Nintendo ( $54.78 B) could buy som japanese companies:
Square Enix. Market cap : $5.58 Billion
Ubisoft. Market cap: $7.13 Billion
Capcom. Market cap: $4.60 Billion
★ Ability to change the music to play older AC game music. ★ Ability to make the grass deteriorate when walking on it. ★ Ability to choose when the shop is open. ★ Ability to make another island, and for family members to have individual islands. ★ More stuff (inspiration: Pocket Camp) ★ Interactive stuff (inspiration: Pocket Camp) ★ Ability to skip Isabelles monologue at startup. ★ Gyroids, Kapp'n, Resetti, Tortimer... ★ A lot more and different fruits and vegetables and mushrooms and nuts... ★ Ability to invite animals to activities.
MS Flight Sim (and Forza) will make me buy an Xbox. To bad that there is no "gameification" of the simulator - it would be perfect to have Pilotwings type of games in that game-engine! Imagine flying a sailplane trough realistically made upwinds to reach a goal on time.
Let the team behind AC:Pocket Camp do the updates. They do not seem to lack imagination.
And please make an option so we can have music from older games - the new music mostly sucks!
Many times you get absolutely flabbergasted with Nintendos "stupid" decisions and their unwillingness to follow what is considered "normal": like a good online functionality, HD-graphics, lower game prices, "high end" hardware...
Other times you wonder if Nintendo is the only force that keeps gaming to become something only for Bro Gamers.
Would there be a Portal if not for Nintendos use of "simple" graphics?
Would there be a Sack Boy, a Borderlands, a Rocket League, an Overwatch, a Fortnite, a Cuphead, a Ratchet & Clank, an Astro Bot without Nintendo?
Or would everything be dark and grey and brown and "realistic" and filled with guns?
The E3 Direct was quite good. The question still remains: What are all the developers doing now when they only have one platform to develop for? During the WiiU years Nintendo released more than 20 original games (+ a lot of 3DS games). For the Switch there are a lot of ports (I do not complain despite having most of them on The WiiU) and only a few games that has used big resources.
Despite what fans think this is not a very big game (in sales numbers). "While sales have not been fully disclosed, by March 2018, Nintendo confirmed the Switch version [of Bayonetta 2] had sold 400,000 copies during its first nine weeks, compared to the 300,000 copies the Wii U version sold during the same period." It is a game that rely on the "wow"-factor and it is probably hard to make something that is bigger, better, bolder than the last game with its Plane-Train-Skyscraper-introduction. The 1% of the Switch player base that will buy this are very passionate but it will not make Platinum or Nintendo enormously rich.
@pinta_vodki They could taket inspiration from the work of the staff behind the mobile game AC Pocket Camp. Almost four years after it launched they still produce new stuff: clothes, furniture, environments, animals and even things that the animals interact with. There is a mini Happy Homes game, a gardening game, a gyroid hunt game , fortune cookies and more. Yes, that IS how they make money but it is not close to how much money AC:NH is making. I have played it on and off over the years without paying anything and obtaining almost everything there is.
@Mii_duck I am a dedicated Animal Crossing fan since the GC. I also feel that AC:NH does not do for me what earlier games have done. I am happy AC:NH was a hit and that it has reached people who has not played any of the old games. But for me it was one of the weakest. Stoped playing ten months ago. Only go there again briefly when there is news on new content.
Maybe it is an age thing?
I was already 40+ when I played MM.
To me it was just DLC to OoT.
Smaller, simpler and not really worth the full price of a new game.
One year before I had nearly vowed to never buy a game again (to my three teenage boys) after the stupidly expensive DK64 + memory expansion pak.
In this context MM looked like a cash grab.
PS: I love OoT, WW and BotW more than the other Zelda games.
@johnvboy Pocket Camp is good for what it is: a game to play when you have idle time (waiting for something). New Horizon left me disappointed because I had waited long for a new console iteration and it was less of a game than previous handheld AC games.
@johnvboy I have not payed anything and I have played on and off for three years. The essential stuff you can get with a little grinding. So, if I am not happy with a game I can not say what I think about it, or propose changes?
I think they could get some help from the team that makes AC Pocket Camp.
They deliver new stuff all the time.
