Nintendo Was Right
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2024
- If there's anything to learn from this console generation, it's that Nintendo was right not to pursue power in their game consoles.
0:00 What were they right about?
1:33 The Wii/DS Era
4:17 The Dysmal State of AAA Game Development
5:45 Nintendo Remains Unaffected (Mostly)
8:32 Nintendo is laughing all the way to the bank
9:15 What This Means for Switch 2
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Iwata cutting his salary in half was a crazy power move
he the type of guy to say that we are a family in this company and mean it
@@ricktheweeb5382 Probably also helps to have the loyalty of the people who make the products... Why would anyone put forth their best effort if they know it doesn't affect their job security in the slightest?
We need more CEO’s to be like him.
he was so genuine,so sad that he's gone 😞
He was the absolute best, that made me miss him a ton
The fact Nintendo is thriving on 7 year old hardware while Sony and Xbox are struggling on newer ones says a ton
Yes they have done a much better job of marketing. Ha. Well that’s partially true. They also make great games and did a near perfect job with all their franchises this gen. I would say both things are true.
Thriving on 7yo hardware that was already old when it first came out in 2017. Yeah, Nintendo does not need to keep up, they (Sony/XBOX) have to tone it down a bit.
Striving? You mean thriving?
@@ItApproaches your right thanks! 👍
@@ItApproaches Ingles es mi segunda lengua. Thank you very much for the correction.
We are really living in the wrong timeline with the death of President Iwata!
"On my business card, I am a corporate president, in my mind I am a game developer but in my heart I am a gamer" Iwata Satoru, 😢
As a mostly Nintendo fan, the PS Vita being the exception, I agree that Iwata was the greatest and is missed.
Iwata’s career started as a game developer, that’s why he had the perspective needed to support his development team. CEO’s tend to come from MBA programs and usually have little to know direct knowledge about how the product they oversee is produced. We need more leaders like Iwata in business.
They win by not competing.
Nintendo is just like Luigi, they win by doing absolutely nothing.
The only reason they have this luxury is because of brand power. If they weren’t as popular as they are today, they’d have to compete just like everyone else.
How are Nintendo not competing? From Playstation and Xbox perspective their opponent has over 141 million consumers engaged on their platform...
They aren’t competing in the sense that they aren’t trying to have the most powerful console. I’ve noticed that oftentimes when people talk about getting a console, they talk about getting a Switch, and then either an Xbox or a PlayStation. Many people seem to view Xbox and PlayStation as having the same role, so they pick one or the other, but they see the Switch as a separate thing, and thus buy one even if they already have one of the other two.
@@PolengueTRUE 🤣
My dad who grew up with arcades has been telling me this for years, that these big game companies focus too much on graphics and not enough on gameplay. I used to somewhat brush him off but now I realize he was so right
This is so true
Just look at Sonic, Cyberpunk 2077, and FNAF Security Breach
Starting from 1990, gamers cared way more about graphics and "edgy" games. That popularity started to drop at 2015 because everything feels the same or nothing wows them anymore.
Basically, high graphics and edgy games were a fad.
Yes he was. When your young and immature, you don't understand especially when somebody is stating facts. Then u get some sense later on, take a step back and you see like wow, now I understand.
Video games are suppose to fun, not a showcase. Sony games look great, but the fun factor and gameplay isn't there. I can turn my old 20 year old consoles without I turned, dlc, no loade times, and still have more fun than the current Gen consoles. Playstation and especially Xbox has been the same since 2013. Nintendo games and their consoles are more fun and I can play for years. Even my daughter enjoys Nintendo more tha ps5 and series x. She has all the systems and says nintensonis just more fun. Games like ring Fit is genius. I find that game more fun than Sony or Xbox game.
When Nintendo tried competing by giving us the powerful cube and n64, people didn't appreciate it. So they went another route, and even though they're winning, people still find something to complain about.
Nintendo will always be king.
@@texanman7191 High graphics, "edgy" games, controversy, this can all work together to make a game sell well short term, but in terms of staying power relying on these factors alone is detrimental.
A new game will come out that pushes hardware more effectively, edges eventually get dulled and need to be maintained, and controversy... people move on quickly.
Every time someone mentions Iwata-san warms my heart so much, he was truly a legend among developers/CEOs AND gamers in general
facts!!
That man was a giant of the industry. Probably could've done the same things with any business.
He saved EarthBound's production too.
Rest in peace to the KING!!! 🙏
Twilight Princess, Super Mario Galaxy, and Skyward Sword all won non-company-specific categories in the SpikeTV era of game awards.
Twilight Princess was robbed from the game of the year award. Aged far better than Oblivion (Bethesda doesn't mix with quality, never did)
It's amazing how Satoru Iwata's philosophy still rings true decades later.
Why would a philosophy that’s right die with the person?
Take the movie Robots for example. When the original CEO had been taken over, they outright changed the slogan from "you can shine no matter what you're made of" to "why be you when you can be new?"
Truly a legend he was.
I don't think you know how long a decade is
@@heyoyo10gaming4 He began his blue ocean concept as early as 2004, it is now 2024. That's twenty years.
Gamers: Nintendo is weak! They don't make powerhouse consoles!!
Realists: They did. It was called the Gamecube. You guys didn't buy it. So that's on you.
And that's the part that the "power/graphic" crowd don't get. The failure of the N64 and GC is the reason why Nintendo decide to move away from the graphic/power race and decide tot take the "third option" And it had been working out for them for the most part ever since.
That was a third party issue ..
@@Raspse7enwait the N64 was a failure?
@@Walnut64 compared to the PS1 it was. The N64 only sold relatively well in the US and Japan.
@@Raspse7en that crowd will never understand that power and graphics will never equate to success. If people want power they should build a PC. Nintendo made the right choice by just making fun games.
If switch 2 is backwards compatible, it seriously will be a fucking homerun
They would shoot themselves in the foot if they didn't as it would be a PS3 vs PS3-slim situation.
It will be a dream but consider how console with backward compatibility can be hacked.
@@zigaudreyDoesn’t matter, would be idiotic for them to avoid backwards for that reason
@@MaoRatto I would boycott everything Nintendo if Switch 2 isn't backward compatible, and if it is, it only has Sony and the PlayStation 6 to compete with. Xbox as a brand is dead as a doornail. Sony is a much tougher foe than Microsoft for Nintendo, who sees console gamers as numbers they themselves don't care for the products they sell on Xbox, because PC is where Microsoft has the best games and by FAR the largest userbase, not Xbox.
Playstation has a juggernaut of exclusives and is about to have Xbox games come to its platform (yes even Halo is now rumored for Playstation), making it a titan.
