Fils-Aime: an artist at saying a lot without saying anything

Yeah, it's bullshite they built up another Prime game before E3 just to give us this crap. I don't care if this game is good, it's nothing more than a spin-off. Give us another real prime game for the Wii-U. There's other things that can be done with this. Nintendo is severely lacking in FPS', and all three Prine games have the single best campaign of any FPS on the market.

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Fils-Aime: an artist at saying a lot without saying anything

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I do love Nintendo, but this is so true.

It's classic corporate gobbledygook.

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"We believe that in order to propel the franchises forward, we have to be the ones to constantly challenge the paradigms, challenge the conventional wisdom, challenge what we thought was the essence of the particular franchise, and a particular form of gameplay."

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Translation: We know fans want a true Metroid Prime sequel, but they're not getting it because we can't market the Wii U. We're better off waiting for the release of our next system.

I think I had already changed my mind on getting a Wii U before that announcement, but it definitely sealed it.

The two games I was really interested in was a new Metoid and one they have actually shown, Zelda, but we haven't seen crap about that since LAST E3.

I was talking to a friend of mine who is a manager of the local Gamestop, and we were discussing how the new 3DS's didn't include a charge cable, and how their rationale was "the people buying these already have one". So, not only do they not care about their current supporters, they're not really interested in bringing in new people.

It's as if they just like being Nintendo, and that's it.

Nintendo makes one bizarre decision after another. That's why I want them to just make games, stick to what you are good at.

What would be the difference?

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why Windwaker was developed

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has it ever been confirmed that NX is a new nintendo console?

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has it ever been confirmed that NX is a new nintendo console?

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Yes. It's been referred to numerous times by Fils-Aime and Iwata as being a "dedicated video game platform."

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There's no reason for them to abandon the 3ds if it's still printing money and they just released the New 3DS.

We don't even know if the NX is handheld or console, no?

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The existence of the New 3DS is due to the fact that the original 3DS was not printing money. Nintendo needed something to temporarily boost sales and restore enthusiasm around the platform, and the solution was a hardware revision. The 3DS is woefully underpowered and relatively expensive to manufacture. By this time next year, the system will be over 5 years old, which is quite a long lifespan for a dedicated handheld system.

All indications at this point suggest that the NX will be both a handheld and a home console. Nintendo has expressed that they're intent on unifying game development between their portable and home platforms, which will likely be accomplished through a shared hardware architecture and OS. The portable will likely run games at a lower resolution with reduced graphical effects, while the home console will run the same games at a higher resolution and graphical fidelity. Each system may have a few exclusives (ie, Pokemon on the handheld), but the goal is to produce a steady output of software on both systems via the unification of the development teams.

Iwata has stated numerous times that they're envious of Apple's current paradigm with iOS, which indicates that they're developing a Steam like ecosystem for all future iterations of their hardware platforms.