Nintendo seemingly doesn't care about the quality like their other IPs
If Nintendo cared about "other IPs", that atrocious Skyward Sword would never be released. This lame excuse of game almost ruined the whole Zelda brand.
Nate the Hate is not an "insider". Heck, he got more things wrong than right (he has a friend on Ubisoft who leaks for him and for everyone).
Plus, this is the same nate that had to apologize because his "leak" of CoD on Switch did not happened. He also said Metroid Prime Trilogy would be launched. Nintendo 64 Mini. StarFox GP...
He just want to boost his brand with educated guesses. He never, NEVER, leaked or got anything right from NCL.
I would never list a remake of a bad game at the top. Pokémon Gold and Silver are, for me, the worst in the series. A remake of a bad game is still a bad game.
Gold and Heart Gold are the only Pokémon games that I played for less than 50 hours.
They asked for a price? Like actually knowing the price of the console? Or what?
Reggie said in his book that he tried to push the 3DS into US$ 200 for its launch in USofA. Iwata asked about US$ 219 or US$ 229, but Reggie was adamant on US$ 200.
@larryisaman Reggie himself said that he asked for a price for 3DS in USofA and Iwata dismissed it.
Today's NoA is weak. They are a glorified PR and distribution branch. The last time that NoA was somewhat independent was when Minoru Arakawa was on the helm.
Nintendo should learn to use and let their consoles be fully compatible with 3rd party engines.
But they are and this is good.
But you will never reach the full potential of a console using a 3rd party middleware, because of that that Nintendo themselves never use a general purpose 3rd party middleware (they used a physics based for Zelda though).
You have more productivity with them (because they are faster and generic), but you lost performance (because of the high abstraction).
Makes no sense to use them in a 1st party development.
Do the leaderboards include an option to only view people on your friend list? That’s always more interesting to me than world rankings where I will never be good enough to compete in.
I would like an answer to this too. That makes a lot of difference. I wish reviews could have some of these little details.
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Re: Review: Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist Of Memories & The Envisioned Land (Switch) - A Bold New Direction That Strains The Switch
Just pre purchase on the eShop to get the bonus costume.
Can not wait to also buy the bikini DLC.
Re: Nintendo & Pokémon Company Had An "Adversarial Relationship", Say Former NOA Staffers
@shoeses
If Nintendo cared about "other IPs", that atrocious Skyward Sword would never be released. This lame excuse of game almost ruined the whole Zelda brand.
Re: Nintendo & Pokémon Company Had An "Adversarial Relationship", Say Former NOA Staffers
The Pokémon Company International - aka the USofA branch, is the worst.
They hire cheaters to comment, have prejudice against Brazil, do not give us an option to use the METRIC system in the games.
Almost as bad as Doug Bowser at the head of NoA.
Re: Best Super Mario Games Of All Time
No.
Super Mario World is not even in the best 5 Mario games.
Re: Talking Point: What We Expect From The Switch 2 Direct
Lies of P. C'mon. ¬¬
I just want new series AND new games in dormant series.
Re: Poll: Will You Trade In Your Switch When Switch 2 Arrives?
@Ryu_Niiyama
No.
Things here do not work the same way in USofA.
But sometimes, some people tries to return the items (mostly when I let someone within a bus).
Re: Poll: Will You Trade In Your Switch When Switch 2 Arrives?
After the transfers, I will do what I always do with my old consoles.
I will let them, fully charged, in public spaces. The first one who sees, can claim it.
Re: Nintendo Asks Wii U Owners To Refrain From Using "Unauthorised" Online Services
Re: Rumour: Insider Claims That Halo: Master Chief Collection Will Come To 'Switch 2'
Nate the Hate is not an "insider". Heck, he got more things wrong than right (he has a friend on Ubisoft who leaks for him and for everyone).
Plus, this is the same nate that had to apologize because his "leak" of CoD on Switch did not happened. He also said Metroid Prime Trilogy would be launched. Nintendo 64 Mini. StarFox GP...
He just want to boost his brand with educated guesses. He never, NEVER, leaked or got anything right from NCL.
Re: Nintendo's Punch-Out!! Series May Be Dead And Buried For Good
Only people from USofA would complain about something like this.
They are the ones that complained against Smash Bros. "stereotypes" too.
Re: 'Switch 2' Is Projected To Be The "Clear Winner" In The Next Console Generation
The console do not even exist yet.
I remember a lot of people and companies saying that the Wii U would be the winner...