Imagine if they did that like the first DS. You can play Switch games with 3DS/DS carts like bruh I would fucking explode from happiness lol.
The only people who think Nintendo is wrong: is the so called "hardcore gamers" who often don't even buy Nintendo products (and mostly emulate). Yes, someone can come and point out "yeah yeah, I've been a Nintendo fan for years and own 20 Switches and they're still wrong" and they're still part of their so called problem, losing themselves in their own irony.
The fact that indie developers and games from 2-3 generations back are tanking most of real gaming on these later generations is just sad.
The only winning move... is not to play. Nintendo is watching their competitors burn, and just focuses on what they already do best
Nintendo definitely has other winning movies, but the fact that they're staying on top while doing absolutely nothing is still pretty funny lol
Honestly, I HATED everything about XBOX and Playstation. Only caring about how good a game looks but not how it plays or how good it performs.
@MichaelOKeefe2009 I'm a Sony gamer and I Nintendo gamer. I agree 👍🏻 with you 100%
Sometimes if you want to beat the game, you mustn't play the game at all.
“You should probably just fold, when the only winning move is not to play!”
"The Wii is a kiddy console with kiddy games."
The Wii gives us Xenoblade, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, and the best version of Resident Evil 4.
"Uhhhhh...."
Super Paper Mario
Both a kids game yet has things I feel are dark or definitely not what to expect like Prophecies, a girl that turns into a nightmarish spider, a world & it’s people literally dying by a Black hole & basically Hell itself.
@@mariocooper1996SPM mentioned!
GameCube have us Twilight Princess. TP was a GameCube game
And Madworld and No More Heroes 1 and 2.
@@paulaclark2101 It came to the Wii first. The GameCube version was roughly a month later.
i don't want gaming to get "more complex" . i just want quality games. yes new ideas are good and needed but longer dev time is not worth it. don't wanna get the next game in a franchise to happen once per console
Nintendo has a tradition of innovation. When Hanafuxa sales started to decline in Japan they started making toys for Hasbro, and later their own toy innovations, most notably the Ultra Hand and Duck Hunt. Then when Arcades came out, they held off for a bit before reinventing what it meant to be an arcade game with Donkey Kong being among the most complex from the time, and used that as a springboard to outcompete Atari into. The ground with their first gaming innovation: Quality Control.
Nintendo understands that gameplay, fun factor, and a sense of wonder will always win the day ahead of raw power.
now if they could atleast upgrade from windows 95; it'd be even more wonderful.
WiiU and Virtual Boy were a thing. It's not hardware being weak or strong that determines if a gen works for Nintendo.
The Switch gen is just one the peaks of their usual hero to zero cycle.
Nintendo is a company that is despised and respected and the same time.
@@CallofDutyBlackOps28 Spoken like someone who didn't watch the video.
sounds like someone doesn't know Japan isn't techniclogical advanced anymore then the 2000's@@Sir_Him
It’s funny because I hear so many people saying “switch is bad because games on it aren’t 4K60FPS.”
I’m sorry but if your SOLE purpose of gaming is wanting graphics real to life…you’re missing the point of what makes games incredible
Now I will not sit here and defend the games on switch that are just completely unoptimized (looking at you Pokemon), but from what they were able to do with TOTK being 3 layers
exactly
Right? Having games look super hyper-realistic is actually quite boring, what makes gaming is the magical stylization it is able to create.
I don't remember hearing PS5 or XBX getting 4K 60fps consistently, so i kind of laugh when I hear that. Plus if they want to go down that rabbit hole, PC blows both out of the water.
@@MrOuttheir Rizky Gumilar be like:
The chase for realism combined with building unnecessarily large open-worlds has been a cancer on the gaming industry for a while. Consumers are finally starting to wake up though. You can only remain in awe of hyper-realistic looking games with massive worlds so many times until the novelty gets old. Especially when all these overhyped AAA games end up releasing unfinished and filled with bugs after keeping players waiting fo 6+ years
Everyone talking about the N64 and Gamecube being powerhouses that didn't sell as well while forgetting that both of those were limited by smaller game sizes (cartridges and mini discs respectively) meanwhile when Nintendo did truly compete with hardware on the NES and SNES they wiped the floor with the competition. There's no reason to believe a next gen Switch 2 wouldn't be the same
But the NES and Snes were not the most powerful consoles of their generation.
@@kissadev.And they still were top consoles of the time.
SNES didn’t outsell Genesis until the Saturn was already on the market.
It did... *by a long shot* in most territories outside Europe, which is why many European computer games often were ported to the Mega Drive besides it sharing the same CPU@@Thor-Orion
I expect big things from the next console. I love Nintendo! They're a true blue business. Having gone with cartridge and then mini disc were terrible moves for the 64 and GC. Both could've been so much more.
I’ve said this for ages but no matter what you think about Nintendo, as far as their consoles go they’re the only company providing inherent value to their product. Xbox and PlayStation are just underpowered PCs, whereas with Nintendo you get something unique to the console that is either a gimmick or a massive industry-changing hit.
The Switch is a prime example, as soon as that console came out everyone and their grandmother were releasing hybrids. The Steam Deck would probably not even exist if the Switch hadn’t served as a trendsetter.
switch wouldn't be here without wiiu. The wiiu was great.
@@tobylopez4514nope Nintendo had since the gameboy
@@tobylopez4514 the Wii U kind of proves my point though, despite the console being decent it failed comparatively because of two things - lack of games and lack of innovation.
Poor choice of name aside, it’s “Nintendo-flair” turned out to be a gimmick and not a trend-setting design. And since it was a little weak on games too, aside from first-party titles and especially before virtual console, it failed.
And they're the only company pumping out games that primarily serve the purpose of games. To be FUN. also not broken beyond belief on launch.
@@tobylopez4514It's the reason why a PC and a Switch do me just fine now. I am able to play some games like Spider Man and FFVII remake on PC anyway, so the rest are sometimes more convenient on a portable, and I like Nintendo exclusives.
I'd say Nintendo intentionally making underpowered consoles actually helps them by forcing developers to think outside of the box, like the old days of older consoles. Because of that, Nintendo ends up coming up with really cool ideas.
The Switch is powerful enough for Nintendo’s own vision and innovation people need to stop comparing the Switch to dedicated home consoles like Xbox and PS5.
@@Adamtendo_player_1 Its hard not to, when it performs the same role. it just has the benefit of being portable as well. Even so, Nintendo's consoles have almost always been behind the competition in specs. Personally I dont have a problem with that at all, its just that people like to compare everything, and there's really not anything we can do about it.
