I find it a little weird the exalted position that Nintento seems to occupy in most peoples' minds. Maybe it's that I've always been a PC gamer first, and that's skewed my whole view forever, but Nintendo's offerings have always felt a little... meh. I don't have any use for actiony platformers, and the cutesy art style doesn't do much for me. Nor do I care about gimmicky controllers. Since the end of the SNES generation, their catalog of third-party games has lagged behind the other options. It's all pretty underwhelming.
I expect this to be an unpopular oppinion, but it needs to be said.
I have a compulsion to poke at sacred cows and point out when the emperor has no clothes. It's really hard to rein in.
Edit: It's also quite entertaining. There's certain fan groups that have elevated liking a product into quasi-religious stature. Pointing out the absurdity of that tends to bring out the sticks and pitchforks.
Now you presume you know the "truth", not that is a personal opinion of yours. That you are the only one in the crowd with the wisdom to see things as they are. That's why you are downvoted, not because your opinion is unpopular.
If you presented your opinion as just a subjective opinion, not the revealing of truth to illuminate the ignorant, your opinion would be treated fairly I'm sure.
BTW, I believe that there are a lot of people who are not impressed at all by Nintendo products. You are not that special.
Yeah but there is some degree of arrogance when you don't preceed such statements with "[...when I think] it's a sacred cow or the emperor has no clothes...".
From my perspective, it always felt like Nintendo had the right focus. They don't really play the specs game in the console wars. They will never wow you with their polygon count. I've always felt like you get more of a focus on just-plain-fun game mechanics with Nintendo, and for me, that makes the most fun games. Obviously, every game on the planet wants fun game mechanics, but, say, a typical AAA game uses an Operation Desert Storm shock-and-awe strategy. I don't want shock and awe when playing games, just fun.
It's nice to have opinions, and as an almost exclusively PC gamer I have to disagree. Nintendo is the only console gaming company doing anything interesting, and I think part of that is because they don't chase third party support, the latest greatest graphics, or any of that hype nonsense. They make a games machine, they make games for that games machine, and they do it at the price range they target without much regard to what their competitors are doing.
Sometimes that bites them, other times they open an entirely new market of gamers their competitors didn't even consider. And at the end of the day, the reason Nintendo enjoys this 'exalted' position is because they are really, really good at making games that people of all ages want to play and not getting caught up in the other crap that doesn't matter.
How nice that a subjective opinion not agreeing with the zeitgeist is grey.
Fwiw I agree with the parent, the SNES was the last Nintendo console that I liked, the PSX for a brief time and then Doom and especially multiplayer Quake finally pushed me to the PC.
I expect this to be an unpopular oppinion, but it needs to be said.