NX. I'm actually worried for Nintendo

Will take this thread seriously due to good omens.
I personally think this is a good idea. It'll cut down production costs, money that can be used better elsewhere. I wouldn't, however, mind an add-on that allows for Wii U compatibility. Something like the x360 HD-DVD drive, but for the Wii U. That way you're not abandoning those consumers that bought a Wii U personally don't own one, can't think of 10 worthwhile games on it.

Highly unlikely, if they do chances are that will be the death of the console from the get-go. Some people don't have acess/poor acess to the internet. Most people enjoy owning actual things, not something tied to a server that will ultimately be discontinued.

If anyone seems like they're going more software than hardware its Microsoft. They might continue with the Xbone expansions but from their continued changes towards PC it looks like they're going software only regarding games.

Unlikely to happen. It would certainly hurt but I don't see Sony surviving in that case since their only profitable section is the Playstation. While the Xbox has the bajillions of $$$ from Microsoft, as mentioned earlier, Microsoft doesn't seem to intent in staying in the hardware business. Maybe they won't leave completely but they'll certainly tone it down.

Seriously, why is that so hard to do for Nintendo?

I'm not looking forward to the NX at all. The way they handled the Wii U after 2014 disappointed me to say the least, but also because we have like until March 2017 before they announce or release the console, and yet we know absolutely nothing about it. Plus from what I've seen of patents it looks like it'll probably be another tablet.

There's still nothing confirmed or even convincingly rumored about the NX. All there is is wild, baseless speculation.

Thinly veiled dubs thread.

check em

Well, historically speaking, Nintendo and 3rd party firms have always had a bad relationship. During Nintendo's stronghold on the American market, 3rd party companies had to sign a very sided contract with Nintendo limiting production of games and licensed titles. If they tried anything else they would sue them to oblivion. Likewise, some of their baffling decisions (ie - Mini-discs for NGC or carts for N64) had developers scratching their heads as to the limited storage compared to the competition. Its no surprise barely any 3rd party developers like Nintendo. Add to that how Nintendo keeps a strong grip even during development, one can see why 3rd party developers don't want to go through that hassle. Just take a look at some canceled games and the reasons why (everything ranging from racism, abrupt, unspoken, forced changes to games etc).

They are getting a % cut on all Pokemon-Go income so it has really worked for them.

They have only been moving hardware with their popular IPs since the N64 and have been trying to recreate the mass appeal on the Wii a dead gimmick

So long as they maintain backwards compatibility between the NX and whatever is next I don't see this as a huge issue.

I hope they go with SD or another solid state storage. Really everything should have been on solid state for the last 5+ years.

Pants on head, no other way to say it.

Nope, Japs do business different to the west and generally play a long game meaning they will take losses longer before they drop a market.

That is why they are still alive, when everyone else is selling realism they are taking the fun market.

No, Nintendo actually invents new things instead of just stealing them.

I can't form much of an opinion about the NX yet, but I know it seems like Nintendo has no faith or investment in its western market. I just wonder what the sentiment is for NoJ.

Being worried for Nintendo is like being worried for Hillary Clinton. Nintendo is a Yakuza front and they deserve to go under.

TL DR but judging from OP's second post I'd say this is underage

You do sound pretty autistic. I'm not sure how anyone here can claim to still love Nintendo 100% after all of the sudden censorship, but I kind of get what you're saying. Wild speculation is still stupid and I'll never participate in it for something like this, you're working yourself up over rumors. Just wait until they do a proper reveal (probably before the year is over) and then reassess these fears.

nobody fucking knows what the NX is, retard. Kill yourself for blog posting.

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Dude, you’re a completely autistic faggot who gets worked up over fantasies you invent in your mind. You know nothing about any of the companies you mentioned.

lol sage

Are you that retard upset about Amiibos being dead in the water already?

Nintendo is a toy company who wants children to beg their parents for money. It always has been since they made hanafuda cards. You drank the cool aid dumbass.

But you replied to OP too

My main issue with the thing is the lack of information about it.
Afaik Reggie said that it's not supposed to be a replacement for the Wii U/3DS, but might just mean that it's supposed to mark a caesura in their design philosophy and product deployment, a.k.a. no backwards compatibility to anything.