@@ThundagaT2 It helps Nintendo out in the long run as well- their console is underpowered compared to the competition but as a result, they can sell it for significantly cheaper- literally half the cost of the competition. And they make it just powerful enough to support the current gaming gen for a good four or five years at least. If the games can then support the console well enough, they easily lock in on sales.
@@ThundagaT2i think its gotten better this generation. Most people are starting to recognize the switch as it's own console as I've noticed a lot of people own either an Xbox or PS5 as their main console and a switch for Nintendo exclusives.
Never thought of it that way! Smart! 😊
To be fair, they've had this philosophy since the Game Boy. They deviated on the Gamecube but then doubled down.
Dude talks about a vast quantity of quality games and really proceeds to show Pokemon BDSP on screen 😭
Crazy right 🤦♂️
Damn, I suppose that game alone revoques the existance of all Zeldas, Marios, the Xenoblade trilogy, the FE's, Astral chain and the Bayonetta series, the two splatoon's, all the Kirby games.
I could go on
It's the games that make the system not the other way around.These triple-a games go nowhere because they don't stand the test of time. Like Classic Nintendo
To a certain extent. Games are always the most important part which is why companies like Sony can still exist, but the way in which you play is very important too. There’s a reason why consoles like the Wii and more importantly the Switch became such hits and industry changers.
Also there bearly new games that worth getting console you know when new console comes out with zero games come along with it
Saying the Switch isn't competing with the PlayStation and Xbox is such horrendous cope. They're all dedicated gaming consoles offering you a gaming experience. The only reason many AAA aren't on the Switch is because it's not powerful enough to run those game optimally. The Switch simply has a winning approach to gaming the Xbox and PS5 don't have.
Don't forget the tendency of playing short rewarding games.
Even most of new generation prefer to play short games (and most of them are cellphone games)
It's funny how you can basically play almost any old Nintendo game and it will still hold up, you can't say that about many other companies.
Nintendo really did call out how the law of diminishing returns would kick in for Sony and Microsoft if they continued down their unending chase for new tech and, lo and behold, we've reached the point where those diminishing returns are biting those two in the rear
Constant growth economics make matters even worse: shareholders want their stock prices to go up every quarter, and get unhappy if they see a dip. That means companies have to earn more each quarter than the last, and eventually they hit a dilemma: market saturation. They can't find new people to sell to, so they either need to cut corners, or raise prices
Nintendo isn't _immune_ to this effect, but gambling on something unique like this means they run less risk of directly competing for market space, even competing with their own previous games and systems
@@spindash64
It also helps knowing Nintendo's relationship with its investors is remarkably different compared to most companies. While they do expect growth, they're also painfully aware that Nintendo has only grown so much because they do their own thing. So in a way, Nintendo has a lot less pressure on them to appeal to the demands of investors because the investors understand what it means to invest into Nintendo even if they try having their way
@@spindash64Nintendo is partially immune to this, as the majority of their investors are more concerned with long term profits than the quarterly profits the West is obsessed with. This gives NCL a bit of wiggle room throughout each FY unlike Sony/MS.
Sony and Microsoft are not gaming companies.
Sony makes hardware and Microsoft makes business software.
Sony has never survived on 1st Party titles as a driver for console sales.
Microsoft had a couple titles that sold consoles but have either abandon the franchise or destroyed them like Halo.
Iwata is an example of a good ceo. Dude cared about his works. Rip to Nintendo's old chief he will never be forgotten.
The main thing we can all get from this and agree on is that Satoru Iwata was a true visionary and one of the GOATs in the gaming industry
I think it really says something that with each of their console "gimmicks" the competitors have tried to copy. We've seen it in the DS, the motion control craze, and even the steam deck has tried to compete with the switch. Nintendo has never tried to fight against the competitors, the competitors have always been trying to ride the nintendo wave.
Yeah even individual games, not just consoles! Like BotW getting copied left and right, one of the most immediately noticeable ones being Genshin. The endless Smash Bros. clones. The Mario clones, Zelda clones, and so on... It feels to me like everyone thought they could one up Nintendo's ideas.
Then there's inventions that just stuck for everyone across the board, like Z-Targetting.
Indeed, I remember when Sony copied their pressure sensitive analogue stick, rumble pack, and such.
Makes it ironic when Sony fanboys bash Nintendo, because everything they got from Sony they owe to Nintendo, especially because the PlayStation was almost going to be a Nintendo/Sony collaboration system.
N64 also helped popularize the FPS genre, so it's further ironic when they say "Nintendo only makes kid games."
I was gonna say “Xbox didn’t any motion control gimmick” completely forgetting about the Kinect lmao
The gamboy was also a gimmick and it did insanely well, and everyone tried copying it
This 🎯💯
Nintendo learned from the Gamecube vs PS2 era. Gamecube was more powerful, more difficult to program for, and more expensive to program for. Crappy, late ports of gamecube games sold better on PS2
It was a tough pill for Nintendo to swallow. They did later innovate with the Wii and realized they're better off with experiments rather than chase the power, it's better than fumbling in 4K.
@@raulguallpa8688 Being caught fumbling in 480p is better than being caught fumbling in 4K Full HD.
@@yuichikita6018 One is significantly cheaper.
The PS2 is an anomaly, it simply was the best DVD player you could buy at the time. It was launched at the perfect moment.
The XBOX had more features than both consoles, way easier to program than both the PS2 and Gamecube and still had similar sales to the Gamecube despite Halo changing online console gaming.
They may be extremely overprotective of their IPs, but you cannot deny that they know how to make games people WANT to play.
It's always been the software that makes or breaks a console, not its specs. The PS2 was the least powerful console of its generation, but the games for it definitely helped cement it as the "winner" of that generation, far and away.
They had third party support.
@@joecoolmccallSo did Nintendo and Xbox at the time. You are not making any point here.
By not obsessing over the console wars, Nintendo managed to win. If Switch 2 can replicate the Switch's success, it could be a deadly blow to Microsoft and Sony.
FINISHED ‘EM!!!! ☠️
It won't be Nintendo that kills Xbox and Playstation, they're not really in the same market anymore. It will be PC and indie devs who, like Nintendo, don't have the ludicrous development budgets of the AAA studios.
@@omegaalpha3594NINTENDO WINS!
FLAWLESS VICTORY
FATALITY
@@ressljs
Sorry bro
PC ain't winning nothing 😐
Two different markets bro. One is home console and the other is handheld. Nintendo is clearly producing handheld machines that allow you to play on TV if you wish.
Reggie and Mr. Iwata are National treasures.. very WISE PEOPLE. RIP MR IWATA.
