whatever it is, it must be easy to reproduce, maybe even with software. My guess is that it's facial expression recognition combined with voice recognition and auto-translation, putting you 'In the game' in a certain way never seen before. If they reveal it now, the other companies could patch it into existing games and Nintendo would be second out the gate. If they wait until they have a decent amount of software demonstrations, they get all the new hype and copiers will look like copiers, like how PlayStation move was obviously 'the Sony wiimote'...
The action or instance of bowdlerising; the omission or removal of material considered vulgar or indecent.'
A guy called Thomas Bowdler wrote whole new versions of Shakespeare's stuff, with bits changed, and bits removed, so it'd be suitable for kids. Seems to me that's exactly what's happened with TMS#FE.
We can get past whether or not it's localisation or censorship or whatever, and just discuss the pros/cons of bowdlerisation. Agree?
I really hope that the 'something something android' rumours have some substance. There's some nice stuff on the android store, and if Nintendo played their cards right, the NX could launch with upwards of 60 quality titles, of various price ranges...
@CrazyMetroid Well obviously I'm not going to tell her all those lame excuses with a straight face. But I'm not going to deflect the real question of why she can't play as a girl with the non-answer of 'you can be a hero instead' either. I'll just tell her, sympathetically, that she just can't, because the people who made the game didn't put in that option.
Peach has already 'replaced (Mario) as main protagonist' to exactly the degree that people want a female option for a Zelda game. In Mario 3D World, you can play exclusively as peach for the whole of the game if you want, which my daughter does. Is that a bad thing? Has the 'appeasement' gone too far just to 'achieve a wider audience'?
All I want is the same thing for Zelda. Let her play as a girl if she wants - it's a work of fiction, constantly growing in lore. Put linkle in as the hero, or have princess Zelda have the triforce of courage this time if you're such a stickler.
And yes, wanting the female character to be in a 'less ambitious spinoff' is absolutely sexist, otherwise you'd have said 'give her another entry in the series just as good'.
And saying that you don't care, and that it's been like this for years and years and you just don't see a reason for change is absolutely just lazily defending the status quo. Have a bit of empathy, man. We're telling you the reason for change.
And it's such a tiny change. A menu option, or a single question at the start of the game. A bust line, a slightly different haircut, some different clothes. Some tiny changes to the text whenever link is talked about in the third-person. That's all it would take.
I guess that's not now though. So in a few months time, when I'm showing my daughter the game, and she says she wants to be the princess, I guess I'll say 'sorry, sweetie, you can't be the princess in this one. Hopefully they'll make a 'less ambitious spinoff' you can try. Anyway, by wanting to be the princess, you're being sexist. You can't be the princess in this one because you've never been able to be the princess in these ones, and anyway, the princess can't wield the master sword'
@Dezzy Look at the post above yours though - "Who cares? Regardless of his "link" to the player, he's been defined as a male for almost thirty years now", and "I'd prefer she'd stay in a less ambitious spin-off" are plain examples of lazily wanting to maintain the status quo and straightforward sexism...
It's not about appeasing feminazis, capitulating to the PC liberal SJW agenda, or anything like that - it's about making little girls happy. Please read the following...
It was blindingly obvious that Link would not, and could not ever be a woman. Because women do not have the will of the warrior. Anyone wanting to play as a girl should play something else instead.
It's a good thing that devs can respond this quickly. the reviews said 'good, but overpriced considering its length', the dev dropped the price. All is well. Imagine if the eshop wasn't so responsive...
I'd just like to share something about the screen door effect that I learned recently - screen door effect refers to when you can see the dark area surrounding pixels/subpixels and has nothing to do with resolution. In fact, you can eliminate screen door effect completely by putting a diffusion layer in front of the screen (the trade-off is a bit of blurriness though). future, designed-for-vr screens could be built with ways to get rid of SDE without need for an extra layer, but not necessarily higher-res. That is to say, you could have a 320*240*2 VR headset with no SDE - it'd look blocky and crap, but there wouldn't be any screen door effect.