Re: Surprise Leak Reveals Lenovo Is Releasing Another Switch-Like Gaming Handheld
@Bolt_Strike
But they have. Its games.
A console it is just a box to play games and Nintendo has the best games in the market.
Re: No Gravity Games Is Giving Away 11 Free Switch Games This Month (North America)
A bad game is still bad even at a $0 price tag.
Re: The Game Awards 2024: Date, Time - How And When To Watch
@Lightsiyd This.
We are talking about an event 4 decades old...
But all the lights go to the son of a filmmaker.
Re: The Game Awards 2024: Date, Time - How And When To Watch
I would love to see data regarding audience outside USofA.
It seems that most people on other countries (besides Brazil, because they think that everything from USofA is good) do not care at all.
Re: Pokémon TCG Pocket Sets Its Sights On "Inappropriate Player Names"
I think that imperial system in the mainline games are also inappropriate. Let us change to metric, TPC!!!
Re: Random: Pokémon Fan Crunches The Numbers To Settle Alpha Sapphire's "Too Much Water" Debate
@PikminMarioKirby Ah, IGN post 2002 was a thing.
I still remember Colin Moriarty saying that Vita would be a success and outsell the 3DS because, unlike the 3DS, it had games!
Re: 50 Best Nintendo DS Games Of All Time
These lists are always subjective.
I would never list a remake of a bad game at the top.
Pokémon Gold and Silver are, for me, the worst in the series. A remake of a bad game is still a bad game.
Gold and Heart Gold are the only Pokémon games that I played for less than 50 hours.
Re: Pokémon TCG Pocket Trainer Drops $1,500 To Collect Every Single Card
@rvcolem1 Why not?
People are free to do what they want with their money. Who are us to dare to tell others how they should spent their money.
Re: Feature: It's 20 Years Since The Launch Of Nintendo's Most Important Console
To this day, still the best console ever launched.
Best Nintendo consoles (for me):
Nintendo DS
Switch
Wii
Re: The Game Awards 2024: Date, Time - How And When To Watch
US of A Game Comercials awardzzzzzz 2024®.
Thanks, but no one outside USofA cares about this and the media should stop to try make this the "official" game of the year award.
Re: Kojima Productions Reportedly Gains Full Control Of Death Stranding IP
Please, no.
Kojima makes walking simulators and interactive movies. I do not think that Nintendo fans would embrace his, ehr, games.
Re: Random: "I'm A Pretty Normal Person" - Miyamoto Disputes 'Genius' Label
@GamerGrandpa NintendoEverything, a much smaller site, uses a real person to translate some pieces.
Nintendo Life is huge, I really do not know why they still uses machine translation.
Re: Random: "I'm A Pretty Normal Person" - Miyamoto Disputes 'Genius' Label
Sigh.
I love you guys, I have been here for over 10 years. But it is time to use a real japanese translator for these kind of pieces.
Nintendo Life network is huge, has great fans and the content should match this.
:/
Re: Random: Kit & Krysta Discuss The "Drama" Behind The Switch Reveal Trailer
@Olmectron
Reggie said in his book that he tried to push the 3DS into US$ 200 for its launch in USofA. Iwata asked about US$ 219 or US$ 229, but Reggie was adamant on US$ 200.
In the end, NCL choose US$ 250.
Re: Random: Kit & Krysta Discuss The "Drama" Behind The Switch Reveal Trailer
@larryisaman Reggie himself said that he asked for a price for 3DS in USofA and Iwata dismissed it.
Today's NoA is weak. They are a glorified PR and distribution branch. The last time that NoA was somewhat independent was when Minoru Arakawa was on the helm.
Re: Random: Kit & Krysta Discuss The "Drama" Behind The Switch Reveal Trailer
Former Nintendo of America employees. They had 0 knowledge about things at NCL though.
Good thing that Nintendo of America has almost zero input at decisions. NCL would never let its USofA subsidiary to dictate things.
In the end, as Kit said:
Western media usually overrate the importance of NoA.
Re: Pokémon TCG Pocket Is Reportedly Already Bringing In The Big Bucks
@Enigk
Pokémon Go was always popular. It is not in the regular news anymore, but still is played a lot.
Re: Video: 10 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In November 2024
> Exciting games
> LEGO Horizon Adventures
No. Pick just one.
Re: Dragon Quest's Creator Criticises 'Mistranslation' Of DQ3 Remake Costume Comments
@Samalik
This. Nintendo Life is huge, makes no sense to act like a blog and use a machine to translate japanese text.
