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Weeeeeeeeeeeee! Its a roller coaster ride of investors wanting answers, fans screaming about everything, and Nintendo going "meh, here's a silly app in like, i dunno, 6 months, 3 months, a year, whatevs".
Ooooo its gonna be fun as a Nintendo stockholder

@Freelance NOOB.

Finally. Saving my 3ds and wii u to the Google and icloud was far too clunky

@RainbowGazelle dont you guys have a much higher chance of the rares or shinies or whatever it is?

@Rob_mc_1 They're not losing anything anymore. Yoshi sold out, and will be back in store soon. Marth used to go for $50 online when he sold out- now you can't go to any bestbuy without little mac, marth, and everyone else sitting on the shelf.

@ECM yeah it was all kinda weird.

@ECM Rob's numbers assumed every single smash player- exactly 100%, by his numbers- would have bought all 50 amiibos.
Which would cost nearly $1,000. More money than the cost of my last 5 Nintendo consoles put together.

@Rob_mc_1 errr......... a potential 200 million? Outside of a few thousand diehard fans, collecting all 50 amiibos (4 million games X 50 amiibos=200 million, i assume that's what you meant)
the total cost per user would be $650, before taxes, assuming every item was purchased on sale and not bought from a scalper. Buying all 50 amiibos on Amazon today would cost about 1,960.
$650 ...That's more than i spent on my PS3, 2DS, Xbox 350, and Wii U...combined. The total cost on Amazon or eBay is more than every game system i've ever owned, plus my 200 game library.
That's not how potential works. POTENTIALLY 1-5% of users would pay nearly $1000, or up to 2,000 on Amazon, to play smash bros and own some dolls. There's no possibly way anyone at Nintendo thought 100% of Smash users would buy all $1000 worth of amiibos. 21 million seems a perfectly valid number. "Every 10 year old playing smash would immediately buy 2 amiibos at $20 each for $4,000" is not.

@RainbowGazelle 99 cents each? I mean they're like 1.80 on Amazon, but still. The day i got mine, with amazon discounts, they were 10 cents each

@PlywoodStick or how strong. I'd pity a company that jammed its fingers in their collective ears and refused to adopt. "HA, a WEBSITE for our company? All our correspondence shall be by morse code and newspaper, my good man!"

@gcunit if they make a mobile game that doesn't, it'll change EVERYTHING.

@Trinexx When i used a windows phone, i was amused at the sheer number of "totally pokemon red" or "fire emblem why not" games that were clearly the GBA or DS title, sometimes with the word Nintendo scratched out, sometimes not.
The game itself was always a crappy match 3 puzzle game or an endless runner. For having what feels like a few dozen titles, the windows store sure sells a lot of identity theft crap...

@Discipledoctor it would have to be a main IP in the first two games, if not the first one. "We announce our 200,000,000 deal, 11 months in the making, and it is- Box Mover 2000".

Professor Layton, Final Fantasy Tactics, Phoenix Wright and XCOM all had their console and 3DS/PS versions ported to mobile. They played pretty much exactly the same- any touch-heavy game does. Fire Emblem mobile could be amazing, and maybe even a Paper Mario. But an endless or flappy game, ehhh...

@KTT The better 3D effect seems pretty cool, but my 2DS was $75 brand new. I could only get about 50 for it if i sold it, and the new 3DS is 250 ish. Paying $200 for that 3D...ehh. I'm holding off for the NX!

@Tsurii Exactly! Every Zelda game he worked on got a 9/10-10/10, and all the ones he didn't work on directly got a 6-7/10 across the board and sold a quarter as many units. 7 of the 10 best rated games of all times are Nintendo, and 5 of those were his. Keep him away! Give us more Call of Duty and Steel Diver!

@LinkSword and yet the game still ended with everyone standing around smiling, looking like actors on a set, so i guess...........nothing really changed?

@readyletsgo Probably!

The Wii version of RE4 was so much better than the PS2 version (the worst) and even the Gamecube version. But then the HD version came out, and oh my. Ohhhh my...

