Nintendo, Where Are They Now?

disappointing stuff I guess

have tons of 3DS games to play through though so w/e

does this affect preorder stuff at all for Zelda Wii U

Like what

Probably not. You'll just have to wait until March.

I have no idear how that stuff works, like... when the preorders opened they had the tentative "December 31, 2016" date as they didn't know the actual release date, I wasn't sure if they were "bound" to release it by that date or w/e

not that I'd care, I'll wait regardless, just curious of the intricacies of it all I guess

I havne't heard of a store not honouring a pre-order because the date changed, nah. Hell, I think a couple of crazy people got Duke Nukem Forever pre-orders honoured.

North Americans seem really into pre-ordering games for some reason.

I generally avoid them but Best Buy was having a sale where you could buy a title and get 30% of a preordered title or something so I figured why the hell not

Ah, we don't have any of those sorts of incentives. Just a stupid 'Day One' edition that you can buy anyway.

It's always funny when a big title release gets that treatment and then there ends up being ample amounts.

I remember back in my heavier WoW-playing days, when the first expansion came out I preordered two copies (had two accounts going at the time) and showed up at store open at Best Buy to get it, and there was a huge display in the front of the store and literally nobody else was waiting for it. Felt like a bit of a tit for worrying so much but w/e

There have been shortages before due to unexpected demand, but nothing too drastic since Dead Island in the UK. Ratchet and Clank has been hard to find in some countries.

Generally, I only pre-order when there's a decent offer. The Game Collection and Simply Games usually have good pre-release deals that go up after release, so if they're below £40, I'll jump on them.

Really hope Amazon brings over their 20% off all pre-orders with Prime thing they have in America.

Hilariously, Day One editions of Final Fantasy Type 0 with the XV demo are still available in stores.

Also, Nintendo are saying they're delaying Zelda for quality, but being delayed until the new console comes out? Come on Nintendo. We're not silly.

Really hoping they're holding out for AMD Polaris, but I know they won't be. Probably be lower powered again.

Maybe they delayed the NX for Zelda and other games rather than the other way around?

Lots of things must be in a bad state to have them miss holiday.

Back when people KNEW it was FINALLY releasing, I made what is to this day the worst personal decision in gaming and pre-ordered the $100 "Balls of Steel" Edition...."a fool and his money", "caveat emptor", etc., etc.

I hope the rumors are true of NX going to a subscription based model. Hate buying games, And paying something like 15$ a month wont be bad. Nintendo would be getting more money out of me than they do now.

Seriously, what the hell. Is this going to be like some super huge mega Zelda game? They should have had a Zelda game out like a year ago.

Yeup since the stuff they've shown off or hinted about in the past makes it seem to be closer to a Skyrim or Fallout series for scope and size.

That makes sense and I sure hope so.

According to Nintendo, the official reason for the NX's March launch date instead of a possible Holiday 2016 date is due to them wanting more time to build up the console's launch library.

Also unlike the Wii U, they currently don't have plans to sell the console at a loss for its launch.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nin.../1100-6439399/


Recent rumors had been teasing Nintendo is currently planning for the first year of the NX's lifespan to have as many Nintendo produced games as the Wii U did for its entire lifespan.

Didn't they slash down the 3DS to make a loss on it in the first year? It had a rough start.

The library for the 3DS sucked at the start which I think hurt it more

Hope they're making the right gamble with NX by delaying it so it has a good launch lineup

The time between this gaming generation and the next seems very short.

How so? Nintendo are doing their usual 5ish year cycle and Sony and MS are going to lengthen it with stopgap spec bump consoles. If anything, it'll be longer.

The Wii U had a fantastic attempt at a launch lineup, but there's only so much they could do, it was simultaneously impressive and yet rubbish. Their selling point for the NX could very well be 'Get the new thing with Zelda'

Or if they somehow wrangle in some 3rd-party support, that alone would vastly bump the lineup

Yes although that might have been more of them being way too overconfident at the $250 price tag being something people would easily accept for handhelds when it was quickly debunked by consumers. Could argue the same for the Vita as a partial reason for its huge sales struggles.
$200 and less seems to be the sweet spot for gaming handhelds regardless of the tech or power.

Only reason they didn't do the same for the Wii U was because of the tablet eating up too much of the console's cost. Would probably have been even slower for them to recoup lost costs had they given it a similar massive price cut. If I remember correctly, the tablet ate up almost a third of production costs (around $80+) while they were losing around $50-$60 per console at launch.

Who? At least for the Wii U they could line up a series of games for people to easily and quickly port. I feel like EA and Ubisoft won't touch them with a bargepole anymore, Konami and Capcom are dead. Any other game worth touching will be a couple of years down the road from now.

Unless they push a big indie initiative, and even then, those sorts of projects are visible a couple of years before they come out. There was talk they'd go with Unity, but it struggles enough on PS4.

I've been hearing stuff about a new playstation, Didn't the PS4 come out in 2014?

Yup and it'll be announced at E3, but it's still a PS4. Basically, both the new one and the current one will play exactly the same games, but the new one will look better or have a better frame rate. It won't have exclusive games of its own.

It's like a New 3DS basically.

There will be no Nintendo Direct at E3 at all, so they're just bringing Zelda playable and there will be no other announcements at all.

Treehouse livestream will also just be Zelda.

Ahahaha

Nintendo makes me sad :(

NX rumored to be using 3DS-like carts for games based on a report by Japanese financial analysis firm Money-Link.

Claimed the carts are currently being produced by manufacturer Macronix which can hold 32GB of data and could end up proving a recent disc-less console patent by Nintendo last year being true.

What tipped off the analyst firm in regards to carts likely being used was from a recent financial report by the manufacturer which goes against their typical reporting habits.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...w-report-says/

but...... why? :|

Because there's some element of a portable thing to this. That's what that'll probably be used for and disc or digital downloads used for the full console experience.

Even then, 32GB isn't far off the size of a blu ray and if it's faster and around the same price, then it might be the way to go.

SO is the next Zelda 100% going to be on the NX? because if it is I will wait for it to drop before I buy Zelda, I have no issues buying a WiiU JUST to play Zelda but if it will be on both then I might as well wait.

Yup, they've specifically said it's coming out on both.

That seals it then: the WiiU is the first Nintendo I've never owned

Can I have your virtual boy plz :)

It's at the bottom of a landfill I'm sure :'(