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@Dr_Corndog oh really? Since when NSO is free? I just discovered that thanks to you scientist!

I got a snes mini, plugged a pendrive in it for extra storage and added a hundred games more, then got a couple of 8bitdo wireless controllers.

No annoying subscriptions (I already have to pay for a dozen of them, but thanks anyway), no need to hope for my best games to be released, no disappointments.

ItJustWorks™.

Ok, it won't switch, but I still got my old 2ds.

@GameOtaku unfortunately they'll never do it.
They're too scared you'll crack their games if they let you play them offline.

I don't really get what's so complicated to understand. You can ensure a successful line of products keeps on being sold by either:
1. make it become trendy (Nintendo's way)
2. fluffing about higher and cooler specs you absolutely need (not really, but that's the trick) not to be considered a caveman (Sony's way... well, that's also MS's way but I don't wanna get off topic). A more powerful platform will ensure you play your games better and will let (not really) more powerful games run on it too, then the cycle restarts.

What people often seem to forget is that a videogame is just something you have to have fun playing. Period.

@Patron I'm really interested in listening to your point of view, I'm not being ironic. I'm considering to get that game but if there are some negative opinions, I'd like to hear them.

Just introduce the exploration mode and I'll be "excited" to use Link in this game too. Otherwise it feels weird to me, just like Zelda II.

@johnvboy dude, I don't want a free service, I just don't want to pay for NOTHING.

It's funny to see that there is one single disturbed guy who has to downvote anybody who wrote he saved money or that he won't buy a given game under any article.

I loved every Zelda game I played with but Zelda II because of its "action" mode. What I really like is the classic exploration mode indeed.
Now with this update you can make infinite custom Zelda levels, but all of the action kind.
That's why I won't do much with this feature.

@johnvboy minorities? We aren't a minority at all, the service is simply unexisting, and they still try to keep people paying by releasing old games with an eyedropper, it's a fact.
But it'd still suck even if I was the only one saying that, it really feels like they're treating customers like fools. Quit being a fanboy for goodness sake.

Wow, it's strange how people get excited very easily in here.

@Kienda yeah that's enough, thank you, although you forgot to tell they eat children. Alive. You know, if they don't they are closed in a rehab camp.

Someone who evidently didn't follow the other flames leaving a totally meaningless comment about some other that NEVER said any comment on this is anti-Chinese in 3.... 2... pffft...
Somewhere that's called functional illiteracy.

A wise person once told me it's the consumers who ultimately set a product price. So this means either that:
1. Nintendo customers are ultimately stupid (I mean in their "herd" dimension of course, not taken singularly) or...
2. Beamdog considers them stupid.

While I can't deny that in every group of persons there always are some stupid ones, it would be interesting to investigate why Beamdog might consider Nintendo consumers that way.

Could it be because they usually accept any damn freaking crazy price?

@sixrings uhm no, no, that is not the way it works.

Antichinese flame in 3... 2... 1...

Well, it seems like we can't be all like Nintendo when it comes to designing video games.
Also, being a retrogamer doesn't really mean "I'd play anything at any price".
The coding effort is praiseworthy, I only wish I could tell the same about the project.

Sonic was definitely lucky that lamp got stuck in his eye. It could have gone much worse.

@suikoden I don't intend to give an opinion on that review as I really don't know anything about this game, but I strongly doubt a single negative one can influence the decisions of a publisher.

Is it fully charged now?

As usual, CEO talks never reflect reality. They're only made to make enthusiasm grow in others despite some stupid decisions.
According to my experience, fortunately employees usually tend to ignore such speeches, at least as long as they care to get things done.

@Boxmonkey there are whole websites like romhacking.net that distribute rom hacks, not hacked roms, you still need to apply the patches to the original roms. Nintendo can't do anything about them, but it could if they only distributed modified roms.

What Nintendo can do and is doing is to make rom distributing websites stop letting people download roms of Nintendo games.
There are very well known websites that now let you download everything but Nintendo roms indeed.

Looks great and I'm very interested. The 20% discount is a good idea too, does anybody know anything about the final price?

Good for Nintendo, that's some huge market.

Anyway, I thought this website was about Nintendo gaming. Do we really have to get these offtopic convos about the highest levels of Truth everytime?

Something tells me mr Gustav Le Bon would be laughing his a$$ off by reading some comments.

