About relaunches and how Nintendo will loose “old gamers”!

 

I picked up StarFox64 3D yesterday and I was psyched once more. I was back on Corneria, took the hard route and defeated Andross in his real shape. Immediately I was longing for more. More Highscores more medals and play all planets over and over. I catched the fever like I do with all great games from the past.

But today I was hungover. Not (only) because of drinking, but rather because hit me the same way it did with the new 3D-Version of Ocerina of Time. Why should I spend so much time and money to play, what I have played so many years ago? 

The answer is as simple as it is revealing: There is nothing else worth playing!

It seems to me that Nintendo keeps focusing on its wide audience. If it comes down to hardcore gamers.. Well, they only get the good old stuff. It‘s what they long for anyway, to be reminded of their childhood. Just put out a remake of the best games and publish the others 1:1 for the virtual console. It‘s like milking a cow.

So why do I even have the 3DS? Well, it's fun to show it around and have friends experience the 3D-effect. But what about my personal gaming experiance? There was ProEvolutionSoccer but that was half-backed in the end. SuperStreetFighter IV was great, but not as great as its PS3-Version. With SuperMonkeyBall I had to experience that motion-controll doesn't work at all with the 3D-effect. What about Streetpass? That was fun. Yeah right, it „was“, I finished everything a couple of weeks ago. But then again I could download Marios Picross, Tennis and the original Super Mario. Well, that only brings me back to the initial question. Why do I have to only play oldies to enjoy gaming on the Nintendo 3DS?

It‘s time for Nintendo to publish new games with fresh ideas which really use what the 3DS has to offer. Great gameplay and innovative ideas have always made Nintendo big, but with the 3DS ist just „same old, same old“. That would also mean not to publish yet another Nintendogs, Mario Kart, Pikmin, Dragon Quest ect.. Also relaunching is not the key, since games just get too easy. StarFox64 3D is even easier then its original. How is that gonna motivate someone who spend hours and hours to master LylatWars?

They better come up with great new games rather then price dumping, otherwise it‘s a loosing battle in the fight against Sonys Vita and last but definitely not least the smartphones.