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Captain Meaty
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I play vidya games badly and ramble about various things that interest me in the form of video essays, game reviews, commentary based rants, and other video game related content.
I play vidya games badly and ramble about various things that interest me in the form of video essays, game reviews, commentary based rants, and other video game related content.
The Sad State of Nintendo
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Nintendo is one of the biggest and most beloved developers in the industry and while I love the things they've created they also have a dark side. Today I take a look at some of the most ridiculous things Nintendo has ever done as a company, focusing on the things that I believe to be the biggest issues with them.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
01:15 Why They're Liked
01:46 Iconic Characters
02:58 Innovating the Industry
05:00 Commitment to Quality
06:30 Aggressive Legal Action
08:21 "Nintendo HATES Their Fans"
13:25 Faulty Hardware and Bad Online
14:34 Artificial Scarcity
16:25 War on Emulation
19:29 Summary and Takeaways
21:00 Outro
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Nintendo is one of the biggest and most beloved developers in the industry and while I love the things they've created they also have a dark side. Today I take a look at some of the most ridiculous things Nintendo has ever done as a company, focusing on the things that I believe to be the biggest issues with them.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
01:15 Why They're Liked
01:46 Iconic Characters
02:58 Innovating the Industry
05:00 Commitment to Quality
06:30 Aggressive Legal Action
08:21 "Nintendo HATES Their Fans"
13:25 Faulty Hardware and Bad Online
14:34 Artificial Scarcity
16:25 War on Emulation
19:29 Summary and Takeaways
21:00 Outro
LINKS:
Whoa second channel here:
ua-cam.com/channels/mFhCjPTJJkoCQf1Q604gXQ.html
My video essays:
ua-cam.com/play/PLabG2VyqLVizA-1HbraLkO83CIylkGhfH.html
My game reviews:
ua-cam.com/play/PLabG2VyqLVixetDlwtZzHSuyAE2sWC24T.html
My Rants/Commentary:
ua-cam.com/play/PLabG2VyqLVixnDI02sPCzK9pMYCM9oNiI.html&si=Bkqmm5iUJZGQgrbS
Follow my Twitter here:
CaptainMeatyYT
Join the Discord:
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Support if you wanna :)
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The Most Immersive Kind of Horror
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#videoessay #pokemon #pokemonscarletandviolet Today I take a look back at the history of the Pokemon games and their strengths leading up to the 3D games and the apparent drop in quality, discussing why that is and how it can be fixed. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 01:40 Gen 1 04:33 Gen 2 06:46 Gen 3 09:44 Gen 4 11:54 Gen 5 14:14 The Jump to 3D 15:00 Technical Problems and World Design 17:24 Aestheti...
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#videoessay #speedrun #speedrunning #mario #doom Today I speedrun through a not so brief history of the sport of speedrunning starting from its humble beginnings, and ending on the spectacle that it is now and talking about some instances that I found extremely fascinating. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 01:15 Early History 05:11 GDQ 07:10 Mario 64 Space Particle 09:17 Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bott...
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#videoessay #silenthillps1 #shadowofthecolossus #ironlung Today I take a look at the general mood and atmosphere of some empty, abandoned or dying game worlds. Ones that use the "less is more" approach in order to tell their stories or immerse the player in their worlds. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 01:15 Silent Hill 1 04:32 Iron Lung 08:05 No Players Online 10:39 Shadow of the Colossus 12:25 Zelda ...
Nintendo's Most Underrated Console
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#videoessay #gamecube #nintendo #nintendogamecube Grab your copy of TerrorBytes using my link: terrorbytesdoc.com?sca_ref=5595906.VyFAOC9drH Today I talk about one of the best, worst performing Nintendo consoles and why I think it's great. 00:00 Intro 01:24 TerrorBytes 02:42 GameCube Development 03:24 GameCube Design 04:42 First Party Library 07:30 Addons 08:23 Third Party Library 11:13 Why did...
The Most Underrated Survival Horror Franchise: The Evil Within Retrospective & Story Explained
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#videoessay #retrospective #review #horrorgaming #storyexplained #survivalhorrorgaming #tangogameworks Over the years we've had many great survival horror titles, among those is the underrated masterpiece The Evil Within. The series is both odd and goofy, and also beautiful and terrifying and is extremely unique in the genre and today I will explain the entire story and some gameplay elements i...
