Victor Mildew wrote:Arghhhhh just make some new stuff. I'm sick of being sold the same old stuff over and over and over.
And I know I dont have to buy it, and I don't, which means I have nothing new as it's all just rehashed stuff constantly.
I think what we’re seeing now is Nintendo capitalising on more traditional gamers coming back to them now that have been away for the last 5-10 years. The Wii was a massive success but most had completely abandoned it by the time SS came out and the WiiU was an unmitigated disaster and there treatment of anyone who owned one is basically, haha strawberry float you buy our gooseberry fool again.
I mean it makes good business sense, so on the one hand you can’t blame them for it and chumps like me will put up with it because I can’t get their main line quality stuff elsewhere. Back in my mid 20s I knew maybe 2 or 3 people that owned Nintendo consoles or handhelds. With the Switch its double figures easily and these people are buying all the rehashed crap because they didn’t get it first time round.
I have 7 games for the Switch (one of which is BOTW which I played first on WiiU so it shouldn’t really count). If I hadn’t owned a WiiU it would probably be double that.
I think what Parksey says it right, Nintendo is just massively massively conservative and doesn’t want to spend money if the return isn’t worth it. I don’t think they ever coped with the switch to HD properly, they never upscale their resources so now their 3 main teams are basically only capable of putting out 1 game every 3-4 years. Normally I guess you’d have had a Retro game on Switch already and if they weren’t so strawberry floating useless MP4 would be almost ready now too and I supposed better management / oversight / resources would probably have helped Bayonetta get done.
The WiiU was strawberry floating dire, but at least Iwata was embarrassed enough about it to feel some sense of obligation to the people who bought it and crack the whip to churn out games; Nintendo Land, Game and Wario, NSMBU, Pikmin 3, Mario 3D World, Wonderful 101, Bayonetta 2, Captain Toad, Tropical Freeze, Hyrule Warriors, MK8, Smash, Sports Club, Splatoon, Mario Maker, Colour Splash, BOTW.
I mean I thought it was piss poor at the time but strawberry float I would be absolutely ecstatic if we could have a few years like that on Switch.
I think Capcom has basically supplanted Nintendo as the premier Japanese development studio in my mind now and considering their resources are microscopic in comparison and they actually work with and aim to please their fans rather than mercilessly milk them dry I’m glad to be on board for it.
But hey the Switch prints money, well strawberry floating done. Guess I’ll hang on to it and enjoy the gimped versions of BOTW2 and MP4 that invariably get optimised for the inevitable Pro or successor.