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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That, and the bloom has certainly been off the rose with most big name Nintendo properties over the last couple of cycles. Tears of the Kingdom was just a retread of Breath of the Wild but without the benefit of the formula being fresh and arguably worse in quite a few respects. Pokémon has been an archaic frustrating insult to the player's time and intelligence since the 3DS era, arguably before. Echoes of Wisdom should have been a $15 eShop title. Super Mario Wonder managed to simultaneously be underwhelming, rather grating, possess zero replay value, and pales in comparison to Odyssey. Etc, etc.

It seems Nintendo is getting paranoid and conservative. Creativity is dead over there, and mostly the only moves they're making are safe and samey cash-grabs, which is a strategy that I don't think has much long term potential. This is really the first time ever I have no interest in a new Nintendo console nor any of its games, and Nintendo's continued fan- and customer-hostile behavior that's really ramped up over the last several years also pitches in to make this an easy no sell for me.