@donniedarkenson @TheRealThanos I see it as the opposite, actually.(Opposite of what Thanos said, i agree with donnie) When my $400 copy of Earthbound finally gave up the battery ghost, i no longer owned a working copy of Earthbound. Nintendo and amazon weren't thrilled when i demanded a new copy, since i didnt own the game anymore, due to its age. My $10 digital download, which i got on sale for $2.50, is still mine. My Wii digital purchases from a decade ago are still on my wii u, and soon, my NX. Likewise, a $60 older PC game a friend bought yesterday felt to the ground, and cracked- the store won't take it back, and its one of the few games that doesn't come with a Steam code. I picked it up on Steam for $4 on sale, many years ago- still mine. If my entire house burst into flames right now, i could walk to my neighbors house and download the game, for free, legally, and play it within minutes, while sobbing about my burned down house. That $60 disk? He owned the game for minutes. Unless Valve goes out of business tomorrow, i'll own that $4 copy of the exact same game on 5 PCs for the next 100 years.And even if they did, so many digital downloads are DRM free, ill just put it on my Amazon and iCloud, and re-download it whenever. As for pulling the servers- that doesn't change anything from digital to physical. If the titanfall servers are down, i still can't play it if its a disk or not. Owning the disk doesn't magically make the servers reappear, and replug themselves in. Only in SimCity whatever, where the single player requires internet, is that almost true - but it would still be the same for disk or digital. I guess you could say if Steam went out of business, then you might not be able to re-download any of your old games. Well, your keys would still work on the original publisher's page, and even if they didnt, Steam has 50 competitors you can take your keys to, or rebuy the game for ten cents. Theoretically a publisher could POSSIBLY erase your copy of it, but in over a dozen years of digital gaming, that doesn't happen- Rare has pulled DKCountry a few times from the current store, but never once removed it from systems. If you already purchased the game, you can still re-download it, years later.
I read your threads, (Thanos) and you're well spoken and very articulate, and clearly given this a lot of thought, but honestly, everything you said goes against my experience being a nearly digital-only gamer for years. People constantly say "oh no, my dog ate my DS cartridge, guess i need to buy it again for $40" or "oh no, i dropped my $130 copy of metroid prime trilogy on the floor and stepped on it.... now i need to buy it again. " They need to buy these products again, because they don't own them. They never owned them. They own a tiny, fragile, archaic piece of plastic from a long-gone era. While my friend is openly weeping over their $128 copy of Prime Trilogy (check the prize on amazon right now!) I'm secure with my $5, all digital copy of the same series on my wii u, that i bought directly from Nintendo. If my wii u's flash drive exploded this very second? Well, the smell will annoy me, but its okay. I own the digital, cloud-saved backups to every save file and download of the games. It would take 20 minutes to redownload all 7 or so GB and put them on another flash drive and plug it into my all digital wii u. My digital $5 copy of Prime Trilogy, my 25 cent digital copy of Mirror's Edge, and my $4 copy of Skyrim, digital, all grant me exponentially more control, savings, and ownership over titles that, all together, i spent less than 30 minutes worth of paycheck on. hopefully, in a month or two of saving, my non-digital friend will be able to finally afford another fragile, glass-like disk that will shatter into 100 pieces if it so much as gets poked funny. That one metroid prime disk cost more than all 65 of my Origin games put together...

I just double checked my math. That single copy of Metroid Prime trilogy, new, OR of Xenoblade Wii USED at gamestop, either of those fragile, easily snappable, leave it facedown on your coffee table for 10 seconds while answering the phone scratchable plastic games, costs more than my digital, unbreakable, undeletable copies of
all 25 command and conquer titles
the entire metroid series
the entire dragon age series
every mass effect
skyrim
oblivion
and Earthbound
combined.

Digital forever.

@yuwarite I think steam started it over a decade ago. Aren't PC games now 70% digital?