Many things are semi-interactive, where the animals can ride Merry-Go-Rounds, Ferris Wheels and skateboard ramps.
There are flower planting games, Happy Home Designer games and more.
You can decide, and change anytime, which animals should be permanent villagers.
You can change the terrain, from tropical to snow to spooky, and more.
You have interactions with other players that makes the game more alive.
When I played Pocket Camp the first time I was anticipaiting at least as much from New Horizons.
I have played all AC games since GameCube and I am quite disappointed with NH.
I was +30 years when I bought Super Mario Bros 3 to my children (I am +60 now). That could have been the last time i played a game to the end (my children were to young to be able to make it by their own) Since then my children became better in playing games and my dexterity has deteriorated.
I have played all Zelda games up until the final boss.
...and as the article says - there is never anything spectacular to see after you beat the final boss.
Happy to see people that like the WiiU. The gamepad is one of my favorites controllers ever (big hands). The game library is only rivaled by GC and makes the Switch a little boring. The Miiverse was great and should be in Switch too. The ability to switch between TV-mode and "handheld" mode was revolutionary.
There are many things that could be added to New Horizon. As @COVIDberry mentioned, music is so essential to Animal Crossing. I really would want to be able to have the option to change the music to older versions of AC. That would not be to hard, Nintendo?
I have played all Animal Crossing games (The GC game with a NTSC+Freeloader combo).
I highly anticipated the WiiU Animal Crossing game that never came (it would have been marvelous with the Miiverse connection).
As Pocket Camp came I thought it was a very good effort for a mobile game and I thought that many of its new features would cary over to New Horizon.
Instead New Horizon deleted a lot of old mechanics and gave me the most disapointing entry in the series.
With AC:NH the only new things we got were essentielly world manipulation, outdoor decorating and multiple houses.
I was anticipating to play New Horizons for more than a year but quit after just a couple of months.
Pocket Camp gets more play time!
Recently I have seen a new generation of kids going Pokémon hunting together. It is nice that the kids do stuff "live" together outdoors, despite Covid restrictions.
@Heavyarms55 My guess is that features will be added as time go on. This time Nintendo lets you discover the island one part at a time (first jumping rivers then building a ladder and eventually terraforming) and I assume as time goes on Nintendo will introduce new features like gyroids swiming, coffe and more.
And during all that time they probably did not once consider a volume control so it would be possible to turn the sound effects down. They are way too frequent and way too loud.
Even Pocket Camp has volume options (sound effects on or off)
I was also waiting for a AC on WiiU.
There was the Animal Crossing Plaza, AC Amiibos and frequent teases.
Miiverse would have been so perfect for Animal Crossing!
According to howlongtobeat.com Oddamar is about five hours long.
Shantae is a few hours longer and Rayman & DKC is more than twice as long.
Oddamar on mobile was "FreeToStart" with the first few stages free. After that it had the same payment modell as Mario Run.
The developer, Mobge, is a five people from Turkey that probably went mobile to reduce cost.
As we know from the high profile game Mario Run (a fraction of the people who downloaded it continued forward after the "FreeToStart" part ended) this payment model is not well recieved on mobile.
$10 for 5 hours play it seems Oddamar is a good proposition for Switch gamers (if you buy a Switch you probably know you have to pay upfront for every game and selldom get stuff for free).
To get some hype before the release of Scarlett/PS5, late 2020, the Switch will have Zelda, Metroid & Bayonetta.
...and maybe Odyssey2...
...and Mario Kart 9...
https://www.wired.com/2011/07/nintendo-satoru-iwata-pay-cut/ "Iwata's salary, reported last year to be around $770,000, will be cut by 50 percent. Iwata earned significantly more last year in bonus pay, which he said would be reduced this year because of the company's declining profits. "
Blast Corps, why has there never been another game like this?
Hopefully Aqua Moto Racing Utopia will come soon to Wii U (and PS4) and give us some watersports!
Sports game developers -> MONEY -> Corporations (to use sports brands)
FPS game developers -> MONEY -> Corporations (to use gun brands)
Car game developers -> MONEY -> Corporations (to use car brands)
Corporations -> MONEY -> Nintendo (product placements)
Nintendo is the exception.