National?
@@user-wr8ct9zq2w idk...they should be honored and respected by something like a statue or something on paper.. everyone should know these awesome people .
Reggie ain't that bright he went to gamestop lol wtf.
@@trappedintimesurroundedbye5477 He left GameStop within a year because he found their methods and strategies unacceptable.
Yes, They been surfing on the BlueWave till this day.
To be realistic, 66% of the US households main TV is 4K. The Switch successor needs to be able to upscale to 4k. Graphics aren't important but compatibility is.
i think the new paper mario game has code inside that implies that it has settings to output to 4k and the game internally is named in such a way to imply there is another version of the game for another hardware platform.
similar thing was found in totk i think as well
I was having this very discussion with friends the other day. I recently re-watched both of Iwata's GDC keynote addresses from 2005 and 2006, and what he said all those years ago is eerily more relevant today than it was back then.
"DS and Wii era 20 years ago"
Oooof it really was that long ago
With lots of fantastic games to come back to.
I feel old asf now 😭
Not really. Wii came out almost 18 years ago, and it was still the Wii era 12 years ago.
@@customsongmaker Oddly picky, bro.
Do you feel old?
Limitation breeds creativity. This idiotic pursuit of hyperrealism is going to create another video game market crash.
they trying to get that pc market now
Microsoft buying studios and closing them down is going to cause a game crash.
Combine that with the expensive development costs and corporate greed and the bubble is sure to burst any day. The closures at Xbox are definitely the first sign of this.
@@sixtocortescastaneda4169 If another crash happens, Microsoft will bow out, Nintendo will do just fine as they survived the last one. As for Sony...they will either have to adapt and learn from Nintendo, or they can struggle and fizzle out.
I might be in the minority, or just getting old, but I don't even WANT "hyper-realism." I like my video games to _look_ like video games, not a poor, uncanny valley attempt at replicating real life.
And the best part is, since their consoles AREN'T power houses, emulation can be done on even low even devices!
Its kinda funny that Nintendo said graphics dont matter during the one generation that graphics did matter during the wii, the only reason ps3 and 360 didnt do as well is because you needed an expensive TV to see that better graphics as it was intended. Ever since then though graphics havent mattered theres been very little progress with graphics since the 360 era
They sold better each year than the Wii did after 2010.
The ps3 did'nt do as well for honestly the almost exact same reasons the ps5 isn't doing as well, over priced, a lack of games at the start, and it was hard to work with which lead to exclusive titles going multiplatform. Now we don't know for sure if the ps5 itself is hard to work with but that seems like the only thing that's not a repeat. And then of course there was all of the infamous issues for the 360 at the start. Sony and Microsoft made it so easy for the Wii to come in and steal the spotlight. Much like the current situation where the Switch has utterly curbstomped both.
I don’t want to play a game that looks more and more realistic. Mario should never look realistic, and neither should Pokemon or Zelda. The gameplay and “fun” aspect of the games is what draws people in. They’ve known that since the beginning.
I don't want Pokémon realistic either, but Pokémon Scarlet & Violet are not the direction I want to see the franchise go. Some better visual quality and performance improvements are necessary
True. Hell and even with the Wii U, the games they released for it where not bad I don't think Nintendo would've re-release them for the Switch if they were. The Wii U just had a poor marketing campaign.
exactly! the point of games is that they’re entertainment, a novelty, to take you *away* from reality, not create an even more flawed version of it.
Rizky Gumilar: Actually, gamers want hyper-realistic graphics 🤓☝️
I would rather a cartoony (Yet not flashy) game that takes a short time to make yet still finished.
2000s Rockstar Games
DBZ PS2/PS3 games
2000s Nintendo games etc
That is one thing that I honestly still respect Nintendo for, they at least seem to focus more on fun gameplay whereas a lot of the other studios just want to make their games look great or have immersive stories, and that’s it the gameplay is secondary when it comes to a lot of like PlayStation exclusives. I have tried to get into them, but I usually just find myself getting bored of the gameplay, but with Nintendo that very rarely happens.
DEI consulters aren’t helping
Like the amount of Nintendo trailers that have only CGI and no gameplay are so few. Meanwhile Sony and Microsoft...
@@burra007 LOL Blame everything you don't like on DEI. Was DEI a thing more than a few months ago? It wasn't like xbone and ps5 was hits out of the gate.
This guy gets it. I agree.
I'm loyal to Nintendo as a video game developer. Not so much as a console provider.
Remember in DBZ when Goku was showing Gohan the Ultra Super Saiyan form but said it was useless in battle because fights were not won on who has the biggest muscles but rather on a superior balance of power, speed, and technique? Just was reminded of that scene for no reason in particular!!
Another reason why goku needs to be in smash
I'm joking you don't need to take seriously
Sticking to realism ends up aging badly over time, as more powerful hardware makes the old stuff just look weird. Games that rely on stylization age well when they're selling you a feeling and not how powerful their system is
Well said! The SNES and so many games still invoke strong memories, the time of year, exactly where I was. I'll appreciate those things until I shed this mortal coil.
Nintendo understands this industry better than anyone else, as it pertains to the highs and lows that come with the territory.
More importantly, they understand that long term success is ultimately guaranteed IF they stand on the basic principle of making games fun to play. That's what it really comes down to.
Their model for success is very simple, but powerful!
Good point about understanding the territory. They've been around nearly a century and a half. Long-term is their bread and butter.
Let’s just hope they don’t screw it up
Now if only Nintendo would stop being assholes about emulation.
@@SiphonRayzar They were relatively quiet until certain folks decided step way out of line... Kicked the beehive.
@@Oryon7ya from what ive read, they dont go after lower profile ones specifically, the one that got nuked did multiple extremely greedy and arrogant decisions that threw them in the spotlight
Roughly around the time the WiiU came out so many people were saying Nintendo should stop making consoles. Of course most of us Nintendo fans said they should keep making consoles. Now look at them.
wii u was very ambitious
The Wii U's problem was being badly marketed.
It makes me nervous as a Nintendo fan when I see videos like this: it's just asking to age poorly since we don't know much about this next system or how it will do.
The best and worst thing about Nintendo is they do their own thing. If this is really the Switch 2 then this is the first main-line console in a long time where Nintendo has not tried to shake things up. I do hope they keep this trend of only improving the hardware enough for the next generation. Looking at the last years games (Pokemon in particular) it was definitely time for an improvement but we don't need cutting-edge 8k. I don't play games for a visual spectacle.
Switch 2 BETTER have 4K support or at least 1440p, or its a dud.
