Lo Flying Frying Pan said:
BNguyen said:
Lo Flying Frying Pan said:
That was a bang-up way to comment on the company relation to online-petitions. Maybe if the company involved itself in those petitions, with "considerate" disregard, they could salvage the generation. Nintendo, listen to the gamers and give into their calls. Their wallets are ripe and tender, just look out the window. Shhhh, shhhh, shhhh just let it happen.
so basically they need to kiss the asses of the entitled gamers just to make a handful of sales rather than develop something that a larger portion of the gaming population would want, and in the end, go into the black in developing costs and employee paychecks making something that probably wouldn't sell that good anyways. The thing about these entitled gamers is that they can't agree on what they want from a game. There is no middle ground with them - basically the same as political parties, make one group happy, and another throws a hissy fit.
Maybe you're right, but I wish that Nintendo would consider the market desire of the niche. Smaller development projects could be launched to satisfy those pools. I'm definitely not saying roll-out the "grand bloated-budget cyclo-tron 9000", but there has to be a way for a company like this to cash in on smaller groups of voracious consumers. Also, starting petitions to plead for sequels isn't really all that as it is a tad goofy. Sometimes the petitions come off a wee bit zealous, but not entitled. I can personally think of a million things I'd petition for long before videogames. But I suppose that asking for something is not the same as demanding it.
really, I think it'd be good for Nintendo to expand - maybe develop smaller versions of their games to be played on tablets or iphones or whatever, but for Nintendo to see adequate turnaround from developing something like that, they'd need to be in control of their own tablet device and not be at the mercy of another company - exactly the entire reason I'm against Nintendo becoming a slave to other developer companies like Sony or Microsoft. Sony and Microsoft don't seem very interested these days in developing colorful, all-encompassing titles, sure there may be a few here and there, but most always seem to be from EA, Ubisoft and etc. which seem only intent on making sequels that really just feel like DLC in terms of difference from one game to the next. Each company seems to follow their own trends - Sony with shooters (for the most part), Microsoft with multimedia and sports games, and Nintendo with pretty much everything else (seeing as how you don't see too many platformers, puzzles, or party games on PSwhatever or Xbox), and these people that say Nintendo should just switch to being a third party developer I don't think see that if they won't buy the games on one console then what makes them think they'll buy it on one they don't even play similar games on. Like, why buy Mario on PSwhatever if you don't play platformers? Why buy Fire Emblem for Xbox if you don't play strategy games? and so on and so forth.