What are some ideas that you have for Nintendo?

Basically just name some ideas that you think will help Nintendo.

Mine are:

1. Market the Wii U better. Like, put some ads on TV for it.

2. Expose the franchises that aren't Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, and Pokemon. Keep those franchises going, but also give us a new Starfox, F-Zero, Fire Emblem, Star Tropics, Earthbound, Pikmin (I am aware that 3 is out, but that had a sequel gap between 2 and 3), and Donkey Kong Country (Again, aware of Tropical Freeze being out, but I'd something that has the character-swapping ability of the SNES games, just so I'm not stuck as DK, meaning that I can play as Dixie in solo mode)

3. Do something original with the controller. This is a must

4. Try to win back the hardcore crowd, this can be achieved by combining idea #2 with giving some their games a complex storyline to follow. It won't for F-Zero, but they could try with Mario and Kirby.

I think more specifically the next F-Zero game should include online multiplayer, a track builder, preserve the custom racer garage that they had in GX and possibly more than one story mode for more than one racer? I mean even though Captain Falcon is pretty awesome, some characters such as Dr. Stewart and Pico are badly overlooked.

Reboot Star Fox into a somewhat more serious scifi series.

One way to do this is to deal with Corneria's expansionist policies or the fallout from such policies if it was recently repealed.

Market and/or create new games for their lesser-known franchises, like Nazo no Murasamejou, Mach Rider, F-Zero, Panel de Pon (but I would say that), or Mole Mania, instead of just sitting on the rights to do nothing with beyond the occasional Virtual Console release. Mario and Zelda and Kirby and Pokemon are fun and always will be, but right now the only games we're seeing from Nintendo are those titles plus a sea of new IPs, which together have all but drowned those old, forgotten golden oldies.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to be a Western PDP fan? ;_;

edited 6th May '14 4:41:43 PM by Midna

1. Start pumping out more 1st party titles
2. Start using money to get more exclusives, especially from large companies
3. More ads, LOTS more ads. Have to clear out people's confusion about the Wii U.

Really tho, Nintendo can forget about 3rd party support...if they want to win back hardcore crowd they have to get a lot more 1st party titles out...

edited 6th May '14 8:50:55 PM by onyhow

Do a little more in other media. Sonic and Mega Man have been doing pretty well in comic form. Mortal Kombat got a successful live-action web series.

Yeah, it was nice having the F-Zero and Kirby anime in English (and Pokemon's been going on forever), and I understand that they're probably still burned after the Super Mario Bros. movie, but why not give it another shot?

I think Wreck It Ralph demonstrated that people like the idea of Nintendo characters(and others) appearing outside the games. Just picture it, an animated Punch Out series, a CGI Legend Of Zelda movie, or even an F Zero comic book!

I will keep this simple so even Nintendo's bosses can understand it - Stop being complete blank blank blank blankity blank idiots and release games from your many many many franchises on mobile platforms like Ios, Android and Windows Mobile. Do you not like money or something, Nintendo? Well, your shareholders sure as hell do. And releasing those games on mobile formats would make you tonnes of cash. Literally. You would have to weigh it instead of counting it.

And the reasons you give for NOT BEING CLEVER are so transparently idiotic I am not even going to bother enumerating them. They are just aberrant information and hence can be discarded. Keeping a boss at the helm that stops the games being released on mobile platforms, and hence stopping you getting those tonnes of money, is so idiotic I would have to calculate exactly how much idiocy is on display using scientific notation.

edited 7th May '14 3:43:11 AM by TamH70

First party games, lots of them, and specific games designed for specific niches (Make some challenging games as well as more laidback ones). Just start making more games period.

Biggest suggestion I have for nintendo is to change their policies on youtube gamers, yes, having people share your games does ruin the fresh feel of playing a brand new game, however, not having people play your games is worse.

I don't think having them releasing game on other platform unless they really have to went the way of Sega...

I want to see more prolific SEA support, Big N. Open up Singapore's confounded e-Shoppe!

@Worlder: Umm, just to ask, why make Star Fox more serious? I mean, most popular game in the series is uber corny and awesome for it <_<

edited 7th May '14 8:50:49 AM by SpookyMask

Two things:

• Expand Nintendo EAD. Because of the company's relatively small size, they can't pump out games as often as most other companies can. Because of that, all Nintendo EAD can do nowadays is make Mario and Zelda. Expanding Nintendo EAD can allow them enough manpower to make Mario, Zelda, and ALL of the other franchises that have been thrown by the wayside.
• Make a game specifically designed to appeal to older bloodthirsty western gamers. Maybe something like a darker rework of Battalion Wars (which would be both bloody and unique)?

