Topic: PSA for Nintendo

Nintendo, I hereby request that you end you days dilly dallying about and making worthless merchandise. I propose that you do us all a favor and sell out, but not sell out with a negative connotation, sell out with pride. It would quite interesting and enterprising if you were to forget your own consoles and make your games for say, PS4. Sell your IPs to Sony and stay a developer, I for one love your franchises such as Zelda and Mario, but your games feel so restricted. Open up your possibilities.

Restricted? How so?

But, I can understand how you feel. If I owned a PS4 or Xbox, I'm sure I'd be bored out of my wits too.

Ok master. Hereby I sell you Nintendo IP - used brawl and galaxy 1&2. Do whatever you want with them

It's not that I'm bored with my consoles, I just feel that Nintendo has good games on poop consoles. Like Nintendo can afford to be a publisher and a developer and imagine a massive Zelda game on PS4. That would be the tightest thing ever

You mean the console that doesn't require me to pay for online services? The console that is actually able to run some games at 60fps and 1080p?

A massive Zelda game, you say? Kinda like [youtube:upXyl6GRLg0]
Truth to be told, Nintendo isn't going third party for a long, long time. Maybe as a last resort if a few of their consoles fall flat (aka the Sega route), but I believe they're at their best on a platform they've built from the ground up. I'd dare say that explains in part why Nintendo's games are so great.

Dunno where you've been but the PS4 has proven to be able to run games at 1080p and 60fps (The Last of Us) also with the new Zelda Wii U, if you really think it would be on a scale of any given adventure game that will be put on the other consoles, you are mistaken. I bet even the first Dark Souls is more expansive than that will be game. Imagine a Zelda game with the scale of Far Cry 4 or GTA V or AC Unity. All these giant games because other consoles have what it takes. I would love to see a Twilight Princess styled Zelda game that's been made absolutely gorgeous and massive on a better platform. Look at Kingdom Hearts III trailers, a Zelda game would look like that on PS4 and it'd be amazing.

Edit: That Dark Souls comment may have been a stretch but you know what I mean.

Why would you want a world as empty as GTA5? With no scripts to run, important quests or anything like that they can make a world 100x bigger. I will never get it why people are so worked up about something that brings nothing to gameplay at all. Other than padding that is

-_- I think you missed the point. GTAV has a huge, beautiful world, that's the main point of it. AC Unity, you have like 800 bajillion things on screen at once all the time and a pretty big map, yet the game manages to stay great looking. A beautiful Zelda game, on a huge map, with a complex story that requires you to explore the whole game world. Not simply an adventure, a true epic. A world that's alive and changes with you, as you progess through the game. Imagine Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis System in that. I dunno about you all, but all this is sounding pretty amazing to me. I don't think the Wii U is up to that task though. If Nintendo made a console with hardware that gave Sony or Microsoft a run for their money, then actually use that hardware for something amazing and ambitious, I'd give my soul to them in a heartbeat, but so far the ambition seems to be lacking with Nintendo.

Most of the games you listed also run on last-gen consoles (sans AC Unity, but that apparently runs poorly even on current-gen). Taking this into account, there's no reason Nintendo couldn't achieve on Wii U the things you listed. Sure, it won't be as good looking as it would be on PS4 no doubt about that. But huge map, sprawling world executed with style? I trust in Nintendo to achieve all of that.

Though I suppose at this point your pondering is as good as mine. We'll just have to wait for a longer trailer.

A fanboy alert when I've already said I'm a Nintendo fan...real mature.

On another note, the main reason I made this post was because of Nintendo's lack of ambition. I honestly don't see anything really impressive coming out of Nintendo besides making leaps in handheld gaming. What happened to the innovation? To revolutionizing entire game genres? Back when the hardware wasn't a big deal because everything was practically the same, Nintendo owned it. Now the name of the game has changed and you gotta either be bigger and better, or simply more innovative. With the resources they have, any risk Nintendo takes would either succeed beyond anything Sony or Microsoft has ever done, or will fade into the background, but still leave them safe. This has been an idea really, something not only me, but some of my friends as well would love to see.
By the by AC Unity isn't on last gen and it runs just fine for me except my co-op doesn't work but I hardly play it anyway. I just love what was done with it graphically.

Wouldn't you call the Gamepad innovative? It's not on Wii level, but certainly more than the other two. Miiverse is another unique-to-Nintendo step. And I don't know about you, but in my opinion Super Mario 3D World, Mario Kart 8 and SSB have all been the defining games of their respective genres in recent years – and glitch-free.

I said sans AC: Unity. I've got nothing more than second-hand accounts on the game, but especially the FPS has been getting criticised heavily, and that's something impacts hugely on how I enjoy a game.

You've done it. You've just solved all of Nintendo's problems. You should probably email Mr. Iwata ASAP to tell him that his company is saved.

You mean apart from dual screen, 3d, motion controls, off tv play and putting their hardware into a little purple box?

ZZZZ. It's not about graphics

[sees someone wanting Nintendo games on other platforms]
[laughs]

Ugh, another "Nintendo should be 3rd party" thread. This is pathetic, don't you realize that the only reason Nintendo are able to make such great quality games is because they're releasing the games for their own consoles. Think about it for a second, Sony and Microsoft both have the approach of getting a game out for a certain release date being more important than the quality of the product. Remember what Microsoft did to Rare or what happened with Sonic '06 solely because of Microsoft and Sony's deadlines, the list goes on.

Sure, Nintendo has made some questionable decisions such as delaying Tropical Freeze to 2014 or having a really bad Wii U launch in terms of 1st party titles available but in the end the vast majoirty of these decisions have led to better games which as a real gamer is what matters.

It is not fair to compare Nintendo franchises, particularly The Legend of Zelda, with the likes of GTAV and Far Cry. Why? These games are released on multiple platforms and sell MILLIONS of copies (hence the justification for their enormous budgets). The budget of GTAV was around US$265 million, making it one of the most expensive video games ever made (and I doubt that this figure factors in the costs associated with the PS4/Xbox/PC versions).

Combined GameCube and Wii sales of Twilight Princess are a little over 7 million. The last original Zelda game, Skyward Sword, sold only 3.5 million. A success, sure, but hardly the bustling sales success that it would need to be in order to justify a sequel with a budget (and scope) matching that of multiplatform open world games.

Be careful what you wish for. A genie may hear you and turn it into the next Sega,

Are you just saying you want to see wide worlds and more gorgeous soil? That's it? Oh boy....
I think the Wii U is more than capable of doing this stuff than how much you say it is. If I have to give examples of 3rd party games that have a world that's occupied, Watchdogs and Ninja Gaiden 3. First party? WWHD and Lego City Undercover. I don't think adding gigantic worlds will make experiences better; look at the original Wind Waker - what do you think made the triforce hunt stressful?