Everyone today has an opinion about what Nintendo should do. A hedge fund is pushing the company to develop mobile games and add more in-game microtransactions. Some analysts believe that Nintendo should acquire former rival Sega, or develop software on rival hardware platforms. These ideas, presumably, could reverse the company's 70% and 25% respective reductions of its Wii U and 3DS sales forecasts for fiscal 2014.
All of those ideas, however, overlook the biggest problem of all -- that Nintendo isn't properly growing its brands or evolving as a company. So let's examine how Nintendo can evolve its business by taking cues from a similarly iconic company that grew into a media conglomerate -- The Walt Disney Company.
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I think it's better to leave games like AC: Amiibo Festival and Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash forgotten on the Wii U. Best case, they are mediocre games; worse case, they are very bad. It was a dark time for the Wii U, and the first only exists to sell Amiibo cards, whereas the second was put together in a couple of months with a shoestring budget, and it shows.
The rest of the list does have some really cool games, though. I would love to see a remake of Star Fox Zero with decent controls, and Xenoblade X doesn't require that much modification to work.
Same as Paper Mario color splash. One of the best wiiu games and getting even better with dual screen. Same reason why i prefer Splatoon 1
This article leaves out Nintendo's most controversial game to date devils Third.
I personally found the cover system really fun in that one compared to at the time most fps games completely lacking one.
Kirby is always ignored or forgotten by people, so good to see it mentioned here.
Play Kirby Canvas Curse on DS, and then play Rainbow Curse on Wii U, they're really fun and unique 'platformers' without any actual jumping.
Mario's already more popular than Mickey Mouse, so I can't see why not.
Also, Disney has acquired a bunch of more mature titles and studios, I wouldn't mind Nintendo doing that.
In fact, I agree with the article completely. Nintendo needs to evolve, they need to make more mature titles, but they should definitely keep their family oriented games as well.
Nintendo would make more Star Wars games if they acquired Lucas Films like Disney did.
Nintendo should have just made a console in the same league as PS4/xone and finally warmed up to 3rd party publishers by making it have easy to develop for hardware and a strong online infrastructure.
If Nintendo's console had the power of xone/ps4, all the third party titles, proper online and controller, it would have been unstoppable.
I don't know why Nintendo never tries to appeal to 3rd parties, there's so much money to be made from licensing fees - and honestly, they couldn't have done any worse. They failed since N64 and got lucky ONCE with Wii. Doing the same thing each gen and avoiding the typical core gamer is not working for them at all. N64 (demolished), GC (demolished), Wii (woohoo short term success then lost all new casual gamers to phones/ipad), Wii U (people are questioning whether they can survive making consoles).
I for one would been happy to have the console that plays BF4, Destiny, Division, etc. at the same level of PS4/xone AND Metroid, Mario Kart and Zelda.
Nintendo is fine doing what it is doing.
Wonderful article but....Nintendo is Nintendo and disney is disney. Mario is already more popular than Mickey.