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> But Nintendo is notorious for releasing low quality stuff with their IP skinned on it. Nintendo is also widely praised for consistently releasing innovative

> But Nintendo is notorious for releasing low quality stuff with their IP skinned on it. Nintendo is also widely praised for consistently releasing innovative gaming platforms at fair prices. And that's what they tend to market and invest in heavily - I've never seen an advertisement for any of their low-quality cash-grab toys (which, yeah, they do exist, and they do suck...). > A product isn't more than it's quality metrics, if you believe so, I highly recommend taking a marketing class. OP's claim was that nintendo's product are low-quality, sold at high-price, thanks to relentless marketing. But the products being heavily marketed by Nintendo do tend to be high-quality (for instance, The Switch, a portable console that can be used comfortably enough as a home console, with several innovative input methods and a fairly wide range of high-quality games). If you purely look at the hardware specs, it may seem like a low-quality product, but that's not the correct quality metric to use in this case.

deregulateMed 5y ago
Take a marketing class to defend yourself from corporate brainwashing. Nintendo has been literally brainwashing us since we were babies and had no concept of marketing. I'm not even talking about hardware specs. The switch has joycon issues, expensive games that are mediocre, and for some reason you confuse investment and innovation with quality. Wasting money and bad ideas are not qualities. I used to be a Nintendo fanatic, but their systems and flagship games since N64 have woken me up to their quality issues. The fact that people suggested BOTW was a greatest game of all time despite having only 1 temple theme and 3 enemies (with various skins), shows you that we are under mind control.
- parasubvert 5y ago
  Or, perhaps, you are not in touch with how people evaluate and experience products, unless your intent is dry humour. People love the Switch and loved games like BOTW , Mario Odyssey, etc. because they were the best products Nintendo had shipped in 20 years. I hadn’t owned a Nintendo console since the SNES, thought the Wii was “meh”. They knocked this one out of the park - they managed to make a portable gaming device relevant in a world where everyone has a smartphone. Part of the challenge is that the completion largely do not build portable gaming devices. Apple and Samsung also consistently rank very high in tech support and customer satisfaction indexes. Let’s look at the main alternatives in the smartphone space: Pixel, LG, Motorola, Xiaomi, Huawei. Are these paragons of quality? Or are you comparing against an imaginary standard of quality?
Ygg2 5y ago
> But the products being heavily marketed by Nintendo do tend to be high-quality Didn't they have a few hardware related scandals. Like the famous joy control drift.
- mcphage 5y ago
  > Like the famous joy control drift. Yep, but that's pretty much it. Every company—even the best of companies—have poor products. The analog sticks on the Switch are Nintendo's worst hardware in decades.

deregulateMed 5y ago

Take a marketing class to defend yourself from corporate brainwashing. Nintendo has been literally brainwashing us since we were babies and had no concept of marketing. I'm not even talking about hardware specs. The switch has joycon issues, expensive games that are mediocre, and for some reason you confuse investment and innovation with quality. Wasting money and bad ideas are not qualities. I used to be a Nintendo fanatic, but their systems and flagship games since N64 have woken me up to their quality issues. The fact that people suggested BOTW was a greatest game of all time despite having only 1 temple theme and 3 enemies (with various skins), shows you that we are under mind control.

parasubvert 5y ago
Or, perhaps, you are not in touch with how people evaluate and experience products, unless your intent is dry humour. People love the Switch and loved games like BOTW , Mario Odyssey, etc. because they were the best products Nintendo had shipped in 20 years. I hadn’t owned a Nintendo console since the SNES, thought the Wii was “meh”. They knocked this one out of the park - they managed to make a portable gaming device relevant in a world where everyone has a smartphone. Part of the challenge is that the completion largely do not build portable gaming devices. Apple and Samsung also consistently rank very high in tech support and customer satisfaction indexes. Let’s look at the main alternatives in the smartphone space: Pixel, LG, Motorola, Xiaomi, Huawei. Are these paragons of quality? Or are you comparing against an imaginary standard of quality?

Ygg2 5y ago

> But the products being heavily marketed by Nintendo do tend to be high-quality Didn't they have a few hardware related scandals. Like the famous joy control drift.

mcphage 5y ago
> Like the famous joy control drift. Yep, but that's pretty much it. Every company—even the best of companies—have poor products. The analog sticks on the Switch are Nintendo's worst hardware in decades.