VR doesn't need insane levels of graphics power. It just needs lots of frames per second and a responsive input>processing>output pipeline. Nintendo are great at using sneaky tricks and artstyle to make things look better than they should (especially in the n64 era), so if they were to tweak their hardware for VR and tie it in to some Samsung gear type cheap goggledock for the handheld, it wouldn't get Oculus/vive ports but definitely would impress...
@Kroko they're protesting about cheaper, crappier translation/localisation.There's going to be one, 'simplified chinese' version instead of multiple versions for different regions in the various non-simplified dialects.
1. It's okay to play old games. 2. Playing games on an emulator doesn't make you a filthy detestable pirate. Emulators often have advanced features that the original consoles don't have, like super eagle engine, choice of controllers, texture packs, or playing online. 3. the type of People still playing Smash Melee after all this time are pretty likely to be the people who own a disc, or at least bought it when it came out. 4. It's not even as if playing a downloaded ISO of Smash Melee is doing Nintendo out of any money, since it's not a VC game and isn't being produced anymore.
Also, this is a Nintendo news site. Nintendo themselves aren't doing enough newsworthy stuff to keep this place going, so of course the site is going to be looking a bit further afield for topics to write about. If you don't like it, then take some time off until e3, then a bit more time off until the NX reveal, or just check the site once per week or something. Please don't complain about whatyou think are just makework topics when there literally isn't anything else noteworthy to write about. I appreciate having something to read. If you don't like a particular topic, then just scroll past and find something you do like - I'm sure your time isn't so precious that the few seconds wasted having to scroll past something unappealing is worth the time it took for you to complain...
my 3-yr-old likes the peppa pig ds game on my 3ds - I might be interested in a digital download of this when it comes out, if it's any good. I've tried her on games on the tablet, but the onscreen android back home menu buttons always ruin things if the ads don't. I wonder how much it'll cost...
As a piece of hardware, this is a cool little niche product that's more like a user-friendly, self-contained raspberry pi, with a form factor inspired by, but having very little crossover with the 'real' handheld market. Cheap as possible, but with keyboard, touchscreen, battery, HDMI out, headphone socket, bluetooth, WiFi, half a gig of ram and a GPU.
The fact that it runs Pico-8 is fascinating. For those that don't know, Pico-8 is a retro console that has quite a few really cool games, that never actually existed. Pico-8 is purely virtual! And now 'it' is in a handheld. Wild.
I think this looks like an excellent product, for the price of one Wii U game. I'd pick one up myself only I'm super skint at the mo. The GPIOs at the top are calling to me to hook up an accelerometer/gyro, or another Bluetooth module with HID firmware, or a second screen, or, or, or...
I guess the one thing I would miss if carts replaced discs is the art on the object itself. Splatoon's printed art on the shiny rounded disc looks great, and wouldn't be half as nice if it was just a small printed sticker on a tile of grey plastic...
Only having one game is a bit crap, but they really didn't have that much else to show. Hopefully this means that open-world new flavour Zelda really is epically awesome and that even if you show multiple hours of it ahead of time it's not all that much of a spoiler.
Side question: anyone else think that what we've seen of Zelda so far looks too good to be on Wii U? :S
I'd like to see the end of noisy, fragile, oversized discs, but not the end of collectible, sellable, swappable, durable physical. A 3ds style cartridge would be perfect.
Digital is nice and convenient, but you're at the mercy of the companies with regards to price and availability (including region locking, deliberate removal, and eventually just switching off the servers). It's be a dark day for consumers if console gaming went digital only, given current attitudes.
full disclosure: about 90℅ of my Wii U/ 3ds stuff is digital.
I've been looking into mobile games recently since I got a decent tablet, and there's some alright stuff on there. Been having a lot of fun with Steven Universe Attack the Light (RPG lite, with paper Mario battle mechanics) and Alto (beautiful 2D side-scrolling snowboarding llama collecting game). I'm not into strategy RPGs, but I'll certainly try out fire emblem mobile when it hits...
