Cracked thinks Nintendo's Lost It

[jdogtwodolla]

After now having read a few articles on Cracked in the span of a few months...Ungh.

That's not even giving the site a chance at all but I don't feel like I should even really try at this point.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

Kinda crappy article. The criticisms he came up with all suck other than the penis thing, which may get fixed (boy did that come out wrong).

 

[SpAc3man]

Just another person afraid of innovation. "Its new therefore it will be bad." The Wii U is going to sell like crazy and any issues will be ironed out once they figure out what does and doesn't work.

 

[ToastiestZombie]

Kinda crappy article. The criticisms he came up with all suck other than the penis thing, which may get fixed (boy did that come out wrong).

It's already being fixed, Nintendo's going to be screening and moderating the comments. Knowing Nintendo, dicks won't be allowed at all. Swearing and violent images might be allowed if they're for M rated games, but I doubt it.

 

[Phuctifyno]

Now, I missed E3 this year so I can't tell for sure, but if what Mr. Cheese says about in-game messaging is true, there is no hope. No hope.

Also, to anyone who thinks Nintendo hasn't lost it.... have you played Skyward Sword? Have you played Other M?

I have.

No.

Hope.

(grey clouds billow)

 

[SonicWaffle]

Also, to anyone who thinks Nintendo hasn't lost it.... have you played Skyward Sword? Have you played Other M?

I haven't played either, but I have several friends who have, and I've heard a lot of positive things about Skyward Sword. Other M, not so much, but Zelda seems to have gotten the big thumbs up.

 

[Saviordd1]

Cracked is a comedy website guys. Don't get your panties in a knot when they trash something you like.

This.

I mean really, who the hell gives a shit?

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Just another person afraid of innovation. "Its new therefore it will be bad." The Wii U is going to sell like crazy and any issues will be ironed out once they figure out what does and doesn't work.

The Wii U will sell like crazy just because it's Nintendo and it's new.

And because it will be awesome.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Haters gonna hate...

Oh, the irony

Potatoes gonna potate

 

[omicron1]

I have a theory: Nintendo thinks its market is 90% pre-teens.

They think gaming hasn't changed since the '90s.

Everything they do supports this. Their first-party titles, their bright-'n-friendly color schemes, their "friend codes" approach to connectivity, their "we don't need the latest hardware" thinking. They are literally stuck in the past.

And to some degree, it works. But it works despite Nintendo's efforts, not because of them. It works because despite the cutesy colors and simple hardware and gimmicks, Nintendo makes good games.

However...

I don't think it'll work forever. At some point Nintendo will start to lose market share as the kids and those who used to be kids move on. At some point Fischer-Price gaming won't work any more. And at that point, I fear Nintendo may be left with a strict and simple choice: Evolve, or die.

And the gaming world may well be poorer for it.

 

[SonicWaffle]

I do read the articles.

I have to say though, the quality of the articles has declined.

I disagree. Cracked is, and has been as long as I've been reading, very hit-and-miss. Seanbaby is hilarious when he does a comic, less so when he doesn't. Soren makes me laugh in After Hours but I don't enjoy his columns. Bucholz is hilarious all the time, but his Unlikely Advice columns always have me in stitches. The point is that, as with any site that has user-submitted content, the pendulum of quality swings all over the damn place, and when it comes to columnists everyone has their own tastes. When they're putting out a consistent 3/4 articles a day plus videos, photoshop contests and Quick Fixes, it's worth putting up with 3 'meh' articles for one that genuinely amuses.

Most aren't funny anymore and if you skip to the comments it's just tons of posts about how most of what they write is just wrong.

See, you and I have very different views on the comment section. I see a lot of people quoting the article as if repeating a joke they just heard makes them funny by extension, a lot of people trolling, and a metric fuckton of spambots. Or, worse, the people who think they're hilarious by responding to spambots. Sure, you do get the occasional pedant claiming that the article is badly researched, but do you ever actually read those posts? hell, I'm thicker than a brick sandwich and sometimes I can prove the "corrections" wrong.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Just another person afraid of innovation. "Its new therefore it will be bad." The Wii U is going to sell like crazy and any issues will be ironed out once they figure out what does and doesn't work.

The Wii U will sell like crazy just because it's Nintendo and it's new.

And because it will be awesome.

Purely theoretical awesome, at this point. I don't know, they still have half a year before release, maybe they'll make something that isn't crap.

I live in hope and relative certainty that they'll pull it off. It is Nintendo we're talking about, and no matter how much people have suddenly started to hate everything they do around here lately, I will always have faith in their abilities.

 

[SonicWaffle]

Haters gonna hate...

Oh, the irony

Potatoes gonna potate

Verbs gotta conjugate.

 

[rob_simple]

I wonder how many people here are upset that alot of his comments are pretty valid.

 

[him over there]

I have a theory: Nintendo thinks its market is 90% pre-teens.

They think gaming hasn't changed since the '90s.

Everything they do supports this. Their first-party titles, their bright-'n-friendly color schemes, their "friend codes" approach to connectivity, their "we don't need the latest hardware" thinking. They are literally stuck in the past.

And to some degree, it works. But it works despite Nintendo's efforts, not because of them. It works because despite the cutesy colors and simple hardware and gimmicks, Nintendo makes good games.

However...

I don't think it'll work forever. At some point Nintendo will start to lose market share as the kids and those who used to be kids move on. At some point Fischer-Price gaming won't work any more. And at that point, I fear Nintendo may be left with a strict and simple choice: Evolve, or die.

And the gaming world may well be poorer for it.

It saddens me that the market of games for children is slowly dying. I see a lot of people saying Nintendo is appealing to casuals but I think what they mean is kids. Nintendo isn't going after the gamer you and I know, their main audience is kids. It sucks that that sort of demographic is almost never addressed.