The Sad State of Bethesda Games
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#videoessay #bethesdagamestudios #bethesda #starfield #fallout #fallout76 #fallout4 #fallout3 #elderscrolls A brief look at Bethesda Game Studios career over the years and where I believe its recent problems lie. 00:00 Intro 01:41 Morrowind 02:39 Oblivion 04:13 Fallout 3 05:26 Skyrim 07:32 Fallout 4 09:50 Fallout 76 12:08 Starfield 14:29 What can we expect in the future? 15:36 Outro My video es...
Why Yu-Gi-Oh! is the BEST and WORST Card Game I've Ever Played
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Cosmic Horror in Video Games
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#videoessay #deadspace2023 #dusk #bloodborne #lovecraftian A short Halloween special where I talk about elements of one of my favorite types of horror in various video games. 00:00 Intro 01:43 Dead Space 04:58 DUSK 07:09 Bloodborne 09:18 Closing Thoughts 09:55 Outro My video essays: ua-cam.com/play/PLabG2VyqLVizA-1HbraLkO83CIylkGhfH.html My game reviews: ua-cam.com/play/PLabG2VyqLVixetDlwtZzHSu...
Tragedy and Hope: A Disco Elysium Video Essay
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Gaming Myths, Rumors, and Urban Legends Iceberg PART 1
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#gamereview #battlebit #battlebitremastered Battlebit Remastered is maybe one of the best multiplayer experiences I've had recently. Plus it's funny that the edgy Roblox game beats out the multibillion dollar company. Also I'm *still* bad at these games. 00:00 Intro 01:38 Gamemodes 02:19 General Gameplay 03:18 Maps 03:49 Movement 05:12 Classes 06:06 Weapons 07:52 Gadgets 08:30 Graphics and Soun...
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Project Zomboid Review: Eat Beans™, Get Depression©
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I’m surprised you didn’t really talk about the 3DS version at all
I like the sequels but I don't think they had quite the same feeling or charm as the original
@@captainmeaty_png I meant the 3DS remake of the first game
This is the cringiest list to hate on. These "problems" only cause issues for youtubers, streamers, bootleggers, etc. (Not gamers). Basically, anyone who can profit from nintendo is targeted by corporate lawyers. Y'all sound so entitled. Nintendo doesn't belong to you. It's not your property. Stop trying to make money off of Nintendo. I don't understand the backlash.
Keep crying,
OWNERS: Yeah buy our over priced paper to make a deck that cost $100+ but also make sure you shower too. PLAYERS: Yeah I can't shower because I spent all my money to get this deck. ME: MAKE CARDS NOT BE VALUED AS MUCH.
Why not both lol
@@captainmeaty_png LOL yeah
Sound like yall need to go play COD I thoroughly enjoy Bethesda games!
2:34 is that Wario driving the Trotters Independent Traders van from Only Fools and Horses? 😂
Perhaps lmao
Some Pokémon Fans say the peak was Gen 3, and it was Gen 4 when things started going downhill. And if so, then I'd say Gen 4 is where the franchise should have called it a day, since Gen 5 is when it really started it's gradual decline. Pokémon was made for Japan, it wasn't made for the outside world and it really shows.
I think there's aspects of later games that I enjoy but the middle games was definitely where it was at its best imo
GameCube didn't deserve to fail.
100% agree. It was among the golden age of video games and despite it doing the worst of its generation I thought it was amazing
This is probably the fault of what happened in 2015. 2015 was one of Nintendo's worst years in the company's history, because Nintendo's E3 2015 was AWFUL, Satoru Iwata died, Nintendo started giving copyright to gameplay videos in 2015 and PROBABLY the new Nintendo CEOs [Tatsumi Kimishima (2015-2018) and Shuntaro Furukawa (2018-currently)] were responsible for making it a company of anti-consumer acts. I'm brazilian.