@erv my steam library of 300 titles smiles sadly at my local best buys selection of 6 pc games

@Tasuki You can keep it up all day, and you mentioned many, many consoles from 10-20 years ago. Congrats! You're old. Sega hasn't made a console since my 21 year old best friend was in 5th grade. The Xbox I bought when she was 11. Thank you so much, for being the fanboy of Nintendo- and no console anyone else has made in nearly 20 years. "I only own a Wii U , and a 360, oh and 20 years ago, i bought a neo geo, and back when Bush was on his first presidency, i totally bought an Xbox. now, my opinions of the Wii u are...."
Fan.
Boy.
.
The fanboy is even stronger with you than i assumed...

@Tasuki You're on a Nintendo site, reading Nintendo news, but no, you're not a Nintendo booty-kisser. Just an owner of every console they've released in the last 8 years.

Oh fanboys <3 Gotta love ya

@Freelance i couldn't care less if anyone hates mario kart or yo-kai or persona. But when i'm getting post after post of ZELDA AND YO-KAI ARE GARBAGE YOU'RE ALL DUMB YOLO it just gets annoying. You think games loved by hundreds of millions of people world wide are stupid? Great! Move on. Post on another link. Get a hobby, Get a job. I see stupid juvenile crap like that, I'll call it out.

@Ryu_Niiyama Trust me, if i were going to call out every idiotic troll that goes "incredibly popular well-loved games are stupid, and i'm brilliant for not liking them, you SHEEPEL" it would take all year. Move along, trolls. I have work to do, and if i get one more reply of "i'm 200x too smart to like zelda, mario, mario kart, yo-kai, smash bros, persona, mass effect and all those games are garbage and i'm brilliant" i'm charging you trolls $50 a post.

@Barbiegurl777 Ah, so you've already finished Yo-Kai, one of the most popular selling series of all time, and are well aware of whether or not its garbage? the same with Persona Q?

@Ryu_Niiyama yes, but that typically happens on weeks where we only get Bob's Bowling Adventure, a port of a mobile game.

Barbie is looking at persona, zelda, yo-kai, and going "eww garbage, everyone's opinions but mine are terrible", then posting 10 lines about how we should respect everyone's opinions. When you're calling out three of the largest selling games in human history as garbage that is beneath you, someone can take you to task. Just because she hates popular, fun games that are highly reviewed and well regarded doesn't mean she can be a whiney little *** about it.

@Barbiegurl777 All of those ideas are great! You did none of them. you simply looked at a 10/10 reviewed game coming out, a 9/10 game on sale, and said "ugh its all garbage!" Everyone Is entitled to their opinion. So when you learn that, and stop spam posting "every game i don't play is garbage", the rest of us would appreciate it. Thanks!

@TerrapinJess you must! its legally required that you ignore it.

@Barbiegurl777 which makes it kinda silly that you called the 5 million copy selling YOKAI, and the 60,000,000 Zelda series garbage everyone has their own opinion, so your "all opinions but mine are garbage" comment was ultra-silly today

@Tasuki i know right? the 3DS only outsold its competition 11 to one. We are truly living in dark times.

Having fun playing Flappy Birds on your phone!

@Barbiegurl777 "more garbage.........i dislike all of the most popular series and franchises in history" Sweet, ill buy 3 of each!

@PlywoodStick Their population is significantly less than that of the US, but you are correct about the cali part. And its def a recent phenomenon- i blame the vidya games and the animus!

@amiiboacid the egg. Japan is literally the least sexed country in human history. You can google that, it is verifiably true. So instead, they get lingerie animu waifus.

@amiiboacid fun fact! you can Google this, but Japan has the highest rate of virgins older than 30s, one of the lowest birth rates, and is the least.....fun adult times active race.......in human history. do games like this cause those, or are these games caused by the audience? I have my theories, but meh . Just thought i'd point it out!

@AlternateButtons Agreed. If i saw an ad for "bikini scary cartoon fun time" i'd roll my eyes and realize it was for 14 year old kids, not adults. Metroid is simply fun for all ages- cartoon tummies are for teenagers and tweens that just discovered girls.

