A look at Nintendo's history of accidental accessibility.
, when Jason Schreier asked series director, Eiji Aonuma, about the lack of button mapping in Breath of the Wild.
Four years later, many are experiencing less Tears of the Kingdom and more just tears because we're pressing the wrong buttons because of the game's baffling control scheme. Rather than developing accessibility, Tears of the Kingdom continues a trend to which Nintendo has weirdly adhered for years. It's a trend in which accessibility in its games feels almost accidental.
You can see the pattern already. Nintendo consistently adds accessible features into its games that don't feel likefeatures. They're not built with disabled players in mind, they just happen to help in specific contexts - and often in otherwise inaccessible games. This, despite a persistently stubborn attitude to accessibility, and despite Nintendo's litigious approach to preservation and homage.
While Sony and Microsoft work to make gaming for everyone, Nintendo's focus is on creating games for a wide range of age demographics - the whole family, so to speak. This is obvious when you consider how Nintendo has positioned itself as the family-oriented developer. It's why its games are accessible to inexperienced and experienced gamers alike, but also why we see so much accidental accessibility in games that otherwise work against their disabled playerbase.
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