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I do wish Takeda and Miyamoto would've made sure to pick a CEO that could carry on the legacy of Iwata on it's own. The reason that Nintendo has gotten where it is is partially due to each previous president spending years mentoring and tutoring the next one on how to carry the spirit of Nintendo, even Hiroshi who spent years assisting Iwata finalizing the DS and Wii.

Virtual Boy - 0.8 million
NES Classic - 2.3 million
Color TV-Game - 3 million
Super NES Classic - 5.28 million

The sum isn't just "slightly higher" if you count all the systems, it's 11.38 million higher which means the title is misleading. But over 760 million sold units is even more impressive.

@roadrunner343 I know that. I just complemented the article with most of those. 😉

That sum are actually incorrect as it ignore Nintendo's dedicated and minor game consoles.

The Color TV-Game series: approx. 6,000,000 (source: "Game Over" by David Sheff)
The Game & Watch series: atleast approx. 43, 400,000 series (source: "Iwata Asks: Game & Watch". Numbers are as of 1989 and excludes the Ball reissue plus Mini Classic)
Virtual Boy: approx. 770,000 (source: Nintendo)
Pokémon Pikachu: unknown
Pokémon Pikachu 2: unknown
Pokémon mini: unknown
Pokéwalker: unknown
NES Classic: approx. 3,600,000
SNES Classic: approx 5,800,000

Nintendo's minimum number of sold hardware units are therefore approx. 767,170,000 units.

So they state that PC is better than NS while advertising a rip-off of a NS best-seller on the least technologically advanced modern gaming platform. What splendid marketing!

It's having a tentative title, atleast one new character model, new characters, is being presented as a brand new game, had the old dojo completly removed, among other things. Writing "Original game (C) Nintendo / HAL" in small caps are odd, but irrelevant when it was Sora Ltd. and Bandai Namco who worked on SSB4 and not HAL.. I can say to a 99% degree that this not a port, and even if it against all odds are one then it's a combination of both the 3DS and WU versions.

Making a SSB game usually takes long. SSB64 took 1, SSBM 1.5, SSBB 1.5, and SSB4. Seeing how Sakurai hasn't been involved with any other games for the past 4 years, so it's not surprising they already announce one for the NS. Oh, and it's a new one; ports don't use placeholder names or completly change character models from the ground up.

Microsoft has been keen on publishing their games on competing consoles since literally day one, just look at when Rare created titles for the GBA and NDS. They've just been more outspoken about it the last few years. This would create no barrier on EA creating titles for the NS, PS4, or iOS, unless EA themselves proclaim it.

The spelling would make the copyright invalid if it were to be used in a charge for "1080° Snowboarding" or "1080° Avalanche" since you obviously can't copyright an angle degree and "1080° TenEighty" is a different name altogether.

@blondeandy Sorry to hear that. There are a plentiful of other hour-long videos on the topic, but none that I've watched myself.

@blondeandy https://youtu.be/ak8jzShE3Vk

@tourjeff You forgot VC. It wasn't a major selling point for Wii, Wii U, or 3DS, since most of it's users had the original consoles and games in their house with multiplayer capability which the emulators didn't always support. However, NES VC on 3DS was a minor selling point and the New 3DS had it's SNES VC as a major such since consumers could play their favourite games from these on the go. Therefore, I think that VC could be a major selling point for the VC if it supports N64, GEN, Wii, and non-Nintendo consoles and likely also NDS, 3DS, and Wii if they release a cheap adapter to plug it into the TV while also updating the OS to be capable of using the touch screen and TV as separate units.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Not to be that guy, but "your opinion" prior to the NS flying off the shelves this March that the NS would flop and sell worse than the Wii U. Not trying to discredit you (yet), just pointing out that your previous predictions about NS sales figures have been wrong 😉

SMM overall and SMO for 3D ones. Sad to see that TLL doesn't have a single %, it's a very underrated game many haven't played.

@ANeonChicken @Fooligan You would've a hard time finding someone that have heard of root beer outside of the US & Canada. It's virtually unheard of in other countries, even less seen in aisles, and of course most people that have heard of if it would presume it's some kind of beer without being told it's a soft drink.

I'd just like to point out that VS. Super Mario Bros. and the Arcade Punch-Out!! are vastly different from their NES counterparts. VSSMB has a different set of levels from the NES SMB - some original, some from TLL - while the Arcade PO has a different look and feel from NES PO and presumably plays somewhat different from it to. In fact, the VS. Arcades in general are more often than not very different from the NES counterparts according to both what I've read and my time spent playing on some of them.

@Drac_Mazoku Yes and no. There's no evidence neither for or against that they got the rights from IT. The terms on which the case was settled was never publicly revealed so it could have literally included anything. Nintendo have also in general avoided releasing their own arcade games for any console ever since the release of the Famicom and since the Famicom got all of their famous arcade games and plenty of other famous games it makes sense to just create an emulator for those. But my wild speculation is that Nintendo will at the very least make an offer to IT soon for getting the rights to the codes if AA on NS becomes a success, IT after all owns the code to no less than 1/4 of Nintendo's arcades.

Japanese guy: How about cosplaying as a TV with a Famicom?
Everyone else in the room: BRILLIANT

It was good, but I miss the goofy moments that made NDs so memorable in the past. It's clear that Kimishima has became a better CEO than Iwata was for most of his time

@Caryslan Yes. Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Computer Othello, Block Fever, Monkey Magic, Popeye, Radar Scope, Sheriff, Space Fever, Space Firebird, Space Demon, HeliFire, Sky Slipper, Space Launcher, and Zaxxon, but no Donkey Kong 3.

