Soundwave said:
Well it doesn't look like Nintendo heeded your advice with Wii or Wii U, and from the reports we are getting, it doesn't sound like NX is the system you are hoping for either. I think one of the hard things for people to accept is the Nintendo of the 90s is no more. Yamauchi has passed away, and Howard Lincoln and Minoru Arakawa (key figures for Nintendo of America) are gone. The GameCube was largely developed/conceptulized in the late 90s too. They are a different type of company today. From the sounds of it and I've read interviews from Mr. Iwata that say as much, to him in the later years of his life, Mr. Yamauchi stressed upon Iwata to not be like Sony/MS and to always be different. And I think this philosphy has basically carried on from there. Nintendo will make the occasional Bayonetta 2 type project (like maybe once a year or two at best) but they will never be comfortable having those types of games being a large chunk of their output. They are known for family friendly IP that are cartoony in nature and that's just where it seems they feel more comfortable. |
It's not about Nintendo heeding my advice, it's about what makes logical sense for the core market that will buy their type of products, which are dedicated gaming devices.
We're not getting any legimate sounding reports for NX, we're getting rumors from a bunch of people that have been wrong in the past. Rumors that go against what Nintendo have said themselves about their successor to their current systems and also rumors that go against who Nintendo have partnered with for past products. There's no form to an Nvidia rumor and there's certainly no form to Nintendo only making a hybrid system.
Despite Nintendo's claim they've always been competing in the same space as Sony and Microsoft, because they make dedicated gaming devices.
Sony and Microsoft, along with 3rd party have made a lot of cartoony and colorful games, Nintendo are not the exception, point is that Nintendo have made different kinds of games besides colorful ones.
