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Nintendo + Third Parties = LOL!!!

Taiwan, China, and South Korea.......to the west, they are the enigmas of the gaming world..........lots of duds.....but lots of truly great games as well that we have no clue about.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted was excellent.

I don't blame third parties though, most of them at least tried (albeit some, not all, with delays or old ports) but once the sales data came in, they ran for the winds.

I have to be honest, I would rather see a Last Blade sequel than Samurai Shodown.

Oddly enough, the buyout from the Chinese company may have been a good thing, since it seems like Neo Geo IP's have more cache in China, south-east Asia, and Latin America (especially Fatal Fury and KOF).

The new KOF still looks off, but they do have the talent of some of the people behind Street Fighter 4, so I'll continue to wait and see.

Anyways, on the whole, awesome news, for a short time, say 1993-2000, SNK was one of the better developers in the world.

Owned a Dreamcast from early 2000, it was better...

Dreamcast was the better console of the two, it's true, and hard to argue against.......not that the Wii U doesn't have some stellar titles as well.

The tears!!! poor lil guy........just want to give him a hug.

Thank god, enough of this "ohh! you want a new F-Zero?, well....I couldn't think of a good enough gimmick to cripple the series during the last 15 years instead of.....you know, just doing a logical sequel".

Have some hope if he could tell the Wii U was in troubled waters from the start by trying to follow the same path as the Wii.

As for Iwata, kinda verifies that it was a sudden passing away, yes, he had health problems, but he probably didn't see the fragility in the situation, nor anyone else.

Well, given that Nintendo has almost zero third party support, they have to play nice.

No comment on actual Wii U sales?............Shhhh, let's not talk about that.

I have a friend who has Apple TV, but yes, perhaps it's more popular in North America. That being said, it's not super common over here either.......lots of hype during the intial launch, but afterwards it somewhat fell off the publics radar.

LOL at the confrence though, Apple managed to make Microsoft and Nintendo look like innovators and themselves as a company running on borrowed time.

@Jayvir

Why? Miyamoto more or less created the 2D platformer, I would expect him to be great at the genre. Who knows though, maybe he sucks at other games like first person shooters.

He's not an idiot, but he's obviously very much focused on the P.R. and marketing side of things. Wasn't he the marketing head for Pizza Hut or something.

I believe Shu and Spencer actually do play games outside of their respective consoles, Reggie only plays a game when it's in the best interest of the company.

Necessity, at least the NeoGeo had Data East for third party support, the Wii U has perhaps the most pathetic third party support of any console that has remained afloat.

But, that's a huge testament to the quality of Nintendo's first party software that they haven't sunk the ship yet, and will not until after the NX.

@tysonfury

The Witcher 3, the best game I have played in years,....

Hmm, decent lineup, but Nintendo's promotion of such ho-hum third party titles makes me feel justified that I packed up my Nintendo bag and bought a PS4.

Don't really get why this is a thing......speed running the game proper, awesome without a doubt......initiating glitches in order to see the ending in a minute or so, rather lame, and it doesn't show much talent outside of knowing how to break games, so who cares?

At least it would have signaled that Nintendo is actually taking third parties serious this time around.

I'm really missing those 3DS VC titles.

@Iggly

More like economics, like the fact that the Wii was doing well in both the west and Japan when Tri was released (c'mon now, both the PS3 and X360 had better controllers and online connectivity for such a title), and that the 3DS has been the most popular platform of its generation in Japan..........shhhh, don't tell anybody.

@Gamer83

I'm right with you, even as a 10 year old, I could tell that despite loving my N64, the Playstation kids had a greater range of titles and genres. Gamecube, sold that for the orginal Xbox, never really regretted it.......Wii, some clasics, but largely ignored. Wii U? Great titles but it spent the majority of it's time collecting dust while I waited for the next Nintendo release, now sold.

Nintendo handhelds have all been ace, not taking away due to the fact that some titles are ports, the GBA has perhaps one of the best software libraries of any piece of gaming hardware, full stop.........the DS was good, but given that the 3DS refocused Nintendo efforts on non-gimmicks (IE, DS stylus or touch controls), it has been even better IMO.

