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[QUOTE="clicketyclick"]Oh I'm sure that peripherals and such are selling the games they're attached to. It still irks me. It's like... it's like... seeing everyone go to some fast food restaurant and getting a processed meat burger with the added value of a plastic toy when they could get a nice, juicy sirloin steak for the same price at the restaurant across the way. I just see Ninty getting away with a lot more than any other company gets away with. It doesn't make sense to me because the nostalgia factor isn't applicable to me. I didn't grow up with Ninty. So I come to these franchises for the first time on the Wii and I'm wondering why we're technologically behind by a number of years and why that's still ok. It seems that, these days, Ninty's in the business of peddling nostalgia and mini-game collections (with added value of peripheral!) rather than innovation that I'm told Ninty used to be known for. I just feel more excited, surprised, and anticipatory about other devs' games. I see a humongous leap between AC1 and AC2. And then I see Ninty resting on their laurels. *sigh*Sepewrath

I'm really at a lost for what it is that Nintendo is getting away with that no one else is. Is Nintendo not producing fun titles? Is Nintendo not producing high quality titles? Are they releasing wave after wave of crap and everyone says its ok because its Nintendo? I guess because you didn't grow up during the 8 bit and 16 bit days, your unaware of what innovation really is. Alot of new gamers think innovation is tied up in graphic engines, they believe alot of what they see these days are innovative, when in fact the bulk of it is just old stuff with a HD face lift. Also you mentioned there being a big difference between AC1 and 2. That is not true at all, all they did was iron out what people complained about in AC1, they didn't change much. there is no big leap there. And when it comes to Nintendo using the same franchises they started 20yrs ago, well that is the exact opposite of lazy. There's a big reason those franchises have experienced the longevity that they have. Its because Nintendo did rest on its laurels and hope the game rode on its name or on a lack of competition like say Madden. They crafted an extremely high quality title each time out, thats not what I would call lazy. There were alot of big game names out in the 80's and 90's that are dead because the series could not keep up, so its not like just because a series is big at one point, it will be big forever. It doesn't work that way. their are plenty of gaming headstones to prove that. You don't keep a franchise like Mario, hell an entire genre relevant, win GOTY awards and internationl praise by being lazy. When your lazy you get shoveled under the rug and forgotten, unless your lucky enough to have no kind of alternative.

It's not just new gamers that feel this way toward Nintendo. I'm 27 and grew up playing Nintendo systems. I also used to buy Nintendo games if merely for the nostalgic feeling I got playing Mario or Zelda. But I realize that I have outgrown Nintendo. I don't want to play Mario or Zeldaor even Metroid as fun as those games were. I feel that the PS3 more accurately reflects the needs of me as a gamer so I won't be buying a Nintendo console anymore. I agree with Daemon Hatfield when he says that the Wii is the first Nintendo system that I don't want to play. Don't get me wrong there are some good games on the Wii, but not enough for me to want to own one. Just my opinion.

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