The concept sounds cute, and the figures are nice, but I don't think my limited funds can stretch right now. I'd be a lot more tempted if they unlocked/added something to the game, like another waiting room arcade minigame.
@MoonKnight7 @Dakt They've put a light source directly behind him for the photograph. Probably very deliberately to give him that glow. Look at the Mario plushie to the right.
I've owned every Nintendo console since the SNES, but I think I've had enough now. Mario Party is gone, as is Paper Mario. 2D Mario has stagnated, and the most recent 3D one was nothing special. (Mario kart is still good though, and Splatoon is great). I'm not a fan of pikmin, animal crossing, kirby or fire emblem. There have been some excellent indie games, but nothing exclusive worth buying a console for.
Unless the NX is a major runaway wii-type success that attracts a lot of interesting 3rd Party stuff, then I doubt I'll pick one up, unless I see one cheap when Splatoon 2 comes out. Unless they ruin Splatoon as well, somehow...
Nintendo customer feedback shows that people weren't satisfied with Splatoon's single player campaign or the couch multiplayer, but people did respond well to the inklings and the clothing. So Splatoon 2 is going to be an online multiplayer only fashion design catwalk sim.
Nintendo invented the 'Wii Party' series to take Mario Party's place as a 'video boardgame' - having miis instad of Mario and friends was supposed to make it more inclusive for the new crowd. Personally, I think it took all of the character out of it though.
@Fillupmycup You don't need an entire SOC to have something that'll display a logo/start screen and initiate a connection. An esp8266 would do it, and they're less than 2 dollars. Their specialised video decoder chip would do the rest (apart from sending button/gyro data). It's what they did with the Wii U.
Having said that, I agree with you - a cheap SOC would at least let you do something while offline, and I've argued in other places that they messed up by not including one with the Wii U. GBC virtual console maybe, or some minigames or whatever. This looks like they're going the same 'useless unless connected' route, which is disappointing. Probably even though a SOC might only cost 5 dollars, it'd add too much more extra cost to include the necessary storage and RAM and extra complexity (extra layers?) on the circuit board, and it just wasn't worth it.
Having said that, I'd be happy with this controller. Though I'd rarely take it out of the house, having true off-TV play within range of my home network would be a big step up, and I like the Wii U gamepad. Let's hope this one actually looks cool this time...
(one thing I will miss though, is the miiverse artwork. I reckon they'll ditch the resistive touchscreen+stylus this time and go multitouch-but-less-precise capacitive..)
I figure the next handheld will be pretty much the same as this, with all the same features, but will have its own CPU, GPU, storage, etc. It'll be standalone like any traditional handheld, but have 'NX controller capability' as part of its feature set.
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Re: Nintendo NX Has A Core Idea Which Doesn't Just "Follow Advancements In Technology", Claims Miyamoto
whatever it is, it must be easy to reproduce, maybe even with software. My guess is that it's facial expression recognition combined with voice recognition and auto-translation, putting you 'In the game' in a certain way never seen before. If they reveal it now, the other companies could patch it into existing games and Nintendo would be second out the gate. If they wait until they have a decent amount of software demonstrations, they get all the new hype and copiers will look like copiers, like how PlayStation move was obviously 'the Sony wiimote'...
Re: Fans Create Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Patch Which Uncensors Western Censorship
Arguments about 'censorship'? Try this instead:
'bowdlerisation
The action or instance of bowdlerising; the omission or removal of material considered vulgar or indecent.'
A guy called Thomas Bowdler wrote whole new versions of Shakespeare's stuff, with bits changed, and bits removed, so it'd be suitable for kids. Seems to me that's exactly what's happened with TMS#FE.
We can get past whether or not it's localisation or censorship or whatever, and just discuss the pros/cons of bowdlerisation. Agree?
Re: Let Yacht Club Games Know What Game You'd Like Next
I voted highest for the RPG types - someone's got to pick up the paper Mario mantle!
Re: Trademark Listing Adds Fuel to Talk of Nintendo NX Using Cartridges
Just add a tenner to the cost of the physical edition. Bring back proper manuals and market them as 'premium'. Price problem solved.
