Will The Strength Of Its Games Always Be Enough For Nintendo To Ignore Power?

‘Now Your Playing With Power’ proclaimed the 1986 NES marketing campaign that is just so wonderfully a product of those 80’s days. Fast forward 30 years and there’s a different cry that seems to resonate from Nintendo’s camp. It’s all about the games now, and that previously lauded power is secondary…

[KevWriter]

I don't think they misspelled "you're" in the original slogan.

[Blu3_Berry]

Well considering that they survived this long, I don't think Nintendo is going anywhere anytime soon especially with the theme parks opening in the future. That is sure to rake in alot of money. As far as the games though, they may have survived but I suspect their audience is slowly getting smaller.

[Tankbusta40]

Nintendo lost me after n64, while their core franchises are no doubt good games and well created. Their archaic "we do whatever we want cuz were Nintendo" mindset just doesn't flow in today's market. Plus I think Reggie Fils-amie isnt a very good exec and feel they need someone more in touch with modern gaming

[sk8ofmnd]

Agreed dude! Theres more people that agree with that statement than all the fanboys of all consoles combined! Esp us diehard reformed nintendo fanboys...

[Tankbusta40]

Yup, Nintendo, snes and n64 here. Haven't touched Nintendo since. It's too bad because I want a reason to go back but they never give me one

[NukaCola]

GameCube was great, but the 3rd party stared to slip and since then, Nintendo has gone down hard.

We truly don't need underpowered creativity. We need a system that can handle third party games at competitive equivalency and 1st party will naturally become better. Zelda needs a Witcher-like rich world, not a barren cartoon. Metroid deserves 60 frames and 4K resolution. Mario should have awesome particles effects and physics. Nintendo games are being held back just as much as everything else.

[BlackIceJoe]

Very well said and I couldn't agree more with Reggie needs to go.

I honestly am surprised Phil Harrison never joined Nintendo, because he helped make Media Molecule a big league player with Little Big Planet and Naughty Dog with Uncharted.

So l personally believe he could bring in new ideas to Nintendo, but l could be the only one that thinks that way.

[sk8ofmnd]

What people fail to realize is that i used to be a nintendo fanboy... Since the nes... I remember arguing with all my sega fanboy friends and all this sega does what nintendont bullshit. It was up until shortly after the gamecube i had to realize my fav gaming platform was no longer nintendo but playstation. The wii was the beg of the end for myself and many others and thats very evident with the launch of the wiiu and how crappy it did. I bought one for my sister 2 xmas's ago and shortly there after it collected dust. The switch seems to be making the same damn mistakes they made with the wiiu. Theres 3 major hurdles the switch must make to be more successful than the wiiu... And they are no small feats. 1. Be powerful enough as other 8th gen consoles, 2. Get third partys to make games for the switch, and 3. Which might be the hardest hurdle... GET NINTENDO FANS TO INVEST IN 3RD PARTYS. If the returns arent there for third partys, step one and two are pointless!

So the biggest problem in my opinion is getting sales on third partys to show decent returns when if you look to the past (like most logical thinking people do) the platform has done pretty poorly on 3rd party sales since the 64... Another of my fav consoles from ninty.

[Perjoss]

"The Strength Of Its Games"

Tell that to Starfox, F-Zero and Metroid fans. Nintendo consoles are just becoming machines with Mario games on with the occasional Zelda game thrown in.

[MilkMan]

pains me to agree with this.
Even Zelda got bitten by the open world-Minecraft bug.

[Perjoss]

As it pains me to write it. I fell in love with quite a lot of Nintendo franchises only to see them abandoned in favour of an endless supply of Mario games. I may have been a bit harsh as we did get a great Pikmin game on the Wiiu and the Animal Crossing on 3DS was also good. I just wish they would focus a little less on Mario and a bit more on other classic franchises.

[remixx116]

This^ my guy, Kirby, metroid, f zero and many others get no "console" love.

Not to mention every since the wii nintendo has been obsessed with a core drawn in feature to its consoles.....gimmicks.

[Ristul]

Diminishing returns will make it less important at some point, I think that is what Nintendo knows and in the meantime they will settle with the budget hardware.

[PolishWingedHussar]

Bad editing, bad editing everywhere.

[Miss_Weeboo]

Yes! if you have a lot of good games... That wasn't the case with the Wii U at launch, and even now... I mean it's good enough now but it definitely pales next to the Wii (2 Zelda original games, 2 Galaxy games, Kart/Paper/Smash/Wario, Metroid original game and collection, Puzzle games, a lot of RPG's, DKC... and I can keep going and going and going and never ending this list)
Let's not even talk about the 80's or 90's.

And what if you want to play 3rd parties? Well I can't understand that because I don't give a damn about playing COD or "Soccer Insipid Game of the year" but that's probably just me, right? Cuz I love the Wii.
I can tell you this much based on the Wii: it was a console with a lot of support from 3rd parts... shtty games? Sure! But they have to make it exclusively for the console, and occasionally you got a gem, like Mad World or Excitebots. Companies care about making money,

The Wii, the DS and the 3DS (the Vita is way stronger) shows you that the market for people that don't care about power, just about games is right there for the taking... I don't care about 4K gaming, I know most of you do... But I don't want that, like, I don't even have a 4K TV I don't want one. Full HD is more than enough
But hey, is just my opinion, doc...