I like that Cheapy called Abyss Odyssey a "Metrovania" game.
Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo sold about 500 million consoles last generation, so expecting them to do the same or better this gen after the performance of Wii U and Vita so far is completely unrealistic. I didn't really understand what Cheapy's point on Nintendo being slow to adapt was since it seemed like he didn't explain it well at all that just let Wombat rip him for changing the focus midway through that discussion. Take a deep breath and rethink what your point was, Cheapy, and let's try it again.
I completely agree with the point that Wombat was making that a smartphone is a secondary gaming device where I'll play the real things (3DS/Vita/console/PC) when at home and completely forget my phone exists on weekends or weeknights. There are tons of cheaper games on the 3DS and Vita, though not all of those are great and not all of them are the marquee titles that tend to be talked about all of the time. Nintendo needs to be more progressive with the eShop not only on pricing, but with sales and promotions because the same bad games go on sale all of the time and good/great titles are much more rare. However, I'd say that Nintendo makes some really progressive moves like releasing smaller Picross games at $6 each instead of one bigger game for $20 and there are others like the way Rusty's Real Deal Baseball and SteelDiver Sub Wars are handled in regards to F2P-style content.
I may not have been a Club Nintendo member for long enough to remember when they had worthwhile Platinum/Gold rewards, but the one physical reward I got was a dumb little calendar that takes them six months to get to me and is kind of useless in this day and age. I grabbed one of the 3DS eShop games from last year's offerings and then Game & Wario this year, which was good for me. The one issue I had is that they offered cheap Virtual Console games, $10-$15 eShop games, and then one retail title for Wii U and 3DS, so most are going for the most expensive games to get the most bang for their buck. For $25, Shipwreck can get a 32 GB SD card and never have to think about storage space again with ~200k blocks to work with and it's easy to move your things to a new card.
Comparing Club Nintendo to PS+ and Games with Gold and free-to-play games on iOS doesn't make any sense at all. Compare it to Sony and Xbox's rewards programs which don't offer up game codes for fairly cheap and don't offer up neat little things like posters, 3DS pouches, 3DS card storage cases, and things like that. They even have the Digital Deluxe Promotion that offers a $5 code in return for every $50 spent on the Wii U eShop, which I can tell you is much faster than what Sony and Microsoft offer on their ends.
There is a reason why companies have to follow through with their Kickstarter promises, which is their word/reputation is on the line, so their fans that backed their project now have no reason to support them anymore along with anybody that is following the story that is disgusted by their shitty response to the situation. Legal recourse is one thing, but disrespecting their loyal audience is an easy way to ruin the good thing they have going for them as they head into this weird era where they're asking for a cut of a game's sales in exchange for making a video of their game.
Microsoft could just offer voice control of the UI with the headset plugged into the controller like Sony offers for PS4.
ed themselves over by narrowing their focus over the years and now they don't have the other markets/demographics to rely on as backup.
