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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Why the gently caress is Wonderful 101 still $60 to download, when literally every shop dropped the price to $30??? People were saying the same thing about the XBox and Playstation stores a few years ago, Nintendo will catch on. Eventually. Perhaps.
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It's pretty rare for online sales from Nintendo or Microsoft to match up with reality, as well as anything Call-of-Duty related. You can get any Call of Duty game other than BO2 or Ghosts secondhand for $15 max but they are largely still $50 on the various digital stores.
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Feb 28, 2014 20:04
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Why the gently caress is Wonderful 101 still $60 to download, when literally every shop dropped the price to $30??? Mario Kart DS usually retails for at least $39 pretty much everywhere. The game is over eight years old.
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Feb 28, 2014 20:07
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New Wii U eShop announcement: Affordable Space Adventures! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3HLYTpnKv0 Collaboration between Nifflas (Knytt Stories) and Knapnok (Spin The Bottles), looks kinda like OG Steel Diver meets Knytt.
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Mar 1, 2014 01:07
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Look at all that delicious atmosphere. Nifflas is loving brilliant at making pretty worlds with just the bare minimum of resources and the trailer has that in spades. Colour me psyched.
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Mar 1, 2014 01:44
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Hungry Bit posted:Mario Kart DS usually retails for at least $39 pretty much everywhere. The game is over eight years old. That's a physical copy though. The physical copies of W101 dropped in price but the digital didn't.
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Mar 1, 2014 03:32
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Two more GBA VC titles have been rated, Pac-Man Collection and Super Mario Ball/Mario Pinball Land.
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Mar 1, 2014 04:14
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:That's a physical copy though. The physical copies of W101 dropped in price but the digital didn't. Console marketplaces work like that.
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Mar 1, 2014 10:02
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Healbot posted:Console marketplaces work like that. Hell, 48 weeks a year, Steam works like that as well.
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Mar 1, 2014 10:13
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Katana Gomai posted:Hell, 48 weeks a year, Steam works like that as well. Steam prices take permanent drops all the time, I don't know what you're talking about. Digital stores that sell at the RRP ever, never mind 6 months after launch are just ridiculous. I see PSN selling games for 59.99 on release but go to even the worst brick and mortar and you'll see a physical copy for cheaper. Nintendo's not much better except for the saving grace that their first party retail games literally never drop in price anywhere (why?)
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Mar 1, 2014 12:00
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:Nintendo's not much better except for the saving grace that their first party retail games literally never drop in price anywhere (why?) Obviously none of this relates to the WiiU right now.
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Mar 1, 2014 13:55
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Yeah, my local Wal-mart still has Mario 64 DS for I think $30.
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Mar 1, 2014 14:17
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:Nintendo's not much better except for the saving grace that their first party retail games literally never drop in price anywhere (why?) Old Pokemon games go for above MSRP just for the card. Admittedly this is an edge case, given the interaction between titles, but most companies couldn't stoner-dream about that sort of thing. Even really old hardware is subject to nostalgia-based inflation. There's really no compelling reason for Nintendo to drop prices on first party titles, to the point where doing so is seen as Nintendo losing confidence in them. Hardware is an entirely different story, but then it always was.
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Mar 1, 2014 14:19
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Well if its a flop, like Wonderful 101 our Metroid The Other M then there is an incentive to drop the price.
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Mar 1, 2014 14:43
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It just means I never buy first party games first hand because I am a tight arsed bastard  But yeah it's clearly a model that works for them, just I see it as odd when you compare it to literally every other game company. The new ace attorney game that's coming out - do I need to have played/cared about the Layton games to get into it? I never liked Layton.
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Mar 1, 2014 16:32
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Champeenship posted:Two more GBA VC titles have been rated, Pac-Man Collection and Super Mario Ball/Mario Pinball Land. Holy crap, I forgot Mario Pinball was ever a thing!
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Mar 1, 2014 16:34
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Canned Panda posted:Holy crap, I forgot Mario Pinball was ever a thing! You should forget again because that game is a piece of poo poo, to put it mildly.
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Mar 1, 2014 16:36
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I want a new Pokemon pinball so bad. Pinball with a collectathon aspect is about the only way I'll play it nowadays.
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Mar 1, 2014 17:09
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:It just means I never buy first party games first hand because I am a tight arsed bastard Depends on what you don't like about Layton. The story is probably not going to tie in much to the previous games in either series. But there is going to be at least as much Layton style puzzle gameplay as there is AA court stuff.
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Mar 1, 2014 17:14
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Regy Rusty posted:Depends on what you don't like about Layton. The story is probably not going to tie in much to the previous games in either series. But there is going to be at least as much Layton style puzzle gameplay as there is AA court stuff. Some of the puzzles were okay, but mostly I didn't like how there was 20 minutes of filler between each puzzle. The cutscenes and story proper of the first Layton game was decent enough, though.
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Mar 1, 2014 18:34
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Random question, are the codes from the Zelda oracle games interchangeable between virtual console and gbc? I haven't played these games in a really long time and was probably going to partner up with someone who only has the gbc versions.
