Nintendo is stuck in the past (& they should stay that way)

2024 has been full of failure for some of the biggest names in the industry & the cause can be easily traced back to the incessant need to be on the bleeding edge of tech & other forms of greed. Meanwhile, Nintendo has been on the best run of its existence with the comparatively minimal Nintendo Switch.

Along the way, many have criticized them for this more reserved approach assuming that it would leave them behind their competition but now, with their competition doing things like speedrunning failure like PlayStation with the release & subsequent of Concord & the controversial announcement of PS5 with a $700 price tag. Or Xbox with its many layoffs after spending billions to acquire the talent they are leaving jobless.

Nintendo clearly saw the writing on the wall. Their strategy has left them looking to be the only truly sustainable business heading into their next generation console "Nintendo Switch 2" (or whatever it'll more likely be called). Let's look at what got us here. . .

Edited by @astrapboy

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
1:05 - The Rise(?) And Fall Of Concord
3:55 - Nintendo Switch 2 vs Sony PS5 Pro
7:30 - "For The Players"
10:26 - It's Not JUST PlayStation
11:53 - Outro

#redirect #nintendo #ps5pro #concord #astrobot #gaming

[WatchReDirect]

Thanks for watching! What do you think about Nintendo’s approach vs the industry? ALSO, thoughts on the editing/pace of the video? experimenting with hiring an editor & I’m curious if you guys noticed an increase in quality at all?

[wantedasylum]

Imagine that, treating your employees like people instead of cattle, and making a reasonable quantity of video games instead of money laundering schemes disguised as wannabe movies.

[xman]

nintendo has an absolutely killer strategy. make your consoles have old hardware so you can sell them for cheaper than the competition, then give your games cartoony graphics so people can't tell the hardware is inferior, and you can focus on gameplay instead of graphics making their games incredibly fun to play, and also much cheaper to make.

[minecrafter]

Here’s the difference between Nintendo and everyone else

Nintendo: I want the most money possible

Everyone else: I want the most money NOW. GIVE IT.

[painuchiha]

People will bring 100 things wrong about Nintendo and their overpriced games or whatever
But to me in my opinion the most important thing is how Nintendo treats their employees and game development in a sustainable way.
Customers having to deal with expensive Nintendo games is one thing but employees at Sony Microsoft constantly losing their jobs is literally killing the industry.
People who make games have their lives ruined and it’s a much worse issue than nitpicking Nintendo’s flaws which for the most part are harmless.
I think becoming a game dev is a terrible idea in this current environment.

[lett]

Putting consumers and developers first and treating them like people rather than sources of income makes a huge difference. Chasing profits for profits' sake may work short term, but is terrible long term. Unfortunately success seems to make these companies lose sight of what caused the success in the first place.

[kenji]

As someone who doesn’t own a PS5 and hasn’t played Astro Bot, the idea that it’s “Basically Super Mario Galaxy 3” is the best idea I’ve heard for a big budget game in a while.

[s.gilbertdyer]

Proof that some level of conservativism (not the political ideology) works well in businesses.

[megasean]

Nintendo aren’t in the past. Sony and Microsoft were just in a hurry to reach the future that not everyone has caught up with them.

[giganticmoon]

people are saying the industry is falling when we have nintendo and pcs that are thriving with amazing experiences.
i got called autistic and shit for liking the switch when i started middle school back in like 2017 because i didn’t have 2k or a ps4 (i got one later, still no 2k) and it sucked man

[coreywilliams]

I don't always agree with a lot of Nintendo's annoying business decisions, but i still respect them for not following trends, as it gets to the point that the popular trend loses it's value in the future because its flooded with "copycat" games. right now, other gaming giants seem too focused on Fortniteification of their live service games. other then that, a lot of aaa games outside of Nintendo look and play the same (i'm looking at you, shooters)

[JediMB]

It's probably telling that I personally haven't owned a non-Nintendo console since the PS2 (and do the rest of my gaming on PC)... but none the less I do think there are two areas where Nintendo really need to improve:

1) Online multiplayer
The whole friend code mess is an incredible annoyance that shouldn't exist anymore, and people should have the built-in option to use voice chat. (Voice chat isn't for me, personally, but it's perfectly possible to satisfy both audiences who do and don't want to use it.)

