Alex
Member
I always thought the complaint was that Nintendo didn't try to make big games, not new games, they make lots of off-beat, newly branded stuff.... just no one here gives a shit about much of that software as the bulk was built towards the same kind of crowd mobile phone type fare is made for.
The past generation they never really had to worry about us because cranking out cheap and simplistic content for expanded audiences made them more money than doing huge projects for us nerds that cost them tens of millions of dollars and multiple year dev cycles. Since my guess is still that said expanded audience ain't coming back in the same way, I hope they do try to cater more to the kinds of things I like.
I'm always pleased when they try to fund new, big things like a Pikmin or a Xenoblade but it can be so very rare. Have been buying their kit all my life, will likely continue to do so but it'd be nice to have a scenario where they weren't a distant second or third platform for me that got used once or twice a year, one that stings if that big holiday game doesn't deliver (like Skyward Sword).
I don't even care if we're talking budgets or asset quality, I just want shit in a genre I would play, and being someone reared on niche Japanese games and PC games at the same time, I'll play damn near anything.... except Nintendo's expanded audience software and Sony's arthouse content.
The past generation they never really had to worry about us because cranking out cheap and simplistic content for expanded audiences made them more money than doing huge projects for us nerds that cost them tens of millions of dollars and multiple year dev cycles. Since my guess is still that said expanded audience ain't coming back in the same way, I hope they do try to cater more to the kinds of things I like.
I'm always pleased when they try to fund new, big things like a Pikmin or a Xenoblade but it can be so very rare. Have been buying their kit all my life, will likely continue to do so but it'd be nice to have a scenario where they weren't a distant second or third platform for me that got used once or twice a year, one that stings if that big holiday game doesn't deliver (like Skyward Sword).
I don't even care if we're talking budgets or asset quality, I just want shit in a genre I would play, and being someone reared on niche Japanese games and PC games at the same time, I'll play damn near anything.... except Nintendo's expanded audience software and Sony's arthouse content.