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Mar 2, 2014 05:39
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Yeah there just a Metroid styled password screen. I'm 80% sure it's a direct port.
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Mar 2, 2014 05:44
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Sinners Sandwich posted:Yeah there just a Metroid styled password screen. I'm 80% sure it's a direct port. Its a direct port with modifications made to remove Blue Snake's dialog and disable the link cable option on the menu for the game transfer. Basically anything relating to the Link Cable or Transfer Pak in the case of the Mario Sports games were completely dummied out.
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Mar 2, 2014 17:31
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RMZXAnarchy posted:Basically anything relating to the Link Cable or Transfer Pak in the case of the Mario Sports games were completely dummied out. Actually, I dunno how that is for the GBC VC games, but the N64 Mario Tennis on Wii VC still has all GBC-Link content in it, easily accessible by modifying your save file.
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Mar 2, 2014 17:37
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:Actually, I dunno how that is for the GBC VC games, but the N64 Mario Tennis on Wii VC still has all GBC-Link content in it, easily accessible by modifying your save file. That's true, but they dummied out the Ring Tournament mode (probably because you need codes to use it and they are only easily found on GameFAQs.) yet they left the icon for it there, it just skips over it. The coding for it is probably still there but just commented out.
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Mar 2, 2014 17:54
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Champeenship posted:Two more GBA VC titles have been rated, Pac-Man Collection and Super Mario Ball/Mario Pinball Land.
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Mar 3, 2014 01:50
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There's some sort of pseudo-holiday in Germany today, so NOE's PR people seem to have taken the day off. Oh well. I can tell you that Picross e4 will be out in both regions in late April, so sayeth the developer. Gray Matter posted:Any idea if NA is getting these? They definitely will, but don't expect a timeframe for a release in any region.
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Mar 3, 2014 12:33
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Gray Matter posted:Any idea if NA is getting these? I loving hope not. Where the gently caress is my Ninja Five-O. Although it is pretty funny that the wiiu isn't getting the Pacman Museum or Pinball Arcade, but gets these two lovely games instead.
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Mar 3, 2014 14:12
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Those games have no bearing on Ninja 5-0, that's all on Konami.
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Mar 3, 2014 14:21
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PAL update (week of March 6):quote:WII U RETAIL DOWNLOADS (some other shovelware is on sale but it's the same crap I end up listing every other week, I quit) A bunch of Luigi-themed games going on sale this week: Dream Team Bros. on 3DS, SMB on Wii U/3DS and the Luigi U DLC for NSMBU. Also going on sale: Denpa Men 2! The devs tend to do sales in anticipation of an announcement/release, so I guess we'll be hearing about Denpa Men 3 soon. Tappingo is supposed to be kinda okay, I think? Any NA dudes wanna chime in? Not only is Puzzle Quest roughly seven years late, it's a loving DSiWare game. Why even bother?
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Mar 4, 2014 11:18
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I wonder if the shovelware stuff on the eShop sells well for the publishers. Some of it just looks so terrible.
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The Machine posted:I wonder if the shovelware stuff on the eShop sells well for the publishers. Some of it just looks so terrible. I'm not sure anything sells particularly well on the eShop, but I'm sure they sell enough to recoup their meager development costs.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Not only is Puzzle Quest roughly seven years late, it's a loving DSiWare game. Why even bother? Because it's loving fantastic is why
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Mar 4, 2014 16:04
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StevenM posted:Because it's loving fantastic is why Everyone knows because they already played it half a decade ago.
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Mar 4, 2014 23:10
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The Machine posted:I wonder if the shovelware stuff on the eShop sells well for the publishers. Some of it just looks so terrible. Robot Rescue 3D is uhhhh okay I guess. Should I be buying Denpa 2?
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Xik posted:Everyone knows because they already played it half a decade ago. This applies to DS and GBA games as well. 
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Mar 5, 2014 19:09
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Nintendo UK (and presumably PAL-land in general) is doing a Mario Kart 8 eShop/VC promotion:quote:Meanwhile, for fans wishing to keep their kart tyres warm and reactions sharp before 30th May, the Super Nintendo classic Super Mario Kart* will release on Nintendo eShop** as a Wii U Virtual Console title on 27th March. As part of a promotion to celebrate both this legendary title and Mario Kart 8, fans who purchase Super Mario Kart until June 30th 2014 can get a discount of £5.49 on Mario Kart 8 if they purchase it on Nintendo eShop from the release of the game until June 30th, 2014, providing the purchase takes place on the same Wii U console. The PR confirms it's the 60HZ version, too.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Nintendo UK (and presumably PAL-land in general) is doing a Mario Kart 8 eShop/VC promotion: Major downside to this is that you can't get the physical special edition with the blue shell model! 
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PAL update (week of March 6):quote:WII U RETAIL DOWNLOADS NA update (week of March 6): quote:WII U eSHOP DOWNLOADS As always NOA is hopeless about listing sales/discounts, so if you notice anything that I haven't listed, let us know! (I suspect Denpa Men 2 is probably on sale in NA, too, for example.)
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I haven't played 2, but Adventure Island was an okay if bland side-scroller.
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