/vr/ - Retro Games

I like Nintendo games. But I also think that they are bipolar cunts. They shift back and forth between identifying as punk rock zero-hoots-giving independent developers who make whatever they want and don't care about the masses, man, then do shit that could only be considered shameless money-grabbing.

For example, in an interview Miyamoto basically shat on the new audiences they brought in with the Wii, saying it was awful to pander to a wide audience and they just want to attract their core audience. So it's over, right? They have enough money from crap like Wii Music and can focus on only making good games now. But... nah, now they're making fucking iPhone games.

This is not a recent thing; for years and years they couldn't decide if they wanted to promote creativity above all else or only care about raking in cash. On one hand you have Miyamoto saying they made Wind Waker because he looked at the Spaceworld 2000 demo and thought "this just isn't Zelda anymore" and implying that they don't care about the negative reaction to Wind Waker... then you have them making Twilight Princess to placate the "OOT is best audience" anyway. You have Miyamoto refusing to give in to pressure to give Yoshi's Island Donkey Kong-style graphics and instead making it reminiscent of a crayon drawing... but then you have him screwing over Rare by forcing them to stick the Starfox license into Dinosaur Planet; because money.

Then you have the fucking original GBA and oh my god what a sad money grabbing fiasco that whole thing was despite the system actually having countless great games. I seriously thought my copy was broken as a kid and I took it back to the store. When I looked stuff up online and found out about the SP being just a GBA but with the backlight it should have had from the get-go, released just in time for the holiday season, I thought "okay, Nintendo are freaking assholes". I still think that.