Nintendo and it's future

After reading an article on Kotaku about Nintendo's games, it got me to thinking (a dangerous thing to do)...

I like Nintendo, they are a powerhouse in the gaming industry, however as of lately they haven't been all that great. It really started with the DS when they decided to stray into different territory, the land of the gimmicks.

And then there's the 3DS and the Wii U, which is more gimmicks. You know who also went into gimmicks? Sega. Sega had the Sega CD, the 32X, the Dreamcast with it's VMU and online play (something that wasn't ready at the time). Nintendo is treading dangerously close to where Sega was.

Nintendo also seems very content to stay in the area of party games. Another one of their problems, they made 8 Mario Party games and plenty of Mario sports games and other Mario spin-offs. And releasing the same game over and over again. Super Mario 64 has been released 3 times, the N64, the DS and the Wii Virtual Console. The Legend of Zelda the Ocarina of Time has been released several times and now they're released Star Fox 64 again for the 3DS.

Nintendo is insulting it's fans. No matter what they do, as long as the slap Mario's or Link's face on it, people will buy it. Doesn't that insult you that you bought the same game 3 times on 3 different consoles because it's creators were too lazy to make a new game? And they knew you would buy it 3 times too.

And now the 3DS is going to be $170, why? Because no one was buying it! No one wanted to spend money on a handheld that cost more than the console. And it STILL costs more than the Wii about $30 more than the Wii.

Nintendo needs to get off their ass and make some good games again. They know they can, but they're being lazy and know that their fans will buy anything they put out.