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FINALLY Square Enix does something good for once

Please change the headline, the word “heaven” is triggering for me since it reminds me how long it’s been since we’ve gotten a new Rhythm Heaven game.

Having this kind of trigger finger at 63 (or even just now ) is the dream. Mad respect for this guy

@Dringo Banks Kazooie was definitely the most important, but being able to play Golden Eye 007, Diddy Kong Racing, and Donkey Kong 64 on the service would mean I might consider purchasing the subscription at the price that I initially found to be so high it was downright offensive.

@BAN In this context, you’re literally exactly the same as me? Except you’re an “ignorant edgelord” (your words, not mine) defending…the actions of a multi billion dollar mega corporation potentially caught mistreating its workers…? I don’t see how you look any better than me babe

I hate defending the actions of a soulless corporation, especially when it could affect the home brew/modding scene, but Treasure Islands not only ruined the Animal Crossing economy, but also the game for me. I would never use a Treasure Island and yet any time that I try to grind for bells I feel stupid and like I’m wasting my time because all it would take for me to have max bells is a five minute trip to a hacked island. I literally haven’t touched the game in months, didn’t even finish the DLC.

@Ryu_Niiyama You’re right, I fully agree with everything you said here. When all the crap about Amazon’s treatment of their employees came out, it took the fun out of buying things from them. I used to buy hundreds of items of all types from them, but now the only time I buy things from them is when I get a gift card for my birthday or something. I love Nintendo games and I just don’t want the same thing to happen to me buying Nintendo products. My emotions definitely got the better of me, and now I get full well why you posted your original comment. I too just want a thorough and fair investigation and that if any mistreatment really did happen Nintendo takes steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again. But, even that is somewhat of a battle in the court of public opinion too now that I think about it. Thanks for taking the time to respond again.

@BAN Is the air to thin up there on your high horse to even consider, just for a moment, about the concept of consuming news and media critically? And you’re the one calling ME naive, lmao

@Ryu_Niiyama I was definitely exaggerating when I said “every company”, I got caught up in my personal feelings of disappointment about Nintendo and this specific controversy; I shouldn’t have wrote that and I apologize.

I really just meant a specific “variety” of massive mega corporations. It just reminded me of the internal memos Apple (usually written by Tim Cook to address controversies involving Apple) used to send out and they were so artificial and demeaning. I remember hearing something similar about either Samsung or Sony too (which still isn’t enough to justify me saying “every company”, again I’m sorry).

Anyway, I think my main point still stands as this internal memo didn’t even address the actual meat of the controversy, as the article points out (being the issues with contractors). No confidential information/material, or anything that could prove disruptive to the investigation was actually leaked here, it’s just the most generic corporate response to any controversy about how the reports are “concerning” to the executives and how the company will “investigate” the reports without actually promising anything concrete—and, more importantly, without promising anything will change. The memo that leaked, in THIS scenario, is the textbook definition of a “nonstatement”.

I do appreciate your respectful response though, I just don’t agree that this specific leak of this specific memo is disrupting anything.

“Krysta on the other hand didn't really care because it was about Waluigi.”

She gets it…

@Ryu_Niiyama These “internal memos”—within any company— are literally consciously written by corporate leadership who know and understand full well they will be leaked and factor that into building the statement. This actually benefits Nintendo of America’s leadership and serves as sort of an indirect press release addressing allegations…without actually saying anything that matters.

The only reason they released this memo to their employees in the first place is to get the corporate equivalent of brownie points.

@CANOEberry finally SOMEONE with critical thinking (I’ve seen some of your other comments too).

I don’t even know why I read these comment sections anymore, I must hate myself. Reading a Nintendo Life comment section does the same thing to your brain as smelling gasoline

Where’s Mario when you need him?

Imagine getting on Miyamoto’s bad side. You KNOW Reggie slept with one eye open that night…

Gotta love that Square mentioned blockchain here too. I hate them so much it’s unreal

Also, you mean to tell me a game whose sole selling point is the half naked women on the cover isn’t quality!?! Speechless…but you know what they say about playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes and all that

@johnvboy Sorry for the late response. Besides you completing dodging everything what I was saying, I don’t think it’s fair to give Nintendo a pass on this one. Wii Sports Resort was soooo good and had so much content and this is a dramatic step down in terms of content (unless online modes are hiding something major, which to be fair I haven’t ruled out). I’m still buying this for bowling and badminton but really I wish Nintendo really put more into this. The original Wii Sports was so mind blowing and still so fun to return to even today, but the fact 16 years later we can’t choose EXTREMELY BASIC options like the ability play tennis single matches really does disappoint me. I know you made a joke about us acting like this is BOTW2 but the truth is a game shouldn’t need to be BOTW2 for Nintendo to put a (realistically) large amount of passion and effort into a game. I love Wii Sports, and no, I will never love it as much as Zelda, but still…I just feel like this isn’t even the bare minimum. : (

@Erigen You KNOW them KEMCO sponsored articles is the only thing keeping this website afloat. Don’t rock the boat 🙏🙏🙏

@johnvboy The way you can manage to turn literally every single failure on Nintendo’s part to actually be the fault of the consumer for expecting too much is downright impressive. I’ve never seen you even modestly critical—even so much as indifferent of—anything Nintendo has ever done in the many comments I’ve seen you post on this site. Madness…

@stinky_t If I could nominate you for some sort of award I would. 10/10 comment

…You know what…I just want Reggie back : (

@TheStardustWarrior The irony is it was both and you weren’t smart enough to realize it was either…😕

Mario’s last name is whatever the high-ranking Nintendo execs feel like that day.

@HopeNForever Oh thanks for the info I swore it was a fever dream

Is that BANDAI NAMCO’s logo LMAOOOO

I got struck by lightning

Casting a hex so the first person who mentions a “Switch Pro” gets struck by lightning

Since this is Nintendo Life we’re talking about I’m sure we’ll see a ton of comments on how Nintendo was fully within their right to treat their employees this way because they wanted ensure their Virtual Boy assets retained value. 😂

I can actually list the names of the users here who would literally comment just that.

@Neoicelord You can’t be serious. The Switch or other hybrid consoles wont ever be as powerful as the current gen (in this case PS5 and Xbox X) because of its handheld form factor. You and everything else needs to drill into your skull that It will literally be IMPOSSIBLE for a Switch or any future hybrid successors to be as powerful as their current gen counterparts. Please use critical thinking, it really is a useful skill <3

@Troll_Decimator True. No other company can pump as many games out in a year as Kemco does but still not make a single even fraction of a game that’s memorable in any way, shape or form.

I assume this doesn’t have an English dub? : (

“KEMCO is a prolific publisher…”

…
How much are they paying you Thomas

Okay at this point y’all have got to stop torturing yourselves and jailbreak your 3DS. I’m awful with technology but even I managed to do it. Please do it so you (or your wallet) don’t stress so much unnecessarily.

@cfgk24 Fact. -proceeds to state what is objectively an opinion followed by another opinion that has yet to be partly or substantially proven in any capacity-

@james_squared Nintendo said you’ll still be able to download software updates even after March 2023, likely until they shut down the servers to be able to play 3DS and Wii U games online (the date of which is still unknown).

@piecez fallacy of false equivalency

@Jayenkai Is the air too thin up there on your high horse to read the part about the titles that are not available physically in any form? You know, the whole point of the article?