Geez, that first-person cartwheel made me dizzy.
Keep the internal stuff going, but don't fully abandon third-party partnerships. Setting a 50/50 split is a bad move right now. Skew the divide to specialize in reinforcing what you're best at.
You can't equalize this perfectly. Certain companies have certain strengths, and in some cases, abiding by those strengths is good. Microsoft isn't getting much first-party production at the moment, so what do they do? They focus on third-party.
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I'd agree with your pitch more if Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations sucked...which they didn't.
...and that was a problem, because...?
I'm all for having Tails and Knuckles playable again. Hell, I'd even settle for Shadow (SA2 style), but wasn't a common complaint with modern Sonic games that we're playing as characters that no one really likes?
Survival horror made a splash last gen, but in a different way. It was mostly through indie devs who were able to focus on defenselessness to produce fear. If you're talking more about the Resident Evils, which succumbed to the all-action "nu-horror" style, then yeah, I'd like to see the series do another re-tooling.
I like Mario platformers, but I'd love to see another 3D platformer focused on exploration, like N64 era Rare.
Speaking of...
"That’s why the company has jealously guarded franchises like Mario, Zelda and Pokemon for decades now."
"Jealously"? I honestly don't know what this guy is talking about here. Like, do they mean that others are jealous, or are they implying that Nintendo is being stingy by keeping its franchise on its own hardware? Either way, this doesn't make sense.
Besides, Nintendo has software. That's what everyone in gaming has been sayi...
Considering how much you're required to pay for these bundles combined with how you're supporting indies and charities alike by buying them, I'd say that "a little bit of a cheapskate" is kind of putting it lightly.
I'm excited for the Nintendo Direct too and I agree, there will be a lot of cool exclusives on the way. In fact, that's why anyone would buy the Wii U (or any console): exclusives.
A fundamental idea of the industry is that you buy a system for the things you can't get on another. Otherwise, you'd buy the other system. Exclusive franchises are Nintendo's greatest strength. Do you want a Metroid game? You need a Nintendo console to play them.
Archos Gamepad
Wikipad
Nvidia Shield
Archos 2
Ouya
MOJO
Gamestick
GamePop
JXD
Ouya 2
Tron
These are all of the Android-based consoles that have been released/announced since the end of 2012. That's eleven consoles. Eleven. ELEVEN. And how many of these have actually succeeded?
But the 3DS is doing great now. Better than any other gaming system on the market at the moment. The fact is that the "panic" and the mad-dash to "turn the system around" paid off big time, and if the 3DS situation is under control now, Nintendo can invest more of their attention to the Wii U. The 3DS condition proves that if Nintendo can put a real effort into selling a system, they can get results.
However, I still find it hard to believe that the Wii U&...
Okay, N4G, I'll bite. When is VGChartz' data legit and when is it not? The common opinion of the site and its content seems to change every day.
There's nothing wrong with liking one company over another. The difference is in how you express your preference and to what extent.
If you like Sony, but will go to Microsoft topics and just troll in the comments, that's using your preference to ruin others' good time.
It's good and convenient to have, but like many gaming features, it is in no way mandatory.
I'd say that Sony's E3 2013 press conference (specifically the bulleted list of things Sony would allow you to do on PS4 that Microsoft conveniently wouldn't allow on Xbox One) combined with that "how you play used games on PS4" video on Youtube are lacking modesty.
...and? I assume you're going to continue and finish that sentence, because there was a lot to love on 3DS in 2013, Pokemon included.
"no cartoons should be remotely nsfw."
So your opinion is what things "should be"? I don't think a random N4G user should decide what an entire genre of media "should be."
Your second point seems to imply that a game based on a show for kids has no right to be a good, well-designed game for everyone to play, which is just plain wrong.
I personally thought the Wind Waker ReDeads were creepier.
MLB: The Show is routinely good quality, but with no competition, the developers can slack off. It happened with Madden; once it was the only American football game available, the developers had no one to one-up. Competition drives improvement, as companies are always trying to be better than each other, with consumers reaping the benefits.
Fans had to settle with Madden; there was no other option. Hopefully, The Show doesn't go down that road, but if it does, I wouldn...
The million or so people who bought it say otherwise. I'm not one of those people, by the way. Couldn't get invested in Beyond: Two Souls.