It’s not about games. It’s not about entertainment. It is all about a sick, sick obsession with 3d. It must be stopped. No matter the cost.
Many people forgot about how Nintendo presented the 3DS. The 3DS was not just a game console but the conclusion of 3d over THOUSANDS OF YEARS from Euclid on up. The arrogance is astonishing. Nintendo actually put up Euclid from 275 BC up on a E3 trailer as if their entertainment product was the conclusion of his thought.
This Manifest 3d Destiny is a psychosis that has overrun Nintendo. Every innovation now must lead to 3d. This is how and why Nintendo made astonishing bad business decisions such as the Virtual Boy, the N64, the Gamecube, and the 3DS. This is why Mario was transformed into a different type of game… all so Miyamoto can pretend he is a 3d Moses to lead gaming to this glorious 3d Golden Land rich with milk and honey.
We keep rejecting 3d.
We rejected 3d with the Virtual Boy.
We rejected 3d with the plummeting sales of Mario starting with Mario 64.
We rejected Nintendo’s attempts at ‘3d-with-accessibility’ in Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2’s sales.
We rejected the 3DS.
But Nintendo will not stop. The next phase in the Manifest 3d Destiny is to separate the game console from the TV. This will allow Nintendo to create 3d output screens for home consoles and then mandate all games be used in this manner.
3d is unnatural and an offense to Nature. This is obvious with how it hurts many people’s eyes and the long graveyard in time of failed 3d products. But obsession does not listen to facts… or to sales numbers. The Manifest 3d Destiny must go on!
Above: In a mindset not unlike the original Manifest Destiny, Nintendo uses an angel for the Manifest 3d Destiny.
Everything you loved about the Nintendo experience has been distorted and changed due to the Manifest 3d Destiny. You keep buying Nintendo consoles trying to get that old joy back… yet it never comes. Each console it feels like it slips away further. It is because Nintendo does not like what you like.
Nintendo does not ask, “How do we make customers happy?” Nintendo, instead, asks, “How do we make gamers buy our 3d direction?”
The biggest resistance out there are the 2d Mario gamers who still haven’t gone over to 3d Mario despite decades of 3d Mario, ‘help DVDs’, and a 3d Mario for handhelds that tries to copy 2d Mario in every way. Despite the mounting evidence pointing to market disinterest in 3d, Nintendo declares Manifest 3d Destiny and keeps making more 3d products.
The issue is not that the games have 3d in them. The issue is that the games are not about the games but about popularizing 3d for the sake of popularizing 3d. “Now is the time for 3d!” orgasms the executive staff in the Iwata Asks interviews before the 3DS launched.
No. It. Ain’t.
When Nintendo adopted the Manifest 3d Destiny, starting in the 1990s when Shigeru Miyamoto was elevated to an executive position, Nintendo’s sales and market position plunged. With the DS and Wii, along with a new president, Nintendo changed directions. Instead of ‘Popularize 3d’, it became ‘Popularize Gaming’. And with that came the fastest period of growth and rise in market position any game console manufacturer has ever seen.
But Nintendo is no longer interested in popularizing gaming. There is no more Blue Ocean Strategy. It is all about one thing and one thing only: 3d. The purpose of new Mario games is not to make gaming more popular or to even make Mario more popular. It is to make 3d more popular.
To those who think like me, you are called ‘Malstrummers’ on the Gaming Message Forums by the various forum dwellers. But you are actually Malcontents. You are doing nothing more than providing a voice to your disinterest.
Interested gamers do not deserve a monopoly on voice. Disinterested gamers need to be heard as well. And voicing disinterest does not translate to trolls or people spewing grievances. It is saying, “I don’t like this because of X.”
At E3 2012, all you need to look for is whether or not Nintendo is interested in popularizing 3d or popularizing gaming. If it is the former, Nintendo will further undergo decline. If it is the latter, Nintendo will enter a period of growth. I’ve seen this cycle of seasons come and go over and over while only coming out at an E3 to say whether the Nintendo Winter will be over.
Alas, I’m no better than a groundhog.
Above: Sean Malstrom after a Nintendo E3 Conference
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