Re: Miyamoto and Bill Trinen Discuss Why Breath of the Wild is Called an "Open Air Adventure"
It's 'open air' because it's outside in the nature. They're not seriously claiming to have invented a new genre, it's just marketing BS
Re: Rumour: French Media Claims Nintendo NX is Set for September Reveal
I really hope that the 'something something android' rumours have some substance. There's some nice stuff on the android store, and if Nintendo played their cards right, the NX could launch with upwards of 60 quality titles, of various price ranges...
Re: 2D Shooter And Adventure Mash-Up Starr Mazer Confirmed For Wii U And 3DS Release
ermm... Okay. Definitely a 'curious mix', but it could be good.
Re: Nintendo Outlines Key Goals to Ensure NX Success
@Anti-Matter I'd like some of those games on NX, please. I like variety in my gaming life...
Re: E3 2016: New Kind Of Mario Game Is Coming, Says Shigeru Miyamoto
2d Mario with the art style/animation of Cuphead. With Prof. E. Gadd providing the powerups.
Re: E3 2016: Eiji Aonuma Rules Out The Option to Play as a Female Link in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
@Dezzy
Please don't quote something I haven't said and laughingly ask for an explanation. Tag someone else if you're itching for an argument. I'm out.
Re: E3 2016: Eiji Aonuma Rules Out The Option to Play as a Female Link in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
@CrazyMetroid Well obviously I'm not going to tell her all those lame excuses with a straight face. But I'm not going to deflect the real question of why she can't play as a girl with the non-answer of 'you can be a hero instead' either. I'll just tell her, sympathetically, that she just can't, because the people who made the game didn't put in that option.
Re: E3 2016: Eiji Aonuma Rules Out The Option to Play as a Female Link in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Peach has already 'replaced (Mario) as main protagonist' to exactly the degree that people want a female option for a Zelda game. In Mario 3D World, you can play exclusively as peach for the whole of the game if you want, which my daughter does. Is that a bad thing? Has the 'appeasement' gone too far just to 'achieve a wider audience'?
All I want is the same thing for Zelda. Let her play as a girl if she wants - it's a work of fiction, constantly growing in lore. Put linkle in as the hero, or have princess Zelda have the triforce of courage this time if you're such a stickler.
And yes, wanting the female character to be in a 'less ambitious spinoff' is absolutely sexist, otherwise you'd have said 'give her another entry in the series just as good'.
And saying that you don't care, and that it's been like this for years and years and you just don't see a reason for change is absolutely just lazily defending the status quo. Have a bit of empathy, man. We're telling you the reason for change.
And it's such a tiny change. A menu option, or a single question at the start of the game. A bust line, a slightly different haircut, some different clothes. Some tiny changes to the text whenever link is talked about in the third-person. That's all it would take.
I guess that's not now though. So in a few months time, when I'm showing my daughter the game, and she says she wants to be the princess, I guess I'll say 'sorry, sweetie, you can't be the princess in this one. Hopefully they'll make a 'less ambitious spinoff' you can try. Anyway, by wanting to be the princess, you're being sexist. You can't be the princess in this one because you've never been able to be the princess in these ones, and anyway, the princess can't wield the master sword'
Yeah.
Re: E3 2016: Ubisoft is Confident That Nintendo NX Can Recapture 'Lapsed Wii Players'
I hope it is as successful as the original Wii. As a Nintendo fan, how could I hope otherwise?
Re: E3 2016: Eiji Aonuma Rules Out The Option to Play as a Female Link in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
@Dezzy Look at the post above yours though - "Who cares? Regardless of his "link" to the player, he's been defined as a male for almost thirty years now", and "I'd prefer she'd stay in a less ambitious spin-off" are plain examples of lazily wanting to maintain the status quo and straightforward sexism...
Re: E3 2016: Eiji Aonuma Rules Out The Option to Play as a Female Link in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Nah, it's a lame excuse. A changed bust line, a slightly different hairstyle, and a few changed lines of text would be all it took.
