Farbringer

@iMarkU animal crossing is Nintendo's The Sims. It's the game that core gamers ignore but sells gangbusters because it hits that girlfriend/mom crowd real hard. Not to say it's a "girly" game but that it's major appeal lives outside of the people who drive sales for games like Zelda and Assassin's Creed.

If I was investing in individual stocks I would buy the f*ck out of some Nintendo right now. Investors are dumb as hell.

While $150/180 is half of what current consoles cost new I think it's a mistake to launch at this price. It's just outside of impulse purchase price and it's got a niche market. It's essentially a console for 40-year old dudes who yearn for the days of yore. It may be fun enough to garner attention but it's a risky market considering the people it's targeted at don't have a lot of time and $150 is much different from $100 in terms of "oops, I had 4 beers and pre-ordered the new intellivision."

@Caterplease no problem. I had assumed you were in the same camp as the person I was responding to because of the context.

@Caterplease my original comment was a response to someone who insinuated he was a criminal and from the article I got the perception that people have been treating him like an a**h*** and not like someone who pretty only screwed himself over and no one else.

@Caterplease yeah, it was stupid to include unannounced features he knew Nintendo wouldn't like. There's no doubt about that. He shouldn't have violated his terms with Nintendo if he wanted to continue to sell his product. It's not the kind of stupid that should earn him any contempt though. It wasn't reprehensible.

@Balta666 except it's not.

It was against the terms he agreed to with Nintendo to include something like that but selling the means to mod a system is completely legal, even if it utilizes a software exploit not intended by the manufacturer.

This guy violated his terms with Nintendo but he did absolutely nothing immoral or illegal. Yes, there's a difference. Illegal is breaking a law. A contract is something enforced by agreed upon terms by 2 or more parties. The law will help you enforce a contract but in and of itself breaking a contract isn't "illegal" as in punishable by fines or imprisonment in a manner set forth by the government or the people. Refusing to abide by the terms set by the court after legal proceedings triggered by a breach of contract is illegal, but not the initial breach.

@EarthboundBenjy I'm pretty sure there's a Fever mode in Puyo Puyo Tetris.

I'm having trouble understanding why you'd choose this over Puyo Puyo Tetris even if you don't like Tetris. It's just seems like a lesser game.