As a side-note, what Ikegami Tsushinki and Nintendo settled on was never revealed. It's plausible that the terms included that the rights to the data were to be transferred to Nintendo, and since Nintendo has never before released any of their own arcade games that is simply something we can't guess. Either way however, I predict that this will be a hit and then Nintendo will make sure to acquire the rights to those games anyways.

@Caryslan Actually, they are believed to own the code to as many as 1/4 of Nintendo's arcade games.

I honestly don't get you people. Yes, I get that convenience is great and all, but getting mad because you get classics you've never been able to legally play before instead of buying Super Mario Bros. for literally the 17th time just makes you look like lazy, demanding people.

"Do you know the story of how Ash and Pikachu met?"

And not a single Pokémon-fan said "no" that day. Still, it's great to see the team let loose and do whatever they really want for the first time since the third instead of some movie they created for the sole reason of introducing a mythical Pokémon everyone already knew about.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE None, of course. It's NOE where talking about after all, the same people that completly ignored their fans in Scandinavia and other parts of their territories which relies on third-party distributors they themselves practically owned for 30 years in regards to even things such as Club Nintendo.

@Docx360 Also, 2 septillion views...

@chiptoon I'm 23, and most Nintendo fans my age did indeed grow up playing the old Game Boy.

You can go even further back than just the 3DS too look at Nintendo games with more logical voice-rendering capable hardware. Wii and GCN had fully logical add-ons that worked fine when plugged in, and since the former one was capable of that through USB ports it makes no sense the Switch isn't when docked. The NDS had a fully functional built-in microphone, as did the Famicom for the flying spaghetti monster's sake!

@bahooney EB64 was nowhere near release. Personally, I'd bet any money on the actual Ura Zelda which Miyamoto said was finished and supposed to be released on the GCN before they pasted the name on OOT Master's Quest which due to plenty of things was discovered to not be the same game.

The eShop is not going anywhere anytime soon, considering the Wii Shop Channel is still up and running.

@XerBlade Then I stand corrected.

They should've translated FE3 and included it on the international version as that would've sold even more units than with just SF2. A previously unreleased top-notch game PLUS a localization of a previously unlocalized game in a million-selling franchise would've been a dealbreaker for many people that won't buy it now.

@Freelance You're welcome 😉

@Freelance Since the NES Mini used a custom emulator it's likely this will use that aswell. It's fair to say that they actually decided to include them from the start here and therefore made it SFX-capable from the start, whereas the ones on Wii, 3DS, and WU is only meant for normal SNES-games and would therefore require a heavy amount of additional modification for just a dozen or so games.

@AlexOlney You forgot to mention the "64" on the American football costume.

>update promises to make NS more stable
>update actually makes NS less stable

YOU HAD ONE JOB, UPDATE!

@Thegentleman Then you should repair it. That sounds like the connector has gotten a bit loose and fixing it takes like 10 minutes if you have an appropriate screwdriver and there's plenty of tutorials on how you should do. In the worst case scenario you'll simply have to buy a new connector and those are very cheap.

@BLP_Software Don't forget the NES-101 and SNES-101

@SLIGEACH_EIRE If you'd like to play it now, you can always download Game & Watch Gallery on the 3DS eShop or Game & Watch Gallery 4 on the Wii U eShop 😉

You know it's old when it refers to Nintendo as "those who made Donkey Kong"

Looking at the main page, I can see immedeatly that it's not even closely serious or professional enough to be considered a "hall of fame". People with any kind of expertise understand that any media to be in a "hall of fame" or getting some other rewarded must be choosen objectively. In polls like this, people will simply select what they games they prefer and not which games have done the most in any terms. In other words, you can't put Street Fighter II, (which, honestly, hasn't impacted the video games business in any major way) Final Fantasy VII, (which set the standard for how a story-heavy game should be like) and Wii Sports (which brought millions of people into video gaming, opened up an entirely market, and made motion sensors a permanent thing in gaming) against each other. As you can see, only one of those two influential games are even in top three, followed by another but somewhat lesser-ly influental video game (Pokémon Red & Green) and a main game in a franchise infamous for it's incredible repetition caused by it's fanbase consisting of 12 year old ADHD-fanboys with literally no craving for quality and which even then only like it because "itz an kool Xbox gaym (lol gay)!!1" (Halo: Combat Evolved)

TL;DR: F*** that site.

Nintendolife, if I want those kind of thumbnails... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@Alshain01 In WW, Tingle has his own island called "Tingle Island" so therefore "Tingel Island" is a reference to WW.

Also, depending on how you pronounce and accentuate it, Akkala rhymes with Squadala. Just sayin'

Check out GameXplain. They have three videos listing references, including a whole lot you missed. In addition to this, you also missed that Mido Swamp is a reference to both the Kokiri Mido from OOT and the location Midoro Swamp from AOL.

At this point, I trust that PETA's statements regarding animal's situations to be nuanced and objectual just as much as I trust that a nazi's statements regarding racial biology to be factual and correct.

@ProjectCafe @SLIGEACH_EIRE @NintySnesMan I'm not surprised. International game retailers appears to have trouble staying afloat, presumably due to concurrence from on-console downloads and the increased presence of price-comparing websites. Atleast in Scandinavia.

@NintySnesMan They're basically on extended life support already. They've already withdrawn entirely from Scandinavia and presumably other countries aswell.

Kids today are spoiled. When I was a kid, I may have wanted consoles on launch day but only on one occassion did I ever ask for one when it wasn't my birthday or Christmas - that's when I got my GBASP. All other times I worked for my money if I wanted to be sure to have one on launch day.

You Americans must be incredibly deprived of outlets. Here in Sweden, we have them literally everywhere - even on public transports

@Ras I was referring to Gomoku Narabe which was developed by Nintendo R&D. But yes, Iwata worked on an entirely different Othello Famicom game called Oseru.