HylianYoshi said:
This. Nintendo is losing their grip on their first party games, which is the one thing they have going for them. As well, I'd also like to point out that Nintendo doesn't want to give fans what they want. Instead opting to hold their perfectly worthy IP hostage and forcing out games that are in a state that fans don't want. Mario Party, Paper Mario, Star Fox, and Metroid all come to mind. |
losing their touch?
I am a huge Nintendo fan and I have to disagree. There is nothing on market close to the polish of Mario Kart 8, Super Mario Maker, Super Smash Bros for someone like me.
I am disappointed with the recent Mario Parties and the Metroid "Federation Force' looks to be a bit of a joke, but the polish has been extremely consistent.
they just haven't released a mainlain regular Metroid, F-Zero, Zelda, or Star Fox (I don't count the recent one, its a remake) in quite a while. I think they have not been putting out as many games as they should and have largely ignored some of their larger IPs. No Pokemon home console game in the vain of Pokemon Stadium for example is shocking considering fans would love something like that again.
The polish has remained though. Its just they aren't releasing enough. Nintendo has loved to remain an incredibly small company in terms of number of employees, they need to let that go and acquire or create a bunch more software teams to push more games.
even something like another 3D Donkey Kong would be fun (even if the N64 one wasn't that fantastic). Hell, someone like me would LOVE another Diddy Kong Racing.
but they are still releasing plenty of awesome reemerging things. The Kid Icarus game for the 3DS is sick and Splatoon is quite fun, despite its strange squid thing
Nintendo also didn't release a full fledged stand alone 3D Mario for the Wii U (Imo). Its more a lack of content that's the issue from this Nintendo fans perspective. That said, the 3DS has been pretty good overall in my mind
