Mortenb

@CharlieSmile I'm sorry I didn't see your side of things. I think you are being a tad agressive in how you phrase yourself towards those who think differently. I don't want to continue conversing in this style. Also, sorry if I'm misinterpreting you.

@CharlieSmile I tried to explain as well as I could my position. I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by your reply. I would rather the creators make the story they have in their heart. If that is about a female character, great. I don't want to dictate such things, because then it will probably be misplaced and take away from the game.

@CharlieSmile Changing sex of a character is a very significant move. It's almost like making it into a different genre. I'm not against it per se, but the creators might not have that story in them to tell. Just taking the name zelda and mixing up random things to please a crowd is not a good move. It needs to flow from the heart of the creator, or it's going to feel superficial. Better to create a new game about something new then.

Most companies are careful and avoid over producing. That is a good thing, as it conserves resources. Talking about artificial scarcity is so silly. There is always scarcity of everything. Let companies have their strategies. Producing more of some things means less of others. Only silly companies are swayed by public opinion and sell things at a loss to somehow stay popular. People still keep complaining, so it gets them nowhere.

I don't get what's the big deal. I'm gonna buy what is interesting and available at a price that's acceptable compared to alternatives. I don't think Nintendo owes me anything. They could ship only one of this if they so please, I just won't buy it then. Sure, it's interesting to analyze why they do what they do if you're into that, what I don't get is all the hate. Nintendo, like all others, do what they think is best for them. If that ever benefits me, I consider myself lucky. If not, that's a neutral situation.

If you are going to play or make such games, fine, do it. But don't try to blame Nintendo, that's simply being a whiny baby who can't build your own likeable characters or don't actually appreciate these characters and the work gone into building them. No matter what you think of the legal issues, you are undermining the very reasons these characters exist in the first place. Be aware of this, and think of this every time you support such a game.

I agree. Most games, and indeed, projects in this world, fail. The fact that many fail, does not mean it's the platforms fault. I do personally think it's weird that backers accept not getting shares for commercial projects, and then continue to complain when they don't have a say.

I missed the first 40 minutes of Nintendo event, because on the front page it says 6.pm WEST, while actually it was an hour earlier.

The battle mode is enough to make this game one of the very best on the system, and the best Mario Kart ever.

The battle mode in this game is certainly the best there ever was. The levels are simple, but allow for subtle tactics. The mechanics of the power ups are very detailed, and let's you develop expert skills. All other battle modes feel very random compared to it. Battle mode on Mario Kart 64 is, along with Goldeneye multiplayer, probably the game I have played the most in my entire life.

This looks like it's going to be the best game that came out the last 10 years. The Next Generation of Gaming starts 22th Nov 2013, mark my words.

I really like cartoon style. Keep experimenting though, Nintendo. And keep it lighthearted, fun and self ironic.

I don't think this is necessarily Googles problem, just because they could theoretically stop it. You might as well say it is internet providers responsibility to check that all activity on their net is legal, or a building owners responsibility that no illegalities occur in his building. This requirement could potentially lead to no internet provider daring to offer services to anyone who was not a huge company with resources to make guarantees about all such things, or no one wantig to rent out houses except to people who could absolutely assure them no such things would occur. Likewise, putting this responsibility on Google, might lead to a halt in app development for the platform, as they would have to basically require a huge staff, lots of guarantees and a certification of the publishers. Google should of course be helpful to Nintendo if unauthorized copying is proven to actually occur, but they should not be responsible for the illegalitites them selves. It should be the guy uploading and the guy downloading who is held criminally responsible.

If my Wii U was updateable to a dev-kit for free, I would start developing for the Wii U right now!

No one is giving any details about the actual technology claimed to infringe. I refuse to take any side before I know those details. Too often patent claims are for something that is not for the protection of someones work, but simply when someone had a clever idea, and happened to be the first to go to the patent office. Patents (as I think they should be) are not to protect clever ideas, but to protect actual intellectually demanding research and work. If it is enough with an idea, then anyone could come up with it. I probably had the idea of 3D without glasses 1000 times while growing up, but I never sat down trying to actually make it work. The only thing that should matter (as I see it) is whether or not Nintendo could have made the 3DS without first seeing this guy's solution. If they realistically would have made it anyway, the patent should be invalid as I see it.

