Miyamoto is 90% of the problem. As much as i like him and think he is an amazing artist, game designer and creative mind, he isn’t a good businessman or capable of letting other, younger employees try new ideas or concepts with his beloved IP’s. He has done so much for Nintendo, but lately he has hindered it too. He is a very controlling and influential force on Nintendo, and that is both a good and bad thing.
He has some very strange ideas about Mario and Nintendo in general. For example it is him who decided to dumb down the Paper Mario battle system, and dumb down games in general. His idea that any person no matter what age, experience or ability should be able to pick up a game and play is admirable, but also makes for some abysmally hollow gameplay. I think it was also him who opted for only characters from the super Mario universe in Paper Mario games, getting rid of many original species and making the world feel more cookie cutter. (and full of fuckign toads)
He is the one that believes Mario should have little personality, and encourages this path of simple gameplay and no plot. After all, thats what worked in the 90′s! But it doesn’t now.
Also he has this weird obsession with people pirating his products, and will literally downgrade or hinder a game just so its harder to pirate. See Nintendo’s reluctantly to use cds in the N64 era or the ass backwards way they deal with mobile games by always needing to be online.
Also investors go wild when Nintendo try something new! When Nintendo went into Mobile gaming with Pokemon go and Miitomo, their stocks drastically rose. The announcement of the switch did the same. Innovation is expected of Nintendo, so im not sure what your referring to.
something i haven’t seen talked about yet about the recent 3ds bans because of sun/moon pirates –
be VERY careful purchasing a used 3ds right now. there are two things going on:
one, the bans that went out are both NNID and console-based. the banned users have lost access to online functionality on their NNID entirely, but the consoles they were using when they were banned are potentially incapable of being used online ever again. if someone trades in or sells their banned 3ds and you purchase it, you will be in a position of not being able to go online and nintendo will not help you. that’s almost a complete certainty.
two, and this is EXTREMELY TROUBLING–the methods that people are using to unban themselves more or less depend on transplanting a console unique ID from an unbanned system to a banned one. doing so will allow the banned system to bypass the console ban. HOWEVER, the donor system and the recipient system now have the same identifier, and it’s very possible (and likely) that nintendo will notice two consoles with the same ID connecting at the same time. it’s unknown what nintendo will do here, but it’s definitely possible that BOTH systems will be banned on principle. if nothing else, if either console receives a ban at this point, both will be hit by it.
the issue here is that there are a nonzero amount of terrible people who are admitting to buying systems, ripping that console’s unique ID to unban themselves, and returning it. this means that a seemingly unbanned 3ds might suddenly end up banned weeks or months down the line. at this point, any console could be a risky purchase.
as far as what you can do: avoid used 3ds purchases right now if possible. if a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. if you MUST buy a used system, do two things: verify that online functionality works (you can do this by attempting to link or create an NNID). if it does, try to find out its history. if you’re at a store, try to find out if they can tell you if the system was purchased and shortly returned. i’m not sure i would trust craigslist sales right now at all, honestly. if you can, buy new, unopened systems.
i recognize that it’s approaching christmas, so please be careful buying gifts for your friends and loved ones. it’d be awful if you ended up with a system you can’t actually use to play together.
it is unknown at the moment if the bans are 15 day bans or permanent ones, but it is always best to err on the side of caution here. be vigilant.
anyway, the bans have been confirmed to be permanent, so here’s a reminder to make safe purchases this holiday season
PiraticOctopus 