Apparently Yahtzee does know as much about Nintendo for someone who constantly critiques it. That or he's trying desperately to suppress his Brawl experience or he'd know by now that Smash Bros. usually has 2 or 3 WTF characters. Hence the inclusion of the Wii Fit Trainer.
Also I'm getting sick of Yahtzee and everyone else stating Nintendo doesn't make new IPs. (That's the kind of talk that makes them convinced to throw out more Mario, Zelda, ect. ) Nintendo has plenty of them if you know where to look. ::coughcougheShopcoughcough:: Does Yahtzee subscribe to the same mentality as Sean Malstrom in that "regardless of how much good people talk about it, a franchise isn't worth investing in if it doesn't sell consoles and reach Mario/Zelda/Pokemon levels of noterity?" Because if so, I may have to fly to Australia and slap him. That's an arrogant viewpoint you can take on the industry as a whole, let alone one company or franchise, and it's another reason why I don't buy into this Triple A nonsense.
The sooner we dump this "triple A" corporate brainwashing BS, the sooner the industry will wake up and quit over blowing their budgets.
When has Kojima ever been conventional? Not that I feel his complaint isn't valid, I find the majority of open-world games terribly boring, and is probably my biggest concern for MGSV. It just seems a bit hypocritical when he says that open world games like Skyrim and Red Dead are something more games should do.
Funny enough one of your examples, Skyrim, is something I'd say is boring on the level of most open world games but I'm not gonna get into it here.
More to the point: this isn't the first time Yahtzee's been hypocritical on that topic either. He took points off of NMH2 for dumping the GTA-esque hub for a map screen despite complaining about how many games had been doing similar open world GTA-esque hubs early on throughout that year beforehand.