Re: Paper Mario: Color Splash Dated for 7th October
It's gonna be crap, innit.
Re: Video: WayForward Issues a New Trailer for Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
Looks a lot faster paced than in the last vid. I was a bit worried it wasn't going to live up to Pirates Curse, but I'm reassured now.
Re: Eiji Aonuma Rules Out The Option to Play as a Female Link in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
It's not about appeasing feminazis, capitulating to the PC liberal SJW agenda, or anything like that - it's about making little girls happy. Please read the following...
http://www.wired.com/2013/03/donkey-kong-pauline-hack/
Re: Eiji Aonuma Rules Out The Option to Play as a Female Link in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
It was blindingly obvious that Link would not, and could not ever be a woman. Because women do not have the will of the warrior. Anyone wanting to play as a girl should play something else instead.
/s
Re: Just Dance 2017 Coming to All "Motion-Control Gaming Platforms", Which Includes Nintendo NX
@Inkling knows what he's talking about...
Re: B3 Game Expo For Bees Gets Surprise Price Cut
It's a good thing that devs can respond this quickly. the reviews said 'good, but overpriced considering its length', the dev dropped the price. All is well. Imagine if the eshop wasn't so responsive...
Re: Nintendo Download: 9th June (Europe)
book of unwritten tales looks pretty decent for fifteen quid physical. no downloads to me this week!
Re: Upcoming Splatoon Update to Include Stage and Weapon Tweaks Along With Sheldon's Picks
Two new kinds of gear!?!? What does it mean!?!?!!?
Re: Talking Point: Considering the Possibility of the Nintendo NX Having Virtual Reality Features
I'd just like to share something about the screen door effect that I learned recently - screen door effect refers to when you can see the dark area surrounding pixels/subpixels and has nothing to do with resolution. In fact, you can eliminate screen door effect completely by putting a diffusion layer in front of the screen (the trade-off is a bit of blurriness though). future, designed-for-vr screens could be built with ways to get rid of SDE without need for an extra layer, but not necessarily higher-res. That is to say, you could have a 320*240*2 VR headset with no SDE - it'd look blocky and crap, but there wouldn't be any screen door effect.
VR doesn't need insane levels of graphics power. It just needs lots of frames per second and a responsive input>processing>output pipeline. Nintendo are great at using sneaky tricks and artstyle to make things look better than they should (especially in the n64 era), so if they were to tweak their hardware for VR and tie it in to some Samsung gear type cheap goggledock for the handheld, it wouldn't get Oculus/vive ports but definitely would impress...
Re: Hong Kong Pokémon Fans Protest Over New Translation Issues with Sun and Moon
@Kroko they're protesting about cheaper, crappier translation/localisation.There's going to be one, 'simplified chinese' version instead of multiple versions for different regions in the various non-simplified dialects.
Re: Random: Super Smash Bros. Melee Input Lag Remains a Hot Topic Among Fans
1. It's okay to play old games.
2. Playing games on an emulator doesn't make you a filthy detestable pirate. Emulators often have advanced features that the original consoles don't have, like super eagle engine, choice of controllers, texture packs, or playing online.
3. the type of People still playing Smash Melee after all this time are pretty likely to be the people who own a disc, or at least bought it when it came out.
4. It's not even as if playing a downloaded ISO of Smash Melee is doing Nintendo out of any money, since it's not a VC game and isn't being produced anymore.
Also, this is a Nintendo news site. Nintendo themselves aren't doing enough newsworthy stuff to keep this place going, so of course the site is going to be looking a bit further afield for topics to write about. If you don't like it, then take some time off until e3, then a bit more time off until the NX reveal, or just check the site once per week or something. Please don't complain about whatyou think are just makework topics when there literally isn't anything else noteworthy to write about. I appreciate having something to read. If you don't like a particular topic, then just scroll past and find something you do like - I'm sure your time isn't so precious that the few seconds wasted having to scroll past something unappealing is worth the time it took for you to complain...
