So I would put all the blame on the hardcore for asking Nintendo to making Gamecube games. The reason for Wind Waker I hear all the time on the Internet is. The Wind Waker graphics still look good by today’s standards that game was the best I hope the remake it In HD! WInd Waker has not aged a bit still looks just as good as it did in 2003!
Thing is we wanted a motion controlled Luigi’s Mansion for the Wii. Yet we get a “sort of” motion controlled 3DS game which took 3 years of Development at Canadian Next Level games. Just because the original game was being made with a special 3d Display Nintendo was making for the Gamecube back in development.
Well Miyamoto teased that after this lineup is released by early next year he has A NEW I.P he is working on. Since everyone at E3 was asking where is the NEW I.P. He said he has finished work on Pikmin and is very hard at work getting this new I.P ready for now so Lets see what happens…
Link for Shiggys tease on new franchise http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/10/4510162/miyamoto-talks-up-super-mario-3d-world-hints-at-new-franchise
This is a good point. Game journalists, who have access to Nintendo developers, keep asking for the games no one wants.
While some game journalists might be ‘hardcore’, I genuinely think certain game journalists intentionally give bad advice to Nintendo under the guise of ‘being a gamer’. Why would I say that? “Oh no! A conspiracy theory!” I am saying things only from experience.
During the Wii Era, the ‘advice’ for Nintendo from certain game journalists was to stop making games like Wii Sports, Mario Kart Wii, and NSMB Wii and make more games like Aonuma Wind Waker, Mario Galaxy, Luigi’s Mansion, and Pikmin. It is an amazing coincidence that these game journalists always wanted more of games people don’t buy and less of games that people did want to buy. IGN used to go on crusades. One crusade was that Nintendo should do full voice acting and tell ‘stories’ in their games even with games such as Kirby. Who wants Kirby to talk or to have a story? IGN was insistent. When Metroid Other M came out, these same people tried to highlight the game as the direction Nintendo should go until the backlash became too much where they eerily became silent on the game.
It is very well possible that the people begging for Pikmin 3 back in 2007 and 2008 very much wanted more Pikmin. However, game journalists know, more than the average consumer, that game companies make games based on their selling power and not based on what a niche desires. I can’t believe certain journalists would allow their personal tastes to override all commercial common sense in their ‘suggestions’.
Many of these game journalists have split from the scene since then.
I find it very curious that these ‘experienced gamers’ never asked for Nintendo to return to their NES or SNES ways. It was always ‘more Gamecube’ ways. Hell, they were hoping for the 3DS to be ‘more Virtual Boy’.
I have yet to see Microsoft or Sony asked to make sequels to games that were bombas in the past. You don’t see anyone asking Sony to make more Sony All-Stars. While certain people complain there is ‘too much Mario’, we apparently never have enough Halo or Gran Turismo.
If I was a Nintendo competitor, I would want Nintendo pursue games no one wants and not make games everyone wants. Remember when NSMB and NSMB Wii came out and there was a fake Internet backlash? It was fake because it didn’t last and certain marketing people of other game companies were driving it. Their worst nightmare if for Nintendo to return to the mass market ways (e.g. 2d Mario). You’ll hear everyone say, “Whatever you do, Nintendo. Don’t make Wii Sports. Don’t try to expand the market. Make games for the hardcore. Have your console focused on the hardcore.” Nintendo goes, “OK” and makes the Wii U. As it bombs, they predicatively blame the 2d Mario game. “That 2d Mario game shows it is not a hardware seller. Never make 2d Mario again, Nintendo!” even though about 70% of all Wii U systems are bought with NSMB U. If it wasn’t for the 2d Mario, Wii U sales would be beyond disastrous.
When was the last time you saw a game journalist rail about Nintendo of an account system or more Virtual Console releases? You never do because something like an account system would seriously help Nintendo. If you look back in the last ten years, you never see game journalists giving Nintendo the ‘correct’ advice. You always see them saying the ‘incorrect’ advice. You can’t be so inaccurate unless you are trying to be.
My question is why does Nintendo let themselves get duped all the time?