Nintendo Exec on NES Classic Shortages, Nintendo Switch Supply

@wtf_666: It suddenly occurred to me tonight as I watched Zelda BOTW just HOW Ninty keep their game sizes down so small.

It seems to have taken me a really long time, but simply, although their games can look good, there is just no TEXTURE to them. Very colourful and pretty in a simplified sort of drawn way, but absolutely no real detail. You can tell a piece of wood from a piece of metal because its a blob of brown, rather than a blob of silver or grey, but that's about it.

While everyone else goes for attention to detail and improving direct X, with realistic hair styles for example, Nintendo completely ignore any sort of attention to that and are satisfied with a simple comic style turnout, or the "soap opera" smoothness you get in low production value films. That probably also explains why they appeal to and cater for the kids, who just aren't as knowledgeable or picky with how their games look?

After all this time I don't know why it took me so long to realise that I knew Link was riding a horse, only because it was horse SHAPED!

Nintendo are so far behind everyone else in production values, there's no wonder their games work without problems, even now they're still producing 90's graphics on slightly more advanced machines!

If they actually DID make this gen competitive hardware, it would show up the shortcomings of their art style badly, rather than enhance it. Which also explains why they so cleverly cover that up to stay looking relative, with all the gimmicks they insist on with every new machine. I'm amazed they have got away with it for so long and still make some money?

Look again at even the NEW HD Zelda and you will see and have to admit what I mean.

@wtf_666: If the Switch sells out of the 2 million at launch that would be a great problem for them to have as neither PS4 nor X1 sold two million at launch.

@wtf_666: Actually lol..... installing the digital version of Zelda takes up roughly half the Switch memory. Other half may go to games like Skyrim......

So SD cards are still a common thing for Nintendo going forward I guess.

@gamingfan: I've been a harsh critic of Nintendo for almost 15 years, and I'm getting a Switch, so yea, no.

@chiefwiggum16: Me and many people have wanted another mario game like 64, they're delivering on that, with odyssey, so you're wrong they do listen, but also, Reggie hinted at something for Metroid and Mother 3.

@chiefwiggum16: So a Metroid style re-skin of Halo 5?

@PETERAKO: So you're NOT buying a Switch then?

@BrunoBRS: No hope. They do not care about their western market.

@geotherma: So sad. lol

@geotherma:

The Amiibo and Wii U controller adapter shortages is quite easy to understand. The Wii U wasn't selling well at all, how were they supposed to know that people would want more amiibos than they would want Wii U's? The Wii U controller adapter was only used for one game (Super Smash Bros). Super Smash Bros was the fastest selling Wii U game on the market, and most of those people wanted a Gamecube controller adapter.

@fibaglassmonkey: I look forward to banging my head against the wall when that news breaks and the Nintendo fanboys (who own every other console and PC) come out of the woodwork to stand up for it.

@sellingthings: That doesn't mean that everyone that has preordered will receive their switch

@lrdfancypants: Yeah growing up sucks. I kinda grew into Xbox and Playstation but grew out of Nintendo. When they went alittle more hardcore with in late N64, Gamecube days I thought I had made the right choice in sticking with Nintendo. Now I'm almost 30 and Nintendo products come off as redundant, overpriced, children toys. Got an Xbox in 2004 and never looked back... well okay I did.... in disappointment.