Topic: Is your patience with Nintendo wearing thin?

ZombieU is awesome, simply the most intense zombie game I have ever played.

Do something, one thing, wrong and you're done. Which I assume is quite what would happen in real life.

It has nothing to do with Nintendo, though!

This thread is just another classic example of FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS

Play games to have fun! If Nintendo is doing something you like then play Nintendo. If you don't like what Nintendo is doing then don't play their stuff. It really is that simple. Excuse me I have a back catalog of Wii U games I need to get back to

@MadAussieBloke So true

Niope, because I'm not exactly their target audience and the company still puts out enough good games for me not to care top much. Despite me not liking where the company had gone sometimes and feeling they never really replaced Rare (and no Retro is in no way proper Rare replacement), but its also a reason why I'm buying a Playstation 4.

No i'm not pissed with Nintendo for shutting down Swapnote, i'm upset with the idiots that abused it. As far as power console competing with the competition, i think power isn't making that much of a difference as enhancing gameplay. It's also hurting some developers/publishers who can't keep up with the new tech.

No

Let me see.

Had a blast playing NES games through their .30 cent promotion earlier this year.
Been playing through old Wii games I never played thanks to backwards compatibility.
Absolutely loving the software surge on the 3DS.
Enjoyed Pikmin 3 and Wii Party U. Got a controller with the latter.
Loving Wii Fit U. Got two Fit Meters and still felt like I got a great deal.
Eagerly anticipating Super Mario 3D World and A Link Between Worlds. A sequel to one of the greatest Zelda games of all time that is going back to the franchise roots and a 4 player 3D Mario = win.
Hyped up for the software surge on the Wii U.

Oh, and did I mention I got to play Earthbound for the first time this year? And I even got to see the strategy guide. There's also the Club Nintendo rewards that have been filling up my Wii and 3DS Virtual Console. And I got a Pikmin 3 bag out of it too.

So, no. Should my patience be wearing thin? Good things take time. I'm not furious over waiting for Metal Gear Solid V, Guity Gear X3rd, Halo 5, Titanfall, and the many other great games I simply have to wait for. Shoddy business practices, terrible excuses for games, and disrespect towards customers earns my anger. I'm looking right in your direction, Sega, Capcom, and Square Enix!

Question: Is your patience with Nintendo wearing thin?
Answer: No, as I am not an immature child with an unrealistic sense of entitlement.

I am torn on this. I enjoy what I get from Nintendo. Maybe they're business savvy leaves something to be desired. Maybe one day they they no longer exist, and I will be sad. I will also have an extra $2-3k in my bank account every year because I haven't touched my PS(pick your #) or 360 in almost a year. So that would be good and I have plenty of other hobbies for it to never affect me for very long. Oh yeah but back to the point, the only electronic entertainment that I think is any good comes on Nintendo systems, so it has not worn thin.

Nobody here said they were entitled to anything. You don't have to be a child to be annoyed either.

I don't really care about the services they're changing. IMO they should just get rid of Swapnote altogether and replace it with Miiverse.

So wait, people seem to be pissed off that Nintendo focusses on children while most of us "diehard fans" were those very children they focussed on. Hmm. Such a whiny thread. I hate whiny threads.

I wasn't whining. I was asking a legitimate question.

Sort of. My patience with Nintendo's games isn't wearing thin.

My patience with Nintendo as a company? Most definitely is, their recent decisions have generally been terrible and it's making me hope Iwata gets fired sooner rather than later.

Nintendo have been making bizarre decisions for a very long time. They still make great games. Life is just a bowl of cherries.

You're capturing my feelings pretty much perfectly.

It'll be 22 years this Christmas since I got my first Nintendo (a Gameboy) and 21 years since my SNES purchase.

In all that time it's been a constant test of patience alleviated by top quality games. Off the top of my head I can think of the price-gouging N64 launch, the removal of face mapping from Perfect Dark, huge delays to the likes of Excitebike 64 at a time when there was little else coming out, lack of marketing for the 'Cube allowing it to slip into being a cult concern, having to wait 2 years for Animal Crossing/Mario Golf : TT, several good Wii games not making it to Europe (and the US), region-locking the 3DS etc. etc. It's a constant conflict between amazing software and head-slappingly stupid business decisions.

They test my patience with the neglect of fan favourites like F-Zero, Starfox, Pilotwings, Wave Race, Advance Wars etc. They test the patience of long-term fans with the VC-it could be brilliant fan service but instead they use it to tease loyal old-school fans like they're putting a treat on a dogs nose and telling it to stay. They continually refuse to sort their online Account system out-Nintendo's slew of franchises is riddled with games that should have online multiplayer including co-op (they can still have local multiplayer as well-that's no excuse) and would tie in briliantly with the stuff they've done well like Miiverse. They test patience by struggling (by their own admission) to make the transition to HD development when they've had years and millions of pounds profits to be ready for it.

My patience with Nintendo is wearing thin (after buying N64/GC/Wii at launch it took 11 months for the Wii U to be worth a purchase in my eyes, after buying GBC/GBA/DS at launch it took 8 months for 3DS to be worth a purchase in my eyes) but it's not run out. I'd like to see a change of direction at the top of the company. I see wasted potential and worry about them long-term. While they keep making the likes of Pikmin 3, Mario 3D Land, Luigi's Mansion 2, Wind Waker HD I doubt it'll run out entirely.

What a ridiculous statement. I can't roll my eyes hard enough.. If Nintendo want more of my money-and believe me they do-then they have to do better. Expecting that is not an 'unrealistic sense of entitlement', it's cold, hard consumer judgement.

OP: I don't know ... I pretty much support Nintendo with what they just did. This kind of social networking "evil doing" is on the rise, and as a (slightly) older person who lived in time long before Facebook, Twitter, Ask.fm, etc., I find most of the stuff people are doing with these services extremely disturbing. Speaking only about school-aged children, it's infinitely easy to now bully someone, stalk someone, and harass someone through social networking. Nothing you do is private anymore, and many very young people have even decided to take their own lives because of the horrific things being done to them through web-based services.

I support Nintendo 100% in shutting down one portion of their services that they found were leading to some of the behaviors I just mentioned. In fact, I'm going to say that I hope more backlash against social networking is given a voice in the near future. At first, it was a novel concept, and for many small businesses something like Facebook was a nice way to get your brand out there. But as time has gone on, human beings have proved that, once again, many ideas sound fantastic on paper, but turn sour once put into the real world.

Yes... and no. They only test my patience when it comes to offering club nintendo gifts for 20 minutes before running out.