The thing is, they're late. The PGS and Win GPD will likely release before March 2017, and while not as beefy as the NX (assumedly), they make most of the PC library actually portable, not to mention the other possibilities they offer due to having a native x86-64 architecture.

Yeah without any information I'm positive they will stick to gimicks and bullshit kids games.

Please explain

There's nothing to explain

So it's not true?

As I understand it both Nintendo and Konami have Yakuza ties which have been seen over the years.
As well as very convenient deaths of programmers.

I think there was a dev who tried to fuck with Konami and ended up beheaded.

Do you havisfaction etc.

nope

stopped reading there

Fuck 'em. Let it burn.

Not really, I'd rather buy Nintendo console than pay for online subscription. Shitty Amiibos are optional at least and you have no choice but to pay for PSN if you want to play online unless you don't play on PS3, you have to pay forever as well and if you stop paying you can also forget about "free" games.

Sony and MS are still the worst companies while Nintendo with Valve are slightly better. The list of bad things Sony and MS did during their existence is just countless. Just read WikiLeaks about them alone if you think they're better and stop paying Sony if you against Nintendo. Both deserve to get out of the business.

Do you want it to be another weak computer with locked hardware just like PS4 or Xboner? These "consoles" are pointless today because hardware is improving with each year. At least it's possible to justify handheld consoles because you can't take PC with yourself and laptops can be a pain in the ass too. I don't think even real cartridges can help because they cost a lot of money.

This is also why I prefer Sega to stay away from today console business. Modern consoles are good only if you're computer illiterate which equals to retard unless you just don't care about computers and video games. Seriously, it's even worse than buying overpriced pre-build PCs.

You're full of shit, mafia don't give a fuck about Nintendo, they're just a video game company and has nothing else. Konami or Sega on the other hand have more than just video games, gambling business especially, something what belongs to yakuza. I'd agree if Nintendo was supporting gambling or had some banks or worked in porn industry, but you think that they belongs to yakuza solely because they're Japanese.

Unfortunately PC gaming is pretty much shit too at this point.

In answer to your question about whether or not anyone is about to go full digital the answer is… no. See thing is, game companies were talking about going full digital back for the Xbox 360. Microsoft was kicking around the idea of just selling the Xbox in stores and software sales were going to be either in-store CD-key purchases (which are non-refundable) or digital downloads… This was back when Steam was still a fledgeling service, mind you. When PC games were anywhere from 10-60% cheaper than their console versions. It was back then that the big name brick and mortar retailers basically put their foot down and said "NO, YOU EITHER SELL YOUR GAMES AT THE SAME PRICE ONLINE AS YOU DO IN OUR STORES OR WE'LL STOP STOCKING YOUR PRODUCTS."

So this is why the Wii didn't take off with buy-online Wii titles, why the Xbox 360 really scaled back its selection of digital release games and why many games on the PS3 also didn't see a digital release. The stores weren't just threatening ONE GAME they were threatening ALL GAMES of any publisher who didn't make all games expensive, so that's why digital download as a service didn't take off. The retailers wanted their cut. They weren't going to allow for a digital only platform where all you buy in the store is the box.

The only way that Nintendo could actually go digital is if they were to start selling their consoles online via say Amazon or the like. That's why optical discs, despite being a shit medium, are still the de facto standard in consoles. Because the only option that successfully went digital is the only platform that was never held hostage by retail in the first place, computers.

I had a dream last night that I was playing the NX at a store kiosk.
It had practically the same stupid tablet controller as the WiiU, just smaller and I was really angry.
No attempt was made at making it form fitting to human hands, it was literally just half of a DS.
The system was red and white but still looked like some kind of fisher price chinese knockoff console.
You could buy the same sort of peripheral as the 3DS has to make the controller comfortable, but because it is a console controller it came off as nothing but

Face it, the only reason people have been taking nintendo consoles seriously since the n64 are first party titles. save for the freak wii fad

If nintendo put out titles for any other console or PC, their own consoles would be forgotten, and good riddance.

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Gaming industry as a whole is rotten and it becomes even worse. For example, right now every AAA game is absolute trash. I think the last enjoyable AAA game was TW3 or maybe MGSV:TPP and now the only enjoyable thing about AAA games is how these games are failing with almost zero exceptions.

Like Konami has nothing to do with Yakuza despite marble gambling?

