Nintendo feedback

[de3d1]

I called Nintendo and inquired where I could leave general feedback about the direction of the company. They immediately wanted to speak with me about it, they told me about they had a new console coming out, but mostly just wanted the feedback.

To me, it sounded like a good time to leave feedback, the guy took about 5 minutes worth of notes of me speaking about how I was displeased with Nintendo and their direction, I told them MS was out of touch with gamers at the beginning of this gen, yet they were still light years ahead of Nintendo. I pointed to that example, and how MS was able to turn it around, the same was true for ps4 detaching from ps3 gen's narrow minded attitude.

Interestingly enough, the guy told me he gets calls about this exact complaint very often, and the tagline seems to be how out of touch Nintendo is compared to the other two giants, which are nothing to brag about to begin with. lol. They have improved though.

Either way, if you want to leave feedback, just call, they are very open to it.
https://www.nintendo.com/consumer/en_la/contact.jsp

 

[Intellivision]

Put it this way.

When a company like MS gets flak and bad PR for a year, sells a console for $500, includes Kinect which many gamers don't want, releases the console a year after Wii U, BUT still sells more that tells you something about Wii U.

What Nintendo has:
- Loads of money.... I think $10 billion
- Well known hits that sell a ton and are high quality... Mario, Zelda etc....
- Always the best selling dedicated handheld gaming system with tons of games
- A good image of family fun, as opposed to being a system about shooters and Grand Theft Auto
- Courage to always release new systems with unique controllers. Before Wii, their controllers were always cutting edge with lots of buttons and analog sticks, SNES had shoulder buttons and diamond format face buttons which have been standard for 25 years

What Nintendo lacks:
- The interest to sacrifice profits and costs on hardware, in order to get more power systems
- Only focuses on family fun franchises
- An image of diverse gaming for core gamers
- Third party support
- The interest to make robust online features, OS, and apps like MS/Sony
- Timely releases of games. Seems like most games get delayed big time. Remember the days back when Super Mario was released on day one and packed in with the system?

Nintendo can always inch there way hoping a weak system that catches fire with a gimmick or control scheme catches on. Wii was a hit. Wii U a miss. What will happen next time?

Interestingly, you'd think Nintendo would be the one company most interested in VR as that's a new way of playing games and Oculus Rift has already been gabbing about it for probably 3-4 years. There has never been dedicated VR gaming outside of arcade gaming gimmicks, and lousy stuff like Power Glove and Sega Activator. But unless Nintendo has big time secret development of VR, they won't be part of it, while Rift, MS and Sony are all trying to do some kind of VR or Hololens thing.

Control pads are nothing special, motion controls are nothing special, tablet gaming is nothing special. So aside from VR, which Nintendo seems to have no interest, what do they have up their sleeve?

I think management knows in their heart they are caught and screwed. They've focused so much on family fun gaming on weak systems, while MS, Sony have most of the gaming interest that unless they can pull off the biggest 180 ever, the core gaming crowd won't be there, third party devs won't be there, so there is no point making a powerful system. A Catch 22.

 

[Jay Mammoth]

Glad to hear NOA is listening to constructive feedback. Lets just hope HQ in Japan listens.

 

[Frozpot]

Put it this way.

Control pads are nothing special, motion controls are nothing special, tablet gaming is nothing special. So aside from VR, which Nintendo seems to have no interest, what do they have up their sleeve?

Oh, you don't even know.... I'll give you a hint...

Does that look kinda dirty to anyone else?

 

[Andy]

Does that look kinda dirty to anyone else?

lol. Looks like that thing they use in the hospital to measure your pulse and O2 stats. The real ones are pretty expensive, from what I've heard. Nintendo's probably got some cheap version, though. They were talking about a big initiative to include more health-related applications. I don't know where that ended up.

 

[Spiritech]

lol. Looks like that thing they use in the hospital to measure your pulse and O2 stats. The real ones are pretty expensive, from what I've heard. Nintendo's probably got some cheap version, though. They were talking about a big initiative to include more health-related applications. I don't know where that ended up.

They've figured out the better way to get their fans to be more physically active is by having them fight and trample each other for amiibos.