And perhaps that explains Sakurai strangely making public excuses for all these compromises that had to be made for the 3DS version. It feels like a tug-of-war between the cool Nintendo and the heads-up-their-asses Nintendo. Why can't they be this cool all of the time? Why does it seem like some mistake that made it past Iwata? And observe the bizarre inconsistency where they bend over backwards on this controller stuff but force all sorts of technological restrictions into the game because of an insistence on having a 3DS version. And yet Sakurai can convince Nintendo that it's worthwhile to spend time, and thus Nintendo's money, on stuff like this that at least 90% of the target audience wouldn't use or would even notice was available. You figure they would discourage such things because it could hypothetically confuse the broader mass audience that Nintendo obviously wants to buy the game. I kept thinking 'how did the Wii Sports guys allow funding for THIS game?'Īny accommodation that has been made for the hardcore tournament SSB crowd just seems very unlike Nintendo. It's like how I felt when I played Xenoblade. I see stuff like this and I feel like the people responsible are sneaking the hardcore gamer stuff out under management's noses. You get the feeling that Nintendo's out-to-lunch luddite attitude is only reflective of a segment of their management and that there are some very hip people within Nintendo. It works with old Wii's? What does Nintendo truly gain from that? It's awesome but I never would expect them to even think of offering such a thing.īut then the whole concept of supporting a controller from two generations ago in the first place is a very hardcore gamer-focused thing to do which you wouldn't expect at all from a company that only recently figured out file folders.

I would have expected this to only work with SSB. This is ridiculously flexible tech from a company not typically associated with such things.

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