Nintendo Fans Don’t Know What They Want

Veja o que foi divulgado recentemente. Steve Jobs famously said, "People don't know what they want until you show it to them." But I sometimes wonder whether the late Apple CEO would have struggled with predicting what Nintendo fans want.

Segundo apurado, I still remember the divisive online reaction to the initial reveal of Wind Waker at Space World 2001, when fans hoping to see a more realistic, grown-up Link on the GameCube were met with a cartoony, cel-shaded child Link (quickly dubbed "Celda") instead." Of course, that game is now cherished as a classic amongst fans, and it still holds up if you were to fire it up on the Switch 2 via the GameCube Classic library today. Still, skeptics couldn't get over having caught a glimpse of a tech demo of Link fighting Ganondorf only to be given a stylistically different game instead. While not at the same level of vitriol, I even recall similar grumbles when what eventually became Breath of the Wild was first teased for the Wii U.

The trailer revealed yet another cel-shaded Link--albeit leaning closer to a Ghibli-esque anime aesthetic--which was again different from the more cinematic-looking version with realistic HD lighting seen in the Wii U tech demo. A still from the Zelda HD Experience tech demo, which was shown during Nintendo's E3 2011 presentation. Yet in recent years, there's been a 180 in this mindset. After all, many Nintendo fans have literally grown up; if you were a teenager craving more mature games when Wind Waker first came out, you're now an adult, possibly with kids of your own, and presumably with a wider appreciation of games and aesthetics. Fique de olho nas proximas publicacoes.