Their games are notably expensive, and they are overly defensive about their IPs, but they haven’t forgotten that the goal is to make fun games first and foremost.
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missingno@fedia.io 5 days ago
I know the hivemind around here has some pretty strong opinions about Nintendo, but I do appreciate that their games still feel normal when nearly every other AAA has pretty thoroughly enshittified.
Glide@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s because their employees don’t leave until retirement. It’s how they can pass on knowledge and experience to the next generation of developers. It’s how the old guard like Shigeru Miyamoto can keep the companies creative direction pointing the right way. This is why they have delivered high quality creative work for decades while others, especially western studios , just die a slow death by a thousands cuts because they fire employees constantly for short term profits. Nintendo trains and nurtures talent and actually keep them on the payroll so the company can benefit from the time they have invested in the employees. Nintendo in Japan is a highly regarded employer with a very good reputation.
joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
I just like the lightheartedness of a lot of the games, everything is so serious already. Feel good games.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 5 days ago
Nintendo gets sooo much hate online but I genuinely think they make some of the most solid video games. They innovate, they iterate, they ship rock solid games. Now if only their online wasn’t absolute garbage.