@EllenJMiller But no one 18 and above is sitting around hoping to see cartoon abs. The costumes are more to excite 13-14 year olds.

@ShanaUnite The Mountain Dew and Call of Duty One? Ehhhhh

@SuperWiiU Exactly. A 9/10 game is def only a 2/10 if a single pixelated tummy isnt shown.

I finally picked up Little Battlers. I'll see how i feel after the demo with this one!

@MJKOP so mario's smash friends, mario's yoshi world, dk freeze, and rayman that i have on Steam.
GRRRRRRR. i likely will pick up yoshi world, tho. was it better than epic yard? kirby super star was really hard around the arena, and the meta night levels, and dream land 2 had some rough boss battles. Epic yarn, however, was unplayability easy. i was afraid yoshi yarn would be the same

@MJKOP I'm not. I own hundreds of Nintendo games. I really, truly, want to know a game that isn't Bayonetta, Mario, or Splatoon, or DK freeze, all of which i own, or am waiting for a sale on. And, not a release of a PC indie game. What are your top 5 NOT Bayonetta, Splatoon, or Mario games?

@MJKOP @rockodoodle Mario Party 10, zombieU both have 60% ratings, and I've played both- they deserved it.
And of course, one is a mario title. So.......mario mario mario, and a title with a 3/10 review that earned it. and yes MJ, Pikmin 3 was good...then you listed a bunch of mario titles i already listed.
So, in terms of games with above a 60% average, meaning total crap
we have
Splatoon
mario 3d world
mario kart
mario bros
mario
mario
mario
mario
and....
Bayonetta.
lego city just squaked by with an 80%.
woooooooooo 4 games and mario!

@JaxonH Again, i have well over 2 dozen replies to my comment.
Every
single
person
names mario maker, mario 3d world, and splatoon, mario kart, mario bros, mario mario mario mario.
no exceptions, at all.Literally, not ONE. "There are totally more games than what you mentioned, like Splatoon, Splatoon, and Splatoon".
Thank you. I've heard of Splatoon.
I am seriously contemplating offering a $10,000 reward to the first person to mention a QUALITY Wii U game besides Mario and Splatoon........

@rockodoodle See? NintendoLand, Mario Kart 9, Bayonetta. The entire Wii U library, right there. Xenoblade isnt out, Zelda isnt out, StarFox isnt out. The system has been out 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and all people can name for it are "well, it has mario 3d land, kart and bayonetta........"

@MJKOP I owned the mario and luigi ones and sold them, and zombiu was.......well, it earned its 6/10. A friend said hes picking up mario maker for us to do together. SteamWorld, Thomas, Switch, etc were all games for other systems as well, so..........yeah. I have 5 Wii U games, you named like, 7. Now i'm even sadder than before!

@MJKOP i'm the same way, and i have no problem spending too much money on games. Its just........ the wii u library is just lacking. No Pokemons, no Zeldas, no Metroids, no Fire Emblems. During the Gamecube days, id always buy the GC version of BMX, Metal Arms, robotech, and a dozen other games. Now, the Wii U ONLY has exclusives- and very, very few at that.

@CadenH Look up LLC, Incorporation, and a few related terms. You can use Wikipedia for now. Being a corporation typically stops you from being sued to an extent- if Caden the Guy accidentally steals an IP or an asset and doesnt realize it, he can theoretically have his house or car taken as assets. If Caden Company, LLC gets sued, but his office is just a $200 computer and a pencil, then the suer can take...his pencils.

@RoomB31 @MJKOP Ill start by saving I sold 450 video games two years ago, so its not like i'm not big on buying games. I am really choosey about games lately, (mortgage, two car payments, family etc) but honestly.... what are there besides the games i listed? There are no pokemon, zelda, metroid, kirby, fire emblem or fzero games on the wii u. No fallout 3, fallout 4, or dragon age or mass effects. A bunch of indie games- 90% of which are $1 on Steam. What am i missing, people?!