Are Nintendo Games Worse than they used to be?

Dude you've grown up, the world feels less magical than it did when youre a kid. Thats literally what Ocarina of time is about. Growing up.

I’m sorry how is Mario Wonder not charming, it literally is one of the most charming Mario games ever released.

People were complaining about Nintendo games being bland and soulless during the 3DS and Wii U era, and I can say with full confidence that we are not even close to that level right now. You're right about Switch UI and performance, but sticking strictly to that "charm" when it comes to games, it is 1000% the rose-tinted glasses that are talking. There have _always_ been stinkers when it comes to that charm.

It's not growing up, play Mario vs Donkey Kong, both versions, the first has way more soul

the last year or two of every nintendo system has always been kind of barren and “safe” in order to maximize on final sales before the new console is announced and released. also have you looked at the release schedule they had in 2018? it was mostly wii u ports that had a lot less work put into them than the remakes and remasters we are seeing this year. also i saw another comment saying this, but maybe you just aren’t into nintendo games anymore? i can kind of relate in that aspect as i used to be somebody who would buy pretty much any nintendo game that came out at launch. me from a few years ago would’ve bought princess peach showtime the day it came out but nowadays there’s so much to play from all these different companies that spending that money on that small of a game just isnt worth it to me right now. i think 2023 was one of the best years for the switch with tears of the kingdom, mario wonder, and pikmin 4 all being 9 or 10/10s for me. however this year is really slow so far which makes complete sense. however you pretty much already know this cause unlike most commenters i actually watched until the end of the video. i think the first year of the switch 2 is gonna blow our socks off so im excited for it too!

I can already answer that, and they aren't. Perhaps you're just not into Nintendo stuff anymore, or something else. To me, Nintendo is just as good as they always have been. Things change over time, and maybe the way you feel about Nintendo and their games have changed too.

Is it April 1st already?

Bro forgot the Wii u's iconic gimick

Has Nintendo lost it's soul and charm?
Yes and no.
God, I hope the developers of Nintendo (including the developers of Splatoon) decides to start making awesome games again without any deadlines like how they did with Super Mario Brothers Wonder.
Also, I think Nintendo is saving the magical stuff for the next-gen Nintendo console.
I hope the next-gen Nintendo console gets involved with backwards compatibility, cross-gen games, Mii Maker/Plaza, Mii-Verse (even though I've never been into Mii-Verse, I've heard most people say Mii-Verse is awesome, and it'll be awesome if Nintendo decides to bring back the Miiverse for the next-gen Nintendo console), free online service, background music (for both startup/main menu and E-Shop theme), customizable background theme (including the music), increased frame-rates/performance/storage space, stylized graphics/UI, better battery-life, StreetPass, and last but not least, functional amiibo support.
However, the three things I'm worried about for the next-gen Nintendo console is Denuvo/DRM, lack of backwards compatibility, and digital only console.
Also, stop buying remakes/remasters of retro triple AAA games (including the Nintendo ones) and instead, start buying indie games and AA games.

I mean I wouldn't say their worse, just more casualized. The reason for the Switch's blandness is probably to come off more, "mature" as many thought that Nintendo was just for kids. And tbf for the remakes and remasters, their 10-20 years old, I doubt many people play them(beyond the arcade cabinet based on 2) so to most people, these are essentially new games to them(only not as big and more obvious).

Sony lost that magic with the PS3, Microsoft didn't really have it, but the xbox had Morrowind, so i give it a pass. Nintendo still has that magic although faded as it maybe.

I stopped caring about the Switch after the first year.
So I sold it and went back to my Wii U. Pretendo is there for online services.

Cool video, but your points feel detached and disconnected from each other, the video is very sporadic with what it lists as an issue. I'm mainly very confused on why you're bringing up 2nd party games so much when talking about a 1st party company. I agree with some of your points however calling the blowing into the mic stuff more than a "gimmick" and calling it a mechanic is odd.
Remakes are not and never will be video game preservation.
Princess Peach Showtime is out now so I don't know when this video's script was made.
Good-Feel created Princess Peach showtime not Nintendo.
Monolith Soft creates Xenoblade not Nintendo.
It is not Nintendo's fault that Game Freak is so incompetent.
Talking about the Nintendo OS design when the video is titled games and going in-between points of what you're talking about is really confusing and comes off as unrelated issues.

i do agree with this video partly i feel alot of the newest releases beside like Kirby, are great games but they feel like somethings kinda missing