I would rather see Nintendo focus it's assets on the portable side as well..........Nintendo handhelds, have never let me down...........Nintendo home consoles, 25% of the time it's gaming bliss, 75% of the time it's collecting dust.

Well, the Dreamcast did sell better considering it was off the shelves in two years.

@Faruko

Disasters for the 32X, Jaguar, Virtual Boy, etc.......dunno, you get the point, I'm not sure the Wii U is a failure either, but after the Wii era, and considering that console sales are still healthy for the competition, it is a huge disapointment.

Put a smile to my face for sure, three absolute classics!

@CaviarMeths

Agree with you that Microsoft buying SEGA would have made sense after the Dreamcast OS support and the exclusivity deal......., I think half of my time on the orginal Xbox was playing SEGA exclusives (Shenmue 2, Jet Set Radio Future, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Crazy Taxi 3, House of the Dead 3, etc. )

Decent game for sure, nothing mind blowing, but not bad.

Between the overload of first party titles, shovelware, and JRPG's, this was a breath of fresh air.

The reason why the N64 was so popular in North America was that it's games appealed to a wide demographic, for ever traditional Nintendo game you had a quality first person shooter or racer.

Ohh Nintendo, what happened to you....

90 bucks for 3.5 times the battery life? Expensive? Yeah, but not outrageously so........cheap bastar......

Amiibo is starting to grow very tiresome, just the approach to the whole concept. It's not like it's even proping up hardware or software sales........it just feels like a future intrusion into my gameplay experience.

The Wii U's mediocre, but against all odds exsistence is a great testament to Nintendo's biggest strength (quality first party software) and it's biggest weakness (being out of touch with third parties and the larger gaming community).

I think NintendoLife is going to be sleeping on the couch tonight.

When your biggest concern is ending the feud between two Smash games..........smh.

C'mon Nintendo, it's like you want me to dislike you.....hope this fails.

Dying Light is that odd title that is getting a lot of bad press from the critics, but most players are finding it a flawed but enjoyable experince.

I pretty much agree, have yet to beat it, up its a low 8 for me.

@andrea987

I think a lot of is it due to the fact that the handheld market is the lifeblood for Japan, and Nintendo's traditional pillar. They can live with a mediocre selling home console, but a portable that tanks is a different story.

Does this game work with the circle pad pro, and hence the new c-sc-stick?

@Giygas_95

I think Fire Emblem: Awakening has a good chance in becoming one of those "defining titles" when we look back in a decade. Regardless of platform.

Who gives about 3D or street pass? It's the games that matter...

I like the 3DS more so than the DS (and the Wii) in a number of ways. Nintendo became a little off-putting in efforts to shove motion control and the dual screen / stylus down our throats last decade. With the 3DS, IMO, I appreciate the more traditional approach, and software has improved because of it.

I'm not sure Nintendo has ever made franchises quite as cool as Metal Slug and Shock Troopers though.

I'm not so sure of the home-portable hybrid, it makes sense in theroy, but your doing something very un-Nintendo like......your throwing all of your eggs in one basket, if that platform sells poorly, you have no alternative. The handheld market has always been the savior for Nintendo during doom and gloom home console life cycles.

I think you will see a very high level of connectivity between the new handheld and the Wii U / next gen home console though.

The New 3DS will be two years old in Japan by late 2016. Think of the N3DS as the DSI, it was created to help hardware sales during the last years of that platforms life cycle.

The thing that really hurt 3DS momentum in 2014 was a lack of appealing software, especially compared to 2013. You can almost see that shift of assets to Wiiu development after that system tanked in early 2013.

I could see a new handheld in late 2016 though, for sure not out of the realm of possibility, by that time the new 3DS LL will be two years old in the Japanese market.

Should be seperated into two categories.

Speed running through a game in the traditional sense.

....and glitching a game for the shortest time to the credits.

Hopefully Nintendo figures out this cluster ____ before they start the next generation.

How about just some new 3DS games in general....MH4, Zelda: MM, and S.T.E.A.M are all cool, but it seems like a very thin lineup overall. GBA VC on the 3DS would be icing on the cake.

Nintendo should just announce Wii games for the Virtual Console, so we all can get ready for that first release in 2020.