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On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:00:12 +0100, Werner Punz <we...@gmx.at> wrote:

>Am 16.11.15 um 20:29 schrieb Rin Stowleigh:
>> Aside from a handful of retro titles, I occasionally jump in for a
>> round of Super Mario 3D World.  Regardless of how anyone feels about
>> platformers, the whole Mario/Donkey Kong heritage, and cartoonish
>> visuals, if one plays the game with an eye toward game design and
>> quality, it is a truly amazing piece of gaming art, just like most
>> everything else they do is.  Kind of a shame they don't get more
>> credit.  I couldn't replace PC gaming with the Wii-U, it's a different
>> kind of gaming, but IMO it is the best console offering.
>Actually Sony the last years also has churned out a number of amazing 
>first party games for their consoles.
>Besides their usual offerings, they have a bunch of smaller titles for 
>instance the ones from Media Molecule or the studio which programmed 
>Journey which follow similar design principles like Nintendo does.
>Also they seem to have a good eye on what independend games they fund, 
>some of those in the pipleline look amazing.
>
>The best platformer although a little bit short I played the last years 
>was from Sony/Media Molecule on the PS Vita, it was called Tearaway. A 
>five hours game which blended in the camera and pretty much every 
>control the vita has (and it has lots of them) and made a really good 
>platformer out of it.
>
>Also if you have a PS3 or PS4 give Journey a try. Excellent game 
>although a little bit on the weird side.

I've never had a PS3 or 4, but Journey is one of those occasional
exclusives that I wouldn't mind to try. 

>But I generally agree Nintendo overall should deserve more credit for 
>their highly underrated Wii-U. They have released a load of excellent 
>first party titles most of them among the best of this console 
>generation. To bad they made the console so weak and lost the entire 
>third party market that way. The Wii-U from a first party perspective is 
>way better than the Wii ever was. The reason simply is that the first 
>party lineup is top notch and there literally is no shovelware on the 
>system.

I've often wondered if their underpowered hardware is one of those
"crazy like a fox" moves.  One of the reasons so many early video
games were great is because the extremely limited computing resources
required the developer to get really creative on how to utilize such
sparse resources -- that creativity is often what led to the game
design choices that made the classics what they are.  

Maybe Nintendo wanted to frighten away the developers who would just
end up doing a lackluster port of some Metal Gear Solid game or
whatever.  Who needs yet another platform to play games like that?
What's great about Nintendo games is (as you said) the guarantee if it
has their name on it, it's not going to be shovelware.  If I were a
third-party developer who didn't have a similar commitment to quality,
I would run like hell too (and blame it on weak hardware if that's
convenient).. lol