MacDonald's has the biggest market share of restaurants. Therefore, all gourmet restaurants should forget about their expertise, and copy MacDonald's before it's too late and they have no chance of getting the biggest market share.

If he really did think it would not be good to have in the game, then why does he now think the game would have been better/sold more if it was in the game. Perhaps it would have ruined the game and it would sell less, like his initial intuition apparently told him.

Nintendo can't just go around taking domain names they want through force. Trademarks should be a way to go after people who do business in your domain under your name without permission, presuming you were first to use the name in said domain. It is not for owning a particular name in all it's possible uses. If these guys start actually fooling anyone to buy their products in stead of Nintendo's Wii U on this site, then they should be forced to stop doing it. But they should not loose the domain still.

What games did the other companies show off?

I do not think Nintendo should stop hiring underage workers. The only reason an underage worker would work, is because it's better than any alternative. Nobody like the image of children having to work, but for most of human history, that is what they had to do to survive. Life is hard, and it is an absolute miracle that most of us are wealthy in the west now. Child labor naturally ends once people in general get wealthy enough that it is not necessary for survival any more. (In the west, we are just wealthy enough for a ban to not kill people, however the ban still makes children slaves to their parents).

I do think Nintendo should do something to end the use of conflict minerals. However, as long as forced labor is possible in Congo, it is not going to end by refusing to buy their products. It will most likely make it worse, as they are more isolated, they will work their slaves harder until they can offer prices so low that some other company will buy it and try to keep it under wraps. The only realistic thing to do is to try and change Congo laws, culture and governance. I would hope this is achievable without a war, but I'm not so sure, and even a war would most likely fail, as people today in the west are not realistic about how dictatorship and slavery comes about, or even what it is. So what should Nintendo and we do?

Nintendo should support a realistic plan to make forced labor illegal in all forms (btw., this includes forced military service or other national service, taxes on production, central banking etc.) in all nations. Why should they do this? Because it is in everybody's own interest in the long run to be principled and have self respect. Self respect can only be had by a man who knows that he is doing what he can to live by creating value and trading it with others, and not by consuming what others value without offering them something they value more in return. Now, most people actively vote for the opposite of this in many places, so I don't think such people will develop a realistic plan for ending this in Congo. They will just come up with something ineffective that makes them feel good for a little.

@pc999 Because in the least capitalistic areas of the world people are being forced to work? (I'm talking about the conflict mineral miners) Forced work is the opposite of capitalism, and is illegal under a pure capitalistic system. If you do care about stopping this, then you need to make it illegal with forced work in Congo (not an easy feat). Once you have made forced work illegal, which is the same as not taking from people the values they produce (stealing), you basically have capitalism.

3ds looks nicest I think. That style would look even better on wii u though.

The types of games people play on tablets are totally different from what types of games Nintendo usually makes. They would simply become a barely noticeable company if they switched focus away from what their fans enjoy and what they know, in order to compete in a different market for an imaginary increase in profits that would never materialize. In the meantime they would have also destroyed their brand as being one of quality and delivering special experiences.

@LittleIrves Yes, that's correct! I noticed the companion cube myself. Weird.

Nice! These guys are from my home town Bergen! I met them! They're cool!

Capitalism always wins, but how has it anything to do with this game? Capitalism is when people who create value are the ones who control the value and can enter into agreements and contracts to trade those values voluntarily.
Fighting over money has as much to do with capitalism as having sex. The only thing it has to do with capitalism is that if it is to happen it must be voluntary to be legal.

I´m getting this for one reason. David Wise. But the Donkey Kong character sucks in these new games. Back on SNES he was stylish and cool, now he´s kind of silly like Goofy. He should have been left out for this game.

Players only have so much money they will spend on games. If the games are bad, they will need more games for the same amount of money, which translates into selling and buying used games. The only effects long term the restriction might have is that either MS must sell games for less money, or will loose customers to Nintendo and Sony, where with Nintendo you get more value from every game, and with Sony you can sell them used when you are sick of them after some weeks.

The IP is a badge of quality. If Nintendo uses Mario, you can be sure it is a good, fun game. It there is a new IP it means Nintendo is unsure whether this will work out.

That is the best news I have heard in a long time. The music really made DKC what it was.

I could see it all, although it lagged sometimes. At one point I had to switch to the low quality for it to be watchable.