Nintendo are the only ones in the gaming industry that got it right. Carmakers (and other corporations) pay NBA, NHL, FIFA etc to get their advertisement to sports events. They pay movie producers to get their stuff in movies. They pay celebrities to pose with their products. Gamemakers on the other hand pay Carmakers, NBA, NHL, FIFA (and other corporations) to be able to use their products and logos in games. Gamemakers even pay gun producers to use their guns in CoD and other FPS.
It is a "girl version of hero Link" (勇者のリンクの女の子版) called "Linkle" (リンクル or "Rinkuru" in Japanese). The art book explicitly states that the character was "devised as being sister-like" (note that the text actually says, 妹的 or "imouto teki," which means "little sister-like." From http://kotaku.com/theres-a-female-link-and-her-name-is-linkle-1620664557
@Randomname19
Wayback machine is cool when you want to go back in internet time!
A new site, as nintendolife was, got recorded just a month after it started!
Also: Happy birthday - soon your site will become a teenager (and starts to want "mature" games)
1997 Jack Thompson Files First Video Game Lawsuit Anti-video games activist and attorney Jack Thompson files the first of what are to be a large number of lawsuits claiming video games are responsible for violence perpetrated by teens. The lawsuit is filed on behalf of the parents of three children killed in the Heath High School shooting in 1997. Investigations show that the perpetrator had regularly played various computer games (including Doom, Quake, Castle Wolfenstein, Redneck Rampage, Nightmare Creatures, MechWarrior, and Resident Evil). Said Thompson, "We intend to hurt Hollywood. We intend to hurt the video game industry"
Recent reactions to 3DS games may help to explain Nintendos decision: "Nintendo not allowing non-straight romantic relationships in Tomodachi Life"
Senren Kagura Burst "insulting to the intelligence of gamers, damaging to the reputation of the industry, and alienating and harmful to women."
"A New Degree of Homophobia in Fire Emblem Fates"
Apparently it is a twenty year old guy from Australia that did this on his own.
He started studies this year at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE).
Tree years ago: "Play4Real: How did you feel when Microsoft acquired Rare? Tim: Honestly, a little time before that, everyone began going their own separate ways. We were very eager to leave as well. Chris: Then they gave us a bunch of money. Tim: Yes they did. Play4Real: How was your time at Microsoft? Tim: Dreadful. Utterly dreadful. Chris: Since most of the original staff had left, the remaining team tried to pull together like the old days. Tim: It did not work." http://www.p4rgaming.com/exclusive-interview-with-tim-and-chris-stamper/
@ColdingLight The Bayonetta miiverse is not as naughty as you wish. The closest to nudity you get are pictures of Bayonetta in something that looks like a high cut bathing suit.
None of the posters in the article had even bothered to buy the game before they started trolling. A "box icon" in the lower right of every post shows if you own the game or not.
@edgedino Anyone know if Kid Icarus is taking advantage of the new C-stick? I have not bought Kid Icarus for two reasons that the new3DS hopefully makes easier:
I have a hard time keeping the 3D "sweet spot" especially in action games.
I have read about the difficult control of the game (with the stylus) Will this be better with new3DS?
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Re: Talking Point: How Does Microsoft's Purchase Of Activision Blizzard Impact Nintendo?
Nintendo ( $54.78 B) could buy som japanese companies:
Square Enix. Market cap : $5.58 Billion
Ubisoft. Market cap: $7.13 Billion
Capcom. Market cap: $4.60 Billion
(Values from quick googleing)
Edited Market caps.
Re: Talking Point: What Would You Like To See From The Animal Crossing Direct?
★ Ability to change the music to play older AC game music.
★ Ability to make the grass deteriorate when walking on it.
★ Ability to choose when the shop is open.
★ Ability to make another island, and for family members to have individual islands.
★ More stuff (inspiration: Pocket Camp)
★ Interactive stuff (inspiration: Pocket Camp)
★ Ability to skip Isabelles monologue at startup.
★ Gyroids, Kapp'n, Resetti, Tortimer...
★ A lot more and different fruits and vegetables and mushrooms and nuts...
★ Ability to invite animals to activities.
Re: Papa's Quiz Brings Eight-Player Family-Friendly Trivia To Switch Today
@blockfight
The Jackbox Party games are quite good.
