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Torgo posted...

Dude, having been a Nintendo fan during that era, it is hard to describe the level of toxic hate and doom that Nintendo revieved.

There was a huge backlash after the "blue ocean" and motion control Wii era where the XTREME late millenial generation that were a very-very different audience from Gen Z hated anything cutesy or "cozy" as they say now... remember this was the heart of the misogynist, Neo-Nazi fronted Gamergate movement.

Then the Wii U has a terrible launch, and nothing Nintendo could do was right in the eyes of the "hardcore" gamer audience, still mostly younger and male at this point. We can prove this by seeing the hugely improved reception to Wii U games on Switch.

Even the 3DS which was a decent but not runaway success like the DS was routinely seen as a potential failure for it's rocky start and price drop. It was probably saved by Pokemon.

Yeah... I very strongly remember that Nintendo and really for all gaming a "Dark Age" or really a "Dork Age" because it was dominated by such console fanboy nonsense and XTREME!!!! late millennial macho gamergate horseshit.

Wow, I can very relate to this. There was a period in my life, middle to early high school, where I had started considering Nintendo games and cartoons kiddy and girly and only played FPS, gritty sandbox, and zombie games on PC and Xbox. I avoided Nintendo games and even looked down on people that played it. After I went to a new boarding school for my later high school years and Uni I really started appreciating my 3DS more and reignited my interest in Nintendo games and "girl stuff" again. My mind opened a lot more after that.