/v/ - Video Games

>>15264992

Nintendo put effort into Odyssey.

>>15265007

Companies put effort into making shitty gambling PUBG clones too. It's just that the effort isn't going into things like gameplay.

>>15264992

Nintendo has an advantage over all competitors. Parents buy Nintendo for their children as the brand is successfully tied to that particular image for right or wrong. Copying isn't going to cut it, making something popular and free and accessible is the future for children/multiplayer games.

>>15265079

It doesn't though. When nintendo does stupid shit like make a Paper Mario game without any writing it sells bad. People would buy games from other companies too if they built themselves a fanbase.

>>15265105

right

>why does the latest meh rio game sells like hotcakes

>>15265112

I literally explained why.

>Foster dedicated fanbase by targetting a specific audience and catering to them

>>15265136

the children who will buy anything with bright colours if marketed enough + manchildren who grew up with mario nostalgiafagging audience is a limited one. while following the BR fad is stupid don't pretend nintendo doesn't make money on name alone.

>>15265221

this guy is a CIA plant

All the Western developers who tried to do right by fans threw too much money at a game along the way and wound up selling to kikes. Someone post the picture of EA executing studios.

>>15265218

>The children who buy anything with bright colors

Why don't other companies make their own colorful platformers any more?

>Name alone

Yeah, by building a fanbase who look forward to the next "Mario" "Zelda" or "Metroid" game. Any company can do this.

>>15265250

Well then why do they seek short term profits? There are many companies including Amazon, GMG, ect that purposely operated at a loss for over 5 years in order to generate massive profit long term. Why aren't vidya investors the same?

The reason nobody tries to copy Nintendo is because Nintendo is in the market of making videogames, rather than cinematic shooters.

You can't just throw more high quality textures, models, voice acting, and other triple A cinematic junk at a Nintendo-esque game and expect it to succeed. The game itself has to actually be fun, which is something our good ol' modern gaming industry has left behind in favor of telling mature stories to teenagers.

>>15265256

Short term profit appeal more to investing than long term profit. This is because short term profit is "money now", and long term profit is "money later".

Best example: Look at all the fucking retards investing in GPU mining bitcoin AFTER the price soared.

>>15265257

the whole earth is in a time loop. there is nothing new under the sun

>>15265256

I suspect it has to do with management.

Managers are hired and fired based on results.

Long term results will take time to manifest, therefore managers aim for short term results.

Because every manager only goes for short term profit, the company overall only goes for short term profit.

Meanwhile, Japanese companies hire for life. So people there are less afraid to go for long term results.

>>15265276

> time loop

> not time cube

I find it curious too.

BoTW was a flawed game sure but the engine is excellent, doing shit no one bothers with anymore on extremely outdated hardware to boot.

tendo copies itself

>>15267994

I wish. TF2 was really fucking popular but everyone wanted to copy COD. Overwatch is almost like a TF2 clone but without any decent gameplay design.

>>15264992

The industry spent decades of doing what Nintendo was doing after American console companies got a terminal diagnosis. See: Platformers, controller gimmicks, kart racers, Zelda clones, etc.

>>15267994

Except instead of making good visual representations that can easily be identified their just doing it to be hipsters and still end up having shit tons of visual clutter.

>>15268831

Yeah and things were good back then.

>>15265079

Like the Gamecube?