Good for a laugh.
But many of the games are for a mature audience.
Re: Papa's Quiz Brings Eight-Player Family-Friendly Trivia To Switch Today
Nice!
Will try it out.
Re: Random: Hey, The Switch Is Also Getting A Flight Simulator Game This Week
MS Flight Sim (and Forza) will make me buy an Xbox.
To bad that there is no "gameification" of the simulator - it would be perfect to have Pilotwings type of games in that game-engine!
Imagine flying a sailplane trough realistically made upwinds to reach a goal on time.
To bad that there is no Pilotwing...
Re: Nintendo Says More Animal Crossing: New Horizons Content Is In Development, Next Update Drops This Week
Let the team behind AC:Pocket Camp do the updates. They do not seem to lack imagination.
And please make an option so we can have music from older games - the new music mostly sucks!
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo's Quirky Creativity Hasn't Always Paid Off On Switch, But It Matters
@westman98
51 Clubhouse Games:
3.14 million
1-2-Switch:
3.18 million
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit:
1.27 million
Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit:
1.31 million
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_Switch_video_games
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo's Quirky Creativity Hasn't Always Paid Off On Switch, But It Matters
Many times you get absolutely flabbergasted with Nintendos "stupid" decisions and their unwillingness to follow what is considered "normal": like a good online functionality, HD-graphics, lower game prices, "high end" hardware...
Other times you wonder if Nintendo is the only force that keeps gaming to become something only for Bro Gamers.
Would there be a Portal if not for Nintendos use of "simple" graphics?
Would there be a Sack Boy, a Borderlands, a Rocket League, an Overwatch, a Fortnite, a Cuphead, a Ratchet & Clank, an Astro Bot without Nintendo?
Or would everything be dark and grey and brown and "realistic" and filled with guns?
Re: Poll: What Did You Think Of Nintendo Direct At E3 2021?
The E3 Direct was quite good.
The question still remains:
What are all the developers doing now when they only have one platform to develop for?
During the WiiU years Nintendo released more than 20 original games (+ a lot of 3DS games).
For the Switch there are a lot of ports (I do not complain despite having most of them on The WiiU) and only a few games that has used big resources.
Re: Random: What's Happened To Bayonetta 3, Platinum?
Despite what fans think this is not a very big game (in sales numbers).
"While sales have not been fully disclosed, by March 2018, Nintendo confirmed the Switch version [of Bayonetta 2] had sold 400,000 copies during its first nine weeks, compared to the 300,000 copies the Wii U version sold during the same period."
It is a game that rely on the "wow"-factor and it is probably hard to make something that is bigger, better, bolder than the last game with its Plane-Train-Skyscraper-introduction.
The 1% of the Switch player base that will buy this are very passionate but it will not make Platinum or Nintendo enormously rich.
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Next Update Arrives Later This Week
@pinta_vodki
They could taket inspiration from the work of the staff behind the mobile game AC Pocket Camp.
Almost four years after it launched they still produce new stuff: clothes, furniture, environments, animals and even things that the animals interact with. There is a mini Happy Homes game, a gardening game, a gyroid hunt game , fortune cookies and more.
Yes, that IS how they make money but it is not close to how much money AC:NH is making.
I have played it on and off over the years without paying anything and obtaining almost everything there is.
Re: Poll: Are You Still Playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons A Year Later?
@Mii_duck
I am a dedicated Animal Crossing fan since the GC.
I also feel that AC:NH does not do for me what earlier games have done.
I am happy AC:NH was a hit and that it has reached people who has not played any of the old games.
But for me it was one of the weakest.
Stoped playing ten months ago.
Only go there again briefly when there is news on new content.
Re: Feature: Zelda: Majora's Mask Is A Testament To What Nintendo Is Capable Of When It Gets Weird
Maybe it is an age thing?
I was already 40+ when I played MM.
To me it was just DLC to OoT.
Smaller, simpler and not really worth the full price of a new game.
One year before I had nearly vowed to never buy a game again (to my three teenage boys) after the stupidly expensive DK64 + memory expansion pak.
In this context MM looked like a cash grab.
PS: I love OoT, WW and BotW more than the other Zelda games.
