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re: This Nintendo Direct was disasterous for Nintendo and a bad omen on things to come
Posted on 4/8/25 at 4:24 pm to StansberryRules
Posted on 4/8/25 at 4:24 pm to StansberryRules
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That's why they can have a mega flop generation like the Wii-U and keep going strong.
The Wii U's failure was also propped up by an extremely successful handheld (end of DS/start of 3DS) and their most successful console ever right before it.
Nintendo will be fine in the long run, but it's ok to criticize Nintendo regardless of whether or not their alleged missteps lead to bankruptcy.
This post was edited on 4/8/25 at 4:26 pm
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Posted on 4/9/25 at 11:42 am to oauron
Posted on 4/9/25 at 12:36 pm to j1897
“For all you poor people, you can still get a Switch.” - Nintendo, 2025
Posted on 4/9/25 at 12:37 pm to j1897
lol that reminds me of the Diablo immortal team and their “what, you guys don’t have phones?” line.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 1:01 pm to Josh Fenderman
Wow Nintendo of America’s President has the last name Bowser. It’s like he was born to be the guy to take the arrows and slings 
Posted on 4/9/25 at 6:46 pm to VoxDawg
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Mario
Zelda
Metroid
Animal Crossing
Super Smash Bros
Mario Kart
Pokemon
Just this right here is such a strong intellectual property lineup that Nintendo will never need third party.
The offshoots of Mario (Mario Party, Paper Mario) and a million Zelda games alone are enough to bridge timespans between mainline releases.
Anyone predicting Nintendo failing is silly.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:09 pm to CollegeFBRules
Mario and Pokemon alone can keep Nintendo running forever, hell Pokemon is quite literally the biggest media franchise in the world. As sucky as it is that Nintendo has such terrible customer relations they'll still make a shite load of money
Posted on 4/12/25 at 5:29 am to geauxtigers87
They have a bunch of amazing IPs, but the price for the this whole debacle is an absolute travesty. Let’s see here
450$- honestly could’ve been worse but since it specs out at ps4 level (some quibble and say ps4 pro) and doesn’t have an OLED (they will see you one in a year or so) tbh 350$ seems better.
Battery life un docked? I’m hearing 2-6 hours depending on game. Switch had 6-12
Their bullshite version of discord that literally no one wants or will use should just allow devs to rebind the C input to have extra space.
Joycons still don’t have the tech to prevent drifting.
And man worst of fricking all is “variable” game pricing Nintendo is high as a kite if they think me, or anyone with kids, or most people is about to buy a 10 year old system at least that long out of date tech wise, the 100 dollar pro controller, the 100 dollar GameCube controller that ONLY works using their paid for GameCube streaming shite service, 80$ games that never go on sale and a ton of shite I didn’t think of they are about to get smacked in the face by the market.
They did have a bunch of sick game reveals I’ll give them that.
450$- honestly could’ve been worse but since it specs out at ps4 level (some quibble and say ps4 pro) and doesn’t have an OLED (they will see you one in a year or so) tbh 350$ seems better.
Battery life un docked? I’m hearing 2-6 hours depending on game. Switch had 6-12
Their bullshite version of discord that literally no one wants or will use should just allow devs to rebind the C input to have extra space.
Joycons still don’t have the tech to prevent drifting.
And man worst of fricking all is “variable” game pricing
Nintendo is high as a kite if they think me, or anyone with kids, or most people is about to buy a 10 year old system at least that long out of date tech wise, the 100 dollar pro controller, the 100 dollar GameCube controller that ONLY works using their paid for GameCube streaming shite service, 80$ games that never go on sale and a ton of shite I didn’t think of they are about to get smacked in the face by the market. They did have a bunch of sick game reveals I’ll give them that.
This post was edited on 4/12/25 at 5:35 am
Posted on 4/12/25 at 5:33 am to CollegeFBRules
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Anyone predicting Nintendo failing is silly.
My above comment was not to imply they will fail. They have some of the most important ips in gaming, and most importantly of all which I haven’t seen anyone else mention yet, is they can make almost all of them (save the big blow out Zelda game every 7 years which likely blows well into 200 range) for more or less 50 mill.
My contention is will they reach the market saturation they desire with this product, at this price, with these prices on games and accessories. My prediction is a big frick no. I secondly predict they’ll stick to 80$ for a few very rare games, keep 70$ standard for rest, and within a year of launch this switch will be 350 and one with an OLED and packages with like some Mario game with more space and perhaps no drift joycons will be out for 450
This post was edited on 4/12/25 at 5:36 am
Posted on 4/12/25 at 8:01 am to td01241
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Joycons still don’t have the tech to prevent drifting.
Where has this been confirmed?
Posted on 4/12/25 at 10:09 am to VoxDawg
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Where has this been confirmed?
It's been publicly confirmed.
Posted on 4/12/25 at 5:58 pm to j1897
The only thing I recall reading directly from Nintendo about the matter stated that they specifically addressed the stick drift issue. Not using Hall effect sticks does not mean that it's the same wonky tech as this current generation.
ETA - Is imagine the earth magnets used to hold the Joy-Cons in place would likely be strong enough to mess with the magnetic fields in the Hall effect sticks, has they used those. The stick drift was a known issue so the cottage industry of swapping those out for HE sticks had to have been at the front of their agenda, had it been possible.
ETA - Is imagine the earth magnets used to hold the Joy-Cons in place would likely be strong enough to mess with the magnetic fields in the Hall effect sticks, has they used those. The stick drift was a known issue so the cottage industry of swapping those out for HE sticks had to have been at the front of their agenda, had it been possible.