I think there's gotta be a correlation there for sure
@User-h1r1y 2015 still had some high quality Wii U games except for Mario party 10, amiibo festival and tennis access and the 3ds had some solid ones too
You gotta understand the cultural nuances. Japanese corporate culture emphasizes group harmony (“wa”), discouraging actions that disrupt cohesion. The “senpai-kohai” system creates a strict hierarchy based on seniority. “Kaizen” promotes continuous improvement but can lead to micromanagement. The concept of “shikata ga nai” accepts rigid norms, while “tatemae” (public face) and “honne” (true feelings) focus on maintaining an idealized image. Together, these cultural values foster a controlled and traditionalist business environment, where protecting the brand and creator’s vision often outweighs adapting to external or consumer-driven trends. Which is why we get stories of the Super Plumber Man company acting out against their fans.
It's a double edged sword. It both maintains the quality and protects from the rot we see infecting Western games. It also leads to creative stagnation and anti-consumer practices.
You'll also notice that innovation and creativity are driven by the developers and newcomers, often not the parent company itself.
I find it fascinating to look at things from different angles like this. That makes a lot more sense it seems to bleed into their policies and game development. Very interesting thanks for the comment!
2:32 MY RELIGION
Where do I sign up?
3:33 Ain't it just sad that the dude can't even say their name out of fear he might get sued. I compare Nintendo to a drunk uncle nowadays, he was a great guy when he came to visit when you were younger but as you got older you realized he was just sober when at family gatherings and will harass and criticize you for even thinking about making anything near comparable to what he does for a job.
Oh yeah, you inspire others but they're afraid to talk about you. And that's actually a great description lol.
At this point, jailbreaking your switch is the morally correct thing to do now (not that I'd condone such heretical behavior, obviously)
Always morally correct. (my lawyer has advised me to say that this is a joke)
Nintendo is simply immoral like a dictatorship if you look behind the scenes. Thats no joke. You know what they say, never meet your heroes.
Maybe they are. They just syphon life off those they sue into the ground lol
C,
When Nintendo shut fan game people will say sega does what nintendon't and it true Nintendo was always strict with thier frenchise with fan game I think the worst time is the when there was the content creator program Wich creator had to follow strict guidelines and there wasn't alot of game showcase before because of that program but now it no longer here but still it show how Nintendo give itself bad reputation towards it community
They just seem hostile towards their community for no real reason
This video needs more research. You talked about the Joycon boyz but didn't talked about the scam that happened there,Gary Bowser wasn't doing the piracy,he was the salesman for the piracy mafia he worked for,his so called "friends" just dumped him so he could take the blame for it while they run away with the money. For a lot of people,stop Iwata's name for content, everything you people say Nintendo did wrong was in his era and he wanted just as the new president wants. Talking about Emulation,Nintendo only goes after emulators for the console that they still sell,like the Switch,which is more piracy than emulation,since there's no game preservation for a game that you can buy legally in most stores,and if you think Nintendo is the only one,wait for Sony to go after the people doing piracy of the PlayStation 4 and 5,which is happening right now. If you reading this,call me all you want,but don't say this is a lie cause it ain't.
I think one factor behind this is gerontocracy i.e. rule by geezers. The Big N became soo out of touch that, for one thing, instead of streaming their soundtracks in the usual venues, they decided to paywall them through their online service presumably out of paranoia towards piracy.
Absolutely. They seem to be very stuck in their ways which makes for very rigid thinking on their part
Old Japanese dudes who don't even play videogames and don't even know what other companies in the business are even doing.
Not to mention there hardware is low spec!
Its a cool idea for a console but it doesn't have the power to back it up sadly
Dude,the Nintendo switch sold more than the PS2 in the US. Low spec means nothing if the public doesn't really care about specs. If you don't have good exclusives then what a better will do?Make you play an old game that you already did everything but with another graphic and fps.
Something that most people forgot was when Nintendo released Mario 35 on the switch they stole the idea from the guy who made the fan game Mario Royale a multiplayer classic Mario game. They shut down the fan game stole the idea and made their own. you can't even play Mario 35 anymore so they did it for no reason.
I did some digging for the video, and apparently Mario Royale is back up. But yeah I think I mentioned in the video they took it down initially then made Mario 35 which was only up a year I believe
I always prefered Sega. Sonic was way cooler than Mario and Mortal Kombat 1 was sensored on Nintendo. Sega does what Nintendon't.
Honestly Sega games STILL go hard today. Respectable
Oh yeah,make a fan game with Sega IP that is not Sonic.🤨
Yeah, totally will take an L for defending a company like Nintendo, but I still enjoy buying from them, tbvh.
