HollywoodHogan

@JaxonH

You just ripped on me for living in my mother's basement, which I don't, and bragged about making more money than I do, which you don't (I've seen you post how much you make on here before), yet you get all upset when someone mocks you back? Get a grip. You started it with the personal stuff.

I made a point that some people buy everything Nintendo releases without putting much thought into why, and then you post a rant trying to be the "voice of reason", when you are coming from a position where you own/have likely owned 5-10 different variations on the 3DS and spend hours each week searching foreign websites for amiibo. Again, nothing wrong with that if that's what you want to do, but please, spare us all the attitude that you are just the "average Nintendo fan" or are speaking for the masses, or that your opinions on anything Nintendo aren't biased.

@larry_koopa

All these lemmings buying a 'new' console that, to my knowledge, only has ONE game (Xenoblade) for it that can't be played on a regular 3DS, which came out like a year ago.

Some people really will buy anything Nintendo craps out.

'Forward thinking' implies that Nintendo is doing something to get ahead of the game, when in reality they are playing catch up with Sony and Microsoft who have had strong indie support for 5 years or so.

Will XSEED still be publishing Mad Men Football?

You had a god damn month to come up with a good line, and the best you could do is 'what devilry is this?'!!??

Shame on you

@ROBLOGNICK

There's been a lot of 'on disc' DLC from many developers, you can google it and see it's a real thing.

In your opinion a character unlocked using an amiibo you paid $13 for is not DLC, but to most consumers and developers it's exactly that.

@ROBLOGNICK

Hate to break it to you, but character skins, player/weapon/skill upgrades are all considered DLC by Nintendo, Sony and Xbox. On the other guys you pay $1.99 or so to access it, and on Nintendo you pay $12.99 (or whatever an amiibo costs) to use it.

DLC is whatever the company wants it to be. A new level, a new playable character, a new outfit, etc, as long as you pay extra $$$ to buy it.

Hahaha!

You gotta hand it to Nintendo here. They have become the first video game company dumb enough to allow their all their DLC to be accessed and played using a small plastic disc.

They are truly visionaries!

@Jimtaro

Wow, that was a whole lot of nothing.

Nothing wrong with a developer saying that if the first game in a potential series sells well/is popular that they would like to have the opportunity to make more.

This happens with books, movies, television series, etc.

Not exactly a groundbreaking concept, or something worth writing a manifesto over.

@PlywoodStick

Who honestly needs a car that is capable of going 200-250 mph when they are just a regular person driving on city streets and highways? You could make a reasonable argument that nobody outside of a professional race driver needs that car, but guess what, lots of people like them and would like to own them, when a Honda Civic would do them just fine.

Same goes for a high powered firearm. Does someone really need to own an AK-47? Probably not, but a lot of people still want to and enjoy shooting them at a range.

Oh well, whatever. We are never going to agree on this issue anyway so better to just end it now haha.

@PlywoodStick

It's all still guerrilla warfare my friend.

The Russians and American's, using laser guided bombs, napalm, and all other kinds of high tech aerial weaponry couldn't beat a bunch of stone age people using old AK's and hiding in tunnels and caves.

Nobody needs a super fast sports car either, but some people just like to collect them and are interested in them. Same with automatic weapons. People like to fire them at ranges and just enjoy owning one. The vast majority of these guns are NEVER used to kill people either, and are owned by responsible citizens.

American was built using guns, and nothing is going to change that mindset. Your government would do better trying to eliminate the threats (i.e. the mental cases) rather than trying to round up and dispose of guns, which will never work anyway.

@PlywoodStick

"Civilians wouldn't be able to stand against a well equipped professional army, even with assault rifles."

The Vietcong and Taliban say "Hi!"

Me thinks you need to crack open a history book....

@Einherjar

Rather than sticking the guns 'where the sun don't shine', it would probably be easier just to load them into train cars by the millions, drop them off at a disposal depot, then incinerate them all.

