You missunderstand. I am talking about oldschool-flair as in   EVERYTHING WAS BETTER BACK THEN. When I play Xenoblade I feel like when I was a child etc. Xenoblade is far from having old school gameplay.  On the other hand  Call of Duty is exactly the same as Medal of Honor was 15 years ago.  Racing games dont change  they are either simulations or  arcade or copy Mario Kart which is by far the most fun (fun is what games are about) racing series that exists.

Mario evolved a lot. Dont judge Mario by comparing SMB with NSMB that makes no sense since NSMB is somewhat supposed to be like the old games. Look at Mario 3D.  Mario 64 is the reason so many other games worked.  Mario sunshine was not an evolution but Galaxy again changed the rules.

There  is almost no evolution in any game  so saying you left Nintendo because their games dont change makes no sense. Most people dont try to notice thats the problem.

How does e.g Sony change the rules or bring new stuff to the table? I mean seriously  Uncharted is Tomb Raider, God of War is ancient Devil May Cry without guns but with swords. Sony owes alot to third party. Or desperately buys companies that made 1 average game so they secure some exclusive IPs.

Alot of people say Mario Kart or Mario Sluggers  is the same as Super Mario in terms of IP. That makes no sense. God of War is more like Devil May Cry than Mario Kart is like Mario Galaxy.  Just because the game has the same main character doesnt make it the same IP. Sure Nintendo should have used NINTENDO KART instead of MARIO KART and include Link Samus etc (maybe we get a Super Smash Kart one day) but its still not a Mario game in the original sense.

Most of the games that came out in the last 10 years give me a I COULD PLAY SOMETHING BETTER feeling. Because those games lack something.
Whereas  Zelda, Xenoblade or even the new Fire Emblem Awakening which I got 2 days ago make me want to keep playing. 
Sure Nintendo also lost some of its charm and alot of their new IP (with low budgets) feel like average games but its still there. Charm that games like Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Terranigma on SNES had (that retro-flair I was talking about) and games like FF 13, Call of Duty, Jak n Daxter etc have not.

And Nintendo actually has/had a ton of new IP. Or their IP changed for the better as in FE Awakening.   Nintendo now owns Project Zero. They made Day of Crisis (sure not a great game but its as average as most games today are). They have stuff like Magical Starsign. Advance Wars/Battalion Wars. They had Geist  and Eternal Darkness.  Golden Sun, Xenoblade kicks most other RPGs ass. Nintendo made pushmo. There is like 40 or so new IP's since 2000.  People just dont know about them or ignore them. Mario&Luigi, Another Code etc....

Seriously the world is realistic, brown, and grey enough. And thank god Nintendo uses some color.  Other games try to look super realistic but they fail in doing so and in a few years they will look like shit. And whats left then?

I cannot really explain what feeling I get when playing Nintendo games or some japanese JRPGs. I dont know how to exlain it. I just know that alot of todays games give me a "meh when can I finally save because I need a break from this" feeling.

Like I said to pezus; when I'm talking about Wii in this instance I'm talking about them trying something new, using a new kind of strategy. And why did casuals want a Wii? Because it was a new thing. I don't have blind faith in Nintendo. If you actually read what I wrote you'd see I wasn't sure if this was a great idea by Nintendo. It really seems as if my whole post went over your head. I suggest you read it again.

I said that this was a new strategy by Nintendo to counter MS and Sony, I never said it was going to work or that it was a good idea. I only called you out for calling them cowards.

S.T.A.G.E. negatively overblowing something Nintendo did again?

Shocking and totally unexpected.

Couldn't agree more. Well done Sessler

People presume the gaming media are goldfish with zero attention spans.

They may be on to something.

2nd!

I don't want to sound like a blind follower, but I honestly don't think Nintendo is that inept.  I can go about spewing about how Nintendo does their own thing, but that's a given by now and I can only hope that Nintendo has something up their sleeves.  As for digging their heads in sand and looking up at giants, that analogy is far from what the situation is.  Nintendo has been the leader in innovation for the last 20 years.  Time and time again, what nintendo does the industry follows.  E3 has been the Mecca of video game information and each year we flock to see what's next, whose to say that this isn't what the industry will be in another 3 years. I follow games and video game companies so E3 is a big deal for me.  But, E3 is only a week long extravaganza.  With Nintendo Direct, it's been like E3 4 times a year last year.  This year alone feels like E3 3 days within the last 5 months.  I find nintendo direct fun to follow and since they're random, we get more E3days throughout the year. 

Think about the advantage they have versus other companies who have to wait during specific conference events.  The last Sony conference in March was a sweet treat for those waiting for gaming news.  It was unexpected and didn't involve anytype of annual event.  Now Microsoft is going to have a solo event in May that too is going to be a sweet treat.  THe last nintendo direct was 36 minutes long, how about the next one; 40- an hour, in August, in October, in November: who cares, still better than waiting for a whole year. 

I honestly still can't tell if this is good or bad after thinking about it for the longest of times.

Massive conferences are cool and hyped but usually live streaming them isn't worth it when you wait for 2 hours and get nothing. Usually pick up the news from IGN after the conference.

NDs on the other hand are too little known. There's not much stuff you can tell the general public from those.

Guess we'll see.

For all we know, Wind Waker HD will be seen in playable form, or at least in a lenghty trailer somewhere on the show floor (or in whatever presentation format Nintendo opts for). 3D Mario will be seen in a similar fashion, and everybody will forget there was no conference.

I read the title as "Adam Sandler" and I came in here saying "why the **** does his opinion matter?" I then realized that I'm just stupid.

But really, E3 has been awful, including Sony/Microsoft's conference, for literally the last 3 years. Nintendo was probably smart in changing their tactic.