Re: Pirate RPG King Of Seas Gets Snapped Up By Team17, Switch Release Planned For May 2021
Other games from the same developer (+ NintendoLife score)
All-Star Fruit Racing 6/10
Xenon Racer 4/10
Race With Ryan 4/10
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Super Mario Update Arrives This March
@johnvboy
Pocket Camp is good for what it is: a game to play when you have idle time (waiting for something).
New Horizon left me disappointed because I had waited long for a new console iteration and it was less of a game than previous handheld AC games.
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Super Mario Update Arrives This March
@johnvboy
I have not payed anything and I have played on and off for three years.
The essential stuff you can get with a little grinding.
So, if I am not happy with a game I can not say what I think about it, or propose changes?
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Super Mario Update Arrives This March
I think they could get some help from the team that makes AC Pocket Camp.
They deliver new stuff all the time.
Many things are semi-interactive, where the animals can ride Merry-Go-Rounds, Ferris Wheels and skateboard ramps.
There are flower planting games, Happy Home Designer games and more.
You can decide, and change anytime, which animals should be permanent villagers.
You can change the terrain, from tropical to snow to spooky, and more.
You have interactions with other players that makes the game more alive.
When I played Pocket Camp the first time I was anticipaiting at least as much from New Horizons.
I have played all AC games since GameCube and I am quite disappointed with NH.
Re: Soapbox: I Never Completed Breath Of The Wild, And I Never Will
I was +30 years when I bought Super Mario Bros 3 to my children (I am +60 now).
That could have been the last time i played a game to the end (my children were to young to be able to make it by their own)
Since then my children became better in playing games and my dexterity has deteriorated.
I have played all Zelda games up until the final boss.
...and as the article says - there is never anything spectacular to see after you beat the final boss.
Re: Video: Are People Still Playing Wii U Games Online? Let's Find Out
Happy to see people that like the WiiU.
The gamepad is one of my favorites controllers ever (big hands).
The game library is only rivaled by GC and makes the Switch a little boring.
The Miiverse was great and should be in Switch too.
The ability to switch between TV-mode and "handheld" mode was revolutionary.
Re: Nintendo's Doug Bowser Discusses The Future Of Animal Crossing: New Horizons
There are many things that could be added to New Horizon.
As @COVIDberry mentioned, music is so essential to Animal Crossing. I really would want to be able to have the option to change the music to older versions of AC.
That would not be to hard, Nintendo?
Re: Nintendo's Doug Bowser Discusses The Future Of Animal Crossing: New Horizons
I have played all Animal Crossing games (The GC game with a NTSC+Freeloader combo).
I highly anticipated the WiiU Animal Crossing game that never came (it would have been marvelous with the Miiverse connection).
As Pocket Camp came I thought it was a very good effort for a mobile game and I thought that many of its new features would cary over to New Horizon.
Instead New Horizon deleted a lot of old mechanics and gave me the most disapointing entry in the series.
With AC:NH the only new things we got were essentielly world manipulation, outdoor decorating and multiple houses.
I was anticipating to play New Horizons for more than a year but quit after just a couple of months.
Pocket Camp gets more play time!
I agree with MidnightLaces.
Re: Pokémon GO Has Made Over $1bn In 2020, Making This Its Best Year Yet
Recently I have seen a new generation of kids going Pokémon hunting together.
It is nice that the kids do stuff "live" together outdoors, despite Covid restrictions.
Re: Animal Crossing Devs Reveal How Long New Horizons Has Been In Development
@Heavyarms55
My guess is that features will be added as time go on.
This time Nintendo lets you discover the island one part at a time (first jumping rivers then building a ladder and eventually terraforming) and I assume as time goes on Nintendo will introduce new features like gyroids swiming, coffe and more.
Re: Animal Crossing Devs Reveal How Long New Horizons Has Been In Development
And during all that time they probably did not once consider a volume control so it would be possible to turn the sound effects down. They are way too frequent and way too loud.
Even Pocket Camp has volume options (sound effects on or off)
I was also waiting for a AC on WiiU.
There was the Animal Crossing Plaza, AC Amiibos and frequent teases.
Miiverse would have been so perfect for Animal Crossing!
