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@Ron1212 It was big. X, Bayo 2, smash, MK8, and GBA VC are all a big deal.

@JimJam707 Well, the founder of Big Red Button, I think his name is Bob Rafei, did work on the Crash Bandicoot series. There are also a number of people on the dev team that worked on Jak & Daxter and Ratchet and Clank. A good isgn if you ask me.

@C-Olimar Personally, I would agree, but that may not do so well critically. Although, I absolutely loved Other M, so I'm probably in the minority here.

@RupeeClock The Other M version isn't actually Mother Brain, she was more a copy. Also, the name would be MB, not Mother Brain. I do hope they use the Metroid Queen though, that was an awesome fight.

Good, they need to stop making games for the Wii.

So if the market does take a hit from nintendo's problems, then the rest of the industry only has itself to blame.

I find it funny that the entire industry is blaming nintendo's failure only on nintendo. If they actually took the time to look at the situation carefully, they would realize that they are fault as well for not properly supporting the platform.

I agree, while the company does have its problems most of which are marketing based, a lot of the negativity is because of the media and its infatuation with nintendo hate. Fact is, hating nintendo is the cool thing to do these days.

I voted no. My reason being that if they did make the Gamepad optional, it would only cause more problems. I don't know about you, but I really don't want to pay an extra 70 dollars to use a controller that is optional and may not even work with some of the games I buy. If Nintendo made the Gamepad optional, all they will have succeeded in doing is creating another Kinect debacle. They will have created a pricey, useless add-on that most people are not going to buy anyway, and they will ultimately start ot hemorrhage money over the production cost of the peripheral because of the sales. The only way that the Gamepad was going to work would have been for it to be included with the system. It's the same reason the Micosoft chose to bundle the kinect 2.0 with the Xbox One, they realized that their peripheral, no matter how innovative it is, will not sell by itself. They needed to find a way to get it into every house, and bundling with the system was the only viable option. Either way you look at it, making the Gamepad optional would be a monumentally bad idea.

Personally, I would put X ahead of Smash Bros. I love me some JRPGs.

This looks like it could be ridiculously hard...and I love it! On a side, it always that simplest concept create the hardest challenges.

I'm not this is necessarily saying that they are just now needing a network programmer. If my memory is correct, I think I saw that job listing up on their recruitment page a few months ago (like at least 6 months). As far as I know that job posting has been up for a while.

@Therrus try the original article.

@ McHaggis Very well stated. This is a case of actual infringement on an idea, this is not in any way a case of patent trolling. He approached nintendo with the idea, nintendo turned him down and ended up using it anyway. This one is on nintendo.

It's pretty obvious to me that this a patent troll case. Their patent was repeatedly modified in 2002, 2006, and 2009 to intentionally make it more broad just so they do this stuff. Does anyone know if they happen to have sued Microsoft over the Kinect, because with how they describe their technology in the 2009 patent it would be easy to get a lawsuit going. Generally speaking though, suits like this don't register on the radar of big companies. A few million dollar buyout is nothing to something Nintendo.