Nintendo "Troubled" by Gamers' Demand For Content

[Jabberwock King]

Even so, his comments might be taken out of context. It seems as if core fans are demanding too much from old, tired franchises such as Mario and Sonic. It could hamper the creative freedom of Nintendo.

Wait... Nintendo has creative freedom? Ha ha ha, but joking aside, people are demanding new entries in the old franchises because Nintendo has made an (apparent) effort to make their fans act this way. Their flagship titles have rarely dipped below high quality, and by relying on them they have conditioned people to hold them as nearly sacred.

I hate Nintendo, but I'll admit, they developed a good strategy. But if they're "tired" of playing that strategy then I can't see them as going anywhere but downhill. In cultivating their best products, they let the creativity in developing new IP's sleep away. Pikmin is the newest successful Nintendo franchise I can recall right now, but it seems like they have been mostly uninterested in making our acquiring new IP's.

 

[Brendan Stepladder]

You know wha would solve this problem? More first-party brands or third party support. But it isn't Nintendo without refusing either of those, isn't it?