Oldclassicgamer wrote:Also, Nintendo never files a lawsuit first and thats a well known fact. The only thing Nintendo is good at when it comes to something similar is abusing YouTube's already broken system for flagging and thats all.
Also taking down fan projects, and as of recent, taking down speedruns.
I love Nintendo for their games, but let's be honest, when it comes to how they treat their audience and how they try to 'connect' with them, it's very poor.
OCG wrote:Also, Nintendo never files a lawsuit first and thats a well known fact. The only thing Nintendo is good at when it comes to something similar is abusing YouTube's already broken system for flagging and thats all.
Also taking down fan projects, and as of recent, taking down speedruns.
I love Nintendo for their games, but let's be honest, when it comes to how they treat their audience and how they try to 'connect' with them, it's very poor.
Taking down speedruns is really worst thing they recently thought of. Before it was just putting ads on video so they profit instead of uploader but now it is taking down videos in general. I knew this will be case one day and when all people defended Nintendo how they just take your earnings and leave video up and how they are actually a kind company who does not take down videos I always told them that it will change in future and that it is only a matter of time when Nintendo starts taking down videos more often instead of claiming. I mean, they took down my unboxing video in past FFS!
Funny how Machinima partnership users are not affected by this and they are immune to all Nintendo claims and they can both profit and upload with no issues. Take cobanermani456 for example. Now I am not talking negative about him and I congratulate him for being able to upload Nintendo content how much he wants and earn money from it, but it is really unfair how many others can't. Bottom line, Nintendo needs to take lessons from Ubisoft and Capcom when it comes to uploading policy.
I think it's also important to note how they legitimately don't understand their audience.
The Gamecube was sort of for the hardcore gamer, and the wii was initially designed for the casual gamer, but the wii U? They have no specific audience aside from fans who have been playing Nintendo since the 90's, which is fine and all but it will scare away a lot of newcomers to Nintendo.
Also it makes me cringe when they post memes and upload a Game Grumps video to their channel in an attempt to garner an audience.
I guess it's kinda hard for them to find that right identity though. They're dead in the eyes of "hardcore gamers" and I don't think they'll appeal to that audience anyway, but they can't really be the "games for everyone" company either now that the Wii U is much more based around actual gamers.
But right now I can't help but feel like Nintendo is pretty bad at hiding how obviously their marketing department is being run by middle aged people going "this is what the internet likes, right?!". I mean I don't mind and in some ways I can appreciate their amateurish feel, but it just doesn't sell.
Honestly, the Gamecube did a lot of things right, it was just at the right place at the wrong time. The ps2 was a beast and stomped it, mainly in part to it's superior third party support. I personally think they should go the Gamecube route with the NX only make it a huge focus on getting that third party back.
Rayfist wrote:Honestly, the Gamecube did a lot of things right, it was just at the right place at the wrong time. The ps2 was a beast and stomped it, mainly in part to it's superior third party support. I personally think they should go the Gamecube route with the NX only make it a huge focus on getting that third party back.
This is true. I can tell that PlayStation almost crushed completely the Nintendo market in Portugal back in the PS2/GameCube era. The fact there was no Portuguese Nintendo office yet made it even worse so the decision of the distributor of the time to face up low GC sales was... to remove games from shelves. It was quite a problem because once the Wii appeared it was nearly impossible to find GC for selling and the ones I was finding either new or used were overpriced.
Although I like Nintendo a lot, I do think there are many things that they seem to live in stone age. A good example is what you guys are talking about YouTube. I mean, shutting down gameplay videos? Shutting down free publicity?! Do you want better than free publicity, guys? I really don't think they are aware of the crap they are doing, honestly.
Well from the business perspective he's certainly qualified, but I also think there's a lot he'll have to do, such as smooth over customer relations (especially on youtube), boost the Wii-u's end sales, maybe find some way to fix the mess that are the E-Shops, as well as assure that this next generation of gaming doesn't start as rocky as the last one.
Honestly I'm more interested in how Miyamoto got promoted to, and I quote, "Creative Fellow." What do you have to do to get a job title like that?
lol something tells me "creative fellow" means he's just gonna be sticking around and joining in on some cool projects here and there.
Not to mention that he's basically the most iconic face of the company now, and I think they place a lot value on giving Nintendo a familiar feeling with all the well known folks: Reggie, Iwata, Miyamoto, and I feel like they're slowly starting to introduce Bill Trinen to that club as well.
Pirez wrote:Somehow I believe that Miyamoto will be the one to replace Iwata in the Direct lineup.
INCOMING SMASH DLC! Nintendo just announced a Super Mario Maker stage for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS! It's coming out on Sept. 30th, so have your wallets ready!
Is anyone even really looking forward to that game? I'm not a Starfox fan myself, but the general reaction has been really underwhelming, like most people either dont care or just treat it as an ok game that's hopefully better than any demo they've seen.
I hope ninty doesn't become too afraid to step back to semi-popular old series if this doesn't go well cause i'd still like a new F-Zero