I dislike Nintendo as a company as much as I do Sony and Microsoft. But when I get a Nintendo game, I'm not looking for graphics or fps to be top notch, I'm looking for how much fun I can have and how long it'll keeping me at it. They deliver in most cases. I see ppl playing botw and oddysey for years after they released because that fun still remained. I had a ps4 and it basically became just a streaming device for me. The games couldn't hold my interests. Probably my taste in games but there's plenty of others who have the same.
Sony fell for Microsoft's propaganda, Nintendo stayed the course and made good, profitable games. Shocking 😂
It's the other way around. XBOX is actually just following Sony's business model which they haven't changed since the PS2. Sony is the company that has been pushing the tech limits more, going as far as paying for their own proprietary Cell microprocessor in older PS and building up an entirely new way to utilize SSDs and GPU BAR in the PS5. They even championed new compression methods for their system.
Microsoft has been floundering precisely because they dropped themselves into this tech war while trying to avoid Sony's prior art, forcing them to try to develop ways to challenge what is perceived to be Sony's tech dominance with more powerful (and more expensive to produce) hardware that nobody actually needs or wants. It doesn't help that their corporate structure has very little of the resilience needed to sustain long-term business model changes. They went big on their supposed cloud strategy then abandoned it in two years because it wasn't making them the profits their dumb analysts believed it should.
Games move consoles. Period
I can't pretend that the Wii U never happened. Nintendo was simply lucky that they were in a financial situation to not have that poor decision destroy them. They made a console with weaker hardware than their 8 year old competition at the time with non of the portability or motion control that allowed the original Wii and the switch to pull that off. The majority of Wii U games were inferior ports of already existing games.
@@kuunami bud, imagine making decisions and organising your business in such a way so that you can afford to make a mistake... and while making that "mistake" still producing good games...I'm not sure it was as pure luck as you say
@@kuunamiIt's important to note that Nintendo barely took a monetary loss during the Wii U era despite how awful it did. The total loss from the Wii U era was less than 2% of last year's profit.
Nintendo is in a league of their own.
Definitely!
Always have been.
They would be better if they stopped shutting down fan projects
@@KesslerVTuber those are Nintendo's properties those fans have no right to use something that don't belong to them
@@donovanjr284 And just like that someone who hates fan projects appears. Bet you fume with anger whenever someone emulates and pirates Nintendo games
Japan has measures in place to avoid layoffs, one of which is cutting the salaries of upper management so it wasn’t altruism. The Switch was affordable and carried by first party and indie support, very few third party titles were released and most that were were from the 7th gen.
Satoru Iwata left our realm to early, he was the best CEO Nintendo ever had.
Perhaps back in 2004, Nintendo predicted the future of the games industry and saw less powerful hardware as the way out.
It works for Nintendo, that doesn't work for entire gaming industry.
More like 1980. The whole point of the Game&Watch was to release games using proven, cheap hardware. Nintendo's entire videogame empire has been built on the concept of "work smarter, not harder" in the hardware department.
Not just less powerful, unique as well.
@@hpickettz34Not necessarily. Outside of Japan, the Xbox 360 was more popular than the PS3, and that was in large part because it was easier to develop for since its architecture was more conventional, even though the PS3 was technically superior. The only reason their sales numbers were on par by the end of the generation was because the 360 didn’t really market itself towards the Japanese audience.
@@havenfractal The original Donkey Kong arcade cabinet (where Mario made his debut) was made out of repurposed parts from an earlier cabinet that didn't sell well.
I feel like another factor is Sony and Microsoft honestly struggle because they refuse to foster smaller games. Everything HAS to be a gigawhale budget of a game that takes a zillion years to come. They killed Tango and Japan Studio respectively, who blessed Sony and Microsoft with wonderful smaller games.
They have yet to shut down Polyphony Digital Inc. and Rare Ltd. respectively, and I hope they don't resort to that.
@@X2011racer I legit think Rare is in danger if Everwild doesn't really hit hard.
I know SoT is a big hit, but I can see MS still axing them. I, too hope Rare sticks around though.
@@X2011racerwhy would they ever shut down Polyphony? Gran turismo is a seller
@64bitmodels66 They don't follow Sony's game development philosophy: Deep Storytelling, Focus on Diversity, Avoid Stereotypical and Ignorant Tropes, and Gameplay is a secondary focus.
Polyphony does follow Sony's censorship policies, which is why Marlboro, Martini, Rothman's, Silk Cut, and Warsteiner is censored in GT7.
@@X2011racer uh huh. lmao
I want to add that consoles used to be on old hardware making development easy for programmers. As time went on the consoles got closer to new hardware and the cost went up. Younger folks may not remember, but the cost of going HD for game development was huge in comparison to the SD games on Wii. Nintendo actually found a balance on hardware specs and cost of development.
Nintendo is a company with heart. Sony and Microsoft are soulless by comparison. Who’s that one guy on GameTrailers to kept saying Nintendo was doomed to failure for not providing HD graphics? Look at who won in the end.
I'll take a stylized, cartoonish game over a photo-realistic one any day. The latter tend to be boring to me more often than not, and I feel like the bland realistic looks are a big part of it.
Nowadays, I play indie games more and more often, because those always care about being a "game" first and foremost (not to mention that they're almost always cheaper, lighter and weirdly enough less buggy than the big boys).
Why play something that looks almost like real life? We do real life every single day, haha.
Exactly variety is always important for anything and what's funny is Sony used to have that. These days though only a few companies can be relied on for that and their usually third party ones.
Let’s not forget how they knew ahead of time what was gonna happen to E3 and they went all digital event, despite getting scrutinized for the decision at the time. Look at what happened now. They really are so wise in their long term decisions
They didn't get to be a rare company that has existed for 100+ years without putting their long term plan to careful consideration.
I'd figure the Nintendo E3 would at least have playable demos, while Sony and Microsoft would only have promises with trailers.
I forgot the exact quote, but it's something along the lines of (Never underestimate the elderly in a job where the young don't last)
They might be "out dated", but they know what they're doing most of the time.
There is a reason why Nintendo has been at this longer than anyone else. Turns out that
1 Exclusives do matter
2 Great games actually sell hardware
Come on Nintendo saved the video game crash of the 80s NUFF said
Hot take: Say what you want about how Nintendo is a bad company, but at least they know how to make good games unlike most AAA(A) companies.
Nintendo’s legal team and its developers are separate. It’s both possible and okay to criticize the legal team while praising the developers.
@@EMLtheViewerIt's like a traditional father and a toxic entitled mother
@@EMLtheViewer If you really want to get technical, their legal team is absolutely good at their job.
