do you find nintendo underrated

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Hmm...shows how much I pay attention to CoD @_@

Nintendo can literally take bags of dog crap, write "Mario" or "Zelda" on them, ship them to stores, and they'd sell millions.

Underrated my behind.

Certainly, in the same sense that I consider the PS4 controller to be an unsexy piece of hardware.

Combining motion controls with a little touchpad in a traditional controller frame, oh if only Ninty had thought of that instead of the horror that is the kludge they call the Wii-U tablet controller, or copying off the butt ugly XBOX 360 controller for the 'Pro' controller. Certainly, the new PS4 controller may pretty much be the same as it has been for the last 20 years, but that's because it isn't a broken design unlike anything past the SNES controller.

As the PSX controller is indeed directly descended from, but we all know that story, right?

So in a roundabout way, no the Wii-U isn't underrated. If anything, its highly overrated.

the Wii U controller, for its size, is surprisingly light weight and comfortable to hold. My only real complaint is negligible since it doesn't affect gameplay, and thats the finish on it should have been matte and it wouldn't show so many fingerprints.

Also I am not sure why you think the Xbox 360 controller is butt ugly and yet praise Sony's. Sony still has no clue how to design a controller handle that actually fits in peoples hands instead of angling down way too sharply and their left thumbstick placement is still outdated. Most games these days are in 3D and use the analog thumbstick, so why is it still relegated to the 'tacked on' position like it was back when they tacked it on the original PS1 controller in response to the N64 having one? Get with the times and put it in the right spot.

In some ways they are underrated. I haven't used the WiiU before, but the original Wii satisfied me enough. I found it easy to navigate and use, and there is a large variety of games on it, albeit family friendly instead of a bunch of hardcore games. I do hate the motion controller gimmick, for the most part. I do enjoy little bits of it like the Sixaxis part of the PS3's controller, but having It all be based on a motion controller is just awkward.

I grew up playing old Nintendo systems (my grandparents on my dad's side collect many Nintendo and Sega consoles), so they have a place in my childhood. Those were the good ol' days.

Nintendo gets so much criticism from the general gaming populace, and honestly, they don't deserve most of it. One of the most common ones I hear is that "they just release the same games over and over again, it's really getting old". I really don't get that, because, to me, Nintendo is one of the best at innovating and changing up their long-running franchises. I haven't been totally happy with everything Nintendo's done in the last several years, but they still do make awesome games.

Nintendo has Mario and Zelda enough said!! !

Depends on how you want to rate them. They make bank, so clearly they are underrated as a business. They also target children, casual gamers and nostalgic adults, and do a very good job at doing so.

As for my opinion, I am not a fan of the Wii or the DS. DS moreso because I grew out of the Gameboy, but Wii because I don't get the point of motion sensor gaming. I hate the Kinect and whatever Sony made for the PS3 just as much. The concept feels like the video game equivalent of the 3D movies out in cinemas: gimmicky, immersion-ruining, and an excuse to skimp out on what makes a game good (IMO story if applicable, gameplay and replayability).

That being said, that opinion goes toward the medium in of itself rather than the Wii games. I never played any Wii games except for SSBB, which I didn't think was much of an improvement over SSBM. I haven't played the newer Zelda games though so I'll abstain from an opinion on Wii games in general.

I mean, given the praise and criticisms I have heard in totality, I guess I'd say they are rated about right. They have their niches, and they typically do their niches well, but they seldom venture out of them.

I'm pretty content just playing old games for the rest of my life. There's a lifetime's worth of quality in Nintendo's back catalog. They could drop off the face of the Earth tomorrow and I probably wouldn't notice or care. The MOTHER trilogy is complete.

I dunno if you could call them "underrated", but I think people sometimes don't actually realise what makes first-party Nintendo games so great. People say things like "they're fun". Actually, they are much more than that. They are masterful examples of game design. Everything in them is perfectly tuned.

Hmmm... Game-wise, it's...somewhere in the middle. As a company overall, I believe it's underrated. Let's see what Nintendo did....

1.They have been here since 1889, thus they survived for over a century! ( They originally created handmade Hanafuda cards for use in a Japanese card game of the same name.)

2. They basically saved the video game industry in 1983. (The Video Game Crash of 1983.)

3.If Nintendo never rejected Sony's contract for the SNES CD, Sony MAY have never became what it is today. (Key word being May.)

4. Didn't they also create Super Mario 64, the first true 3-Dimensional game? (If I'm correct.)

Depends on your definition of true 3-dimensional game, by most accounts, Super Mario 64 would not be the first. There were other forms of 3D games before it, even if you were going by the modern use of textured polygonal graphics, Descent was among the first major ones and it came out in early 1994, and there were other non-textured polygonal games before that dating as far back as 1983(Atari's arcade game I, Robot).

Super Mario 64 did however prove that you can make a 3D platformer that doesn't suck and basically made the analog thumbstick standard on every console controller released after, even though the analog thumbstick was essentially an experiment, hence the weird shape of the N64 controller. If it didn't catch on that controller would still have worked fine for games with the d-pad.




Also, I have been playing Fire Emblem: Awakening on the 3DS lately, it makes me wonder two things.
Why did Nintendo not release them in the US originally? The first 6 were Japan-only releases with the US not getting any until the Gameboy Advance and Gamecube.
And stranger still, Why the hell have I not played any of these until now? This game is fantastic.