Shovel Knight Plague Of Shadows Trailer Released

On the contrary- why do you think first-party Nintendo games stay at peak retail prices even when they’re years upon years old? You’ll very rarely find Nintendo games on sale- and when they are, it’s the tiniest discount. They won’t drop their games below prices that they feel they deserve, which suggests that they’re actually one of the more money-driven companies out there. True, that wasn’t always the case when they were starting out with classic Mario and Zelda games, but now they’re very much a money-driven company. They’ve actually said it themselves; they won’t make games unless they see the opportunity for high profit, and as we’ve recently confirmed via Chris Pranger, they certainly won’t allow games to be localized in the US if the profit margins aren’t high enough. I don’t know how you came to such a conclusion.

I’ve noticed that it’s the third-party Indie developers supporting Nintendo that are truly the passionate ones. Nintendo consoles aren’t the most third-party friendly pieces of hardware, so actually getting your game onto one of them is in itself a huge feat for indie devs, and then there’s the fact that they’re naturally very cheap, with regular discounts. Now, as you see here, the third-party game “Shovelknight” for example is releasing content-rich free DLC, which unlike Splatoon’s, doesn’t feel like it contains features intentionally left out for the sake of throwing in later as “free DLC”. Splatoon is awesome, yes, but you can’t deny that the game was very bare upon release, and is only now starting to feel like a complete, content-rich game after all the downloadable content.

I love Nintendo, I truly do, but let’s not forget that they’re a company- I know full well that they’re after my money, but there’s nothing actually wrong with that. They need money to stay afloat, and I need games to have fun- it’s a win/win relationship :P