This Just In: Nintendo Doesn't Get It

[Phunbubbah]

different industries. For you analogy to work, it would require the book and music industry to be good last year and suddenly huge things to change about either. Like I don't know, making the print taste like chocolate or something.

and any time anything does go more mainstream, people do bitch. Go look at anything weeman says about music. And people were bitching about harry potter. About how it was low grade literature.

The only reason the game industry is different is because it has not became static yet. It has not settled on how it will define itself. Books and music have mostly been the same for a 1000 years. And anytime they do change, tons of people bitch.

couldn't agree more

[Bojack]

Because there was one way Nintendo could have fucked up the DS but didn't, they're correcting their oversight in its successor.

So adding motion sensing automatically fucks the DS up? Have you seen how many bullshit motion sensitive games are showing up on cell phones? They oughta make a killing off of this.

[epmode]

When Yoshi talks about Nintendo's fuckups, he's not talking about something that makes bad business sense. Nintendo could re-release the fucking Fatboy and still buy the Eastern Seaboard with the profits. He's talking about bullshit motion controls ruining everything which is almost always accurate.

[Bojack]

When Yoshi talks about Nintendo's fuckups, he's not talking about something that makes bad business sense. Nintendo could re-release the fucking Fatboy and still buy the Eastern Seaboard with the profits. He's talking about bullshit motion controls ruining everything which is almost always accurate.

What have the motion controls ruined? Please tell me how motion sensitive controls have become a hideous cancer ruining every game they touch? Sure they've been implemented on some truly ass games but those games were likely to be ass in the first place. People pissed and moaned that the touch screen on the DS was going to wreck the system but some games used it and used it well, some ignored it altogether etc. etc. There were truckloads of shit games back when Atari had a stick and one button. Once again it's the dev's fault and not the features of the system.

[Drewbacca]

The worst is the 360 commercial where the grandmother that is also on Glee spits milk out and says some bullshit about "now we're having fun." Sony's current marketing campaign is by far the best, though it pales in comparison to those of the past.

Sony's PS3 marketing right now is spot on and amazing. The problem with the PS3 for some consumers is the fact that there isn't a lot of exclusives worth playing. Microsoft's year head start turned out to be a vital advantage in their strategy.

[Drewbacca]

Just because there's room doesn't mean we should let undesirables fill it. We need a gaming border patrol.

We should white wash all games. A master catalogue of white, pure games only. It's the ultimate solution.

But you have to do all the work because I don't have time.

[Melf]

What have the motion controls ruined? Please tell me how motion sensitive controls have become a hideous cancer ruining every game they touch? Sure they've been implemented on some truly ass games but those games were likely to be ass in the first place. People pissed and moaned that the touch screen on the DS was going to wreck the system but some games used it and used it well, some ignored it altogether etc. etc. There were truckloads of shit games back when Atari had a stick and one button. Once again it's the dev's fault and not the features of the system.

Devs weren't making shitty Atari games because they were trying to shoehorn in a crappy gimmick though. So many potentially good Wii games (and others that are excellent otherwise) have suffered from having crappy motion controls added just because it's there. Some devs did it right (Metroid Prime 3, RE 4), but the majority haven't. Even Nintendo itself is guilty. I know I really didn't want to shake the fucking wiimote to pick up things in NSMB Wii, and while it didn't break the game, it didn't add a damn thing to it. It's motion control for motion control's sake, and it needs to stop.

[epmode]

So many potentially good Wii games (and others that are excellent otherwise) have suffered from having crappy motion controls added just because it's there. Some devs did it right (Metroid Prime 3, RE 4), but the majority haven't.

I make a further distinction. Metroid Prime 3 and RE 4 Wii both use pointer controls. Pointer controls are fine, especially when used correctly. Motion control (ie waggle) is almost always shit. In fact, I can't even think of a game that was actually improved by waggle.

[bVork]

I can, but only one: Mercury Meltdown Revolution.

[Andrew]

No More Heroes had waggle, and was fun.