Reaching with this one

very big channel potential, video just feels sloppy, idk how to explain it, good video tho i gave it a thumbs up and have subscribed

Last year was the penultimate year for the Nintendo Switch, of course there are not many unique games. And the fact that Pokemon is not polished is for completely different reasons. That's a pokemon thing
all other nintendo franchises don't have that problem

Well I feel like the 3d was actually good on the 3ds but it was the “new” models that improved on it.
I feel like a reason the charm for Nintendo is missing is because they need to add more games with Mii Support.
The next console needs home menu music, as well as Mii Maker and Eshop music.
I feel like Super Mario Wonder was a good game. So I disagree on that but besides that, great video! 😁

Bullcrap tears of the Kingdom and Kirby and The Forgotten land absolute masterpieces

I believe this lacks a bit of perspective. I'm old enough to remember when the NES came out, and it wasn't even my first console. That would have been the Intellivision. Nintendo has been pretty consistent about their video games for half a century. That being they aren't afraid to try new things. And they genuinely care about the products they are making.
I have my criticisms. I played Metroid Dread recently, and it suffered from the same issue that Zero Mission did, an over reliance on backtracking as compared to Super Metroid. This is obvious a personal opinion and doesn't really make the game bad. I'm glad to have played it. My criticisms extend to Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom as being weaker 'Zelda' games. Where a Zelda game has a certain formula that dates back to the 1980s. But as stand alone games they are some of the most fun and entertaining games I've played in this decade.
Objectively Nintendo is the best they've ever been with their first party games. Subjectively if they are slacking off, to what are they being compared to? Who are they slipping behind? I don't have an answer for that simply because I don't believe it. And this is coming from an old grognard who enjoys watching NES streams over newer games. Someone who routinely still plays NES and SNES titles. Someone who has spent several hundred dollars to modify their NES with enhanced capabilities such as RAM (being limited to 512KB doesn't let one play Rogue Dawn or Legend of Link, need 2MB at least), Storage, and Outputs. So I am very much aware of my nostalgia tinted glasses.
The newer stuff is good, bar none. If you look at the minute details, the amount of thought, care, and fun that the developers is there to see. If you're rushing through these games, just trying to get the rush of beating them. Its easy to miss. But just walking to a random part of Tears of the Kingdom for example, and looking around in the small area you might be in, you can see there is a story to be told. Even if there is no NPC to talk to, no book to read, no quest objective to show a cutscene, you can see the environmental story telling in each object that is placed.
I don't see that in most Non-Nintendo games. Where they randomly place tables, chairs, debris, plants, or whatnot randomly or have a computer procedurally generate it.

I’m surprised that you also feel like Mario Wonder was missing something like I did. That and some other games just feel like the soul has been missing and it’s just a game to run through and enjoy for a bit. I like Mario Wonder but I just don’t think it’s one of the best 2D Mario games because it just didn’t stick with me too much. I was a little disappointed with the game.

No

Well, YES, technically.
No one would insist that Mario Wonder / PP Showtime be comparable to the level of absolute masterpiece like Mario Galaxy. However, it doesn't imply those two games are bad.
I do understand the feeling, though. What I do in such a case is take a _break_ for a few weeks from any relevant games (in this case, Mario). Then the happiness I have felt so far from those games are well recharged.

Yes

I genuinely am sick and tired of this shit.

0:54 your not geting more watch time ofc games like smg are incredible you grew up with them

Typical "Old=Good, New=Bad" video. No idea why KRplus recommended this video to me, but I pressed the dislike button

I don`t see how nintendo games have no soul, TOTK was still pretty inoovate and unique as a zelda an dopen wolrd game, Mario Wonder is worlds of different compared to the NSMB games, and the Mario Kart 8 DLC lazy? Eh kinda at first but now? Graphics got better and they added 8 characters which they didn`t even have to do or promised at first! That isn`t lazy at all. Like for a Mario game that isn`t bad.
And what other games are coming up with ideas that Nintendo would do? You just seem too vague here really.
And like....remasters and remakes aren`t replacing new games but with the Switch now....things may be changing so game releases may be slowing down for now.
TOTK with it`s landscape and mechanics does have a unique identity. Sure it shares it`s main map with BOTW but the sky islands and the depths and the changes it makes to the main map makes it stand out, that`s like saying Pokemon BW2 doesn`t have it`s own identity despite how today it`s considered one of the best Pokemon games of all time even if it reuses Unova`s maps from BW1 even when it is changed.
Like TOTK isn`t just BOTW 2 it has a different story, different characters, enviorment changes, more modes of transportation, etc.
The Wii also slowed down in it`s final years too, it`s not really anything new with a Nintendo console at all, even like the N64 was like that too.

