Email: Nintendo going past the point of no return

Silly Malstrom, being worried about Zelda going to the point of no return, the main issue is how Nintendo is going to this point. They are destroying themselves with this 3D obsession and their developer’s selfishness, Nintendo is heading to the point where they will decline so much that will be impossible to recover from that(somewhat like Atari), they even lost the Wii gamer and mass market trust.

I already believe that no matter what they do now, Nintendo is never going to be as big as they were in the past or with the Wii and DS. I remember you saying the more the game industry declines, the uglier they would be (attacking customers, denial of the reality, more DLCs, and so on).

Now I am only wondering and waiting in how Nintendo will react as they decline, it will much more entertaininting than playing most of their current games.

People were saying similar things back during the Gamecube days. But when I look at games like Mario Kart Wii or Super Mario Brothers 5 or Wii Sports, I asked, “Where the hell has this been for the past fifteen years?” The mojo is there. The problem is Nintendo is unwilling to use it. It is some emotional block within the people that work there.

From their perspective, it sounds crazy to say something like ‘the Old School is the antidote to your core decline’. From their perspective, everything must be new, must be ‘fresh’, must be surprising. With Wii Sports selling so well, they can chalk that up to the motion controls. With Mario Kart Wii, they can look at the Internet multiplayer. But Super Mario Brothers 5 shouldn’t be selling the numbers it did with their context. And it most certainly shouldn’t be moving hardware. Yet, it does.

Nintendo changed direction to make the Wii because they were tired of Gamecube sales. They were willing to do what they did not want to in order to stop having horrible sales performance.  Once sales performance returned with the DS and Wii, Nintendo went back to their old ways which is why I believe those platforms largely self-destructed.

Gamecube was being sold during good economic times. Imagine if the Gamecube came out today. It would sell, what, ten million for its entire life?

More than anything, Nintendo wants to win in the market. I am counting that erosion of sales will force and institutionalize the correction.