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Honestly, its really because they stuck to what made them great 20 years ago. They make games. They focus on making games. Everything else is extra.
I think you can compare Nintendo to Lego. Even Lego evolves with the times, but it still retained its own soul. If they do things online, knowing its for children first and foremost, everything is managed accordingly, you have parental controls, screen names are randomized, etc. But even on their website the core of everything is still what it always was: Lego, building stuff with blocks.
Every time you pop a Nintendo first party product in your machine, you know you're getting a Nintendo product with Nintendo qualities, gameplay, simplicity, and just plain fun. You're not faffing about with a million upscalers or resolutions or whatever other performance setting that you find on current day consoles elsewhere, either. You're just clicking play and you're off. Shit's simple.
People like simple and people like transparency in experiences. Knowing what to expect, while still being surprised by the thing you thought you knew. Nintendo has mastered this.
Another thing people REALLY like, and most of gaming corporate has long since forgotten, is that they like authenticity. Authentic experiences, built on a visionary concept of what a game should be. Games that stick to such concepts, make for great games, and from that spawn even more great games with slight variations. What you see in corporate publisher land though is the exact opposite approach: they grab off the shelf concepts, stick them into a known franchise, and call it rebooted, remastered, or 'reimagined'. But there is no imagination here. There's just a box of duct tape applied to what you already had, and it'll never be greater than the sum of its parts, but rather, more often, far less than that. Simply because it does not feel authentic. Those are the games you play and 'enjoyed yourself with' but really all you did was spend the time with them, to get to the end of them. They are never memorable, they just kill time.
After about 30 years I can still dream the entirety of this game. Don't ask me why. It just is, and its more than just nostalgia, a lot of other SNES games I've completely forgotten about. The game was simply really just awesome at what it wanted to do. I'm playing Noita right now, and even though its a radically different game, it shares traits beyond both being platformers... Super Mario World had a touch of mystery to it, numerous secrets, wondrous environments... and it all just worked so well together. Noita is a good example of that too. Yes, its another roguelike, but its so much its own thing too, exploring the concept in great ways, and taking you along for the ride, which makes it authentic, you just feel it sprung from some great minds when you play, and just that invites you to want more of it.
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