Ahhh Fire Emblem, one of my top 3 favorite franchises of all time! I'm still heart broken that I was forced to sell my 3DS two weeks ago due to being unemployed for a long time. Not being able to play the game or even the demo is just excruciating. Sigh. Ahh well, on to the next job interview!
@swyg @sacatash They own the studio. Its a Nintendo 1st party game. Its a Wii U exclusive. I'm EXCITED about the announcement and thousands others who saw the video on youtube in contrast to the article.
@Zombrex It is very insulting and ignorant for anyone to compare Nintendo to Atari. Atari's business dealings/practices is one of the main reasons the video game market crashed in the 80's. They saturated the market with crapload of software while being outdone by Activision. Nintendo meanwhile, RESURRECTED, the gaming CONSOLE industry in the mid-80s amid competition from Apple and Commodore computers. Gamers looked up to Nintendo not because they are fanboys but because they should be respected for their innovation in both hardware and gameplay and withstand the competition from Sega, Panasonic, Sony, Microsoft, Atari and Neo Geo in every console generation.
Got to give props to him. Gears of War made me and my friends buy the Xbox 360 even though there were rampant RROD in 2006. The GOW franchise was and is a system seller.
I bet he has 'writer's block' and still searching for inspiration how to get back making great games. Well good luck to him.
@Xellos5526 I agree. After reading the info at the bottom of the article, I realized why he is spewing some "Patcher" -like tone regarding Nintendo. He probably is Gamespot's Stephen A. Smith so they can have numerous views on the site. However, I just don't get it. As a fellow gamer, it seems to me he(Mr. Mc Shea) loves gaming as a hobby and as a career as well as a gaming journalist but why would he write such an article claiming that the latest Nintendo Direct is unexciting?
Nintendo is using their old IPs for the old(nostalgia) and young(new experiences) gamers who would buy their current and future consoles. I was 15 years old when I started playing Nintendo games and I came to love RPGs- both JRPG(Final Fantasy, ) and Action RPG(Zelda, Castelvania, Metroid) on the NES. Those gaming experiences made me love video games and made it as a hobby, albiet expensive, as I join the workforce in the 90s. Nintendo wanted to let new gamers experience that 'magic' aside from the generic COD/Halo/Gears of War genre so when they join the workforce 10-15 years from now, they would also be attached to those franchises and by their product. Its a very simple business sense which Nintendo has been doing since they entered the video game business(1974) from a card company in 1889.
@jenrard "Tom Mc Shea loves platformers and weighty moral decisions. Some call him a T-Rex with bigger arms, some call him a gorilla with smaller arms -- you can just call him the jerk who hates all the things you love and loves all the things you hate."
The simple reason to incite people to click on their site and generate numerous 'clicks' using this writer's expertise to be cynical as possible to one of the most exciting gaming news this dead of winter 2013.
@Xellos5526 I agree. After reading the info at the bottom of the article, I realized why he is spewing some "Patcher" -like tone regarding Nintendo. He probably is Gamespot's Stephen A. Smith so they can have numerous views on the site. However, I just don't get it. As a fellow gamer, it seems to me he(Mr. Mc Shea) loves gaming as a hobby and as a career as a gaming journalist but why would he write such an article claiming that we should not be excited with the latest Nintendo Direct?
Nintendo is using their old IPs for the old(nostalgia) and young(new experiences) gamers who would buy their current and future consoles. I was 15 years old when I started playing Nintendo games and I came to love RPGs- both JRPG(Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior 1,2,3) and Action RPG(Zelda, Castelvania, Metroid) on the NES. Those gaming experiences made me love video games and made it as a hobby, albiet expensive, as I join the workforce in the 90s. Nintendo wanted to let new gamers experience that 'magic' aside from the generic COD/Halo/Gears of War genre so when they join the workforce 10-15 years from now, they would also be attached to those franchises and buy their future products. Its a very simple business sense which Nintendo has been doing since they entered the video game business(1974) from being a card company in 1889.
"It's hard to get excited about the newest round of Nintendo announcements, because it feels as though we've been in this exact place before"
I dunno. I was excited when they announced a patch to improve the Wii U loading times which means that Nintendo is LISTENING to their users through MiiVerse. Announcing Zelda WiiU, Wind Waker HD, Fire Emblem X SMT, Yoshi Wii U, Super Smash Bros, Super Mario Galaxy 3, Mario Kart WiiU and this is NOT E3 yet, this is January 2013 in the middle of winter.
Also, how can you not get excited with the last video, codenamed 'X'?! The Monolith game has everything that I want for a game: large scale world, sweeping epic soundtrack, great action, humongous monsters and ROBOTS...transforming freaking ROBOTS!! I hope that Nintendo's console will re-ignite the love for console JRPG genre in the West since it's been stagnant this generation. It's one big reason enough to get excited about in the next gen of consoles.
I know this is a crazy idea: if Platinum wants to buy Vigil Games and the Darksider franchise, then ask Nintendo for some cash. Platinum already got Nintendo to finance Bayonetta 2 and Nintendo might take a chance and get Darksiders 3 as an exclusive.
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