@FLUX_CAPACITOR

MK8, Smash Bros and SM3DW all got massive daily coverage on IGN, were featured on late night TV, had TV commercials and were discussed on news reports as well.

None of those games 'saved' the Wii U either.

Mario Maker will be no different.

@Einherjar

There are hundreds of millions of guns in the USA right now.

How would any law you could possibly suggest change that?

It's easy for you to point fingers from across the ocean and give your opinion, but in reality there isn't an easy solution.

@amiiboacid

If you ever want to change your username in the future, I think a good name for you would be 'RoseTintedGlasses'.

@CB85

Both of them look like Nintendo fans though

@JaxonH

You are just arguing in support of your own opinion though. None of what you state is an objective fact.

You can argue until you are blue in the face about how great you feel the gamepad is, and how it improves certain games, but based on the overwhelming evidence that the general public and consumers have provided (awful hardware sales and complete apathy towards the system), you must, deep down, understand that the vast majority of people don't want/don't care/don't need the Wii U or the gamepad to enjoy games.

@NightmareEater

Hahah exactly.

A Tekken game featuring an anthropomorphic Pokémon re-skin and we are supposed to believe that there are millions of people who want to play this game, let alone buy a Wii U to do so!?

Haha, some people here are completely delusional....

This is about as niche as a title can get.

Also, lol @ Mario Maker moving systems. As @rjejr already stated, the Wii U already has a number of Mario games that would have enticed people to pick up a system already.

@HandheldGuru97

No worries brutha. I'm not even American but hate it when I see you guys putting yourselves down and believing in this weird idea that the rest of the world hates you. It's not even close to being true, and you guys can go pretty much anywhere on Earth and the people in whatever country you are in are going to like you and want to talk to you

@HandheldGuru97 If people don't take America 'seriously' because of the violence there, they must also not take the Middle East, Africa, Russia, most of South America and most of Asia seriously either.

(Pro tip: once you get a passport and actually leave America, you will soon realize that you are generally well liked all over the world)

@locky-mavo

You forgot to mention when he was right about the Wii U selling like crap and being virtually abandoned by third parties soon after it was released.

People like to pretend the guy is always wrong, while ignoring all the things he got right.

@Cyber-BLP--

Those views belong to the entire Western world

@SanderEvers

But didn't Pachter predict from the start that the Wii U would lose all third party support, be the worst selling home console this generation and that the gamepad wasn't the 'game changer' Nintendo had planned on it being?

He was right all along.

If Iwata was using an early prototype of this device, it does not bode well for instilling consumer confidence.

@GenoBeatsMallow

Hahaha WOW.

Your thought process is so bizarre I can't see any point in continuing this debate.

Have fun paying some guy $20,000 for his copy of Stadium Events while I play the rom for free!!

@GenoBeatsMallaow

WHEN YOU BUY AN OLD GAME ON AMAZON OR EBAY, NINTENDO (OR THE DEVELOPERS) DO NOT GET ANY MONEY FROM THE PURCHASE

Whether you spend $20 buying Jaws for the NES on eBay or download the ROM, nobody involved in the creation of the game is seeing a dime either way. Can you really not understand this??

@Nintendood

How do you steal a 25 year old NES game that can no longer be bought in a store or through a legal downloading service?

If not for emulation, 95% of the NES/SNES/GBA/GB library would be unplayable unless you owned the physical cart.

@Damo

Any word on Mad Men Football my good man?

@Mbrogz3000

Your PSP and Wii were both made in China, genius...

"They’ll bring that up like “Look how many people want this. Don’t you want money?” And we’ll be like “Yeah, we do want money, which is why we know it’s a colossal waste if we ever try to localize that in this current market, because look at you people. You don’t make up a big enough group."

This quote is a perfect rebuttal to the post by @TheWPCTraveler

Some people just don't get it....

