[QUOTE="SuperFlakeman"]/QUOTE] Defensive I see.
Look i'm speaking how i see it. Everytime i hear a Nintendo Direct or a Nintendo Conference the thing i see that gets pulled out for show is Mario or talk of Zelda. Wii went an entire generation with just 1 proper Zelda game and you had to wait till the end of the generation for it.
and i do play the Wii. liked DKC 4, Xenoblade, Punch-Out. Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, and Legend of Zelda.
My point is, what new thing for the core audience has Nintendo ADDED since then that they really seriously put effort into?. Don't tell me Wii Sports (seriously, a glorified motion control demo is a big deal for you? ok.).
The Wonderful 101 is about the only exclusive on the WiiU that i'm looking forward to, but it is not Nintendo. and i'm speaking about frickin' Nintendo inhouse,
and yes. what do I care about. for fvck sake, it's my money and time, if they're putting all their effort into Rythem Heaven and Wii Sports U damn right i'm not gonna care or even notice it.
When i play PS3, do i notice the latest version of Sing It or Wonderbook? No. But I DO notice when during the PS3 Sony 's showing off like inFamous for the first time. that's a sign of desperation "but but but! we got this too! you just don't like it!" so yeah. I got well over a 100 games (discs, digital, and PSone games) on the PS3, only because the games are there, I got a fraction of that (15 to be exact) on my Wii. the software isn't there. :| and i'm pretty open to different types of games, but it just has to have some substance.
I do view as someone who has been playing Nintendo since the NES days, see the modern day Nintendo as largely a developer that is rehashing like mad, and riding on the nastalgia of their hey-day from the 90's. That has been a feeling that has been reflected by every one of my gamer friends, even those who were die-hard Wii apologists during this console cycle. Maybe what would get the core excited for Nintendo again isn't the promise of a new Zelda or a Super Smash Brothers, but rather to do what they did before. Bring something new from the table that'll be part of their large cast of characters and IP's. This by the way is a little bit similar why some people were irked by Xbox One's showing of Fifa and Call of Duty - sure these are the biggest genres for Xbox, but here's the thing we already KNEW that was coming, what new thing that'll fire up the core audience? and for that we'll have to wait till E3 to see.
Look, there is a thing called the Law of Diminishing Returns. everything goes through it in a capitalist environment. and that's what i see what's slowing down Nintendo right now, even amongst the core gamers on the internet, with the exception of die hard Nintendo fanboys, there really isn't any excitement like you saw even within the year of the Wii's existence.
Even Disney has a thing called the Disney Vault, where they put old movies away for a while, long enough for you to miss it. and still trying to add something new to their large cast of characters and IP. That's what i see Nintendo (inhouse Nintendo) largely failing to do.
if you loved all those games you listed, then that's fantastic for you. doesn't change my point that the perception i have and many others do is that Nintendo - inhouse Nintendo - is largely rolling on the laurels of it's SNES days and hoping a casual audience will come and rescue it like it did with the Wii.
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