That job just results in pissing a lot of people off.
Another hot take: Nintendo's legal team is still within their rights if anything doesn't meet their standards. Like shutting down remakes of their already existing games and fan games, either remake or not makes profit, shutting down emulation for using their games for free without their consent when the source of the ROM is the company owner of the game itself, shutting down certain smash tournaments for how rotten the competive smash scene has gotten worse over time by mental rage quitting and rapping kids, and shutting down the online and eshop on dated consoles based on business standpoints.
That's not them being a "bad" company. That's just doing their jobs and sticking their guns.
@@supermax9007 Nintendo hated to see smash be a competitive scene regardless, even if the community was the tamest because it is against what Masahiro Sakurai intended with Smash.
Smash bros was intended to be a couch party game where casuals and competitive players have a good time, second when it comes to competitive, Masahiro sees it better to see someone who's the best at their home street rather than the world.
He came up with the idea of smash bros after overpowering a clueless casual couple at King of Fighters 98.
Edit: When it comes to fan games, it's better to make an original game that's greatly inspired but make a better alternative than the original
E.G. Rivals of Aether, Saints Row, Palworld, God of War (Which is a rip-off of Rygor on the PS2),
I thought of an original fighting game that takes heavy inspiration to DBZ Sparking Meteor/Budokai Tenkaichi 3 based off the combat with original characters.
Also about some fanfics being murdered by companies with C&D and some don't, it depends on the company itself since Shonen Jump refused to get rid of Dragon Ball AF and other fan mangas but let them be while Dragon Ball never lost the rights.
It also depends on entitlement and pride.
Iwata was also right about phone games. That by being so cheap they'd be a race to the bottom and create consumers who consider games just disposable fluff. The thing he didn't see coming was the gacha games.
I thought Iwata was the one who announced they were working with DeNA to make Nintendo mobile games?
Still, lets be honest, Gatcha is only a way for devs keep dumping "disposable stuff" on their players.
Gacha’s been in Nintendo games plenty. The trophy machine in Smash Bros Melee is the earliest I can think of but likely there’s been plenty more from earlier eras.
@@SaltyToad00 yep, but this quote comes from a few years prior. It's been pretty clear nintendo didn't want to get into phone games, but their hand was forced.
@@plufim At least Nintendo tried with their mobile games, for the most part, even if they didn't want to make them.
I actually find this to be hilarious as Nintendo was once like Sony and Microsoft wanting to provide the more powerful console
This resulted in the "bit wars" which was Nintendo Sega and even Atari vying for the most graphically complex console
This drove both Sega and Atari to bankruptcy and nearly did the same to Nintendo
They are the way they are now because of the trial that was the bit wars focusing on gameplay instead of the graphics
Nintendo is entertaining their golden age. Not only are their games still fun to play, but they are finally starting to look as good as a pixar cartoon.
This is why I'm calling this era we are in the AAA Gaming Crash. Nintendo is taking one step back to move three steps forward.
So do we link this back at the start of the Gen at 2020 or is is one of the years previous?
@@jackthorton10 the whole thing was set in motion at the beginning of the previous generation with Microsoft trying to start up with an all digital future. It's actually hitting the crash point now.
Nintendo is crashing and burning too, with no idea how to not make the switch 2 collapse like the wii u as many consumers won't be taking the next step, especially considering Nintendo selects from the 3ds days of $20 reprints is dead. Switch was a good run, but VR is better than motion controls and the limited hardware is used with bad developers who can't optimize and push it through anyway. Even princess peach showtime people complained about loading, so first party isn't immune though smb wonder (cannot join a person's game with levels you didn’t do) and smash bros (1 player per console and no CPU bots for teams) have lame online setup.
@@MrVariantCope.
@@jcly96 oh definitely, I switched to PC hybrid and can play demos early like rugrats and antonblast, exclusives like yolk heroes, have access to stores outside steam (itchio, humble bundle which even goes to charity, and amazon games or more) they may be cheaper than the switch versions when released. That console tax is annoying.
The only "L" Nintendo does,
Is Luigi
Link: am I a joke to you?
@@alessandroditerlizzi569 and @anjuju2 that was good
@@alessandroditerlizzi569 Yes, you are, Link.
And once again, Waluigi is shafted...
@@alessandroditerlizzi569 Shut up, 'Zelda'!
Nintendo has always had the advantage of their first party IPs as well. They have Mario (most iconic video game character ever), Zelda, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Pokemon, Fire Emblem, Pikmin, Animal Crossing, etc. So many iconic franchises to dive into that Microsoft and Sony don't have. Nintendo was the dominate player in the 1980s and early 1990s with only Sega rivaling them. They still have a lot of that staying power.
microsoft is software
sony is hardware
nintendo is gaming?
Finally some people start speaking out about this. I’m so sick of everyone always saying “does your switch run 4k 500fps? Didn’t think so!” Like bro I don’t care, Nintendo releases really great games that are fun to play and they are completely visible so why do people act like they so desperately need these stupid high graphical abilities. There’s a point where you just can’t even tell and all you can do is brag on your fps.
It is good to see that it's possible for a company to recover from a massive failure without making thousands lose their jobs. Then I look over at WBD CEO David Zaslav, earning 40 million per year, yet constantly shutting down projects and studios to pay for the company's debt. And to give himself a bigger paycheck next year.
That's the problem when the leader isn't gaming enthusiast but rather a financial specialist.
Nintendo have the late Iwata, a video game programmer and designer. Gabe is a gamer and passionate about games. Both of their products reflects their passion.
Oh as we learned during the strikes Zaslav makes way more than that.
“If it’s not fun, why bother”
Perfect words
Killer Queen JoJo's my beloved😼
Didn't he say that around the time Star Fox Zero released 💀
@@ArabLetsPlays It's not his fault the game sucks. 💀💀💀💀💀
In fact, this was already the strategy with the Gameboy : not a powerhouse compared to other portable system, but all about the fun and praticability (and it was as huge success)
No Magneto was right
Your potshot at the CEOs not taking a paycut to protect those people's jobs was really needed. It's good to know I'm not the only one who feels this way.
Thank you. Let's all stand in solidarity against Corporate Greed.
Remember when nintendo's slogan was about playing with power? 😂
Nintendo Power!
@@joecoolmccall You Play-Station Characters never learn!!
Yes, Gameplay is Power after all!
@tycooneryt495 Your not Nintendo you Pre-Tendo
Welcome to the party GameXplain...you finally figured out (with the general gaming community) what some of us figured out back in 2012 and what Iwata said well before anyone gave the man his flowers. Bravo.
