Sweet revenge

Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata's recent comments (link) regarding Nintendo's staggering loss in net sales and profit for the year basically validated all the bad feelings myself and other ex-Nintendo faithful have expressed over the past few years. If you haven't been keeping up with the gaming business news, Wii sales basically stalled and Iwata admitted that it was because of their inability to come up with compelling software.

No shit buddy, that's what people have been trying to tell you for years! You and Shiggy Miyamoto bet the farm on this "Blue Ocean" strategy, betting that the casual market would keep you afloat. But in the end, your pandering to them forces you to focus company resources on developing idiotic tripe like Wii Fit, instead of a new Zelda etc. The high volume of casual users on the system also results in hardcore-marketed games selling like crap -- Dead Space Extraction sold 9,000 copies on launch. 9,000 COPIES! -- so you can forget about the third parties coming to save your ass.

And Nintendo has been so deficient with coming out with compelling software in recent years that I find my love for their once-classic franchises diminishing with every year that passes.

I mean, I finished Zelda: Twilight Princess all the way through, but it wasn't all that good, and ranks as one of the crappiest Zelda games I've ever played. Ditto for New Super Mario Bros. (it was old school, yes, but it got old as the game wore on and lacked the charm of Super Mario World for the SNES) and Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (the control left a little to be desired, and the one-large-timed dungeon idea fell flat).

What the hell is up, Miyamoto? I want to support you, but you're not giving me a good reason to at all. :-(