Re: Poll: Are You Still a Miitomo Regular, or Has The Great Mii Q & A Lost Its Charm?
Uninstalled it. Half a gig of app storage freed up, no ragrets.
Re: Talking Point: The Online Reaction to Teddy Together Shows Why Nintendo Needs To Target Kids More Directly
my 3-yr-old likes the peppa pig ds game on my 3ds - I might be interested in a digital download of this when it comes out, if it's any good. I've tried her on games on the tablet, but the onscreen android back home menu buttons always ruin things if the ads don't. I wonder how much it'll cost...
Re: Dual Core Blasts Its Way Onto Wii U on 26th May
looks like a lot of fun! Not too expensive either... Love the lighting effects
Re: It's Now Possible To Play Virtual Boy Games On Your Android Phone
Virtual boy 3DS VC would have been cool, and cellphones do not give you cancer.
The 3D effect on that vid is pretty nice, but it's so low-res. Was the VB originally that bad?
Re: Soapbox: Why Websites Don’t Need to Give a Game a Review Score (and Probably Shouldn’t)
Holy wow those mean machines articles are ugly.
Re: Video: Check Out a Surprisingly Simple Nintendo 64 Anti-Aliasing Hack
Yeah, I dunno why you would want to remove AA. That final blur is another matter though. yuck!
Re: Talking Point: Retro-Focused, Innovative and Inexpensive Portables Should Be Part of Nintendo's Future
As a piece of hardware, this is a cool little niche product that's more like a user-friendly, self-contained raspberry pi, with a form factor inspired by, but having very little crossover with the 'real' handheld market. Cheap as possible, but with keyboard, touchscreen, battery, HDMI out, headphone socket, bluetooth, WiFi, half a gig of ram and a GPU.
The fact that it runs Pico-8 is fascinating. For those that don't know, Pico-8 is a retro console that has quite a few really cool games, that never actually existed. Pico-8 is purely virtual! And now 'it' is in a handheld. Wild.
I think this looks like an excellent product, for the price of one Wii U game. I'd pick one up myself only I'm super skint at the mo. The GPIOs at the top are calling to me to hook up an accelerometer/gyro, or another Bluetooth module with HID firmware, or a second screen, or, or, or...
Re: Kick & Fennick Arrives on the Wii U eShop on June 2nd
Looks pretty cool!
Re: Reaction: The NX Could Benefit from Using Cartridges Instead of Discs
I guess the one thing I would miss if carts replaced discs is the art on the object itself. Splatoon's printed art on the shiny rounded disc looks great, and wouldn't be half as nice if it was just a small printed sticker on a tile of grey plastic...
Re: The Legend of Zelda and Sonic the Hedgehog Are Inducted Into the World Video Game Hall of Fame
Pong Is the great great great great great grandfather of Mario Tennis. I'm just saying....
Re: Poll: Nintendo Has Laid Out Its Legend of Zelda E3 Plans - Are They Enough?
Only having one game is a bit crap, but they really didn't have that much else to show. Hopefully this means that open-world new flavour Zelda really is epically awesome and that even if you show multiple hours of it ahead of time it's not all that much of a spoiler.
Side question: anyone else think that what we've seen of Zelda so far looks too good to be on Wii U? :S
Re: Reaction: The NX Could Benefit from Using Cartridges Instead of Discs
I'd like to see the end of noisy, fragile, oversized discs, but not the end of collectible, sellable, swappable, durable physical. A 3ds style cartridge would be perfect.
Digital is nice and convenient, but you're at the mercy of the companies with regards to price and availability (including region locking, deliberate removal, and eventually just switching off the servers). It's be a dark day for consumers if console gaming went digital only, given current attitudes.
full disclosure: about 90℅ of my Wii U/ 3ds stuff is digital.
Re: VVVVVV Pulled From North American 3DS eShop Following Discovery Of Homebrew Exploit
vvvvvv is a great game.
