I'd argue it started back in XY. That's the first gen I had serious problems with in terms of it being far too easy. There's no other Pokemon game that I've played through to date that I had a nearly full party that was double the level of wild Pokemon by the 5th gym. The plot received a lot of criticism too.Pokémon has gone on a downward spiral that started with Sun and Moon. The games have been dumbed down and now have gimmicks that belong in spin off titles.
The consoles may be ground-breaking but launch is going to be a shit show with everything going on. I definitely think this will be a repeat of the 7th gen though and MS will reduce Sony to blast glass for at least the first couple of years. MS's plan to make all the money they'll be losing with everything they are practically giving away back with storage upgrades and in all probability expensive games has a chance of backfiring though. They are definitely taking a big risk this gen to recover from the absolute beating Sony gave to them in the 8th gen, and ironically Sony are doing the opposite and giving the competition away. Right now there's basically no reason to buy a PS5 over one of the next gen Xboxes and that's coming from someone who traditionally liked Sony more as a company. I personally don't really follow anything that's on either console though so unless I suddenly get a craze for a franchise on one console I probably won't be buying one for the foreseeable future. I'm just gonna watch the fuckshow unfold from the distance.The next Gen of consoles are going to be phenomenal. However, I don't believe the hype that MS and Sony are pushing with their drives. Real world usage won't be what the benchmarks show. Never has been. Never will be.
With Nintendo planning to use the Switch brand for the next few millennia, and as you say, not really bring out new games for it, it seems like they haven't really learned from the Wii U... At this rate Nintendo is going to completely mishandle the 9th and 10th gens and it'll be all over for them. If they make the same mistake twice, they will lose what little reputation they have left and I only see the line on the graph going down for them. At this point I'm pretty confident that they are the next SEGA. Every generation has less consoles and over time more and more companies are squeezed out of the race. It seems like Nintendo will be the next to drop out unless the PS5 ends up being an absolute disaster or MS losing tons of money through all the freebies they are offering and the extra storage not working out for them. The 9th gen seems like it's especially intense and I think this gen will be the one where one of the Big Three drop out of the console market.Nintendo is failing with the Switch. It's too underpowered and is practically a port machine. If they don't release a proper upgrade soon, they'll be left behind.
this is an unpopular opinions thread, not a post the truth threadFemboys & tomboy are the best
1.- The Nintendo Switch is just another kind of Wii U.
Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 are far superior than Super Mario Sunshine in terms of level design, controls and music
Are there even people to contest this ?
Well, not Sunshine per se - never played it, but from what I've seen from chugga's old LP, some Shrine Sprites look utterly hellish to get, meaning I'm not all that interested in buying it - but contesting Galaxy's supposed "greatness"?Are there even people to contest this ?
Femboys & tomboy are the best
I much prefer traditional women, myself. I'm attracted to women; I'm not attracted to other guys.this is an unpopular opinions thread, not a post the truth thread
I feel like Nintendo is just drying up with everything after the 7th gen. Since the Wii, Nintendo has just become complacent and lost all sense of innovation. They found a formula that worked for the Wii and DS but now don't want to shift away and innovate again because as you say, they are afraid of failing and falling into obscurity (even though that's basically what happened with the Wii U), which is something they are doing now. It feels like Nintendo are getting less and less relevant with every new console because they have increasingly less to offer with every generation. I think the Switch Pro/Switch 2/Switch: The Sequel won't even have new games come out for years and instead will keep re-releasing Switch and originally Wii U games remastered. I think it's just embarrassing that 3 years after launch, we still don't have Mario Kart Switch or NSMBS and just remasters of the Wii U versions. In all honesty I think that reflects a bigger problem with Super Mario becoming stale and reaching it's creative limit: Even if we get NSMBS, it's just going to be the same game again on another map with slightly better graphics. If Nintendo keep selling rebranded beefy Switches and Wii U games, they will just fall into obscurity and become the next SEGA (which I think they already are) and Mario will become the next Sonic, except he will live for not even half as long as Sonic has post-console.To extand the opinion of @JuanMena
The Switch is a Wii U with less functions, creativity / gameplay usage (touch screen, joycons, "HD rumble", infrared camera are simply under / not used).
The fail of Miiverse made Nintendo doing even less effort in the social expansion of their consoles and getting them even more deeper in their closed environement, leaving in the same time their community with even less (if not "none") options to communicate and play with each others.
Overall, I see the Wii U as a failed effort made by Nintendo that disappointed them so much that they doesn't engage any new effort for the future, neither in the evolution of the Switch, the online, the games and listening to their community.
Nintendo is becoming an Apple² only because of the past failure of the Wii U and the fear of the next one.
What we usually think of 1950s culture is largely a myth. Despite what many think, the 1950s didn't see a return to the conservative, traditional family unit, in fact the post-war culture moved away from it and was the start of the liberalisation movements that occurred throughout the late 20th century. We didn't decide to return to conservatism, and then as soon as 1960 popped up u-turned; the sociopolitical scene of the 60s and 70s started in the 50s.1950s culture
Multiple versions exist to artificially boost sales with minimal effort. If the games actually included multiple saves, there would be absolutely no reason to ever get both versions. That's basically the only reason I ever got both versions of a gen (Gen 5 and 6 I believe I got both). When it comes down to it, Pokemon is one of the laziest franchises out there that is somehow still successful. GAME FREAK is a parasite of nostalgia and the sooner Pokemon dies, the better. And that's coming from a long-time fan.ever since the 4th gen when wifi trading was introduced, there's been no point in having multiple pokemon versions, hell, even since the 1st gen, if the point of multiple versions was trying to get kids to socialize by trading with whomever had the other version, why not have it be semirandom? that way every game, even if the same verision, is more unique, and there would have been way more of an incentive to socialize