Satora Iwata is a legendary GOAT and if anyone says otherwise, you have a fight on the side of the street coming your way.
I only play Nintendo titles now because of this. I own a gaming PC, but rarely play Microsoft titles because they're boring. I don't own an Xbox or PS anymore either.
This is coming from a guy who loved his Xbox, 360, PS, and PS2 as a kid. I'm sticking to Nintendo, they make quality games and my $60 is actually worth it.
Most of the time....that new Mario Strikers....not so much for example lol.
😢dont remind me. @@ItApproaches
"but rarely play Microsoft titles because they're boring"
Or you get butchered PC versions (looking at you Jedi Survivor and Hogwarts Legacy).
@@saricubra2867 I mean the guy said he plays on PC. So the Microsoft games are almost always on PC too. So why have an Xbox. Also the majority of the PS exclusives get ported to PC eventually too
Also the only Nintendo games he is playing (i am assuming)are the ones developed by people who know the hardware such as nintendo devs and partners. And not playing the 3rd psrty ports that run badly on it like Hogwarts legacy and Mortal Kombat
@@saricubra2867 I was about to say what are you talking about, Hogwarts Legacy was great on PC....then I realized you meant the Xbox version.
One crazy thing to note is that The Super Mario Bros movie had a 100 million budget and goes on to gross 1.3 Billion just at the box office... yet some of these AAA games cost upwards to 100 to 200 million more than a damn state of the art animated film!
the thing i love about the switch is that it keeps physical media/games alive. I come from Xbox and you need an internet connection just to set it up for the first time and all your games on xbox you don’t really own
I'll be thrilled if N can just do a stable, locked frame rate, 4k-60 or not. AND a headphone jack in the controller.
This is something I noticed and have been saying for years now. Nintendo saw that Sony and Microsoft were constantly competing to have the best graphics and decided to venture out and do their own thing which has worked out well for them, aside from the Wii U. I 100% agree with a game needing to be fun. What's the point in having a hyper realistic looking game if it's just meh to play?
exactly
Honestly though they're just making movies now with forced in gameplay
I have a love/hate relationship with Nintendo. Nintendo doing stuff like this is part of the love. I think it's thanks to Nintendo that we won't get another 1983 crash of video games. I mean not that it would be quite that bad anyway, but PlayStation and Xbox have been shooting themselves in the foot this generation. I used to be a PlayStation fanboy, but that changed a little before the PS5 generation. I still love the games that are, or used to be exclusive to them, but they havent made a lot of those in a while and i don't like their current direction of more story driven games. Also 2029 is way too long to wait on the next 5 to 10 hour Ratchet & Clank game. Nintendo may only put out one mainline 3D Mario game per generation, maybe 2, but they also have a ton of good spin-offs and other games to hold us over usually. Nintendo is ironically saving the industry again lol
They didn't really save the industry recently because it never crashed. People are just realizing that what they thought was cool or good isn't really that great. Nintendo has always been fun which is the point of gaming.
@@Ssjangel3 You probably lived in Europe as the market never crashed there.
Nintendo revived the gaming industry after the 1983 crash. They sold the NES as an "electronic toy" at KB Toys to spark interest and then poured gasoline on the spark.
@@X2011racer Really? I live in the UK and never knew that. Could you give me a reason with evidence to support your claims?
@nitro143 Atari's big mess in 1983 only seemed to have happened in North America, as we don't know if the overproduction of E.T. and Pac-Man also occurred in Europe. Also, there were various home PCs that were selling well in Europe at the time, such as the ZX Spectrum, that may have reduced the impact of Atari's mess if it did happen there.
This is inspiring. Added this to the playlist for when I eventually have the confidence to buy companies.
I wanna be a CEO like that. My bottom line isn't that important as long as I'm okay, and got some luxuries, but the businesses and change I need to make is what matters.
Nintendo is treating development like we have reached the fabled graphics plateau, and it's helping them thrive
I geniuenly love it how Nintendo thought of themselves to just do their own thing, not trying to compete with Sony/Xbox for the console life time and to just focus on themselves. Because they are winning HARD right now. Xbox and Sony were so focused on acquiring studios that they can't afford just to show off while Nintendo is working on their new console which will be a follow up on one of their best ones. If everything goes the way it should then i feel like we might see Nintendo as the biggest player while the other 2 are just trying to compete for second place.
deja vu, it would be like 35 years ago lol
Well the GameCube kinda showed them competing on graphics wasn’t going to work, the GameCube had the best graphics of that generation but lost to the weaker PS2 and XBox with the PS2 winning because of its huge library of PS1 and PS2 titles.
@@cathygrandstaff1957 The Xbox had better specs than the gamecube.
@@cathygrandstaff1957 To be fair, DVDs were THE reason PS2 won. At its launch time, it was the single cheapest way to get a DVD player when the format was at its apex, meaning most people bought the console to play movies on it while it could play games on the side. This is on top of the success of the PS1 which already had great games on it and pushed Nintendo to the side, and then had afterwards its own stellar library of good games for anyone of any age to play, managing to even take on Nintendo's "all ages" market while still focusing primarily on a more teenage-to-adult demographic. But the DVDs were the biggest contributor to its success.
Sony tried to replicate the same thing with the PS3 and Blu-Rays and shot themselves in the nuts for it, making it far too expensive and few bothering with it, forcing a major price drop, and because it wasn't selling, for a while nobody was making games for it, or if they were, they were making them on the much cheaper Xbox 360 as well. And then there's the Wii which due to hitting the right fad at the right time, blew them both out of the water.
@@lizardemperorkorbac4281 True. Wrath of Cortex had fur effects on Xbox, which was missing on PS2 and GameCube. Forza Motorsport 1 had detailed interiors, which were absent in Gran Turismo 4. The only downside is that Forza had very inaccurate car models compared to GT4.
The main pattern i see with Nintendo systems is a development focus on the controller: making new ways for players to reach out and touch the world.
-The NES standardized direction inputs on the left side, action buttons to the right, and pause buttons in the middle
-the SNES put two more buttons on the face into a diamond pattern, and added shoulder buttons for extra inputs that dont require your thumbs
-the Gameboy, GBC, and GBA parallel these developments, but with a focus on allowing players to enjoy full functionality games while on the go
-the N64 added the first analog control stick, which would later prove mandatory to smooth control in a 3D world. It also allowed modules to be put inside the controller for unique functions, like data storage and one of the first Rumble systems, giving players a sense of _touch_ rather than just vision and hearing
-the Gamecube didnt do as much revolutionary, but it did experiment with making the action buttons unique sizes and shapes, with the A button being front and center
-the DS added not just the ability to draw on the screen, but having 2 screens at once, allowing for some unique overlay of visuals (my personal favorite example is Kingdom Hearts 385/2 Days, where you would have memories show up on the lower screen, obscured in static as they parallel the events on the top screen)
-the wii and wii u need no introduction
3DS is still the only successful game system to have no-glasses depth perception, and i still think games that use it, look stunning. OoT 3D is legitimately beautiful
On the whole, rather than prioritize innovation on VIDEO games, Nintendo spends most of its resources on innovation in video GAMES
+spindash64 Let the church say Amen. "Amen!"
