Nintendo has been very anti-consumer for fuck I don’t even know how many years at this point. They get into lawsuits more than they get into game development. Shutting down fan projects any chance they get. Any dick move a company can make Nintendo has made it
It’s the internet hate machine. Everyone has hobbies, and some people’s hobby is to hate things. All kinds of things. Celebrities, sitcoms, children’s movies, but especially video games.
It doesn’t matter what you put into the internet hate machine; the only thing that comes out the other end is hatred. It’s not fact-based or even experience-based. It’s just pure negativity, perpetuated through shitty memes and circle jerk forum comments.
The claim in this meme isn’t even true. It was debunked days ago. Doesn’t matter. It’ll keep getting repeated by people on the internet who copied it from other people on the internet. The definition of a circle jerk.
The internet hate machine has killed lots of good media. It’s a shame to see Nintendo get caught up in it. I hope it doesn’t stick.
Nintendo are vulnerable to attack from lots of different angles because they are different and successful. Some of the criticism is justified, some isn’t. Their (some would argue previous) competitors in Microsoft and Sony are too irrelevant in the console gaming space for anyone to care this much about what they do.
Let’s be honest : the love is from one single thing -
Nintendo’s game design.
Shigeru Miyamoto, and all the other major design leads at Nintendo like Masahiro Sakurai have been at this singular company for most of if not their ENTIRE careers and have done nothing but make video games for 40+ years now.
The game industry at large is riddled these days with 20-somethings and interns who’ve never shipped a game, or who are in survival mode and trying to just keep their heads above water employment-wise.
Many older game devs get burned out and change industry, or quit after a decade or so, and even the ones that stay never stick with the same company because so many cut staff after any game ships… except Nintendo and maybe a couple of other companies out there.
And it SHOWS. Nintendo’s game designers - like a 60 year old master carpenter or woodworker or a dwarven master blacksmith - have honed the artisanal craft of game design to a level of mastery otherwise unseen.
Yes Nintendo sucks at pretty much everything else not related directly to game design, but there’s a reason everyone tried to make their open worlds more like Breath of the Wild, or why Astro Bot seems to share so many platforming similarities with masterful 3D Nintendo platformers like Mario Odyssey, and why so many companies tried to copy Wii Sports at the height of its popularity.
Even games like Smash Bros have no comparable equal. Yes Sony did their own melee game featuring their IP, but to even try to compare the 2 games is a joke.
Outside of their masterful gameplay design… Nintendo IP is on the same level as Disney.
Everyone else isn’t even Warner Bros. Animation Studios.
They’re Hanna-Barbera.
It sucks that Nintendo is being greedy, but that Donkey Kong game DOES look fun and charming as hell and that Mario Kart game is something everyone will still go bonkers for.
Can anyone explain why there is so much hate against Nintendo?
Nintendo has been very anti-consumer for fuck I don’t even know how many years at this point. They get into lawsuits more than they get into game development. Shutting down fan projects any chance they get. Any dick move a company can make Nintendo has made it
About 40. Maybe more.
It’s the internet hate machine. Everyone has hobbies, and some people’s hobby is to hate things. All kinds of things. Celebrities, sitcoms, children’s movies, but especially video games.
It doesn’t matter what you put into the internet hate machine; the only thing that comes out the other end is hatred. It’s not fact-based or even experience-based. It’s just pure negativity, perpetuated through shitty memes and circle jerk forum comments.
The claim in this meme isn’t even true. It was debunked days ago. Doesn’t matter. It’ll keep getting repeated by people on the internet who copied it from other people on the internet. The definition of a circle jerk.
The internet hate machine has killed lots of good media. It’s a shame to see Nintendo get caught up in it. I hope it doesn’t stick.
See post image for answer, also ridiculous litigation for emulation.
Also ridiculous patent trolling.
Nintendo are vulnerable to attack from lots of different angles because they are different and successful. Some of the criticism is justified, some isn’t. Their (some would argue previous) competitors in Microsoft and Sony are too irrelevant in the console gaming space for anyone to care this much about what they do.
The whole basis of both the love and hate for Nintendo is that they are a 90s company with modern tech
Let’s be honest : the love is from one single thing - Nintendo’s game design.
Shigeru Miyamoto, and all the other major design leads at Nintendo like Masahiro Sakurai have been at this singular company for most of if not their ENTIRE careers and have done nothing but make video games for 40+ years now.
The game industry at large is riddled these days with 20-somethings and interns who’ve never shipped a game, or who are in survival mode and trying to just keep their heads above water employment-wise.
Many older game devs get burned out and change industry, or quit after a decade or so, and even the ones that stay never stick with the same company because so many cut staff after any game ships… except Nintendo and maybe a couple of other companies out there.
And it SHOWS. Nintendo’s game designers - like a 60 year old master carpenter or woodworker or a dwarven master blacksmith - have honed the artisanal craft of game design to a level of mastery otherwise unseen.
Yes Nintendo sucks at pretty much everything else not related directly to game design, but there’s a reason everyone tried to make their open worlds more like Breath of the Wild, or why Astro Bot seems to share so many platforming similarities with masterful 3D Nintendo platformers like Mario Odyssey, and why so many companies tried to copy Wii Sports at the height of its popularity.
Even games like Smash Bros have no comparable equal. Yes Sony did their own melee game featuring their IP, but to even try to compare the 2 games is a joke.
Outside of their masterful gameplay design… Nintendo IP is on the same level as Disney. Everyone else isn’t even Warner Bros. Animation Studios. They’re Hanna-Barbera.
It sucks that Nintendo is being greedy, but that Donkey Kong game DOES look fun and charming as hell and that Mario Kart game is something everyone will still go bonkers for.