My biggest problem with the general criticism hitting Nintendo these days is that it all seems to stem from this latent desire to "Westernize" the company, or at least in terms of the decisions they make. I don't think anyone is doing it intentionally, actually I don't even think these people know they're doing it. I even happen to believe the things they have to say are true, to the extent that I know the perspective that the ideas are originating from.

I really believe there are a lot of people out there that want Nintendo to do the exact same thing as Sony and Microsoft do with their consoles.  Maybe you've never thought about it in this way before, but if you are one of those people that do want to see a big change from Nintendo just what exactly do you want them to do differently?

We think pretty linear.  Me included.  It really is hard to understand why Nintendo does the things the way they do, especially when we see those brothers, Microsoft and Sony, going about their next systems completely differently.   We want to make sense of Nintendo.  Why not release more games for the Wii U?  Why is there that outdated hardware?  What's with that controller?  And the way we try to make sense of them is to Westernize them.

Sony is already a Western company as far as I'm concerned.  And the way the PS4 looks already, it might as well come with an American flag stamped on the top and a free cheeseburger in the box.  Let's be honest, no American would have ever developed that Gamepad for the Wii U.  We think it's stupid and a gimmick.  State of the art graphics are something we drool over.  Demanding games every week is something that we've come to define as the standard for the gaming industry.  But in the end we are just trying to make a shape for something that has no shape.  We assume the best graphics available is the way to go because technology advances every six months.  We assume more games are better because we've come to believ a vast variety of something is always better.      

We complain about Nintendo being Nostalgic.  Yet we could have a debate how Mario Galaxy and Mario Sunshine have more differences between them than every single different titled first person shooter ever created.