Nintendo Everything is smaller but they always do direct translation.
Re: Random: The Latest 'Switch 2' Rumour? Scroll Wheel Shoulder Buttons
@BHPM
Why? Or, what is the advantage?
I only see people talking about how this makes racing games more realistic, but these same people only uses automatic transmission...
I remember using it on Super Mario Sunshine and that is it. The R and L were awful for Double Dash.
Re: Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom's Frame Rate Is "Even Worse" Than Link's Awakening
@Savage_Joe
But they are and this is good.
But you will never reach the full potential of a console using a 3rd party middleware, because of that that Nintendo themselves never use a general purpose 3rd party middleware (they used a physics based for Zelda though).
You have more productivity with them (because they are faster and generic), but you lost performance (because of the high abstraction).
Makes no sense to use them in a 1st party development.
Re: Dragon Quest Creator Chimes In On Characters Showing Less Skin In Upcoming HD-2D Remake
We all know that this is because of usofan hipocrisy, let us be honest here.
Re: Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom's Frame Rate Is "Even Worse" Than Link's Awakening
This is what happens when you use a 3rd party middleware.
Nintendo should not let partners to use these generic engines in their franchises.
Re: Random: Chappell Roan Jokes About Fan Taking Concert Photos On A DS
NL should screencap the posts and post here, instead.
Because the X post could be deleted and for some of us, X is blocked.
Re: All Annapurna Interactive Staff Resign Following Failed Spin-Off Negotiations
@LadyCharlie
It is not an "original video grame crash", since this was only in USofA. The market in Japan, Europe, South America were fine at the time.
Re: Feature: "There Was More We Wanted To Say" - One Of 2023's Best Games Gets 'The Pristine Cut' On Switch
@Lizuka This means nothing, to be honest.
Plus, the game is not avaiable in arabic nor in portuguese. That is almost 1 billion people.
Re: Feature: "There Was More We Wanted To Say" - One Of 2023's Best Games Gets 'The Pristine Cut' On Switch
> Slay the Princess
> One of 2023's Best Games
Of course not.
Sigh.
Dear NL, let these phrases be in opinion articles only, please.
Re: Random: "The Time Players Spend In A Game Is A Cost" - Sakurai Talks Long Runtimes
I have more hours in ARMS than in Smash.
Smash Bros. just needs fresh air and a new direction for me.
Re: Video: Early Gameplay Of Sega Revival Projects Leak Online
Is it possible to Nintendo Life themselves host the videos in another place?
For some of us, X is blocked. Not in the work, but a nationwide ban. :/
Re: Gamescom 2024 Opening Night Live: Everything You Need To Know - Date, Time, Where To Stream
As a Nintendo only player, zero interest in this.
Put Keighley in there, and my interest is negative.
Re: Atooi's Switch Game Hatch Tales Is Finished, But It's Been Delayed Again
Hey, good news. Now he will start to develop Treasurenauts, right? I can not wait to play in the Switch 3 Lite XL with my Axe.
Re: Yes, Gamescom Opening Night Live Will Include "New Game Announcements"
This guy and Jools Watsham are featured here every month, haha.
Re: Review: SteamWorld Heist II (Switch) - A More Ambitious Caper That Rewards Patience And Planning
Still easier than the first version (3DS before the dumbed down patch).
Re: Switch On Track To Surpass PS2's Lifetime Sales In The US
Source: Trust me, bro. When the Switch reaches 161M, then the PS2 will magically be at 165M.
Re: The New Denpa Men Surpasses 100,000 Downloads In One Day
@Fizza
At least in Japan, this is a very popular series. It has 4 3DS entries, and this one is somewhat an enhanced port of DM4.
Re: Ex Chibi-Robo Devs Announce Spiritual Successor 'koROBO'
@Vivianeat
This also applies to Custom Robo, another CR underrated series from Nintendo.
Re: Ex Chibi-Robo Devs Announce Spiritual Successor 'koROBO'
Meanwhile, I am still waiting for Giftpia (or a spiritual successor).
Re: Review: Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (Switch) - Speed-Focused And Slight, But Addictive
@JasonLee99
I would like an answer to this too. That makes a lot of difference. I wish reviews could have some of these little details.
Re: Feature: Nintendo Switch Sports Basketball - A Slam Dunk Or A Missed Shot?
@link3710
You are wrong. In USofA, Switch Sports costs US$ 39,99.