I absolutely love their games but I can admit they're a pretty rotten company.
Nintendo is extremely stubborn and somehow that is also why we still have them. A good friend of mine wants them to do like Sega and just become a 3rd party dev. But look at Sega now. They’re a ghost of their former self.
They are. They're dedicated to doing their own thing for better or worse which I can respect.
Finally, someone is addressing these issues. The sad thing is, I think things are worse than we think. Nintendo used to be a pretty shady company back in the NES and SNES days, and the only reason they couldn't continue that way was because they made some terrible decisions under the impression that third parties would just "take it". Luckily for us, the PlayStation happened, and we all know how that went. Then Iwata stepped in and almost immediately the company had a more "humble" vibe to it, even though they'd still sue some rom website every now and then. But now? Not only are they perfectly content in their Switch shaped throne, letting some of their franchises grow stagnant, but they've become a lot more hostile than they ever were back when Iwata was in charge, both to pirates, and their customers. What's that? You want to buy Super Mario Bros.? Silly you! Our games are TOO GOOD to be sold to you, no, instead, pay a f-king membership peasant!
Not to mention their previously untapped tactic of Patent Trolling. That really sucks!
Also, speaking about consumer hostility, remember Joycon Drift?
All good points. Seems like they've made it to the top and only look down on everyone now based on their actions.
Nintendo is the reason why Sega exists, in the same manner that Ferrari is why Lamborghini exists. Both Nintendo and Ferrari are ran by incompetent fools who cared more about preserving egos from within their executive boards than their respective loyal audiences.
Good analogy! Seems like they're trying to eliminate any possible competition unfortunately
Exactly. Ferrari would assert their rights towards the car you purchased and have the rights to do whatever you want and will blackball you for painting your car pink for no good reason other than "protecting their brand image". It's the same reason why there's limited Ferrari presence in video games as they are paranoid over gamers "vandalising" their cars. Lamborghini's venture towards sports cars from tractor-making is their middle-finger to the Prancing Horse.
"Sega does what Nintendon't"
Classic lol
They can go f*ck themselves,their power abuse over the decades is why i support emulation.
When any media company refuses to preserve products that they've sold, piracy becomes civic duty.
Amen to that
If Nintendo could, they would prevent you from reselling your physical games.
Oh 100%. I'm surprised they haven't made a KGB style secret police to stop reselling physical games yet lol
Both Sony and MS have actually tried to this in the past until the insane backlash made them change their mind (for now). I'm genuinely surprised Nintendo hasn't tried this yet - because they would probably go through it regardless of criticism. Nintendo doesn't give a shlt about being criticized, and they'll always have their legion of fanboys who will praise them for any decision they make, even if it is blatantly anti-consumer.
@@captainmeaty_png because you don’t know the context of why. For more information for learning why Nintendo behaves the way they do, refer to Moon Channel.
6:16 had trouble pushing 60fps in oot? 17 fps i so far from 60, its not even supposed to be a target, with that big a difference. the target is more like 30 fps with an average od 23 fps .
Yeah I said 30 didn't I? I believe that was the target FPS just due to how hard it worked the N64 trying to run the game lol oftentimes it was actually less. Although somehow my eyes didn't notice it when i was like 8 playing the game
@captainmeaty_png i didnt notice it back in the day too. But recently i booted thee game up and and... Now i cant play games that run below 20 fps since i am so used to my pc games running at 60.
Holy entitlement. You sound entitled af.
How so? I don't think having an opinion on stuff makes someone entitled
fun fact a nintendo switch pro has the same price with any laptops of 16Giga of ram, 1 TB and processor of intel 7 or ryzen 7. Nintendo is locked regions while an laptops aren't.
That's wild. Those are decent specs for a budget laptop. I suppose we're paying for the novelty of the switch being a handheld and a console
@@captainmeaty_png agreed!
'Switch 2' won't even be 1/4 as powerful as the Steamdeck. But don't worry, there will be some totally awesome new gimmick that will totally make games way more fun than ever before and it will totally make up for the Switch 2 being weak af.
@@N.i.E.M.O even cooler than that, Valve will just kind of borrow everything about the Switch 2 and release a totally awesome ready to pirate and mod machine right afterwards! I hope it's as popular as the Steamdeck and doesn't go the way of the PS Move or the Kinect
Tired of Nintendo
A wise man once said "Companies are NOT your friends"
Some seemingly try to put the interests of the consumer first but oftentimes they're all just numbers to them
11:31 Manray: THAT'S IT,I'M BUYING A STEAMDECK!!!
