DISPATCHES JANUARY
Issue 353
Dialogue
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Y you do dis?
Dear Nintendo,
There are millions of gamers like me (I checked) who, knowingly or not, like their control stick to mimic head and neck movement – ie, push forward to look down, pull back to look up, just like airplane controls. How you could barbarically excise this option from Switch Super Mario Sunshine beggars belief. It’s obviously to dumb it down for the ‘casual’ Switch gamers, which is ridiculous considering the large number of games on there that already have an ‘invert Y axis’ option – you could just as easily have added more explanation for the poor, confused things. I have always been a dedicated Sunshine fan, dismayed by the reduced acclaim it received, and I was thrilled when it was announced for the Switch, but you have wrecked it for me.
John
Budgen
First of all, sir, this is a Wendy’s, not Nintendo. But it seems that Nintendo got the message anyway, since the game has been patched during the time since you sent your letter. What felt especially egregious about the whole affair was that it required such a simple fix. At least this high-profile example has brought the discussion into the foreground recently, meaning that the industry as a whole will surely take extra care with these considerations in the future.