TheMagicalKuja
Smash Champion
I think a thread of thought that started up in the Unpopular Smash 4 opinions thread is worth exploring in its own topic. To take quotes from what people said, myself included.
What do you think of this?
Well, the entire videogame community, SPECIALLY gaming 'journalists' are to blame for Nintendo's problems, but that's for another thread.
Because their terrible marketing and refusal to release specs to 3rd party developers have absolutely nothing to do with how badly the Wii U is doing, right?
To sum that up, I think Nintendo's main contention is their Japanese centric practices, and the fact that this isn't very popular in other markets. But gaming journalists never point this out, they just want to troll rabid fanboys by claiming their franchises are played out (which plays right into the "'mature' games for 'mature' gamers" market), or they do attack the flaws but never quite reach the source (Nintendo is about "being different", which is vague and missing the forest from the trees).Oh, and don't forget their Japanese-centric design philosophies, which don't go over well in the other markets (e.g. Friend Codes, systems small and underpowered to fit better in Japanese homes, tablet was there to catch JP's increasing handheld reliance, not because tablets are popular worldwide).
He does have a point about journalists talking crap about Nintendo, but that's them being dumb and misreading flaws, not active malice (Hanlon's Razor, kids). Most malice is a result of machismo-laden advertising from Microsoft and the like. Journalists are just being opportunists.
Which leads me to something on topic--Little Mac alone isn't going to score on Western sensibilities. For Glory seems more like the answer to Japanese tourneys than how we roll here, and is part of the problem I described above.
What do you think of this?
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