Business and organized crime go hand in hand, the innocent the better.

I'm so fucking tired of NX threads. Nintendo is most likely gonna reveal it this month so stop being fucking autistic about it and just wait.

Do you expect to see it at TGS?

They already confirmed it won't be at TGS. They'll probably do a direct right before. Or in the unlikely case they don't do it before I'd expect the end of the month. I have a hard time believing it'll happen outside of September

September would make a lot of sense and Nintendo is retarded, so I'm betting it won't happen.

Maybe they'll really pull a SEGA and announce the NX the week it launches.

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Fuck off to where you came from.

I think an autism post like this is more suitable for cuckchan, don't you? faggot

They said it will be out in march right?

Yep, it'll probably be close to my birthday too. Shame that I and everyone I can call a friend are too much of poorfags to get it for that occasion(That is, if it's good and if there's a Metroid game in that launch lineup).

/thread

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Who gives a fuck? If they're going to DMCA fan content then they're dead to me.

That's what drives me insane. Why in the hell would you drop a release date for a product you've explained almost NOTHING about? What's to be excited about? I can't see any reason to look forward to a giant question mark.

nice

Try asking the faggots who bought NuMale's Sky, they should know.

I suppose that's a fair point, though in that case Hello Games tried to hype up all these incredible things that you couldn't actually do in the end.

Nintendo's not even doing that, as far as I'm aware. They barely talk about the fucking thing.

How did you do that?

By getting dubs.
Like these.

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This here always rustles my jimmies. It is bullshit that anons parrot journos meme on this. Every fucking vidya console had a fucking gimmick. The only difference with the Wii motion control is just that it wasn't popular. Just look at the vibration gimmick in controls. It is completely fucking useless but the parroting of "Muh Immersion" from journos at the time is what keeps people from seeing how worthless it was and is today. See any M&Kb user just think, "Gosh, I wish my keyboard made a vibration from every gun shot."
Jesus Fucking Christ

Yakuza is why Nintendo Incorporated. Seriously.

I see them wishing they had a USB powered stroker for their "dating sims"

Why are the Yakuza behind corperations so fucking much in Japan? Why cant they leave vidya alone and stick with pachinko shit

Which is why waggle shit is most of the console's software.

And the result was that retailers now don't stock PC games anymore, means killing off retail PC games and erecting a new console-like monopoly.

Congratulations! As a result, PC now has only mediocre AAA console ports and indie shits, while AA developers focus on consoles exclusively.

He meant that waggle didn't become an game industry standard. Sure there was the kinetic and the playstation move, but those were pretty much dead in the water.

Really? Not because of:
- Putting amiibos on literally fucking every new game that comes out plus older games that were successful;
- Running franchises into the fucking ground, either with no originality or by stripping them of anything good they actually had;
- Translation that consists of lolsorandom and memes;
- BLATANT censorship, not only of dialogue and costumes, but of gameplay as well (an entire ending option was removed from Bravely Censored);
- No 3rd party support;
- Shit online;
- Shit hardware;
- Ending Nintendo club for something that only gives you eshop discounts IF you buy eshop games;
- Further shitting on the Wii U and owners by porting all the worthwhile games for 3DS.

Also, I might as well anticipate a response on the "no 3rd party support" part by saying that I mean a healthy relationship with 3rd parties, where you don't just get 2 worthwhile games every year, if that.

That's apparent to anyone that isn't retarded.

Noice

Yakuza don't care about video games unless these games aren't about gambling. There is nothing criminal about video games either and games aren't as profitable as gambling. Pus mafia prefer domestic business overall which means less attention and safety.

Yakuza control gambling and porn industry, they also cover some of the banks with ultra right-wingers and they have nothing to do with video games. Just look at Sega alone which produce good games, since they're in gambling business I have no doubt they cooperate with yakuza, they even have the entire series about yakuza which is also good. Sega is one of few companies which makes good games today and don't treat their fans like shit, something what Nintendo do.

Seriously, why would mafia care about video games? It's like saying that american devs are making shit games because of evil american mafia. Maybe EA is cooperating with american mafia after all?

