From Toasty Controller...
"Three men have practically created work for Nintendo for years to come. Some of these geniuses have passed down the title of designer for most of these franchises, but still work very closes with the programmers who work on the new games. This leaves us with one question: Do we have to wait for a new character until one of these three masterminds creates another one? Is there literally no one else in this company that can step up and say, 'I've been working on the design and concept of a new character' and simply pitch it to someone within the company?"
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."
The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.
i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.
nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.
people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly
mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.
zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.
nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.
its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.
but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.
Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Because Xenoblade, The last story and Pandoras tower were not good enough? -_-
Metroid-Kart, that one is on the house...
I wish ninbtendo would lay off the gimices and focuse on what made them the company players grew to love. Their characters are all they got and a new one that has the ability to catch on sure would do them a lot of good.just as long as i dont have to swing my arm around the room to controll them...
Xenoblade, Last Story, and Pandora's Tower are all pretty much new IPs, including smaller games like Pushmo.
Nintendo makes new IPs, it's just that for the most part they go unnoticed because Mario and Zelda games eclipse them or people don't recognize that a game is actually a Nintendo game (like Xenoblade)
But Miyamoto said that he was going to start working on new Ips that'll only take 1-2 years to make, so more noticeable IPs are down the pipeline for Wii U.
Crystalis. Nintendo bought the rights, I don't see why they don't use them. (Except it being better than Zelda is they doit) It's perfect to extend on, one main game and that's it. It's crying for a sequel.