I meant reboot.
A mix of something isn't a focus. That's trying to please all parties. Please, don't go defending something you can't.
The new Zelda style is focused. It's a realistic style but with brighter colors (at least from what we've seen) and everything looks smoother and rounded. If you play TP again, it doesn't look as polished as this does.
Nintendo have been losing popularity for a while now, due to failing to provide decent titles for it's core fan base in favour of family friendly titles.
Yet the hardcore fans still eat up their big titles and are the ones buying the games like Red Steel 2 and No More Heroes.
Think back to N64 days, hell even gamecube, and think about how many original titles we were getting. Nowadays, Nintendo take at least 2 years to provide a 1st party game, like a new mario game or a zelda game (more like 4 years for Zelda)
2006: Twilight Princess
2007: Metroid Prime Corruption, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Paper Mario
2008: Mario Kart Wii, Super Smash Bros Brawl
2009: New Super Mario Bros, Punch-Out
2010: Super Mario Galaxy, Sin & Punishment, Metroid: Other M, Kirby: Epic Yarn, Donkey Kong Country Returns
2011: Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
That is just Nintendo published Wii games. As you can see, 2006 was the weakest year of the bunch (the Wii was only out for 2 months that year). The gap between SS and TP will be rather long at 5 years but there were 2 DS games released during then.
and when they release it, they hardly develop the game at all. They keep all the basics, but put it in a different setting. I know i'm not alone in this way of thinking.
When I said reboot, i mean look at the titles. 2D Donkey Kong might be fun, and nostalgic, but should I have to pay $100 bucks to play what is essentially just a revamped version of the original?
DKCR isn't a revamp, it's a completely new game. It's no more a revamp of the SNES games than Majora's Mask was to Ocarina of Time.
It was the same with New Super Mario Bros, Smash Bros, Mario Kart (when half of the levels were just re-used from previous games). They've been relying way too heavily on the nostalgia factor of previous games, rather than developing any new, interesting titles.
They don't need to make new IP, they have more than Sony and MS combined and more than either company ever will. I will agree that they should have paid more attention to their franchises like Pikmin, Star Fox, and (until now) Kirby and DK.
They saw how excited everyone was with characters like Pit, in Smash Bros Brawl, yet do they release a Wii game for that? An interesting new title? Nope.
Last one is a "Yes" actually.
But 3 years later, they release info about a DS game.... because they currently make more money from DS games.
Prove it. Don't go by total sales, more people have DS's than Wiis due to both the hardware and software being cheaper.
Is it their principle console? No. Do they seem to care about the core fans, the fans who've been playing Nintendo their whole life? No. Do they care about the cheap to make, shovel ware family crap that they KNOW will be bought by parents all over the world? YES.
The only shovelware Nintendo has published is Wii Music and Wii Play. Wii Music was a complete bomb and Wii Play only sells because it's bundled with a Wiimote.
