Nintendo General - Based on the SouljaGame's Biggest Third-Party Publisher
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New Super Mario Bros U was ok, but I enjoyed Super Mario 3D World a whole lot more and really hope they do end up porting it to the Switch.
I would prefer a brand new Super Mario 3D world.
I hope they keep making 2D Mario games, and possibly more imaginative ones.
If you have a Wii U at all, please go with that one. The 3DS version is barebones and lacks a lot of the reasons that it is popular in the first place.
i think they will probably release a sequel/port of mario maker this year
I'll like more 2D Mario but they really need to stop using the New Super Mario Bros style. It's starting to get stale and barely much difference between games.
idea: ultra mario bros. it plays like super mario bros 2/doki doki panic and instead of toad/peach the other two characters are wario and waluigi (which also means waluigi needs to be playable in the next smash game). wart's also back because he should've been back years ago.
you can thank me for the idea nintendo. yes im also claiming ownership so give me royalties or ill sue.
And this time it's not a dream.
it's bowser's dream
knowing nintendo if they ever brought wart back there'd be a 2,000,000,000% chance that wart would be a puppet of bowser and that'd be revealed in the last act. fuckers can't stop introducing new antagonists and then going "oh actually the cliche antagonist we've used for years is behind it all."
I remember when they revealed New Super Mario Bros U. One of the few screenshots we had was of the level with the Van Gogh inspired background, giving people hope that this installment wouldn't be as plasticy and bland art direction wise. Then the game came out and only that level was visually distinct from the others which were all boring and lame.
After the success of Odyssey I would be absolutely zero percent surprised if Nintendo axed the New Super Mario Bros. brand entirely.
I feel confident that they'll continue doing 2D Marios, but I question if they'll continue the "middle ground" 3D games like 3D World. I bet they'll just make 2D Marios alongside new games of the 64->Sunshine->Odyssey lineage.
Just wanna hard disagree with this somewhat. Whenever there's a non-bowser villain (rare as it is) they're usually given the final boss treatment while bowser is reduced to a joke or lesser threat.
So much so that in Dream Team Bowser finally outwitting one of the main villains before they could betray him was a genuine surprise.
I think you're thinking of Ganon
Mario Odyssey blowing the hell up was a wake-up call, for sure.
The whole reason they regressed into 2D and simplistic 3D Mario games was the fact that their newest target demographic had very little advanced game literacy; they were either avoiding games like Galaxy altogether, or returning them quickly after sitting down for five minutes and getting overwhelmed by complexity. It's the whole reason why the PAL version of Galaxy 2 included an embarrassingly patronizing "how to play" DVD, many of their newest players had actually never played a fully 3D game before. Meanwhile, NSMB sold like gangbusters with almost no returns, and so did the next few 2D titles, so that's what they decided to focus on.
However, that was only a small roadbump, and Nintendo failed to notice when this was no longer an appropriate concession, now that even novices had become much more comfortable with 3D gamespaces. Odyssey was meant to target long-time fans who wanted more complexity and freedom, but to their surprise, it appealed to basically everybody, even the demographics that had once been so averse to its predecessors. The general level of gaming aptitude is much higher now than it was in 2010 after all.
It's also important to note that while only novices will be thankful of tutorialesque hand-holding of basic concepts, anyone that commits dozens of hours to something will appreciate healthy levels of depth to keep them spurred to play more. Super Mario Odyssey did excellently in this regard of the latter, making movement rewarding and complex, yet not overly confusing to adapt to.
What I'd want from a new 2D Mario would be a singleplayer focused game (Most of the NSMB games were 4-player centric, and the level design suffered because levels had to always be big enough to allow 4 players to be on screen at once), a new unique artstyle, new gameplay mechanics that aren't just new powerups.
I'm genuinely surprised that Nintendo didn't embrace Bowsette
It's not like a company like Nintendo is going to jump onto a flavour of the month that died in less than three weeks.
she's a porn character. why would nintendo associate themselves with her
She... wasn't originally?
Nintendo's throwaway Odyssey concept art design was better anyway.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/01/future_business_shift_could_see_nintendo_move_away_from_home_console_development
I disagree, but I am an elderly late 20s manchild, so maybe I'm looking at the bigger picture.
If anything Nintendo might try a new female antagonist, maybe Bowser Jr. finds his real mom and we find out why Bowser doesn't mention her, because she's even more evil or something. Like in a new Mario & Luigi or something where you team up with Bowser and Jr.
I'd rather have a Wario & Waluigi teamup but that seems less likely.
I still like the idea of a stealth platformer starrring Waluigi robbing toad banks and such.
FUCK YOU IT'S FOREVER
If nintendo went hard in the paint for their mobile games I'd be fuckin depressed. Their mobile and console developments can be both achieved at once, and the switch seems to be a nintendo exclusives + any indie dev with a hacked together switch port, I can see the switch lasting a long time. Just don't do that bitchass new 3ds shit. I'm not fuckin doing that again on a whole ass console. They can release a version that has a bigger screen on the tablet itself but as long as we don't get "New Nintendo Switch" exclusives I'll be fine.
I haven't touched a single one of Nintendo's mobile games, besides Miitomo for the first week it existed. I hate playing games on phones and that extends to products produced by Nintendo.
That said, the quotes sounded more like he was just leaving the door open for whatever the future might hold. He doesn't hold the same "Nintendo will die sooner than become an entirely mobile developer" mindset as Iwata (which I preferred), but I don't think this is a cause for concern.
Yeah I'd stop supporting nintendo at all if they just dropped everything for phones. That's a extremely worrying thing to hear and Iwata would be spinning in his grave.
Miitomo was the only nintendo mobile game I really liked coz the crazy pictures you could make with it. I wish I played it more before they shut it down.
Super mario run and that fire emblem mobile game were both eh to me but I actively disliked the animal crossing pocket camp thing. Pocket Camp along with that mario party reskin thing except without minigames cloud my mind with doubt about AC switch.
I think that when the CEO of Nintendo says "In the long-term, perhaps our focus as a business could shift away from home consoles", It's important to remember that Nintendo was founded in 1889, and they only started to make video games around 40 years ago.
And if their hardware philosophy post-gamecube era has taught us anything, it's that they aren't overly reactionary, and will likely wind down hardware slowly as it becomes less valuable to consumers.
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Nintendo General - Based on the SouljaGame's Biggest Third-Party Publisher