Yakuza cares about money and only money, they don't need anything else. And the best business is very profitable with minimum risk business, gambling with porn is exactly such type of the business.

are about gambling*
Looks like it's time to sleep.

get fucked nigger

Even if you look at the situation neutrally, it's very clear nintendo is going downhill. They can't stop producing trash consoles. The past two consoles have very few games worth playing, and should be at the bottom of people's backlogs. What makes you think this new console will be better than Wii and WiiU? It's pretty clear they hate third party shit and love shitty gimmicks that people love paying to get around. Enough of this meme already, they're clearly going the way of Sony in terms of software and hardware.

Eliminating on shitshow to give to make another shitshow have even less motivation to try isn't a "good riddance".

You seriously believe Smash didn't get fucked half because of 3DS compatability?

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Personally I lost it at "Kimishima-san"

Maximum austism to get unironic honorifics on Holla Forums.

Kimishima said to the Nikkei paper that it will be announced before the end of the year at least. I'd say we will get a direct or media event date once Sony shows their hand next week and it will be before the end of the month. Leave it to October or November and no one will care because they will be too busy playing with new games and consoles to acknowledge it.

Yakuza involvement in the Japanese industry is overplayed. They are mostly interested in "protection" for arcades and gambling places that the likes of Sega and Capcom owned and a lot of companies found it much easier and cheaper to play ball and give them a cut than call the cops and end up with a smoking ruin of a building that was their arcade. Running a company? Fuck no. Syndicates know that's the easiest way to get caught. They deal in a lot of real estate than own companies and it's illegal to hold shares if you have been convicted of organised crime or belong to a criminal organisation in Japan. They will have some people who can swing favors, but they prefer street level operations. Also Japan's culture is different in that they see a lot of Yakuza protection as more of a "feudal tax". You pay them and your store gets defended. Even though these days its illegal to pay them for a protection racket, people still pay.

Konami's associated with them mainly because of the fitness clubs though. They control that racket for sure.

As for Nintendo. Only alleged ties and that rumor that Yamauchi hired one of the large syndicates to have a crew for the SNES launch on top of the security agency he hired to transport the consoles just in case another Yakuza gang tried a hijacking. Otherwise Nintendo had no ties since Yamauchi spun the Love Hotels into their own company.

I can't tell if this is a shitpost or a designated shilling/shitting thread or not but almost all posts in this thread read like no-one has any idea what they are talking about.

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While I agree that the maffia or organised crime has little reason to care about video games, keep in mind that video games are a much bigger industry than the music industry, and possibly bigger than the movie industry, depending on who you ask either video games are far bigger or at the very least some research has to be done to determine the truth.

Video games is in no way a small and unnoticeable industry.

This, Destiny was 500 million budget, that's more then the Titanic, which only had 200 million coincidentally the amount estimated for Bioshock infinites budget.

Activision were rich as fuck from their COD profits to let them Bungie have that budget. Problem with vidya is that It's not a good industry for organised crime because money in it is clean and mostly going direct to accounts unless you are in a country like Russia where the mobs own the banks.

Film and music industries in the US, they can cook the books with bloated budgets and work the industry into overpaying teamsters they have affiliations with and cream off profits that way (Which is how they shook down Hollywood in the 50's and 60's and most organised crime still does it these days. Other than drugs, anyway).

So you were 'pretending to be retarded' then?

Shouldn't it be "-sama" instead of "-san" in this instance?

It makes it even more fucking useless than it was before. You could almost justify owning it before (and even that's a stretch) because it had 7-8 worthwhile games, now half of those are on 3DS. What the fuck was the point of the Wii U?

So with all respect, you get fucked.

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nigger we don't even have evidence for any of the rumors being true.

Since OP is a faggot and his thread is shit, have some new Zelda BOTW gameplay footage

It should but pointing that out is almost as autistic and faggy as OP.

That's not what I said.

I would be 100% okay with this and will use the tears of autists from all sides as lube for masturbation. Especially once the homebrew scene gets going on such a bad boy. You have to be a real shortsighted nigger not to see the potential of such a device.

Sorry, the inevitability of a hardware medium is going to be software. Do you want proof? Newspapers. There's very few print newspapers left, because most of them have gone digital download.

If you're pissy and you hate on PC games because you can't buy a fucking CD, then shut the fuck up.

Journalism isn't free. Internet news is paid by ads or meant to be just propaganda.

Looks gay as fuck.

Welp, I guess it's time to commit hari krishna then.

