During Nintendo’s recent investor’s Q&A, an investor wanted to know “the current issues on creating new IP for the expansion of the gaming population.” Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima responded.
If you were a 90s kid excited about Nintendo’s upcoming N64 console, you likely read something somewhere about the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive, also known as the 64DD or DD64.
Other nominees include games like SimCity & Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
There are some good nominees in this list that are deserving to be inducted also, but I feel Metroid has had the most impact on the industry out of all of these. Look how Metroid influenced the evolution of the Castlevania games, and the "Metroidvania" subgenre of games have become a prevailing force in gaming today. Especially now, Metroidvanias are bigger than ever.
I can very much see Resident Evil being added later too, bc it really did popularize and define the survival horror genre. I would say that one is next in line.
If any Metroid game should get the honor it should be Super Metroid , it's perfection in my eyes . 30 years later and I still feel it's the most epic shit ever .
The GBA remake deserves it or Super Metroid, the original was a very sloppy and rushed game programmed in 3 months and it shows.
If you've never played the remake, it's absolutely a must play, fixes basically every flaw in the game. Check out ExoParadigmGamer's comparison video.
“Before even Kirby was born, HAL Laboratory released the super-cute puzzler Adventures of Lolo in 1989 and it has held up beautifully.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
Nintendo knows better than anyone what it takes to make a series
No wonder Nintendo only does one new IP a decade.
sounds like creating new experiences with existing ip's will continue to be the main focus at nintendo in favor of creating all new ip's.
bottom line, nothing has changed
nintendo is mostly the kiddies platform
Here's what I love about Nintendo as a company is that the profits they make even at their absolute worse is comparable to Sony as a whole when they're doing their best (PS4). The PS4 is selling like crazy I will give them that, but they will never muster the kind of profits that Nintendo did at their best when selling the Wii/DS!
Just think that Nintendo believes with their new business plan in place, they can in 3yrs have the potential to surpass the Wii/DS era of profits. Even if Nintendo sees half of the Wii/DS profits, that's way out of Sony's league of what they're on track to make this generation. (Keep in mind everything is going well for Sony at the moment and that's very telling!) Just had to vent this out ;)