@gaming_24_7

If you only played games 3_4, maybe you could donate the rest of your time helping to end the humiliation of animals and beach vacations

I don't want to live on this planet anymore

@Nintendian

"Adam Sandler is not smart enough to know he is not smart"

Well he was smart enough to start his own production company, surround himself with the right people, and put out movies that are very profitable. Also, he is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

@MrWarner14

Not using an emulator and buying a rare NES game off eBay for $75 is where the true value is ray:

@shani

Then are you insinuating that no other game developers produce quality titles, and are only in it to make profits?

Or would you just like to admit your statement is wrong?

@shani

"MS and other companies mostly have their main focus on making profit"

Which I guess is why Nintendo sells 15 year old games for $10 on VC or why some four year old 3DS games are still $39? Because Nintendo doesn't care about profits??

Get real.

I bought the MK8 DLC bundle as soon as it was made available.

Kind of wish I hadn't though, as by the time both were released (especially the most recent one) I was so completely tired of the game I barely used them.

I will still buy DLC in the future, but only if it adds something new to the game (i.e. new levels) rather than just different character skins that don't really change things up. MK8 had new maps too, but it just felt like more of the same.

@ElkinFencer10

So you would rather pay a guy on eBay an exorbitant amount for a second-hand physical copy of a game, when none of that money goes to the developer or publisher, rather than just play the ROM because of some imaginary guilt?

You may as well just play the rom then, as no one involved with the creation of the game is seeing any profit from that.

@MrWarner14

"Also, I feel dirty having to emulate games I can't own officially either because region locking on a system from a while ago, it wasn't translated officially or I don't have the system for the game"

Sorry you feel guilt pangs when you play a rom of a 25 year old NES game that is no longer being produced or distributed. You should speak to a psychologist about that.

You must live a thrilling life.

@Wii-1

"Nintendo games are more valuable than that."

Why? Because they fooled you into thinking so?

I could open a torrent and download the entire NES/SNES library in all of 3-5mins. Every. Single. Game. Ever.

Paying $5 for a game rom that is 1.3MB in size in absurd.

Nintendo would rather sell 10,000 downloads of a NES game at $5 each than sell 2 million downloads at $1, just to show the "value" of their games. It's idiotic.

@Aromaiden

I'd argue a little more than half of the games includes are pretty much "worthless" at this point in time, and that nobody on earth would purchase titles like Knight Lore, Jetpac and Solar Jetman individually for more than $0.10.

Again, there are much better bargains on Steam, PS4 and other consoles than this. Most people won't even play all 30 games anyway. By the sounds of it, many people are basically paying $30 just to get the N64 games.

@Trikeboy

Don't let yourself believe that Microsoft is guilty at all for preventing the companies from working together.

There is no chance in hell that Nintendo would EVER let Donkey Kong appear in an Xbox game.

@Aromaiden

You opinion is warped because you are so used to getting gouged by Nintendo's exorbitant prices for VC games.

On every other console and PC, you can download games that are 10X larger than anything on Rare Replay for $5 or less. Nintendo is the only company that artificially keeps their game prices high to increase their perceived "worth".

@bmjy1000

What mature rated games have sold well on Wii U?

@MrGuinea

Maybe the Wii U version would have sold better if all the zombies were made of yarn, the world was made of rainbows and gumdrops and that it was impossible to die or run out of lives.

@MrCanzine

It was a flop already. If ubisoft can make a few more dollars off this version they will be happy.

@kensredemption

"PonyStable" and "Xbot fan boils"?

That wasn't very festive

@skywake

I remember this Pachter dude posting on here that he thought the Wii U would sell 10-12 million units by the end of last year due to the release of Smash Bros...what an idiot that guy was!

@Grumblevolcano

I'd argue you are wrong.

Galaxy was something completely unique, where as Mario Maker simply allows you to make levels for the same 2-D games we have been playing since the late 1980's.