We complain because Rare deserved better than what it got when Micro bought them.

Most of their best talent has moved out of Rare since the acquisition, though, so it's not like the old guard with all of that shining talent is even there anymore to pick up the slack.
IIRC, some of them even joined Retro not that far back in the past...

On-topic: I'm glad that Nintendo is sticking to its guns and not dropping consoles or going mobile/third-party.
I'm also excited about them letting third parties use their characters for spin-off games.[under close watch, thankfully, to preserve quality control]

The only downside to that, is that it's kind of a telling thing about third parties and Nintendo systems as of late.
After the poor launch line-up from third parties, it seems that most Nintendo fans have almost entirely given up on some of the big AAA third parties.
So now, in order to counter what seems to be hesitance on consumer's part to trust these third parties enough to buy their games, Nintendo has had to pretty much resort to this.
Using Nintendo characters to sell their games is starting to feel like the only way some of these third parties could make a game that people would be willing to try, after debacles like Sniper Elite V2 and ME3...
Thankfully, some third parties are immune to that because they've shown talent in making games for the system despite low sales,[Ubisoft, Platinum, Shin'en]but I get the feeling that TP's like EA would have to beg for some character license rights before they'd be able to sell their games to an audience that they burned early and left early...[assuming they could do something good with the characters, that is.]
I don't think I even need to mention the ones that haven't even tried to make a game at all on the console.
They'd have the hardest time selling unless they made something new and spectacular.

Very few complain. Rare isn't what they once were.

I don't want Rare back to Nintendo. Not many people of the Golden Age are still in the company.

Yeah, some of the gimmicks are bad. I hated the wiimote and the motion control stuff. The gamepad isn't as bad though, although the battery life is annoying. I think this whole situation has shown them what they need to do. Iwata's plans sound good.
What I like the most about the announcement is that they're licensing some of their characters out to third parties. That way we can see some of the older Nintendo series come back to life. Hopefully they get put in the hands of the right developers.

I've gone into more detail in other posts, but the biggest problem is their target audience (children/family friendly/casual). Simply put, their focus is either growing up and moving on to other platforms or moving towards mobile/tablets.

There are other issues that compound the problem, but Nintendo built its base on sand and the tide has been coming in for a while. Their handheld dominance has helped them sustain a consistent profit; but it is getting to the point where it's not enough anymore and they need to readjust their strategy or they will drown. I most certainly don't want them to drown.

We'll never see a quality Conker/BK game again.. at least not on Wii U, probably not on MS's consoles either. And for that matter, probably not even similar games.

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️