Re: Mini Review: Oddmar - An Acclaimed Mobile Platformer That Just About Holds Its Own On Switch
According to howlongtobeat.com Oddamar is about five hours long.
Shantae is a few hours longer and Rayman & DKC is more than twice as long.
Oddamar on mobile was "FreeToStart" with the first few stages free. After that it had the same payment modell as Mario Run.
The developer, Mobge, is a five people from Turkey that probably went mobile to reduce cost.
As we know from the high profile game Mario Run (a fraction of the people who downloaded it continued forward after the "FreeToStart" part ended) this payment model is not well recieved on mobile.
$10 for 5 hours play it seems Oddamar is a good proposition for Switch gamers (if you buy a Switch you probably know you have to pay upfront for every game and selldom get stuff for free).
Re: A Full Sequel To The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Is Now In Development
To get some hype before the release of Scarlett/PS5, late 2020, the Switch will have Zelda, Metroid & Bayonetta.
...and maybe Odyssey2...
...and Mario Kart 9...
Re: Nintendo Removes Inappropriate Custom Stages From Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
It will always be like this.
Pompeii is full of obscene graffiti.
https://classicalwisdom.com/culture/painting/dirty-world-ancient-graffiti/
Re: EA Laying Off Around 350 Employees Across Multiple Divisions
https://www.wired.com/2011/07/nintendo-satoru-iwata-pay-cut/
"Iwata's salary, reported last year to be around $770,000, will be cut by 50 percent. Iwata earned significantly more last year in bonus pay, which he said would be reduced this year because of the company's declining profits. "
Re: Random: Sony's PS4 State Of Play Presentation Made 'Nintendo Direct' Trend On Twitter
@impurekind
Makes me, once again, consider buying a PSVR.
NMS in VR will be lovely!
Re: Random: Child Holding Famicom Controller The Wrong Way Causes Outrage Online In Japan
http://www.dorkly.com/post/81829/after-30-years-the-nes-is-getting-a-left-handed-controller
Re: Review: Japanese Rail Sim 3D Journey in suburbs #1 Vol.2 (3DS eShop)
@World I liked Journey to Kyoto. What is the difference with the controls?
Europe has not Journey to Suburbs.
Re: Were It Not For Rare's Tim Stamper, Wave Race Would Have Featured Boats
@liveswired
http://www.grantkirkhope.com/goldeneye-007/
Re: Were It Not For Rare's Tim Stamper, Wave Race Would Have Featured Boats
Blast Corps, why has there never been another game like this?
Hopefully Aqua Moto Racing Utopia will come soon to Wii U (and PS4) and give us some watersports!
Re: PixlCross Will Reveal Its Full Picture in North America on 31st March
This will be good.
Re: Nintendo Badge Arcade Updated, More Free Plays For Everyone
This game take more than a minute to load for me.
Is it like this for everyone?
Re: Review: Sketch Wars (Wii U eShop)
Europe will have PictoParty next week on eShop. Looks like a good game.
Re: Mercedes-Benz Representative Explains the Company's DLC Deals with Nintendo
Corporations -> MONEY -> Movies (product placements)
Corporations -> MONEY -> Television (product placements)
Corporations -> MONEY -> Magazines (product placements)
Corporations -> MONEY -> Sports Clubs (product placements)
Corporations -> MONEY -> Internet sites - incl. Nintendolife (product placements)
Sports game developers -> MONEY -> Corporations (to use sports brands)
FPS game developers -> MONEY -> Corporations (to use gun brands)
Car game developers -> MONEY -> Corporations (to use car brands)
Corporations -> MONEY -> Nintendo (product placements)
Nintendo is the exception.
Re: Mercedes Arrives in Super Mario Maker With a Course and Mystery Mushroom Outfit
Nintendo are the only ones in the gaming industry that got it right.
Carmakers (and other corporations) pay NBA, NHL, FIFA etc to get their advertisement to sports events. They pay movie producers to get their stuff in movies. They pay celebrities to pose with their products.
Gamemakers on the other hand pay Carmakers, NBA, NHL, FIFA (and other corporations) to be able to use their products and logos in games. Gamemakers even pay gun producers to use their guns in CoD and other FPS.