@duffmmann maybe you're right, maybe not, but it's technically possible to create a set of sprites off 3D rendered characters, much like they did for the Donkey Kong series.

@Kriven maybe that guy doesn't have 4 pairs of hands.

Countdown 'till it closes.

@Jawessome it sure is, but nowadays kids watch whatever they want and their opinion ends up on counting too, although it shouldn't.

Afterall how many adults can waste their time on videogames? Very lucky few. How many had the chance to be attracted by the Witcher series? Even less.

Bowser does know how to grab people's attention.

@Jawessome the game is fantastic, the novel aren't worth a Nobel prize but still are ok anyway, and now netflix embarked on making a movie on a story most kids wouldn't like reading nowadays, as it's a typical '90s story.

Oh goodness, when you think netflix couldn't get any worse, they manage to surprise you again.
Now they make a series trying to exploit the success of a game when it's really based on a nineties' novel most kids wouldn't like.
Good luck again...

Tencent is a holding whose biggest investor is the South African group Naspers, and people just keep on blabbering about politics without a clue.
This website should really take into consideration the possibility to close comments sometimes.

@Brandonintendo lol uhhuh, uhhuh... sure.

@rjejr wait, you sound convinced that huge criminal organizations are independent from states and that aren't used to keep some countries under control. But you surely don't think that for real, do you?

I just don't, simple as that.

@Ryu_Niiyama anytime.

@Ryu_Niiyama NES/SNES Online or not, NSO is still plain useless.

@Zeldafan79 a pair of what?

The more I watch this video, the more I burst out laughing.

I take it for granted that you excluded the games also available as cartridges from this list, right?

From GBA: Castlevania aria of sorrow, Metroid fusion + zero mission, Advance wars.
GB/GBC: all Super Mario/Wario Land games, Ganbare Goemon.
I have no requests for 3DS remakes, they're too recent and that console isn't really dead for me anyway.

@Crono1973 sorry, I had already sent my comment before I could complete it. Of course they have the right to check for the authenticity of a product, but this is because it's illegal to counterfeit a trademark.
What they can't do is to deny the resale of a "nintendo compatible" product just because nintendo didn't approve it.

@Crono1973
What you say would make sense if Amazon had any rights to approve or not the sale of Nintendo related products per se.
But they are Amazon, not Nintendo, hence such rights must have been given them by Nintendo itself. So Nintendo is behind all of this.
Anyway, falsification of their trademarks is already not allowed in any case for obvious legal constraints. This is why I think they did all of this for advantaging products that have a legit Nintendo license to sell (such as the suckish Hori products).

It's good I did it in time to buy a Yocktec controller which has a damn rumble, unlike all 3rd party Nintendo licensed controllers.

@m8e3point1415 dude, this is a fanboy website, you just HAVE to say good things about anything nintendo does.
Don't expect to find unbiased opinions nor useful reviews here.

I need this speed to finish my backlog within a year.

Congrats Sony, keep up with the great work.
How about giving up on the camera market now, since it's clearly not for you?

@Woomy_NNYes
as an alternative they could charge off some VC loaded with very high-demand gba ports (The Minish Cap for example). That would jump on top of my buyer's list in a sec.

Cloud and microtransactions, that's the easiest way to profit 10 times more than what they'd get from the same game if it were just a "pay once" one, as they get money from lots of people, not just from those willing to pay 50-60 bucks a game.
I wish them luck with that, but they're sure risking to lose a customer here.
How about lowering the damn prices instead?

Sonic is just one among the countless franchises which I never totally found anything exciting in (and there are many famous ones in the Nintendo world too) but I have to admit it has lots of fans all over the world, so it does deserve some respect.
The problem is not with Sonic, but with Sega, not just because they aren't at the same level of Nintendo when it comes to marketing (Sonic couldn't keep up with the competition against Mario back in the nineties, let alone now), but for they don't even show respect for their customers, starting from payments on Android games that repeatedly go poof and going on with several attempts to finally get a retro console right.
Now, this movie which started with really B-A-D premises, doesn't really look like a good movie, but yet another awkward attempt to squeeze some more money off fans' pockets.
It seems like they're doing everything to ruin the good memories fans had of this character. Really, what the heck is wrong with Sega?

@Zidentia being a coder myself, I know what you mean. I'd like to know when they started with this work and if their roadmap has been so easy and light that it could be done for free.