Electric-Dreams

The success of Nindies are one of the highlights of Nintendo's development of late. If they're aiming to become the platform of choice for smaller 3rd parties I'm not surprised to see them going all in by sharing IP. Obviously, they just need to share wisely.

This is the sort of thing that happens when you release the same handful of games every year for 30 years on the trot.

Beautiful work of art.

Given the parasitical nature of most of the tech giants I suppose this was to be expected. Become the de-facto distributer of all content in a chosen area and then skim off your cut from every transaction without adding anything creatively. Luckily for us the flaw in that strategy is Nintendo will always keep its triple A stuff on only its own platforms. Google can therefore take a running jump!

Is this a joke? What might very well be the future of videogaming and Nintendo turn it into a crafting toy for 9 year olds!?!?

By the look of the visuals Galar has got to be based on the UK, I assume?

@Dman10 If anything it'd be the other way around with Nintendo buying the X Box division. It's no secret Microsoft have never made much money out of it, and this generation they've been doing worse than in the past. Guess it could allow Nintendo access to demographics they sadly haven't had a lot of since the 90s.

@BenAV I'm no fan of X Box, but there's clearly a deep rooted prejudice against them simply because they're western. I guess the Japanese are lucky we don't think the same way in reverse.

@Medic_alert The 2DS will be the last iteration to hold out. It's built like a brick so is perfect for the market Nintendo say they are now targeting.

@AlphaElite Well yes, Ideally I'd like to see a broad range of different genres. Was a crying shame the day certain types of games starting migrating en masse to Sony. Nintendo consoles were once for everyone. They should be again.

I hope Chucklefish make a fortune out of this. Shutting down the Advance Wars series was inforgivable on Intelligent System's part.

It's a fact that if you tuned out of the gaming scene in the 90s, the plethora of sticks and buttons that came afterwards
that you often have to get your head around does put up a barrier to re-entry. This and the unpleasantness that can come from online play now. When it was just the computer or your pal sitting right next to you, such things couldn't happen. Is good that Peter is thinking of these people.

These are all well and good but I still miss Super Play magazine.

Looks hideous. Downloads when you've bought a cart are also the thin end of wedge to single use purchases. Even if subsequent downloads were allowed, anything online with consoles always gets shut down once things move on a generation. What's going to happen to the retro market in years to come if things keep moving in this direction?

The first words out of his mouth link all this to race by saying he's a black entrepreneur. What a horrible thing to try and taint people of colour with. There are lots of geniune black entrepreneurs out there, and they wouldn't recognise this venality as anything to do with them.

The essential flaw of Labo is that it's aimed at kids but is very fragile. Not a good combination. That and its price point.

Never been able to get into these. Just seems too much like random button mashing chaos wins you a fight half the time.

I remember UN Squadron, Desert Strike, Prince of Persia and Super Star Wars being particularly good. Plok also deserves to be on that list for its soundtrack alone.

A really good selection. Most of these titles were very highly rated by the games mags back then.

Away from the format of proper strategy
with maps and units, turn based battles are the last word in tedium. I'll be giving this a miss.

@Morfidplays Thanks for the insight. I knew this didn't sound right. AAA games are rarely discounted much from the RRP in digital form and the last time I checked we weren't suddenly living in a nation of millionaires.

@Mr_Pepperami Indeedy. Budget micros like the Spectrum, Amstrad and C64 were cheap and had cheap (ie pirated) games by the hundreds. Nintendo sadly had no chance.

@Shiryu You're no doubt right but it was still a great shame.

Wonder what made them scrap the release?

Welcome aboard Chris. You did quality work and those were quality publications you worked for. Will be a great 2019!

Conclusion: Nintendo players tend to be videogame connoisseurs who seek out the quirky, innovative or characterful.

Something different for a console. I like it.

Switch at No1? Come on, stop playing to the gallery. It's an excellent system but no way should it have even been included in this list. It and the 3DS line are still about so you can't make definitive judgements about their full history at this point.

@TheWorkingDead No shame in that. The Kirby series are beautiful polished works of art, but really only for small children.

I suppose there might be a few younglings with an interest in this, but I'd imagine the vast majority of those who remember these titles would have bought a similiar package years ago by now.

Another repackaged rehash. Not much for Nintendo loyalists who played these games on prior platforms in this news.

Will anyone outside the UK know what a JCB is? They're just called diggers in most other countries.

Scary corrupt country, scary corrupt Nintendo branch. Go figure!

Switch is handheld and they usually have lifespans longer than 5 years. Therefore another Zelda is bound to happen. I just hope we get another 'dark' one. Majora's Mask was now a long time ago.

My eyes. They bleed.

I was always more of a "Bad Influence" person myself. Their approach was much more in line with the best of the UK games mags at the time - ie even though a lot of their readers/viewers would only be teenagers, they never patronised them and kept the tone informative and intelligent.

GamesMaster by contrast was naff, unfunny and assumed its viewers were all obnoxious little spotty herberts with too many hormones.

@Mountain_Man, well yes, I still love my Wii U but why that platform alone? Maybe Nintendo charge a lot less to release things on its eshop?

@oninowon You can't beat a bit of global domination!

My old PC will only run Civ V so I am severally tempted to buy this.

Great news on the surface but they are lumping in the most cheap and simple games with the rest to get to this figure. Switch needs more triple A titles. Quality not quantity please.

A 1000$!!!!

Panic over.

This thing is going to die on its feet.

A rhythm game and self improvement title all in one. Should sell well.

Also perfect timing for those new year's resolutions after the Christmas binge.

@sanderev well yes, given the exploits that were dreamed up for the Wii and Wii U, allowing users to homebrew thousands of copyrighted old titles, it hardly surprising Nintendo don't now wish to create future hostages to fortune with a browser.

Disney is definitely the template here. With IPs which have huge child and family friendly appeal, the sky's the limit for TV, movies, merchandise and theme parks, if they so wish it. The only surprise is why they have teamed up with Comcast/Universal to do this (which they have for anyone unfamiliar) Surely if they hired the right people they could keep all this, and the resulting profits inhouse?

Great stuff. A nice mix of different genres can only be all to the good for Switch and Nintendo.

Switch needs another Introversion title: Defcon.

Awesome, atmospheric and multi layered strategy at its best!

Played this on PC and thought it was great, up until I shot too many escapees and the game abruptly ended as was and turned into some sort of weird prisoner simulation, with me then expected to try to break out of the place I'd created. There was no warning however in the tutorials that this could happen and 70 hours of play went down the tubes. Very bad design in this regard. The best strategy games would never punish you so instantly and totally.

I'm still waiting for that iconic gold standard strategy game from Nintendo. Something along the lines of Civilization. There's probably as much chance of them making a genre beater in that sector as a MMORPG in all reality though.

The lesson: forget the hardcore and cater for the countless millions who just want some inexpensive first rate fun.

Digital mind rot.