Re: Linkle to be Considered for Future Legend of Zelda Titles
It is a "girl version of hero Link" (勇者のリンクの女の子版) called "Linkle" (リンクル or "Rinkuru" in Japanese).
The art book explicitly states that the character was "devised as being sister-like" (note that the text actually says, 妹的 or "imouto teki," which means "little sister-like."
From http://kotaku.com/theres-a-female-link-and-her-name-is-linkle-1620664557
Re: Nintendo Download: 12th November (Europe)
Word Party will be hillarious!
Especially with the family gathering holidays comng up.
Re: Site News: Nintendo Life Turns 10 Today
@Randomname19
Wayback machine is cool when you want to go back in internet time!
A new site, as nintendolife was, got recorded just a month after it started!
Also: Happy birthday - soon your site will become a teenager (and starts to want "mature" games)
Re: Weirdness: Miyamoto Wanted A Murder-Free GoldenEye Where You Made Friends With Enemies At The End
1997
Jack Thompson Files First Video Game Lawsuit
Anti-video games activist and attorney Jack Thompson files the first of what are to be a large number of lawsuits claiming video games are responsible for violence perpetrated by teens. The lawsuit is filed on behalf of the parents of three children killed in the Heath High School shooting in 1997. Investigations show that the perpetrator had regularly played various computer games (including Doom, Quake, Castle Wolfenstein, Redneck Rampage, Nightmare Creatures, MechWarrior, and Resident Evil).
Said Thompson, "We intend to hurt Hollywood. We intend to hurt the video game industry"
Re: Yes, Fatal Frame's Lingerie Outfits Have Been Removed From The Western Version
Recent reactions to 3DS games may help to explain Nintendos decision: "Nintendo not allowing non-straight romantic relationships in Tomodachi Life"
Senren Kagura Burst "insulting to the intelligence of gamers, damaging to the reputation of the industry, and alienating and harmful to women."
"A New Degree of Homophobia in Fire Emblem Fates"
Re: Video: Ocarina of Time's Kakariko Village Gets a HD Makeover In Unreal Engine 4
Apparently it is a twenty year old guy from Australia that did this on his own.
He started studies this year at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE).
Re: Rare Co-Founder Has No Idea Why Nintendo Didn't Buy The Studio Outright
Tree years ago:
"Play4Real: How did you feel when Microsoft acquired Rare?
Tim: Honestly, a little time before that, everyone began going their own separate ways. We were very eager to leave as well.
Chris: Then they gave us a bunch of money.
Tim: Yes they did.
Play4Real: How was your time at Microsoft?
Tim: Dreadful. Utterly dreadful.
Chris: Since most of the original staff had left, the remaining team tried to pull together like the old days.
Tim: It did not work."
http://www.p4rgaming.com/exclusive-interview-with-tim-and-chris-stamper/
Re: Editorial: Nintendo's Approach to amiibo is Increasingly Frustrating
In 2½ years Activision sold 175 million Skylanders toys (that is almost 6 million a month).
in 6 months Nintendo managed to sell 10,5 million amiibos (that is less than 2 million a month).
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/217116/Skylanders_2_billion_175_million_toys_and_bigger_than_Call_of_Duty.php
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/05/nintendo_has_shipped_105_million_amiibo_worldwide
Re: Treyarch Isn't Working on Call of Duty: Black Ops III For Wii U, Though Activision is Noncommittal
Whatever happened to the "scalable" game engines that would make it so easy to make games for everything between smartphones and high end PCs?
Re: Gallery: Wii U Owners React to Screenshot Removal on Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures Miiverse Community
@ColdingLight
The Bayonetta miiverse is not as naughty as you wish. The closest to nudity you get are pictures of Bayonetta in something that looks like a high cut bathing suit.
Re: Gallery: Wii U Owners React to Screenshot Removal on Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures Miiverse Community
None of the posters in the article had even bothered to buy the game before they started trolling. A "box icon" in the lower right of every post shows if you own the game or not.
Re: Feature: Ten Must-Play Games for the Nintendo 3DS
@edgedino
Anyone know if Kid Icarus is taking advantage of the new C-stick?
I have not bought Kid Icarus for two reasons that the new3DS hopefully makes easier:
Will this be better with new3DS?