Not really, Nintendo is doing much better than most of the other big companies. Metroid Dread was a fantastic game, Mario Wonder was great and I'm not much of a Zelda guy but everyone seems to love TotK. You can't repeat the magic moments from the 90's but Nintendo games are still genuinely fun and well made. Nintendo is doing lots of dumb shit but compared to for example EA, Ubisoft, Square or Capcom they're like Saints, especially in terms of gameplay.

thank you , finally someone noticed it .
Now nintendo games feels like poorly reheated food that is boiling hot on the outside but frozen in the insides .
Still the same taste but something is very wrong .

To be honest, you sound very ignorant in this video. Some of your points don't make any sort of sense, you're using third party games on Switch that aren't directly developed by Nintendo and their partners. You're contradicting yourself constantly, and some of your points are grasping.
Has Nintendo lost some charm? They probably have. But they still maintain plenty of that Nintendo charm we all know and love. You bring up the Wii, which yes, it had a lot of charm, but most of the stuff was just fun little distractions. They were fun to have, but nothing you'd spend hundreds of hours in. The Switch is by all accounts, a game console. It's all about the games, which is what a console should be about. Yes, the UI is bland, but everything is fast and snappy. The Wii U had a lot of charm, but the OS was slow and clunky.
You say Super Mario Bros. Wonder feels empty. How? It's the best thing to happen with 2D Mario since the first New Super Mario Bros. game. Mario was becoming generic, the sequels all felt like just a New Super Mario Bros. game for that system. And it infected the entire Mario series. 3D Mario was becoming more 2D-like, with 3D Land and 3D World basically being 3D NSMB games, the Mario Party and Paper Mario series undergoing huge departures, with Mario Party 9 looking like it took the visuals of NSMB Wii. Mario was in a rut during the Wii U and 3DS era.
Besides, Nintendo and indies, nobody else is really pushing the industry forward. In fact, the industry seems to be imploding on itself. Nintendo's output far outclasses Sony and Microsoft, they've done a good job reviving a lot of dormant series, like Metroid, Pikmin, and even bringing back series you'd never think they'd even consider revisiting like Endless Ocean. And series like Mario Party, Mario vs. Donkey Kong, and Paper Mario return to their roots. What's Microsoft doing? Buying up companies and still can't get good quality games out. Sony? They've become the walking simulator and Marvel company. Sony has a ton of IP that are just sitting in cold storage while they're milking The Last of Us to death.
When it comes to Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, that's squarely on Game Freak and the Pokemon Company. Apparently, TPC is the one who calls the shots, while Nintendo just publishes the games. If Game Freak were competent, S/V would look and run pretty well on the Switch.
Are there issues now when it comes to some of Nintendo's games? Yes. I'm not a fan of how Nintendo will release a Mario Sports game severely lacking in content, only to "finish the game" by adding free updates months down the road and acting like it's bonus content. They did it with New Horizons, they did it with Arms, and that's part of the reason why Arms fell off. There wasn't enough content there to keep people engaged for long. Nintendo Switch Sports, a botched revival of Wii Sports that was entirely devoid of any personality. There's stuff like the shoddy build quality of the Joy-Con. But those are things they can improve/fix in the next system.
Nintendo's done a good job with the Switch when it comes to many of their games. And 2023 and this year showed Nintendo has been listening to the fans.
Have Nintendo games gotten worse? Yes and no. In some ways, they've dipped in quality. The Mario Sports games are putrid for what I stated above with the free update approach. I know a lot of Animal Crossing veterans hate New Horizons for the direction it took. There are some genuinely bad games like Nintendo Switch Sports. But all Nintendo systems have their bad games. The Wii had Wii Music and the very controversial Metroid Other M, the 3DS had Paper Mario: Sticker Star, and the Wii U had Mario Party 10, amiibo Festival, Ultra Smash, Devil's Third, Star Fox Zero, and Color Splash. The Pokemon games can be blamed on Game Freak and TPC.
But Nintendo games have also gotten better. Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Metroid Dread, Pikmin 4, Kirby and The Forgotten Land, Luigi's Mansion 3, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, New Pokemon Sanp, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild & Tears of the Kingdom, Astral Chain, Fire Emblem: Three Houses & Engage, Mario Party Superstars, etc.