This post was edited on 4/12/25 at 6:02 pm
Posted on 4/12/25 at 6:26 pm to VoxDawg
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The only thing I recall reading directly from Nintendo about the matter stated that they specifically addressed the stick drift issue
I remember the interview. The Nintendo guy would not specifically reference the stick-drift issue. He was asked clearly about stick drift and responded "the joycon joysticks were redesigned from the ground up".
I get what your saying, but he was clearly not committing to having specifically addressed the drift issue.
Posted on 4/12/25 at 6:38 pm to TigerFanatic99
There is a specific software or something that fixes it. I can’t recall its name you can likely google it. I know Nintendo doesn’t own it and probably didn’t want to pay for it or invest into R&D of their own. That is what his answer suggest to me anyway
Posted on 4/12/25 at 7:10 pm to dawgfan24348
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Mario and Pokemon alone can keep Nintendo running forever, hell Pokemon is quite literally the biggest media franchise in the world
The biggest proof of this is that Pokemon video games have been absolute, complete and total dog shite for over a decade and they still easily sell 25 million copies. They have become glorified mobile games that look and play like cheaply thrown together laziness, everyone acknowledges how shite they are, still easily one of the best sellers on the system.
Posted on 4/13/25 at 3:57 am to StansberryRules
It’s why I worked my palworld slaves to death out of pure malice. Those that weren’t shipped to the front lines obviously.
I’d argue the best Pokémon games were gold and silver (so after red and blue) but yellow has its own super unique charm for how it follows the show. It peaked BIGLY with gold and silver (shout out to my ride or die boy Mareep) and has sucked mostly since
I’d argue the best Pokémon games were gold and silver (so after red and blue) but yellow has its own super unique charm for how it follows the show. It peaked BIGLY with gold and silver (shout out to my ride or die boy Mareep) and has sucked mostly since
This post was edited on 4/13/25 at 3:59 am
Posted on 4/13/25 at 2:43 pm to td01241
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or anyone with kids
We will be getting it day one.
I honestly don’t get the price bitching. It’s no more than the other newer generation of systems and it’s going to have a bunch of games that many people will enjoy a great deal more than the PS or Xbox libraries. I don’t really care if it doesn’t have the technical specs in the least. It’s all about the software and Nintendo’s games are way more fun.
Posted on 4/13/25 at 4:19 pm to St Augustine
I don’t mean this in a bad way seriously, I like you as a poster a lot. But people with your attitude is why Nintendo is poised to see the highest base game price in the modern era, never puts stuff on sell, and is selling you a machine with tech like 10 years old at best realistic like 12-13, with joy cons your kids will break if they’re young for another 100.
Not putting you down. I generally find Nintendo people do Nintendo things and I am all about that. I will probably buy it when whatever the next big blow out Zelda is comes since I basically only play that ip from them now.
Not putting you down. I generally find Nintendo people do Nintendo things and I am all about that. I will probably buy it when whatever the next big blow out Zelda is comes since I basically only play that ip from them now.
Posted on 4/13/25 at 4:49 pm to td01241
No worries man.
I guess it’s just not a big deal to me. I just don’t see 500 as a big deal for something we will use 6-8 years like the old switch. I’ve fixed our original joy cons with a 9 dollar Amazon kit. Id much rather do that than have to buy new controllers like I had to for other systems in the past.
I’m not even a “Nintendo person”
Prior to the switch and kids I only had a nes, snes, and 64.
I paid 75 dollars for super Mario bros 3 around 1990/91 when I was a little kid and have honestly been pretty shocked more games aren’t more expensive.
We have a 500 dollar series x that largely collects dust that I bought when it came out in hopes of fable and some other solid games being on gamepass. I thought about trading it in for a ps5 but honestly there isn’t a single ps franchise that I’ve ever been a fan of even though I was the right age for it.
I’m sorry I just DON’T care about the tech side man. I’ve played a few beautiful games on the Xbox on my LG and I’m just not a big enough gamer or fan of technology where that is a selling point.
The new switch will make excellent games like Nintendo is known for and they’ll look a lot better than the old ones.
We will use it regularly and that’s really just enough for us.
I guess it’s just not a big deal to me. I just don’t see 500 as a big deal for something we will use 6-8 years like the old switch. I’ve fixed our original joy cons with a 9 dollar Amazon kit. Id much rather do that than have to buy new controllers like I had to for other systems in the past.
I’m not even a “Nintendo person”
Prior to the switch and kids I only had a nes, snes, and 64.
I paid 75 dollars for super Mario bros 3 around 1990/91 when I was a little kid and have honestly been pretty shocked more games aren’t more expensive.
We have a 500 dollar series x that largely collects dust that I bought when it came out in hopes of fable and some other solid games being on gamepass. I thought about trading it in for a ps5 but honestly there isn’t a single ps franchise that I’ve ever been a fan of even though I was the right age for it.
I’m sorry I just DON’T care about the tech side man. I’ve played a few beautiful games on the Xbox on my LG and I’m just not a big enough gamer or fan of technology where that is a selling point.
The new switch will make excellent games like Nintendo is known for and they’ll look a lot better than the old ones.
We will use it regularly and that’s really just enough for us.
This post was edited on 4/13/25 at 5:59 pm
Posted on 4/14/25 at 8:33 am to St Augustine
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I paid 75 dollars for super Mario bros 3 around 1990/91 when I was a little kid and have honestly been pretty shocked more games aren’t more expensive.
Given that the video game industry grosses more than Hollywood, at this point, and the ROI is considerable for a consumer. $20 for a 2H movie right now, compared to 300+ for something like Breath of the Wild/TOTK, Animal Crossing, or any other title with lasting power.
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