (Nintendo Software Technology, which hasn't done a major project since Metroid Prime Hunters in 2006), while Retro remains an unknown.

Didn't realize Retro was a western studio. In fact, I'm not really that familiar with Nintendo studios in general. I have no idea who makes what.

That's sort of a contradiction considering the fact that they kicked off the generation offering NES/SNES era games for $5-$10 on the VC, and are now charging full retail prices for essentially the exact same types of games, just with a visual facelift.

We've gotten 8/16-bit era downloadable games that are both updates/remakes and completely new like Mega Man 9 & 10 & Sonic 4 that are in the $5-$15 range, yet on Nintendo consoles games like DKC Returns and NSMB Wii and U go for $50-$60 because Nintendo knows how to take advantage of both the "casual" gamer who just buys what everyone else does and the long suffering Ninty fans that need to get their nostalgia fix every so often.

Yes, Retro's in Austin, Texas. Nintendo has a few affiliates (non-owned) that they still work with. Monster games (not sure where exactly they're out of) and Next Level Games (Vancouver, Canada), as well as the mostly-defunct NST (Redmond, Washington).

Nintendo does not actually have that many internal developers compared to the competition.

If it were that easy to "take advantage" of the poor casual gamer, don't you think Sega or Capcom would have tried making those games retail games?

They have in some cases... Capcom tried with SF4 and MvC3, but received a backlash from many fans both times because they felt they were being ripped off content-wise.  Long-time companies like Capcom and SEGA definitely would if they could, but unlike Nintendo, they don't have their own console where they can push their own titles with little to no competition.  It's much harder to price an 8-16bit style game like 2D Mario n Sonic or similar titles at $50-$60 when it's going up against the likes of Halo, COD, God Of War, MGS, GTA, Skyrim, etc.  Then they would start selling closer to Rayman Origins numbers... great throwback platformer with amazing visuals, but most gamers didn't see enough value to fork over $60 for it.