Today's Big Story across the internet has been that after years of demand, Facebook have buckled and finally created a 'Dislike' button for posts on the service.
But this seems all a bit familiar.
'We believe that it is important to nurture developers who take this unique concept to heart.' -Miyamoto
By making pretty much only AA games so they can sell them for the same price as AAA games.
By being threatened by dev teams innovating on formulas found in your cash cow, but are either afraid or lack the talent to implement themselves
Well with the exception of Zelda and Xenoblade Chronicles series, Nintendo first party games are usually less demanding (see Arms, Nintendo sports series 2d kirby + mario games, Mario sports series, Warioware, Mario Party etc).
Zelda doesnt even have voice acting for its characters most of the time and its games use simpler textures than lets say Horizon Zero Dawn, Last of Us, Gears of War 5 etc which means that the development costs are lower.
Even so, their games are generally polished and well thought of and as the Switch generation showed, many of their franchises actually grew considerably in sales (Kirby , Xenoblades, Metroid etc).
I still love Zelda, and Mario Kart/Party is always a good time as well, although Nintendo isn't chasing hyper realistic graphics like a lot of the other studios are.
Japan CEOs take pay cut to keep talent, USA CEO take 20 million bonuses and fire talent
Nintendo’s iconic developer Shigeru Miyamoto gives a talk to new employees each year to appraise them of the company’s values and what it takes to create excellent video games.
A series first.
Aonuma is the main zelda guy currently after all. I'm sure Miyamatos been too busy with many other things and especially the next big zelda.
You know, I think I would be okay with Facebook copying off of Miiverse for that one.
Having a range of emotional responses, rather than just a like or dislike button, would be a good step forward from the what we have now on so many social sites, where dislikes are used as a one-button mass trolling session.
Like this site, for example.XD
But I digress; it'll be interesting to see what they do.
Like the article said, people have been requesting a dislike function for ages.
While I'd personally rather see it stay gone, because the silence of no likes, or an actual comment, will speak just as loudly as a dislike button, if they put an emotional face function into the site instead, it could turn out to be much better than the current standard.
Apples stealing Wiimotes, Facebook stealing tumblr emoticons, Nintendos creatively & financially bankrupt, Sony and Microsoft win and Mario becomes their bitch for eternity??
That about covers it then.
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