Nintendo-fans might be Nintendo's worst enemies

Think about it. Nintendo-fans buy up every SNES Mini. Of course, scalpers do as well, but if the casual store-goer doesn't see SNES Minis on the shelf of a brick-and-mortar store, he or she can't buy one.

Whenever Reggie Fils-Aimé talks about Nintendo-fans, he is not fully happy; he kind of winces. He knows that they are double-edged swords. Sure, their fervor and financial support does, in part, keep the company afloat, but they are also holding the company back.

Nintendo is constantly wrestling between pleasing long-time fans and trying to get new customers. Nintendo does make innovative games like Splatoon and ARMS once in a while, but they also churn out sequel after sequel in other franchises. How many Kirby-games does HAL have to make? I feel sorry for them and for myself, because I do not enjoy Kirby-games with the exception of Rainbow Curse. Because Kirby-games sell pretty well, they keep making them. Nintendo-fans are buying these games, and so innovation is stalled. For a while, sequels may sell and make a lot of money, but eventually the market will move on; it will crash.

Smash Bros. is another example. Fans want a million different characters in the game, and so with Smash 4, the development-team strived to please them. Was it worth it? Maybe. Financially, it was worth it, if you count the 3DS and Wii U versions together, but not even Smash Bros. will stand the test of time if there is no innovation.

Whenever I go onto Nintendo-subreddits, I see all these "fans" wanting ports and sequels of existing Nintendo-IPs. I'm thinking, "Why?" I see only one reason for this. These so-called fans have never played a single game in these IPs before, and so they want to try them, but are too lazy to dig up an old console, buy a copy on ebay, or buy it on the Virtual Console. The old games are not gone from existence; find a way to play them. These younger or newer fans are not helping Nintendo by constantly asking for ports and sequels. When Nintendo "pleases" these fans by constantly putting out ports and sequels, it doesn't make the company's platforms look any better. When a non-Nintendo-fan looks at a system's library, he or she wants to see variety - not just Nintendo-games.

Let us stop placating the vocal minority of younger or newer fans. "Nintendo, you know what's best for your company. Stop listening to the fans so much."

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