Re: Nintendo Wants Mobile to be a "Pillar of Profit"
I've been looking into mobile games recently since I got a decent tablet, and there's some alright stuff on there. Been having a lot of fun with Steven Universe Attack the Light (RPG lite, with paper Mario battle mechanics) and Alto (beautiful 2D side-scrolling snowboarding llama collecting game). I'm not into strategy RPGs, but I'll certainly try out fire emblem mobile when it hits...
Re: Nintendo Life Weekly: New Splatoon amiibo Burst Forth, 3DS Games in HD, and More
The concept sounds cute, and the figures are nice, but I don't think my limited funds can stretch right now. I'd be a lot more tempted if they unlocked/added something to the game, like another waiting room arcade minigame.
Re: New Super Mario Maker Costume Features All-Girl Japanese Rock Band, BABYMETAL
OOKIE WOOKIE MIDNIIIIIIGHT!
Re: Feature: Key Details to Look Out for in Nintendo's Vital Financial Reports and Briefings
@MoonKnight7 @Dakt They've put a light source directly behind him for the photograph. Probably very deliberately to give him that glow. Look at the Mario plushie to the right.
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo Needs to Excite A Mainstream Audience in 2016
I've owned every Nintendo console since the SNES, but I think I've had enough now. Mario Party is gone, as is Paper Mario. 2D Mario has stagnated, and the most recent 3D one was nothing special. (Mario kart is still good though, and Splatoon is great). I'm not a fan of pikmin, animal crossing, kirby or fire emblem. There have been some excellent indie games, but nothing exclusive worth buying a console for.
Unless the NX is a major runaway wii-type success that attracts a lot of interesting 3rd Party stuff, then I doubt I'll pick one up, unless I see one cheap when Splatoon 2 comes out. Unless they ruin Splatoon as well, somehow...
Re: Rumour: Linkedin Profile Hints At Unannounced Racing Title From Excitebots Studio Monster Games
Excitebots is AWESOME!
Re: Nintendo's 'Supplemental Computing Device' Patent is Cleared for Completion
I don't think this is really on the cards for NX.
Re: Editorial: From Metroid: Other M to Star Fox Zero, the Awkward Experimentation With Beloved Franchises
Nintendo customer feedback shows that people weren't satisfied with Splatoon's single player campaign or the couch multiplayer, but people did respond well to the inklings and the clothing. So Splatoon 2 is going to be an online multiplayer only fashion design catwalk sim.
Re: Check Out This Concept Art from a Cancelled Mega Man Game
So hawt.
Re: Video: Learn a Few Quirky Facts About the Mario Party Franchise
Nintendo invented the 'Wii Party' series to take Mario Party's place as a 'video boardgame' - having miis instad of Mario and friends was supposed to make it more inclusive for the new crowd. Personally, I think it took all of the character out of it though.
Re: Rumour: More Sources Highlight NX Controller 'Gimmick' and a Major Game Project
@Fillupmycup You don't need an entire SOC to have something that'll display a logo/start screen and initiate a connection. An esp8266 would do it, and they're less than 2 dollars. Their specialised video decoder chip would do the rest (apart from sending button/gyro data). It's what they did with the Wii U.
Having said that, I agree with you - a cheap SOC would at least let you do something while offline, and I've argued in other places that they messed up by not including one with the Wii U. GBC virtual console maybe, or some minigames or whatever. This looks like they're going the same 'useless unless connected' route, which is disappointing. Probably even though a SOC might only cost 5 dollars, it'd add too much more extra cost to include the necessary storage and RAM and extra complexity (extra layers?) on the circuit board, and it just wasn't worth it.
Having said that, I'd be happy with this controller. Though I'd rarely take it out of the house, having true off-TV play within range of my home network would be a big step up, and I like the Wii U gamepad. Let's hope this one actually looks cool this time...
(one thing I will miss though, is the miiverse artwork. I reckon they'll ditch the resistive touchscreen+stylus this time and go multitouch-but-less-precise capacitive..)
I figure the next handheld will be pretty much the same as this, with all the same features, but will have its own CPU, GPU, storage, etc. It'll be standalone like any traditional handheld, but have 'NX controller capability' as part of its feature set.