Didn't even watch Nintendo, not sure how they are even relevant anymore.
Going by the reaction from their E3 this year, I am sure that if they were irrelevant before, they gained a lot of relevance yesterday. Which is an interesting change from their previous years where they did terribly. People are seriously hyped.
Not surprising since they showed off Mario, Zelda, Kerfuffle, 3 new IPs, Star Fox and no BS talk about sales or other stuff meant to please shareholders. And was entirely focused on games and gameplay.
Okay, I watched it now since apparently I missed something big or something and I really don't get it. What felt like half of the showing was spent on rip-off plastic figurines.
Then they spend an inordinate amount of time on another "Yarn" game, who do they make these for? I never got why it has to be "Yarn" this or "Paper" that, why not just make a normal game people want to play? Do these things actually sell well, or is it more of a sponsorship thing?
Then they showed a Pre-Rendered screen and said "This is new Zelda, Preasu Understandu". Then Bayonetta 2 (Do Nintendo people even want this? Most third party games seem to sell like shit anyway.) Then a "Dynasty Warriors" type Zelda game that bored me to tears. A Kirby game (It's not Yarn, but why make it look like modelling clay and not just make a normal Kirby game?). Then some exaggerated "Animu" style JRPG. A "create your own Mario Levels" game called Mario Maker that looks like it would get boring fast. And finally a gimmicky ink-based "Versus" game made by what seems to be the Japanese equivalent of stoners that looked kinda interesting.
I never was into PrayStation or Xbawks, but as a child had a lot of Nintendo stuff like SNES and GameBoy. I loved Mario especially (although I never got into Zelda), played Mario Kart a lot, had a lot of fun with games like Turtles in Time, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Super Ghouls'n Ghosts, Battletoads, Super Bomberman, Donkey Kong Country etc. on the SNES. On the N64 I remember playing Super Mario 64, Bomberman 64, Mario Kart 64, Star Fox 64 (although I was never a fan).
On the GameBoy I played stuff like Mario Land, Gargoyle's Quest and even the first Pokemanz.
I even enjoyed some of the Wii games like Super Mario Galaxy, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Epic Mickey although I employed mostly Emulation through Dolphin since there weren't enough wortwhile games.
As I watch all their new stuff, aside from their Hardware being shit I have no doubt in my mind why they are so much behind in Sales and why they won't improve too much any time soon, since none of this stuff aside from the new Mario Kart gets me hard in the least and is apparently mostly targeted to absolute Nintendo "die-hards" who are also getting older and soon won't jump anymore at the sheer mention of "Mario", "Zelda" or "Metroid" either.
Anyway, some more gaems:
Really sad that SONY owns all the Psygnosis IPs and is going to use them for stuff like this, if at all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCE_Studio_Liverpool#Games
The only decent one I can think of is RotTK XI.Watching some of the mentioned with high regard titles(Tactics Ogre and Valkyria Chronicles) on youtube,begs the question Are you retarded to put them in the same category with JA/SS?
) and thought it was pretty far below the standard of Link to the Past, despite reviews saying otherwise. That statement works for all Nintendo games since the SNES, actually.
