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6/26/2025, 7:27:23 PM
>>713719267
Things didn't get worse though. Many things got better.
Iwata had such an obsession with "innovation" that I doubt he would have greenlit a lot of games that came out in the latter Switch era. Metroid Dread and Prime 4 come to mind.
>>713719617
Iwata nearly killed the entire company with the Wii U. I think he would've ruined the Switch as well if he had lived to see its actual release.
You know he NEVER would have allowed a Switch 2 to be made either. He would've insisted Nintendo come up with some new wacky, gimmicky concept for a console. He was fundamentally opposed to the idea of ever releasing a console that was just a more powerful version of its predecessor.
>>713719731
>They were genuinely better at making Nintendo seem like it was still part of its original identity.
It was the opposite, if you were a fan of Nintendo during the N64 and GameCube era then Wii and Wii U Nintendo was pretty much unrecognizable to you. They went from a serious company that released hardware MORE powerful than Sony's, with a library of games that appealed directly to core gamers, to being a company that released Apple-style gimmick devices aimed solely at soccer moms, toddlers and grandmas.
>>713720038
>the fact that nintendo is now doing "console" 1 -> "console" 2 should already tell us something
And that's exactly what they should be doing. Not inventing new gimmicks just for the sake of having gimmicks, like Iwata did.
>exactly, it feels like they just please their investors and nothing else
What do you think they were doing in the late 2000s then? You think Wii Music, Wii Play, Wii Sports Resort etc was shit they did "for the fans"? Lmao.
Things didn't get worse though. Many things got better.
Iwata had such an obsession with "innovation" that I doubt he would have greenlit a lot of games that came out in the latter Switch era. Metroid Dread and Prime 4 come to mind.
>>713719617
Iwata nearly killed the entire company with the Wii U. I think he would've ruined the Switch as well if he had lived to see its actual release.
You know he NEVER would have allowed a Switch 2 to be made either. He would've insisted Nintendo come up with some new wacky, gimmicky concept for a console. He was fundamentally opposed to the idea of ever releasing a console that was just a more powerful version of its predecessor.
>>713719731
>They were genuinely better at making Nintendo seem like it was still part of its original identity.
It was the opposite, if you were a fan of Nintendo during the N64 and GameCube era then Wii and Wii U Nintendo was pretty much unrecognizable to you. They went from a serious company that released hardware MORE powerful than Sony's, with a library of games that appealed directly to core gamers, to being a company that released Apple-style gimmick devices aimed solely at soccer moms, toddlers and grandmas.
>>713720038
>the fact that nintendo is now doing "console" 1 -> "console" 2 should already tell us something
And that's exactly what they should be doing. Not inventing new gimmicks just for the sake of having gimmicks, like Iwata did.
>exactly, it feels like they just please their investors and nothing else
What do you think they were doing in the late 2000s then? You think Wii Music, Wii Play, Wii Sports Resort etc was shit they did "for the fans"? Lmao.
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