The famous Nintendo Seal of Quality is being given its own office, with Nintendo aiming to improve the quality of its first party games by splitting quality control off into its own branch. The new division is called Mario Club and its job is to make sure that Nintendo games reach a certain standard with extensive playtesting and bug hunting.
Contract employees will become full-time Mario Club employees and work conditions for quality testers will apparently improve quite a bit. Games published by Nintendo's Japanese arm will now get a higher level of service and, hopefully, will be even better than they already tend to be.
That's actually a really cool move, and I'm impressed by Nintendo's commitment to quality in this instance. Now if it could just enforce the same standards on all those third parties gunking the Wii up with their shovelware crap.
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11:00 AM on 09.16.2009
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If you enforced the seal of quality standards on shovelware you would still have the shovelware, just with less glitches.
Goes to show that even with high-budget and ginormous production values games tend to show some lack of polish that most Nintendo games have overcome. Unfortunately, the latter have been of very dubious quality in their very conception, so things kind of even out.
@Goodgamer77
Agreed. The use of patches as a excuse to be lazy rather than a safety net is what makes me dread the day DLC becomes standard.
AgreeX100
And let's not even get started on the PSP...
Your 1st party games are fine enough. What you NEED to do is stop all the shovelware, but I suppose that can't be helped. :<