This is exactly what I try to say when people say Nintendo doesn't innovate. Nintendo is the one who innovates the most. The Meta Quest headsets also seem to innovate more than current gen 4K consoles.
@@Drstrange3000 Bro if Nintendo and Meta Combined to make a sick VRset. The world would disappear.
@@Ikronix007 That would be the dream!
@@Drstrange3000 I'm telling ya it would be a once in a lifetime opportunity.
1:33
>The DS and Wii Era
>Nearly 20 years ago
AHHHHH-HA-HA-HOW, OWWWWWWW IT HURTS, OH MY GOD IT HURTS
I noticed that with each new PlayStation console there are less games I'm interested in, and the ones I am interested in are usually remakes of PS1 games I grew up with. The Last PS Exclusive game I really cared about that wasnt a remake of anything was Gravity Rush 2 which came out in 2017.
The way to win a battle is not to fight it in the first place. - Sun Tzu
So just give up?
@@cakelover699 - No; find another way to your goals.
@@GamerFromJump Sometimes conflict is necessary for the weak minded
@@cakelover699
Why waste time fighting a war with your enemies when you can have your enemies fight for you and then stand upon their broken bodies as the victor?
Or in other words, let X Box and Playstation burn out in their pissing match while Nintendo stays strong to survive.
Yeah, honestly, this is why I'd be completely ok if Switch 2 is PS4 level power. It makes the console cheaper to buy, and clearly thats doing gangbusters for them.
I think Switch 2 will be closer to a PS5. Because Switch 2 will be competing against PS6 in a couple of years.
From what I heard, apparently the next Switch could run Call of Duty games well, imagine Black Ops III on a portable system like that. Probably not the best 1 to 1 like the PS4, but decent enough to run, different from Wii builds.
@@raulguallpa8688 The Switch already runs the newest DOOM game, the exact same game as the PS4 version. Maybe the graphics settings are lower, but the PS4 graphics settings are lower than a PC.
PS4 power is perfectly fine, specially for a handheld. If it has backwards compatibility it would become the ultimate way to experience all the Switch exclusives.
I'm 40, and I watch my son play games from the 90s, supper nintendo and SEGA, and having a blast at that! As a hard-core gamer, I did not realize the trade-off of realistic games would kill creativity. To me, nintendo always had the best R&D team, including sega. My life turned out to be super awesome and push me into being a casual gamer. So nintendo is right.
Gameplay is king. Pong, space invaders, street fighter. All great games, with the main focus being gameplay. Still to this day, the originals are playable and replayed by millions of people. Very few of modern games can have such a lifespan, be it because of live service or just being an experience for the eyes. Gameplay, how it makes us feel is truly the key. Nintendo have always centred on gameplay.
Nintendo is like, Indie games is the true innovation in gaming making the Switch an indie game powerhouse on the scale of Steam
Nintendo also has the ability called: Sue them all
Replace "is" with "are".
Then i learn that Ori is on Nintendo, XBOX and PC and i feel mixed about Microsoft because they also do deals with Nintendo...
NINTENDO IS THE 3 F's.
Family
Fun
Functionality.
except for the drifting joysticks.
@@ZeldagigafanMatthew ikr..IVE NEVER HAD A DRIFTING PROBLEM BEFORE ON OLDER SYSTEMS TILL THE SWITCH.
I think I'm gone thru 2 sets of joy cons.
Now I just use pro controllers more .
@@dragonsigner I replaced the joysticks on a pair of mine with some magnetic ones by Gulikit, and only had to recalibrate them once after the swap.
@@ZeldagigafanMatthew I would say I would look into this but they're fixing to have a switch 2 by the end of March 2025.. since Nintendo did officially announced they would announce on the successor to the Nintendo switch within the fiscal year ..
You forgot the fourth F. Fukability
That's why wow still sells MONTHLY.
Is about the freedom of doing all you want, not about graphics
They learnt lessons after matching power with the GameCube.
Nintendo is one of, if not, the OLDEST game developer and publisher in the industry. They have more experience than ANYONE and with age comes wisdom. Nintendo knows what it’s doing and this generation proved they had a winning formula the whole time. That’s not to say they’ve done everything right. Their temper tantrum over G Mod is a good example of Nintendo fails but, as a whole, they are on the right path.
Not fully true. With age comes wisdom, this is false, there are a lot of old people who are brain dead fools lol. A wise person doesn't assign themselves as wise cause they hit the age of 80 lol.
Pretty sure the G Mod situation was because of a copyright troll.
Nope. G Mod creator confirmed it was from Nintendo.
Their legal team can be very annoying but their developers are some of the most talented people in this whole industry which is why they're still here after all this time.
If Nintendo were to be the one behind the gmod takedown, why haven't they said anything?
Even if the Switch had PS5 level graphics it wouldn't change anything for Nintendo. Almost all Nintendo franchises are either cartoony or like an anime they don't need that much power. The extra power of the Switch 2 will probably only be used to make the games bigger and provide better gameplay and not for graphics
Would help the poor/mediocre performance.
@@user-vi4xy1jw7enot even that bad
@@user-vi4xy1jw7e lag just isnt a dealbreaker to most people
A lot of older Nintendo stuff ages better graphically because they weren't going for hyper realism.
@@sevartt9046 That is also why games such as Persona 5 Royal have a perfect port on Switch. Because they go for art style instead of realistic graphics. Another example is he fi ruch. there is still evidence that hi-fi ruch will come to Switch even after the studio is closed, the Switch port will probably be amazing
It is the quanity and quality rule.
Nintendo has found a way to perfectly balance the two which why they are successful in the long run.
Sony chose quality over quantity which why the PS5 was not being as successful as it was intended.
Microsoft chose quantity over quality which ruins state of what making games is all about.
It is simple way of putting it.
So, what did we learn today? Most people want to have fun playing their game more than having the most shiny new graphics possible. Yeah sure amazing visuals and run speed are nice to have, but if that’s the only thing the game has going for it it’s not gonna be a fun experience to play for those who just wanna have fun…