@Bryon15 Games are so much less expensive than when I was young. First, inflation means the same amount of money is much easier to come by these days, and second, the prices are actually lower in nominal terms too. Everything to do with electronics is so much cheaper these days. It's everything else that is much more expensive. Now, get off my lawn.

It's like starting a family car factory and saying you want to surpass Rolls Royce in sales.

I don't like piracy and I don't pirate. But when I hear people advocating for bans on this kind of hardware, I just must do a big facepalm. To ban a piece of hardware like that is a violation of the exact same principles that piracy is. If you do advocate for a ban on some hardware, expect much more piracy, censorship, corruption etc. in the future, as you are corroding from peoples minds the very principles that make people respect each others property and freedom.

I almost never use the wiimote, and don't bother playing games that require it anymore. It's way too much hassle changing batteries all the time.

When he said the GPU is several generations ahead, he was probably not referring to console generations, but GPU generations, which are typically a lot shorter.

It did require it. Who cares why it required it?

Can't buy this, because my eshop does not work with error 111-1007 since the last update.

Xbox never was a competitor of Nintendo in the first place, only for very confused consumers, who are now waking up and choosing either that they want the living room entertainment box or the box for getting intimate with carefully crafted game experiences. I'm saying that they are focusing on different target audiences and always have.

Why is the energy theory inhumane (shouldn't that word be inmonstery or something, since they are not human)? I wouldn't even mind being transferred into energy if I would be transferred back a bit later. Why should a pokemon care? The cramped space theory does seem a bit inmonstery though, so I wouldn't put my pokemon there.

What? What is wrong with giving me a job, and something to do in exchange for money? Without him there wouldn't even be a game. Why does religious morals creep into every discussion and ruin all that is good in life by calling good things bad and bad things good? Do you expect him to be my slave? His being there makes things better for me, so of course he should get paid what ever he requires, or he can simply refuse to serve me. Damn slave morality!

Nintendo would make more money in the short term, but loose more money in the long run as Mario's name would no longer be a stamp of quality for consumers. Also, everyone who loves Mario both at Nintendo and as customers would be sad to see him in lots of half-assed spin-off type games.
If Nintendo ever does release games for other systems, they could consider doing Picross or something for a tablet, but please never make silly games that do not really fit the platform and are just frustrating to play like most games that are not puzzle or physics play games are on tablets.

The problem is the lack of ownership and responsibility for ones own actions that our culture promotes these days. When even police men talk like that, well... I don't know, but I do not think it bodes well for the immediate future.

It's not a violation of a Trademark so long as one does not use it to identify ones own product (which they might have done). Nyan Cat is possibly copyright, but in my opinion it should be ok to use certain copyrighted material like this for reference uses. This references popular culture, and is not a work about Nyan Cat itself, so I think a judge would rule it to be fair use. However, if they made a game where Nyan Cat was one of the main characters, that would certainly violate the copyright and trademark (if it's possible to be a meme and a trademark at the same time, seems a contradiction in terms somehow).
Similarly, I think it would also be ok for Microsoft to make a game where Mario appeared briefly in a similar fashion as he is at this point not separable from the game culture. However, if they sold a game about Mario, or where he was a main character, it would violate both trademark and copyright.
Keyboard cat is just that, a cat and a keyboard. It is not distinct enough to make a claim that it is anyone's "creation", and it has certainly not been used as a trade mark.

These guys have misunderstood what Trademarks are for. They are for letting individuals and companies to have an identity, not for owning a name. They only apply where misunderstandings of identity could actually occur or someone could pretend to be someone else, and as such very rarely are enforced across different industries. If Nintendo were to set up a restaurant with this name, that is when troubles might arise. No one is going to buy a Wii U in stead of going to a restaurant because they were confused.

There are tons of ways to use this. Difficulty scaling, knowing when you are bored, some others here mentioned other great alternatives. This guy has no imagination. Although it would be best to include in the controller instead of a separate peripheral. I think Nintendo dropped this because no one would buy a separate device for this, not because there is nothing to use it for.

I think pretty much all kids in Norway read comics with scrooge.

This would be even better if it could play blue rays.

Basically this "quantative easing" amounts to lowering the salaries of every Japanese worker and taking their savings, and giving the value to Nintendo (and other export companies) stock holders and European gamers. Lowering wages in Japan is of course necessary, but doing it through inflation and political means in stead of letting each company do it on their own if necessary is the biggest sillyness of this age.

In Norway I can't join Club Nintendo.