They're really neat but I don't think they're $300+ worth of neat lol.
Run bu Yakuza
Honestly they might be more kind if they were run by the Yakuza
This sounds like a kid getting mad at his parents because Billy's parents let him drink and smoke inside their house, and his parents aren't cool like that.
So like, to an extent they have the legal grounds to do what they're doing in most cases BUT they're so aggressive about it. And in some cases they're just bullying others which I just think is kinda lame
10:40 Nintendo had every right to do that
Absolutely yeah, HOWEVER it was for charity. I think most people would allow that
@@captainmeaty_png That whole thing was a scam dude.
I just wished they came back to being that company that encourage innovation and change for their games and hardware and not be responsible for having a console that’s the most fragile and frustrating thing to own ( I’m looking at you switch)
You could drop a tv on the 64 and it would probably still work lol. But yeah I think they've become lazy lately when it comes to pushing the industry like they've been known to do which is sad
It's such a shame that the xenoblade chronicles is a Nintendo ip. I'd love to buy the series on steam and play it there.
There's a ton of their series like that. I'd love a steam port of their classics or even their new games. Imagine Tears of the Kingdom with full native PC support that would be really pretty and actually run good lol
Because of the current state of AAA games and Nintendo's business practices, I've become of all things, an Atari fanboy in 2024. Yeah, yeah '83 crash, E.T. terrible, Jaguar, blah blah, shut up and let me talk. Atari isn't the big, powerful company they were in the early 80s, but I believe those failures have kept the current owners of that company humble, and most importantly, thankful for the fans who support them. Nintendo has had so much success that it has gone to their head, and they take their customers for granted as a result. They value money and control more than their supporters. Not only that, but because of the way Nintendo is, they've become this shadowy arbiter of gaming history, destroying anything that could pose a threat to their prevalence, thus their war on ROM sites and fan projects. They decide what games are allowed to be acknowledged and played. Meanwhile, Atari is gradually acquiring old game IPs from companies who won't do anything with them and partnering with indie developers to do new, creative things with them to keep those games alive. Most people like to pretend that because of the 1983 game crash and the success of the NES bringing games back, that those early contributions to gaming history just don't count. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone nowadays who even knows that video games existed before Nintendo. Atari and indie developers are fighting this ultimately destructive perception. And don't just say it's sad old people who refuse to let go of their obsolete crappy games and acknowledge that things are just better now, and Nintendo made it so bad games don't get on their hardware. Atari was well past its prime when I was even born in the 90s, and Nintendo's "Seal of Quality" barely did anything. Even now. Have you seen the Switch eShop? You have to swim through an ocean of mobile games and hentai just to find anything that's actually good. If playing old Atari 2600 and arcade style games in the current year makes me some niche crazy person, then so be it. I'm at least supporting a company who values their history, their players and the small creators who show their love for games with every program they write.
First of all thank you for the wonderful comment this was really interesting and engaging and it has a lot of really neat bits of information. Secondly that's awesome I think it's a really under explored system and library and you make a lot of good points about Atari as a company and really gaming as a whole in the current year. I tend to replay the same games from decades ago and more often indie games when I'm not interested in current gen stuff and I find myself doing that a lot.
Nintendo as a company sucks but as a game developer is very good. Despite the bad business practices, I still like this company.
Absolutely! They've done a lot of bad stuff as a company but I can't bring myself to hate them due to how good of a developer they are
The shut down of Brawl's mod Project M, has started the cycle of Anger I have against the company, that only got worse and worse the more I see them Ceasing and Desisting everything they watch...
Its a tragedy putting an end to all these neat and wonderful and well thought out fan projects. Sega takes the route of hiring the developers of fan projects and I think Nintendo could learn a lot from that
Nintendo’s corporate behavior declined considerably after the passing of Satoru Iwata. Iwata never laid off a single employee during Nintendo’s struggle years with the Wii U, and even took substantial pay cuts to keep the company afloat. Insanely rare for a corporate leader to do this.
RIP Iwata. There is a book called Iwata Asks that is some powerful stuff. We would live in a better world if every CEO followed his influence.
