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Re: Talking Point: Nintendo's Flirtation With Microtransactions May Step Up in 2015

hiahfiuehiuawef

The new "remodel" feature in Steel Diver Sub Wars was so blatantly pay to win that it made me stop playing the game entirely. I really liked the road it seemed to be going, but that was just unacceptable. As for Rusty's Real Deal Baseball, I think the games are way too basic to warrant even the lowest price you can get for them, but I haven't bought any, so I don't know. Pokemon Shuffle has all the worst aspects of free to play, and I hope that nobody actually pays for that crap. Free to play is a broken system. Not even Nintendo can get it right. I'd rather them just stick to add-ons for full games, like they did with Mario Kart 8.

Re: Talking Point: The New Nintendo 3DS Could Be a Huge Success, But Its Route to Release Has Been Rocky

hiahfiuehiuawef

@Bazly
Your opinions make no sense, and Nintendo won't answer your pleas (and probably even planned for them). Just go with the bigger one. If your pockets are to small, get bigger pockets. Mine fit my XL perfectly fine. If people can find ways to carry tablets around, I think you can find a solution for something much smaller. And if you don't get a New 3DS XL anyway, then you have nothing to complain about. $0 for nothing is a pretty good deal.

Re: Talking Point: The New Nintendo 3DS Could Be a Huge Success, But Its Route to Release Has Been Rocky

hiahfiuehiuawef

@Wilford111
If they dropped the Wii name, people would complain that nobody would know that it's the successor to the Wii. If they delayed the system launch to get more games ready, then they would have much bigger problems. The Wii already wore out its welcome, and the momentum was dead. The Wii U needed to release when it did, or its situation would be much worse.

Re: Talking Point: The New Nintendo 3DS Could Be a Huge Success, But Its Route to Release Has Been Rocky

hiahfiuehiuawef

@midnafanboy @bazly
It's a hard job. They only did what made sense. Really, most of it was out of their hands. The world just moved on after the Wii and DS. There isn't much they could have done about it. That said we should set our sights at the current state of Wii U and 3DS sales. The 3DS is a huge success, and the Wii U is slowly picking up. A few ammeters would get a situation like the Ouya, which didn't pick up, despite them thinking that they were hot stuff.

Re: Talking Point: The New Nintendo 3DS Could Be a Huge Success, But Its Route to Release Has Been Rocky

hiahfiuehiuawef

Re: Talking Point: The New Nintendo 3DS Could Be a Huge Success, But Its Route to Release Has Been Rocky

hiahfiuehiuawef

@k8sMum
So you're saying that it will make no impact, yet you go on about how Nintendo would respond to it impacting... What? We all know that the small 3DS and DSi didn't sell well in America. I never see them around town. The amount of people that really like those and also weren't willing to switch to XL is very small. It'll take a tiny slice out of the New 3DS XL's sales, and Nintendo knows that already. If the New 3DS fails, it won't be because of the small amount of people they alienated. And in that situation they wouldn't be able to bring out the smaller version, because no stores would carry something that would sell less than something that, in that situation, had very little sales to begin with.

And about your whining? It's pointless. It's already been said, and it's not changing Nintendo's mind.