Farewell to the last traditional game console.
I think so too, even if NX will have a home console form factor it will merely mirror the handheld.
Nintendo and their small group of traditional Japanese development partners giving you that old school arcade action with modern production values. It was like a new SNES to me
Exactly. Games like Bayonetta and Xenoblade feel like the successors to oldschool 3rd party Japanese games on past Nintendo consoles. It's the sort of games Capcom, Konami and Square would be doing now if the industry didn't change direction.
and I'm grateful we got that in the modern era of annualized sandbox collectathons and mobile whale hunters. Godspeed little box.
Pretty much. I only play Nintendo published games and select indie titles nowadays. Shovel Knight captures the feeling of playing Mega Man, Castlevania, Contra and all those great classics, at the same time there are also some modern style games with good game design in them. That said recent titles like Ori and Unravel are style over substance even if they pretend to be based on the classics, I didn't like what I played of them at all.
All is not lost because those games still exist and can be replayed, plus there are some (many?) I haven't even played yet. However whenever I play games like Vanquish and The Wonderful 101 I get reminded of what could have been.