THIS. I miss Iwata. Man was a great leader. And definitely, that book has a lot of wisdom. The quote "On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer." It just shows his love for making games and putting the gamer first which I just find inspiring.
I swear I thought it was just me who thought that.
Although Iwata certainly made his fair share of mistakes, I will always respect that he took ownership of them. Don't think I've ever seen a CEO cut his own pay instead of laying off workers. It's unheard of. A shame that Iwata couldn't be around to see the success of the Switch, which was conceived while he was still in charge. He passed away during one of the darkest times of the company (financially anyway) with the Wii U. And I'll bet that had Iwata still been alive, the Switch would have been a much better, more ambitious product, instead of the bare bones hardware we've had for the last eight years which is missing a ton of features that the Wii U, 3DS, and even the original Wii had. Iwata had personality and ambition, and it was reflected in their products. Current Nintendo doesn't give a crap about anything other than maximizing profits and being as anti-consumer as possible. I doubt their current CEOs even play videogames.
Bro stop using Iwata's name to make your dead point. He is not a puppet for your liking😤
Pokémon, Fire Emblem and Zelda copied Dragon Quest and Mana series Do you want to know why Square Enix doesn't sue Nintendo? Square Enix isn't about stifling Creativity They make innovative, niche titles and popular games. -Mana series -Dragon Quest -Deus Ex (I don't play this) To more popular games like -Nier Automata -Tomb Raider -Final Fantasy (I also don't play dis) Pokémon and Zelda just popularized the genre of creature collecting and action Roleplaying Oddly Pokémon company and Nintendo with the Zelda patents is the most trigger happy in lawsuits despite them not owning shit since the idea of having creatures in balls, and companions in video games are not their own, yet the courts in Japan are r*tarded and think Nintendo is the second coming of Christ. Now Mario is its own series but Nintendo seems less interested in defending the only property they truly own which is the Metroidvania/2D mario Platformer and more interested in shit they don't actually own like the Roleplaying and action mechanics. Zelda twilight princess copied Demon Souls and Zelda Tears of the Kingdom copied Elden Ring and Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts. Nintendo lacks creativity outside of Mario and cool Hardware gimmicks like the Wii U, Wii, and 3DS.
These are all good points actually. And yeah I think that's the best way to go about it. Companies that allow for creativity actually see more success in the long run so all they're really doing is shooting themselves in the foot. Its just a shame they're probably gonna keep trying to bully others over ideas they loosely "own"
@captainmeaty_png Yeah, I am among many people who actually dont hate Nintendo. I criticize them because they need to improve. Are there some people out there who want to see gaming fail. Sure, but it's the enablers (just look at the factions of fanboys) causing that stagnation to happen. I would love to see someone playing Nintendo games on PC (legally, of course), a futuristic handheld that resembles a better or more powerful switch. Who knows what cool stuff will come after the somewhat boring AI craze that's going on right now.
5:58 Wait, are people actually buying those overpriced games? I thought it was dubious marketing purposefully making it look like it to maintain it's "high-value".
@nekonomicon2983 Amazon is just the most popular grey market to buy from but I was able to find some Nintendo games and accessories on the Walmart site, just don't buy used hardware from Walmart's grey market.
I believe its mostly the hardcore collectors but yeah a ton of people will pay good money for older physical games
This is a reason why layoffs to certain ceo's, board members, employees, and layers are important. So that people that're become determinants and do shit like the 3 bad things Nintendo has done that you've mentioned would be punished, black listed, kicked out so they can be replaced with someone with better understanding.
Only time I can remember that it WASN'T like that was when Iwata was in charge. He actually took a pay cut in order to not layoff employees
I'm not playing online games, I don't care about mods and romhacks/fan games. To me as normie consumer Nintendo is one of the best company.
They make great games no doubt about it. If you only do single player games they're absolutely one of the best
If all you play are first party Nintendo games on Nintendo hardware and never play online, then yeah, Nintendo is great. I mean, the online service for the Switch is so awful I wouldn't be surprised if they removed online play from Switch 2 completely. People will still be there to praise them for it.
@@N.i.E.M.O I would be surprised. Because they tested online functionality last month. Remember leaks about that online game sandbox with monkeys? It was pretty good and not that laggy. They testing servers for sure