Nintendo Fanbase Stupidity General - Rants on the explosive fanbase

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Does Nintendo have a bad fanbase

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    Votes: 915 93.2%

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Honestly, I don't know why the fans hyped themselves up with this direct. The possibility of disappointment is always there and made doubly so with all the covid shenanigans that happened last year.

I was watching vinny's reaction to it and was put off by all the whinging and passive aggressive comments he was making.
 
And now, for some soothing sounds from REEEEEING Nintendo soyboys. Thank you, thank you.


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Nauseated Courgi said:
Oh no, it was definitely a underwhelming direct, but still they should have expected that. They brought this disappointment on themselves.
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Well, part of it is the consoomers' fault for buying up the initial wave of ports and remakes, which is encouraging more devs to get on that crazy train.

But in all fairness, the DLC was a given, along with the handful of new releases.
 
Nauseated Courgi said:
Honestly, I don't know why the fans hyped themselves up with this direct. The possibility of disappointment is always there and made doubly so with all the covid shenanigans that happened last year.

I was watching vinny's reaction to it and was put off by all the whinging and passive aggressive comments he was making.
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I watched a reaction to the direct and even with no exceptations i was disapointed, like really we get 50 or so shitty indie games and the big first party anouncemnts are that one of the devs apolgizes for no BOTW 2 news and that they are porting the shitty is the motion controll zelda. Whos making decisons at nintendo? Not windmaker or an of the 5 or so actually good zelda games. Hell i would have been happy for an mario allstars pack 2.
 
Well perhaps if nintendo kids would stop buying everything that comes out it would help getting the message across.
 
Nauseated Courgi said:
Honestly, I don't know why the fans hyped themselves up with this direct. The possibility of disappointment is always there and made doubly so with all the covid shenanigans that happened last year.

I was watching vinny's reaction to it and was put off by all the whinging and passive aggressive comments he was making.
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What was Binny's reaction to it, was it anything more than the usual New Yorkoid cranky because of winter shit?
 
I came in with no expectations and I wasn't disappointed. My Switch has been collecting dust because a good 2/3s of the first party library are Wii U games I bought almost a decade ago at this point. Now their big announcement is a game that's in the Wii U eshop for $20 lol. Why would you ever buy a switch if you had a Wii U?
 
Never Scored said:
I came in with no expectations and I wasn't disappointed. My Switch has been collecting dust because a good 2/3s of the first party library are Wii U games I bought almost a decade ago at this point. Now their big announcement is a game that's in the Wii U eshop for $20 lol. Why would you ever buy a switch if you had a Wii U?
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I can understand the complaint, but it does make sense from a business point of view to bring over the WiiU games on the more popular successor rather than letting them die on a console that had a much lesser userbase than the Playstation Vita. Famitsu recently revealed Super Mario 3D World sold 250k units in its first week (the WiiU release reached 93k in comparison) and there are plenty of similar examples, such as Pikmin 3 on Switch being currently the highest-selling game on the franchise while its performance was terrible on the WiiU originally.
 
BananaSplit said:
I can understand the complaint, but it does make sense from a business point of view to bring over the WiiU games on the more popular successor rather than letting them die on a console that had a much lesser userbase than the Playstation Vita. Famitsu recently revealed Super Mario 3D World sold 250k units in its first week (the WiiU release reached 93k in comparison) and there are plenty of similar examples, such as Pikmin 3 on Switch being currently the highest-selling game on the franchise while its performance was terrible on the WiiU originally.
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It absolutely does make sense from a business perspective. I am one of like eight people who bought a Wii U when they were in production. I'm still not buying a bunch of ports of games I already have though. It's not just Nintendo either. I don't understand people buying Skyrim, for example, over and over. I bought that game one time.
 
Excuse the autism, here's my theroy about what changed at Nintendo.

From the early 2000s when the original president stepped down until 2015 Nintendo was run by guys like Iwata and Miyamoto who see themselves as artists. They like to create novel fun experiences. Not just new software, but new ways to interact with it. The software for Wii U was as good as their output has ever been, but they shit the bed badly financially.

Iwata died in 2015. A finance guy who Nintendo poached from a bank took over as president. They distracted Miyamoto with cell phone games and a shiny new theme park to play with. The company became more finance driven and less creatively driven. They're much more risk adverse than I remember them being previously. Much better for their bottom line. Much better for share holders. Less so if you liked Nintendo because they were constantly coming up with new and novel ways to make a fat wop go bing bing wahoo.

The thing is though people voted with their wallets and this is what they want. They'd rather drop $80 on special edition joycons. Society and the way people consume things is different. To me video games are fun diversions that give me something to do in the evening after my kids are in bed and I don't give them much thought outside that. However many people today look at brands like Nintendo and Disney as a kind of mental comfort food that forms part of their identity, so there's more money in making Mario t-shirts, pajama pants, little statues and shit than there is actually making new games. I was very into Nintendo in high school, but I would have been mortified if someone bought me a Zelda t-shirt. I don't think people are like that now.

Imagine the pure unadultered salt if Nintendo followed up Super Mario World with Yoshi's Island in 2021.
 
Never Scored said:
I came in with no expectations and I wasn't disappointed. My Switch has been collecting dust because a good 2/3s of the first party library are Wii U games I bought almost a decade ago at this point. Now their big announcement is a game that's in the Wii U eshop for $20 lol. Why would you ever buy a switch if you had a Wii U?
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Don't know about now, but you used to be able to piss off switch owners by calling it a port machine.
 
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