Not a bad article, although it is annoyingly split over 10 pages for extra clicks. They did leave out the problem of poor specs and missing features, which directly contributed to the lack of 3rd party games. Nintendo clearly put all their effort and resources into the gamepad, leaving very little remaining for the console itself. Thus they had to scale the specs way back and remove as many features as possible to keep their costs down (and of course their profits up). They just failed to d...
Both Skyward Sword and Star Fox Zero were ruined by the forced gimmicky controls. Having to wave your arms around spastically or wrestle with two views simultaneously (on top of the awful motion controls) made both of these games well below average, and a chore to play. Far from being "sophisticated gaming", they illustrated that awkward gimmicks greatly degrade the gaming experience, rather than enhancing it.
Let's hope Nintendo really has learned from thes...
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@ GordonKnight - Don't reply to spambots, just tap on the username, tap on the "!" (exclamation point) to report them, type in "Spammer" in the reason box, and submit. I do that for every one I see, the mods take care of them pretty quickly.
@RosweeSon - You know when someone is grasping for some tiny shred of positive news, when all they can point to is some gimmicky plastic figures, a cheap little plug and play toy, a few unreleased games that are nowhere in sight, and a mobile game that is nothing more than a fad that will soon fizzle out (and wasn't even made by Nintendo, and they only get a small percentage of the profits). How sad.
Well they lost $232 million last quarter, and it's probably going to get worse over the next year or so. They're really not in a good place right now.
Nintendo fans don't like to hear anything negative about their beloved company.
I think he's talking about the Wii U, which was very mediocre in terms of specs, and also missing many commonly expected features for a modern console. No one knows what exactly the NX will be yet.
Would love to see Sonic Racing ported to the PS4, it's one of the best kart racers ever made! Much better than MK8.
Unfortunately the 3DO was a piece of junk. I bought one early in it's life, tried it out, found the games and system to be awful, and returned it a few days later. It really was terrible.
Not worth it.
Because most people aren't buying their "exclusives", due to having to also purchase Nintendo's gimmicky, awkward, low-spec, feature-lacking hardware. Being forced to play games with an awkward Fisher Price tablet just turned most people away from the Wii U, and the poor specs and missing features also was a huge turnoff. Why not increase sales of software, since the hardware just doesn't sell?
@ wonderfulmonkeyman - "Kinda like how hypocritical haters like you failed to buy a Wii U when third parties led the launch with titles people like you claim to love."
We "failed to buy a Wii U" because it was a poorly designed, underpowered, gimmicky, feature-lacking system. No amount of games was ever going to change that fact. The Wii U was completely unable to match the PS4 and XB1 in the 8th generation, and in many cases couldn't even match the...
"Have fun playing games Nintendo fans played 15-20 years ago."
20 years ago, I was one of those "Nintendo fans". I still own many NES, SNES, and N64 games (most in mint perfect condition, some still brand new sealed), all of those three consoles (including two brand new mint boxed N64 consoles (one "Jungle" and one "Fire"), and a GBA SP with many mint games.
But starting with the GC, Nintendo began to lose its way...
They attack G2A because it's a shady site that causes big financial losses to game developers and publishers. Don't make excuses for them, they are shady and no one who cares about devs/pubs getting properly paid for the games should buy from G2A (or cdkeys, Kinguin, etc). And if you keep buying from these shady grey market sites, don't be surprised if game developers or publishers either stop offering keys, or go out of business completely. Look beyond your own self-centered des...
@ DragonDDark - Who cares what Nintendo thinks? It's their fault that emulators are easily available to play their classic older games. They are very stingy about making those games available on other platforms.
It's Nintendo's own fault that emulators running their own games have proliferated on so many different hardware platforms; they refuse to make the games available LEGALLY on game compilations for those platforms, or on new dedicated mini consoles like the upcoming NES mini. And no, no one wants to buy into Nintendo's gimmicky, feature-lacking hardware, then pay their ripoff prices for drip-fed VC games. Not worth it at all.
32gb, not mb.
@finite - Most people would not characterize the Wii U as having a "shed load" of high quality games, whether first party or others. And some of Nintendo's own first party games for the Wii U were awful, including Star Fox Zero, Animal Crossing : Amiibo Festival, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Mario Party 10, Mario Golf, etc. I know that diehard fans believe that everything they produce is brilliant, but sadly that's not the reality.
No one should ever buy anything from G2A ( or cdkeys, Kinguin); they are all shady sites that cause a lot of damage to the gaming industry and community, by dealing in stolen/complimentary keys and circumventing regional pricing. Just pay a little more from legitimate sites like Steam and GMG and make sure that developers are actually supported for their games.