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They need to step up their game though, and stop riding on Wii's coattails.
Nintendo's first party studios:
- Retro Studios
- Nd Cube
- 1-UP Studios
- Intelligent Systems
- HAL Laboratory
HAL is their main power house, and Nd only focuses on their handhelds. The other studios are a bit of a dead weight by not producing much / widely popular titles. Nintendo needs more subsidiaries like HAL; although HAL is spread a bit too thin imo.Their competition has,
Sony:
- SCE Santa Monica Studio (God of War)
- SCE Studio Liverpool (WipeOut)
- Sucker Punch (Sly Cooper, Infamous)
- Zipper (SOCOM)
- Guerilla Games (Killzone)
- Media Molecule (LittleBigPlanet)
- Naughty Dog (Crash Bandicoot, Jak & Daxter, Uncharted)
- Polyphony Digital (Gran Turismo)
- Bend (Syphon Filter)
- Japan Studio (Patapon, Team ICO stuff)
Microsoft:One other thing I wanted to say. I'm definitely a Nintendo guy, and I probably always will when it comes to non-PC gaming. However, I would like to see them take the company in an entirely different direction. Instead of spending 90% of their resources recycling tried and true games, invest in researching other studios and collaborate more amongst up and coming dev/studios. As much as I like Mario, Zelda, DK and the like, I find the newer entries to be less "magical" than their predecessors, with a few exceptions (DK Country and Skyward Sword -- without having to rely on motion controls -- were both fantastic, testaments to the good old days).
I did buy Zelda for the Wii even though I didn't have one
I guess what I'm really trying to say is, I want the magic to come back to gaming - I haven't felt it for a long time.
I think the only types of games I do enjoy the most are the type you can just pick up and play then put down. NHL, Dota 2, etc. Although Far Cry 3 was pretty good and held my interest. I don't know if it's just me getting old, or if it's the games.
Either way though, as much as I've barely played a Wii game (baring in mind I bought mine on launch day 1) , Nintendo game libraries > any other console. Doesn't matter how much their devs are limited apart from near launch. Consistently, forever, Nintendo has had some of the best exclusives of their gen. 64: Ocarina, Goldeneye, Smash Bros, Mario 64. Gamecube: Sunshine, Luigi's Manshion, initially RE4, Metroid Prime, Melee. Wii: Galaxy, Skyward Sword, Brawl, Xenoblade Chronicles, Last Story, etc. Literally all console buyers imo, whereas it's hard to say the same for a console like Xbox. I'd say Sony have libraries that rival here and there but moreso for their scale of good games as opposed to quality, but Sony launches are absolutely dire recently.
So sure the Wii U has started bumpy and the company's short-sighted but I don't think the issue with Nintendo will ever be quality games being available, just being buried beneath a sea of shit and when they get there is when they get there.