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@KSP: I get what you are saying and you are not wrong there, but Nintendo isn't like Sony or Microsoft at all. People nowadays think that Nintendo has only been "Gimicky" in the recent past, but that is not the case. Nintendo has always been doing things that were strange and completely off-course when compared to other manufacturers, but these things haven't SEEMED Gimicky because they were instantly successfull and became the industry-norm. Savegames, Shoulder buttons, the Dpad, the use of ergonomic controller designs, 3D glasses (pre-3DS), 2+ player multiplayer, 4+ player multiplayer... and so forth.
The NES was an EXTREMELY gimicky console. It HAD to be. Before the NES was released no one cared about video games anymore (Video-Game Crash) and so they didn't actually sell the NES as a videogame-console, but as a toy that came with a robot and a console that didn't look like a console at all, but much more like a VCR.
Anyway... Nintendo seems Gimicky nowadays, not because thats a recent change, but because the gimicks they are trying to sell aren't as successful as the ones that earlier on became industry-standard.
@The Real Jdbye: Thats because you look at the consoles the way they are NOW. Of course nowadays the portfolio of the 3DS is far more enticing than the one you find on the Vita, because it has already won and the third-party developers went to the 3DS, but at launch the situation was completely reversed. Please remember how it USED to be. People were constantly talking about how their 3DS was just a paperweight and had absolutely no good games, because neither Nintendo nor third-party developers were coming out with games. Back then people had already declared the 3DS dead and the Vita the unchallenged Victor. But those were the words of Enthusiasts and the Gaming Press and just one year later they would all eat those words, because Nintendo lowered the price and suddenly people started buying the 3DS like crazy. Those weren't the enthusiasts, they already owned one. Those were the casuals and they made the 3DS the Juggernaut it is today.
We might call ourselves the "Core"-demographic, but we aren't actually at the core of the video-gaming industry. Casuals are. WE are the niche-consumers.
How else do you explain that EA-titles are constantly among the best-selling titles when we all know that EA is horrible and that the games are overpriced garbage?
The NES was an EXTREMELY gimicky console. It HAD to be. Before the NES was released no one cared about video games anymore (Video-Game Crash) and so they didn't actually sell the NES as a videogame-console, but as a toy that came with a robot and a console that didn't look like a console at all, but much more like a VCR.
Anyway... Nintendo seems Gimicky nowadays, not because thats a recent change, but because the gimicks they are trying to sell aren't as successful as the ones that earlier on became industry-standard.
@The Real Jdbye: Thats because you look at the consoles the way they are NOW. Of course nowadays the portfolio of the 3DS is far more enticing than the one you find on the Vita, because it has already won and the third-party developers went to the 3DS, but at launch the situation was completely reversed. Please remember how it USED to be. People were constantly talking about how their 3DS was just a paperweight and had absolutely no good games, because neither Nintendo nor third-party developers were coming out with games. Back then people had already declared the 3DS dead and the Vita the unchallenged Victor. But those were the words of Enthusiasts and the Gaming Press and just one year later they would all eat those words, because Nintendo lowered the price and suddenly people started buying the 3DS like crazy. Those weren't the enthusiasts, they already owned one. Those were the casuals and they made the 3DS the Juggernaut it is today.
We might call ourselves the "Core"-demographic, but we aren't actually at the core of the video-gaming industry. Casuals are. WE are the niche-consumers.
How else do you explain that EA-titles are constantly among the best-selling titles when we all know that EA is horrible and that the games are overpriced garbage?
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