• Expand Retro Studios to become EAD West. Then, you can have new IP's and more game production in the process.
• Buyout Sega and then make: Phantasy Star Online 2 exclusive, Shenmue III, Sonic Adventure 3, a Space Channel 5 reboot developed by the Nintendo EAD Rhythm Heaven team, Star Fox made by Sega AM2 and F-Zero done by the remaining Amusement Vision members with Sumo Digital, among others.
• Better marketing as most of you guys said.
• Make the Wii U VC better. It shame we don't have Non-Nintendo consoles, yet. On it.
• Expand your IP's into TV and Comics.

edited 7th May '14 4:07:15 PM by Segaguycrazy

1: Buy loved, dormant intellectual properties to expand the companies western appeal. First-line candidates include Sky Commanders and Wild Cats

2 : Listen to internet fanboys demand and make the next mainline Zelda an open-world WROP Gs featuring bludd, a dialogue wheel and a mature storyline for sophisticated Assasins Creed-playin' audience. Outsourced to the developers of Two Worlds.

3: Test the mobile marketplace by releasing a port of Radar Scope.

4: Drop Mario and make Ashley from Wario Ware the new face of the company, complete with games, manga and chinese cartoon. Thought Squeenix went overboard in promoting Lightning? You've seen nothing yet.

5: Drop Wii U price to $50, make a bundle with Funky Barn.

A game that pretty much calls out the game industry (especially the western one) on how it always treats consumers like idiots. Maybe that'll open peoples' eyes for once.

No more locking Nintendo ID to a single machine. That’s dumb yo!

Region locking bad, m’kay.

I know you’ve said you’re more open to it, but seriously, license out your I Ps to other mediums. I’d buy a book or comic about Ganondorf’s decent into darkness during his troubled youth in the desert. I’d buy 10!

Collaborate with Disney on a CG Mario movie. Release new Mario game around the movie’s opening.

Expand your Western Studios. You shouldn’t have only one. Buy Next Level and Monster and start up a bunch on others.

Have those studios revive old I Ps or create new ones that aren’t small eShop titles that the gaming press will ignore because they don’t have over inflated budgets.

Make a stealth game around stealing. Have Stephen Russell voice the protagonist. During their E3 ’15 Digital Event thing they’ll probably do, have random snippets of Russell’s character sneaking around a level based on No A’s building. At the end he steals Nintendo’s megaton announcement and reveals it to the world.

http://www.siliconera.com/2014/05/07/nintendos-first-step-smartphone-strategy-mario-kart-tv/

So is this a step in the right direction?

A very small and conservative one, yep. But a step nonetheless. More than I expected from Iwata, tbh.

But it don't go far enough, or anywhere near it. They can't keep doing this shit:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27308862

Even given my piss poor arithmetic that's a thirty billion yen plummet, and it's caused by their insistence on doing consoles that are chained to televisions when there is only room now for two of those and neither of them is made by Nintendo.

They should cut their losses and stop making the Wii U. Tail it off gradually or whatever, so the customers that actually bought the thing don't feel like complete idiots, but eventually stop. Because, yeah, they are repeating the trajectory that Sega followed and that nearly killed that company because they never planned an exit from the home console market - they had it forced on them.

I have a few more ideas:

1. I agree somewhat with Nintendo making their games available (legally) on IOS. Although they can only pull off NES, GB/GBC/GBA, and SNES games for that.

2. I also agree on making comics/movies/shows about their franchises. For movies they could attempt something like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and with the shows they could try to pull a DCAU.

3. Buy up some western studios like Next Level.

4. Make a non-FPS M-rated game. That could possibly bring the "M-Rated only" crowd.

5. Slow down rate of release dates for Mario, Pokemon, and Kirby games. I'm actually getting tired of yearly releases.

6. MAKE A CROSSOVER RPG GAME WITH ALL NINTENDO FRANCHISES, ME WANT!!!!!

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-to-launch-new-console-not-the-wii-u-or-3ds-in-emerging-markets/1100-6419501/

And how about this? Is this a good idea?

Pokemon MMO.

Drop random announcements whenever something bad happens to them.

• Oh, we had a fiscal loss for the year? Here's some Pokemon remakes.

• Everyone is dissing the Wii U again? Take Bayonetta 2.

• The hardcore fans still hate us? Not after new Zelda, Metroid, Star Fox, Fire Emblem, and F-Zero. I wish.

Seriously though? Weather the storm, make absolutely sure the next gimmick will attract everyone, and keep up a positive image. And maybe reboot stuff like Ice Climbers and Balloon Fighter.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-to-launch-new-console-not-the-wii-u-or-3ds-in-emerging-markets/1100-6419501/

From what I can glean from that article, the new console they're coming out with is something like the iQue Player they collaborated with over in China. Notice how they said "emerging markets" and China in particular. It's most likely not something planned for release in the West.

And is that a good idea?