The answer to the question is NO. Nintendo does not need to be like Microsoft and Sony. You know why? Sony and Microsoft are what Nintendo USED TO BE. There is very little that they do that Nintendo didn't already do and their mind-set and agenda is no different than the one Nintendo had with the NES, SNES, N64, and to a lesser extent the GameCube. We want Nintendo to go back to being NINTENDO.
Two married costume designers share stories from a decade of traveling the globe with Nintendo.
In a YouTube video showing Nintendo Switch owners how to create a Nintendo Account, Nintendo of America revealed that Bowser is canonically 34 years old.
TG: “Most of us also grew up with Nintendo, likely forming a nostalgic connection with games that have long been crowned as our personal favourites. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker was an experience that shaped my view on open world fantasy, and Super Mario 64 changed my life like it did for millions of others. These titles have earned their place in history, and remain loved to this day for so many worthwhile reasons. We replay them and beg for remasters all while delving into their worlds time and time again because they mean that much to us. It’s a shame then that the company behind them often kicks its own sweet darlings to the curb.”
I never got the love for Nintendo games personally. The annoying vocalizations and ugly character designs do nothing for me.
Don't forget the constant hand holding with tutorials. Learn this new ability by pressing Y, now prove that you can press Y 8 times before you can move on....
Another very weird article.
Nintendo is a great company by almost all possible normal measures. The biggest one being: their own staff is happy, and they seem to be very happy, well compensated and retain rate is solid. They are also financially very stable, profitable, and cash rich, so shareholders love them.
Overall it is an extremely creative group of people, and their mission statement is fantastic as well "to put smiles on the faces of everyone we touch. We do so by creating new surprises for people across the world to enjoy together." The social impact is also massive, not to speak culturally. Additionally, they have a really strong core business, high customer retention rate and loyalty. Nintendo's reputation is extremely good, I think in the US alone they are 9th most reputable company, their customer service is better than the average company. Plus, the press gives them a pass, because they are Nintendo. But there's a reason why they do that, it's not "because they are Nintendo", there are more layers to the argument.
Then, then there's the random negative gamers online...and their "reputation" which is inside their heads. And their western ideas of how a Japanese company should behave or what they should do. But they have no right to ask a company to do anything for them, because they can vote with their wallets.
There's a small vocal community online who dislikes Nintendo for what they are, but then again, there's always a small vocal community that dislikes something.
Nintendo also disagrees with the Western world about IP, but most people call Westerners "hidoi!" when they emulate Tears of the Kingdom and do not experience it the way Nintendo wanted them (even if it is not the best visual way), because it is a matter of principle to them (Japanese are very much against anything close to plagiarism, and there are laws that are tight about creative works copying etc.)
The Western Braveheart "freedoom!" shouters need to understand that it is not an American company, nor they need to behave like one. They can have their own fights based on their principles (against emulation). And they very well may lose the battle with that and change, or find a new audience.
In the end, it is so very simple. Don't buy the products if you don't like a company, but there's no need to paint a picture that is unrealistic about Nintendo either.
I hate virtually everything about their business practices, actually. Suing everybody for virtually anything, shooting down fan projects, games they never let devalue, their online infrastructure and how they handle BC.
They're lucky they make great games, because that's the only thing I feel they do right.
my issue with them, is the complete refusal to have decent tech for us.
and their odd censorship and lawsuits for modders.
There are a lot of things Nintendo could benefit from, if they took a few notes from the competition and twisted them in Nintendo's own unique style.
Stamps, for instance, would be way cooler as collector's items than a trophy system, because not only could you put them in a publicly accessible album for display purposes, you could actually use them to leave messages and graffiti in certain games if you're playing online.
Imagine Mario Sunshine 2, where you could leave your own stamps on walls in the form of paint, along with messages, for other players to read then wash off for small rewards, and the rarer or higher-tier the stamp you use, the rarer the reward when it's washed away by a player.
But other than that, I agree with the article, in that Nintendo should not endeavor to ride on Sony and Micro's coattails.
We already have two traditionalist consoles battling it out over graphics and specs sheets.
Putting in a third that's really not very different than them at all, in form or function, would be a waste of potential for something different than the nearly identical offerings of the only other two consoles on the market.
Nintendo could be old Nintendo who doesn't do gimmicks and listen to their fan who want a sequel to Metroid Fusion.
What they need is to stop this bullshit and reveal the damn console already!
At this point tech needs to slow down, consoles and gaming be a more stable platform which allows for the creation of move creative titles than something using the the framework of a FPS, so I ask why MS and Sony aren't more like Nintendo.
Old, "we don't need to go left field/bat country of tech.
No they don't. We already have Sony and MS. What is the point of being the same as those 2. We saw how that worked with Gamecube. Wii U was dipping back into red ocean with touch screen when by that point had it on DS for a decade nearly. Just do what the Wii did and do something original that brings new people in. People didn't know they needed a smartphone before iphone and people who were not gamers didn't know they needed a DS and Wii. The benefit this round is Nintendo doesn't need Wii sports to bring them in on the console. They release Super Mario Run on Smartphones and lure them in to play a full Mario game on NX. Worked for Pokemon 3DS sales with Go.