Since the 1980’s, Nintendo has been one of the biggest, most widely known names in the video games industry, and a dominating force in sales, not only with home consoles but also with handhelds, as well as their various video game franchises: Mario, Pokemon, Metroid, Zelda...you name it. The company’s longest run of success was perhaps from the release of the original Nintendo Entertainment system in 1985, up until about the time the Nintendo Game Cube was released in 2001.
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."
its because most core gamers arent fools. core gamers know what they want hence the name and most are in the know about the console manufacturers and their recent history.
core gamers got red steel and other low quality offerings on the wii so theyll know that a few core games doesn't mean much. postering or posing like a core gamers machine of choice wont fool many.
when it comes to a company like sony with the playstation brand, the core who are in the know knows that sony has been catering to them from the beginning of playstation and the renaissance of gaming. people often thinks ps move is a failure without realising that playstation focusses on core gamers first and others after. sony would love if ps move was doing better but i have no doubt that no matter the success of ps move that sony would never abandon the core or betray them like nintendo
I love my Wii U so far. The graphics are great, they have some kinks to iron out which we all can expect from a new system. I want to play Pikimin 3 right now tho... Lots of great Nintendo franchises about to drop in the next year or 2.. too many to count. CODBO2 for wii U is amazing, you MFR's kill me so fast I'm embarrassed of myself.
A CORE GAMER WITH BRAND LOYALTY IS THE FOOL. I OWN MULTIPLE SYSTEMS SO I CAN PLAY ANYTHING I WANT AT ANYTIME. I AM A CORE GAMER. IF YOU FEEL BETRAYED BY A COMPANY BECAUSE OF THE HARDWARE THEY PRODUCE, YOU HAVE ISSUES AND REALLY SHOULD NOT CALL YOURSELF A CORE GAMER. I MEAN IF HARDWARE MAKES YOU A CORE GAMER, THEN YOU SHOULD ONLY PLAY PC GAMES AND STICK TO THEM.
Renaissance of gaming? Look even in the 1983 crash, people were still expanding their gaming experience, there were just a glut of crap.
Gaming never had a renaissance, because it never took a dive. People refused to buy crap, thus the COMPANIES took a hit and folded. That's a big difference.
Recent history or any history doesn't equate the future, also you might want to realize all of gaming history and even then, it doesn't portend the future. But instead people have this mindset of the future of Nintendo that it's always going to be a 'Wii' system. That's incredibly asinine. It's like saying the X team will always be good. X carmaker will always put out a good car. X this or that is always one way or another. It's just plain false and retarded really.
The fact remains that unlike the Wii, the Wii U can run the same engines the 360/PS3 and most if not all the PS4/720 will run...because hint, the 360/PS3 are already using them.
Therefore there is no reason to think 3rd parties won't put out games on systems capable because they want lower sales of their IP's because they don't want to tap into a big market like Nintendo's consoles are.
Being a core gamer has nothing to do with one's perception of Nintendo. Nor is linking Nintendo's perception across generations, especially when thinking of recent generations and forgetting the earlier ones.
The Wii U is capable of core games, it will receive core games. People think Nintendo is going to go to devs and say....we are not going to let you put a 'core game' on our system.
Do people REALLY THINK that idiotic? Do they really think that Nintendo is run BY an 8 year old? Because for all the 'mature' games many people like to play, me included, a certain subset come up with ideas LIKE an 8 year old.
Wii U has core games, more core games are coming out, and more will continue to come out. People that think otherwise don't know a wheel is round.