Has Nintendo lost it's charm?

[ChiefReginod]

Iwata was committed to maintaining the core set of business philosophies set by Hiroshi Yamauchi. Once Iwata was gone, Nintendo's new leadership decided to go a different direction.

Currently, they still have the IPs that everyone knows and loves from previous eras, but the core philosophies that pushed the company to multiple creative and financial peaks is different now. I don't think it will happen overnight, but they're probably going to adopt a lot of modern conventions that the old guard never would have allowed. Mobile and PC gaming, for example. They'll have some flash in the pan success as people are excited by the novelty of Nintendo doing such things. Mario Kart on Steam? Big deal for a while, and then eventually they'll be just another publisher.

 

[Tsukiru]

It's a mix of nostalgia and wonder and the fact they have changed focus. That focus isn't "all money now," because it was always partially about money. They're a company after all. But they know what sticks and they hone in on that more. See Zelda, it's all on Breath of the Wild and its sequel now. We got Link's Awakening but that's not exactly new, now is it.

They're also in the middle of getting all of their older games, which makes the feeling of "this is just the same" hit harder.