10th September 2003, 10:35 AM
Quote:Am I mistaken or are you angry that I apologized? I'm glad I didn't piss you off or hurt your feelings, since as I said, it wasn't my intention. And how is it that I'm a troll now?
Did that sound like anger to you?
A troll is someone who comes to a message board for the sole reason of starting up trouble, and that is what you did as "0B1".
Quote:Actually, what I remember you saying is that business is more important than the games. To put a finer point on it, you had said that Nintendo needs to borrow from Sony's ideals in marketing and planning, which would kill off of what I consider to be the best aspects of Nintendo. To that I replied that I would rather see Nintendo go down in flames but still producing the best games. Then I came to this thread and saw that you were again disappointed in Nintendo's planning with the rumor of a Pokemon game which for business, would cost very little and have a huge return in profits. I was trying to show you that you're getting exactly what you want - Good business strategies. What I was trying to gather by making that post is why you're contradicting yourself in saying that the idea of better business is disappointing to you as a fan.
Now you mention balance in good business behind the scenes and games that make Nintendo's core audiences happy. Which Nintendo will do with a Pokemon remake. You and I are not a part of Nintendo's demographic for Pokemon games. You and I get T and M rated games, not remakes of kid-orientated RPG's, that's for the millions of kids who are Nintendo's largest demographic world-wide, on a system with the largest user base world-wide. Do you understand now?
That's not how it happened at all. I have been very consistent with my opinion on Nintendo's current state. I was criticizing Nintendo for their very poor business decisions and for some of the choices they've made with games recently. When I said that I wanted Nintendo to be more like Sony I was purely talking about marketing and public relations. Saying that Nintendo wouldn't be Nintendo if they spent more money on advertising is utterly ridiculous. Believe it or not, the marketing department of Nintendo is separate from the R&D departments. I've also criticized Nintendo for being far less innovative with their games lately, and for completely ignoring online gaming. In 2001 Nintendo said that 2002 would be the year of the sequels since they would be able to release the updates to franchises that everybody wanted and would be able to release more games that way. Then in 2002 they said that 2003 would be the year of innovation, not sequels. "The Nintendo Difference", as it was called. "We're not going to be like everyone else, we're going to release original and innovative games!". Well 2003 is almost at a close and what have we gotten from Nintendo? ONLY sequels. Now I've been enjoying these sequels more than anyone else here, but this is completely going against what Nintendo promised and as the sales have pointed out, this is not a tactic that is helping Nintendo. Mario and Zelda aren't the huge sellers that they used to be. People need their new, original titles from Nintendo. They're sick of the usual franchises and they're hungry for something new.
And with all of this milking of the Pokemon franchise it seems as though Nintendo does not care for originality anymore. Yes, yes, releasing a dozen Pokemon games a year is sure to make them lots of money, but is that what you want to see from them? This is far worse than anything Sony has done in recent years. At least Sony tried innovation with such amazing games like "ICO" and "The Mark of Kri". Nintendo should be doing that, not Sony!