Personally I sincerely doubt the 3DS is why transformations and the Ice Climbers were flatly removed from the game given the thing's roughly Gamecube-powerful and Melee handled it all just fine

That's not the point. The question is what you need to get your PC release out on the market, which is not "in the grip by retail chains".
Answer: You have to give Valve a large cut or you simply don't exist on PC. That's it.
What we did get as result of this:
Loads of crappy shovelware by scammers ("Indie"), bought by hipster faggots.
Shoddy console ports by big AAA publishers at ridiculous prices ($60 + season pass + microtransactions), bought by "PC masterrace" faggots.
What we lost:
Enjoyable medium-budget mid-price games by smaller publishers. Gone from PC.

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Of course they don't know what they're doing. They're still operating like it's the 1990s. I have almost no hope for the NX. It will probably just be another gimmicky, underpowered peice of shit with no games on it just like the Wii and Wii U were.

Music sounds bad wtf?

I wouldn't mind a mouse with rumble.

Consider suicide.

user. Vibration was a must post gen 5. You could turn it off in options, but by default it was on at all times. Nor was vibration function the only gimmick during that time period ya faggot.

When will Nintendo go back to making hanafuda cards?

Why the fuck does it still have to be so god damn difficult to get a replacement for the Wii U gamepad? I've seen reports of guys who paid $150, in Japan it's available for 13,824 Yen readily available as a product in the Wii U store, but in America you have to go through this super fucking convoluted process to go about getting a replacement for the Wii U GamePad, and then it costs over half the price of the fucking complete console in a box. This is why the Nintendo gimmicks need to stop, bullshit like this. At least Macroshit had the presence of mind to drop Kinect.

I used to be a big Nintendo but with the NX I'm not buying one until there is Piracy

Ehh GOG is a thing but I dunno if they accept anything from unknowns

They do, if the Unknowns are willing to put their games up on their service. Most businesses have this rampaging fear that has been taught to them over the last couple decades that piracy is so rampant that a pirate is pirating your game 10,000 times a second and that if you don't do everything you can to prevent piracy, your game will be completely stolen and you will never get money ever.

So they're afraid of putting it up on GOG where there's no DRM, and instead trust in Steam which has the lighest weight DRM ever implemented by design, making any game with no external DRM crackable in 5 seconds.

Gabe Newell knows that Steamworks doesn't prevent piracy, and he's okay with that. But if you expose yourself as an illegal downloader on Steam they are contractually obligated to ban you for violating the EULA (otherwise publishers might start jumping ship at the idea of a DRM platform that doesn't do anything at all).

No they absolutely do not, especially if you're talking about games from Japan. Degica has been trying to get CAVE's library on GOG as well and they've outright refused them.

they still do

Dear Atlus,

Please drop Nintendo and bring SMT back to Sony and/or the PC.

Sincerely,
A fan

Sega owns Atlus now, and they're in love with the PC recently. There's hope yet.

They censored Fatal Frame. Consoles and steam (console on pc) are for kids. No self respecting adult will play on these censored platforms. The faster they're dead the better.

Maybe we should make a petition or something.

Says the retard.

Oh God no. Persona waifu autists already sullied all SMT discussion on Holla Forums anymore. Do you really want it to go even further downhill?
Remember what happened to Souls threads after Dark Souls 1 got a PC release?

No wonder no one is bothering putting their games on GOG. I'm still surprised they accepted Neptunia. Seriously, fuck them for hating good arcade games. CAVE games have better combat than TW3.

Every exclusive fanbase is cancer, so you have no real point there.

My point is that it's bad for mainline SMT to be bound to Nintendo because Nintendo is a crooked company with a long history of 3rd-party abuse and region lock. Not to mention their current hardware is poor.

They removed two "meh" tier costumes. The only thing this affected gamewise was one bizarre cutscene that would never have really made any sense even if the character in question had been wearing the bikini. Acting like it's some Fire Emblem tier infringement on the original vision is completely retarded, especially when you look at literally any of the female ghosts aside from Tall Woman and see some seriously unbelievable cleavage. Keep fighting that good fight though!

nintendo sux lol

Half- true.

See, the Nintendo fanbase gave us a Mother 3 translation, a Metroid 2 remake, countless good Mario fangames, and the most powerful emulators to date.

The PC crowd gave us high definition horse anuses.