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Re: Analyst Firm DFC Believes a 2016 Nintendo NX Launch "Would Be a Mistake"

Rumorlife

A reveal is one thing, but a release really might be too much. They say the WiiU & 3DS aren't going away. They'll release this thing, people will wonder why there's now 3 systems, maybe even 4 or 5 since people are dumb enough to think the DS & Wii are still being supported full blown just because they see the games in the stores still. An NX release would probably seriously damage the WiiU sales, hurt 3DS, and I bet the NX wouldn't even take off as fast as most of you think even if they give it some hefty running power. People who are out of the loop will have so little idea as to why this is all happening, and there are more than plenty who are out of the loop.

Re: Activision's 2015 Figures Show Slight Growth, But Skylanders And Guitar Hero Underperform

Rumorlife

I haven't been looking a lot lately, but I just started seeing the Bowser & DK skylander/amiibos sets. I almost never sell the Guitar Hero WiiU version in my Best Buy, and I notice that both Activision games mentioned, sell slowly across the board anyway. As for the Lego stuff, it probably sells well because, much like Amiibo, you can buy the figure sets and not have the game, and it doesn't really matter. Plenty buy the Back to the Future or Simpsons stuff and tell me they don't have the game and don't care.

Re: Sound Your Survey Klaxon, Nintendo of America Wants Your Feedback

Rumorlife

@orravan85 Well maybe if you share a common want with many others it does. I can say it worked only once for me, I asked everytime for DK64 in the club nintendo surveys, now we have it on WiiU. But maybe our wishes were going to happen anyway? It seems like a grey zone, you can't really tell what they're doing with it because they never reveal what their intentions are. Everything they asked about though isn't anything I'm worried about. If they were asking me about which games they should make or what they should do besides how they're going to use social media or advertise toward me I'd care more. That's just me though

Re: Soapbox: A Nintendo Fan's Hopes and Dreams for the NX

Rumorlife

This is way too much to ask all in a launch. But thank god this article didn't try to bash the Gamepad for something that it isn't. Also selling the NX in 2 pieces (handheld and console) just seems really awkward, not sure how that would work. I mean we already sell it in 2 parts, but they don't work with one another. But people already STILL can't understand that the WiiU is backwards compatible with the Wii and same with 3DS to DS. I work in Best Buy and I constantly am explaining that to people. Even sometimes I get people trying to buy WiiU games to play on their Wii and I have to explain why it won't work. Selling it in two pieces will just further people's stupid confusion. Cool idea of course, but for the average consumer this seems complicated. I can just hear it now "WHY CAN'T THEY PUT IT ALL IN ONE BOX!?" The PS3 and 4 had similar confusion with the Vita, and that crashed and burned, so we never saw how it played out. Maybe Nintendo will and can push it to make it work and we'll see how it plays out. If Nintendo can make it where you buy 1 game and it has the ability to play both on TV and mobile, then they're already doing better than the PS brand tried.

Re: All amiibo Will Be Compatible with Pokkén Tournament

Rumorlife

Doesn't the NA/Westerner version(s) come with the Dark MewTwo amiibo card? If that's still a thing I doubt the amiibo do anything special like Smash, it'd be weird imo to have it be anything super important if they're giving you "an amiibo" to start with. Hyrule Warriors route it is.