GamesIndustry International recently got on the phone with Nintendo of America's Scott Moffitt, executive vice president of sales and marketing, to talk about how Nintendo aims to capitalize on the holiday shopping season with Wii U and 3DS and whether Wii U will be able to generate the same buzz that the original Wii did.
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."
Not really...were pretty fine with our standard controls. Don't fix what isn't broken...right.
I think you'll find most of us core gamers will be playing our Wii U games with the Gamepad Pro.
Gamers will game with whatever they like more. It's easy to see people who are used to pro controllers using them (or thinking this way at least) early on.
But I have a feeling a lot of core gamers like myself will enjoy the gamepad and use it quite a bit over the pro controller. I pre-ordered a pro controller too, but I'm going to give the gamepad a good deal of time to sink into.
I definitely like how it's being used, and it does look pretty comfortable. Though even pro controllers could be designed better, they are very adequate in comfort. I also think it might depend on how your playing. Sitting in a recliner like I will be, the gamepad will be on my lap the whole time, so it should be plenty comfortable. I could see if someone was sitting on a chair as opposed to a couch or a recliner that it might be a little less comfortable.
Either way it's good to have the gamepad, and dropping zombies in on a friend will be a blast, as well as using it for the Aliens motion tracker.
Also can't wait to try the various demos that will utilize it, like the Rayman demo. Probably won't buy the game as I'm not a big platform fan and will have my fill with Mario, but will give the Rayman demo a shot. Hopefully they'll have a scribblenauts one too, as I just can't buy that without trying it first.