2) Accounts and digital content availability
The whole mess of having one-way transfers of digital content between the Wii and Wii U was so clumsy and unnecessary. The same for if you do a mid-generation upgrade/sidegrade and want to keep your stuff. All you should need is your account credentials, like on Steam, and purchases of emulated content (like the Virtual Console) should just transfer over perfectly with new emulation software and be available for purchase on the new platform just like it was on the old.

[stevensullivan]

I love Nintendo's commitment to being Nintendo

[ExtremeWreck]

TBH, I feel that it's Sony & Microsoft who are stuck in the past. They've been doing this "realistic game" spiel since at least the early-mid 2000s. The "more powerful console" babble was done by Sony with the PS3 & done later on with the PS4, then done again with the PS5. Microsoft? They did that with the original Xbox, then the Xbox 360, then the Xbox One, so on(in the case of Microsoft, they weren't the only American company that did this. Atari did that with the Lynx & Jaguar, & well... look at how THOSE turned out). Following trends is just a disguise that they're doing to PRETEND that they're in the future & even THEN, Concord can be argued to be stuck in the past in terms of gameplay & concept with how it's just a simple Fortnite clone with no changes outside of generic character design & ugly cutscenes.

Nintendo on the other hand is far ahead of them, innovating new ways to play & new world designs to be inspired by, making new ideas for gameplay genres, etc. As much as I don't like a fair bit of Nintendo's practices, they're the LEAST guilty of the 3.

[Hynotama]

Sometimes companies have to learn not to “fix” what isn’t broken. Prime example is how “the future of PlayStation” was a total flop and a waste of 8 years and 400 million dollars, while the little mascot platformer that they didn’t even bother advertising, is likely gonna be game of the year. The little platformer collectathon that evokes 90s and early 2000s nostalgia, is so good and beloved, that for once journalists and players agreed on it being a 9-10 game. So yeah, sometimes being “stuck in the past” is good.

[trevlsteinberg]

Man, Sony really makes it difficult to be fans of theirs anymore. Any momentum they have is fumes from ps2 era lol

[antoniodanielsantos]

They should also be stuck in the past in the sense of releasing complete games instead of physical versions requiring download.

[TGtornadoe]

I remember someone at Nintendo saying something along the lines of “We are competing for our customers attention, not their money.”

Sony and Microsoft have pretty much lost my attention but I’m always excited for what Nintendo is doing.

[Shadow-Joop-]

One of the reasons that Sony and Microsoft games cost so much money and time to make is because they all have a realistic art style. Nintendo's franchises on the other hand almost all have either a cartoon art style or an anime art style so it costs almost nothing to make games and takes about 2 or 3 years to be made.

If spiderman 2 had only sold 1 million copies it would have been the ends of the world, princess peach showtime sold just over 1 million copies and we will probably get a sequel in the future

[teenkitsune]

I remember seeing this trend as early as the 7th generation, the first HD consoles were dominated by cookie cutter shooters whose marketing focused solely on the graphics, graphic violence might be part of that marketing but graphics were always at the forefront. And all the guys around me ate that shit up, I still remember this one obnoxious guy in high school who acted like Gears of War was the second coming just because of its graphics and graphic violence, he even gave me shit for not liking Gears because in his mind I had to admire the graphics, like it was blasphemy to not get a massive boner over said graphics. It got even worse once PS4 and Xbone came out, it even got toxic with people calling those of us with a Wii U names, I even had a few people resort to personal attacks about me being autistic, transgender, and other things I won't mention here. So I know exactly what you're talking about and have been saying this since I was 14, for perspective I'm currently 32 at the time of writing this.