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katkillad2
Aug 30, 2004

Awake and unreal, off to nowhere
I expect a big announcement tomorrow.

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elf help book
Aug 5, 2004

Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up

katkillad2 posted:

I expect a big announcement tomorrow.

New Color Splash Miitomo shirts available on MyNintendo!

The 7th Guest
Dec 17, 2003

katkillad2 posted:

I expect a big announcement tomorrow.
another humble nindie bundle!!!

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

He's been tapping into Aunt May's bank account!
Didn't I kill him with a HELICOPTER?
They need to announce it soon so they can release the NX Halloween Costume and the Slutty NX Halloween Costume in time.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
Mench'n-a-go-go-baby!
Please make sure to purchase your officially licensed Donkey Kong Halloween costume for the end of the month.

FPzero
Oct 20, 2008

Game Over
Return of Mido

I wonder if people would be talking as much about NX if it had been announced back at E3. There's like some weird unintentional reverse marketing/hype revolving around the whole "When will it be revealed?" thing. Only problem is that the general population, the more important market to target with a new console, is left in the dark because they're not a bunch of crazy people making predictions on the internet.

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


elf help book posted:

I believe in the NX.

We all have to believe, and raise our hands in unison with Reggie so he has enough power to form the NX

elf help book
Aug 5, 2004

Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up

raditts posted:

We all have to believe, and raise our hands in unison with Reggie so he has enough power to form the NX

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




FPzero posted:

I wonder if people would be talking as much about NX if it had been announced back at E3. There's like some weird unintentional reverse marketing/hype revolving around the whole "When will it be revealed?" thing. Only problem is that the general population, the more important market to target with a new console, is left in the dark because they're not a bunch of crazy people making predictions on the internet.

the nx is what we want it to be as long as they don't reveal it. its brilliant

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.



:yeah:

Barry Convex
Sep 1, 2005

Think of the good things, Pim! The good things!

Like Jesus, candy, and crackerjacks! Ice cream and cake and lots o'laffs!
Grandma, Grandpa, and Uncle Joe! Larry, Curly, and brother Moe!

katkillad2 posted:

I expect a big announcement tomorrow.

From Google, you mean?

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon
Nintendo is just hoarding all the games to themselves, what a much of a-holes

Bum the Sad
Aug 25, 2002
Hell Gem
Do we know what the new nintondoo is yet?

deadly_pudding
May 13, 2009

who the fuck is scraeming
"LOG OFF" at my house.
show yourself, coward.
i will never log off

bloodychill posted:

Nintendo is just hoarding all the games to themselves, what a much of a-holes

The trick is to hold out until everybody starts to think it's vaporware, then wait until a statistically significant portion of us reach the "bargaining" stage of grief. Then just immediately release it into the wild for $599.99 with no warning.

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

Bum the Sad posted:

Do we know what the new nintondoo is yet?

i'm under nda but let's just say... paper mario is on the case

coffeecup
Feb 26, 2016

elf help book posted:

The games are too fun and no one at Nintendo can stop playing long enough to announce it.

Electromax
May 6, 2007
Part of me wonders what would happen if Nintendo just didn't release any info until shortly beforehand, for real. Challenge the modern perception that people need 6-12 months of mental preparation before a product appears in stores.

Not finding a lot of good writing on the subject though.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/new-products-like-the-iphone-announce-early-or-go-for-the-surprise-rollout/ (decade old)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect

PS1 Hagrid
Sep 17, 2007

The Nintendo NX is a home console running on a perfected version of Sony's Cell system. All the NX's around the world work in unison over the internet to render the 160x144 pixel glory of Super Mario Land straight to your television - available now on the NX Virtual Console for $4,99.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Electromax posted:

Part of me wonders what would happen if Nintendo just didn't release any info until shortly beforehand, for real. Challenge the modern perception that people need 6-12 months of mental preparation before a product appears in stores.

Not finding a lot of good writing on the subject though.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/new-products-like-the-iphone-announce-early-or-go-for-the-surprise-rollout/ (decade old)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect

So long as you keep the retailers involved and updated on shipments and stuff you would be fine.

The main problem with the Saturn launch was that the retailers didn't even know or have plans for it to come out so soon.

greatn
Nov 15, 2006

by Lowtax
I believe they'll reveal it this month, but I think they could get away with announcing it as late as January and still have a good March launch

If they don't reveal it this month they will start to have substantial leaks though, and to them I think the most important thing is control over messaging.

greatn fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Oct 3, 2016

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




greatn posted:

I believe they'll reveal it this month, but I think they could get away with announcing it as late as January and still have a good March launch

yeah i really don't think you need much time to announce stuff these days for lots of people to know about it.

PS1 Hagrid
Sep 17, 2007

The Nintendo NX is revealed to be the cave Miyamoto found as a kid and they start selling tickets at the entrance. To play Zelda you explore the cave in a Link costume. You can rent a Mario costume to play Mario NX and jump around in the darkness. If you ask to play Metroid they call the security to swiftly escort you out of the premises.

Bean
Sep 9, 2001
It dawned on me today, we don't even know how to order the NES Classic, preorders haven't been released.

Like, come on, Nintendo, goddamn, it's Christmas present shopping season soon enough. Make a vine of Reggie burping the letters NX or something.

Reiley
Dec 16, 2007


Folks, I just got out of the meeting and, well, the NX? Let's just say there will be more treats than tricks in your holiday future ;o)

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
Mench'n-a-go-go-baby!

Reiley posted:

Folks, I just got out of the meeting and, well, the NX? Let's just say there will be more treats than tricks in your holiday future ;o)

Wait a minute.

sniff sniff

These aren't human treats, these are doggo treats.

elf help book
Aug 5, 2004

Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up

Bean posted:

It dawned on me today, we don't even know how to order the NES Classic, preorders haven't been released.

Like, come on, Nintendo, goddamn, it's Christmas present shopping season soon enough. Make a vine of Reggie burping the letters NX or something.

I have a preorder on the Target website.

InFlames235
Jan 13, 2004

LIKE THE WAVES IN THE OCEAN I WILL DIG IN YOUR FAT AND SEARCH FOR YOUR CLITORIS, BUT I WON'T SLAM WHALE
https://m.reddit.com/r/NintendoNX/comments/55mszg/in_pokemon_the_pokedex_usually_resembles_some/

So Reddit is freaking out over that new pokedex as apparently all the pokedex's resemble a portable console Nintendo has had and that one looks like a tablet with detachable arms. Confirmed? :o

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Ignore that subreddit. Ignore it harrrrrrd

Is it a mistake to treat the October 26th second quarter earnings report as some kind of hard deadline for an NX reveal?

elf help book
Aug 5, 2004

Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up

Jonas Albrecht posted:

Ignore that subreddit. Ignore it harrrrrrd

Is it a mistake to treat the October 26th second quarter earnings report as some kind of hard deadline for an NX reveal?

Yes, because their investors will probably ask "why mario isnt on phone".

PS1 Hagrid
Sep 17, 2007

Nintendo announces to the thrill of it's main millennial demographic that the NX will be a HD re-release of it's most classic games console - the Super Megason IV.

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Electromax posted:

Part of me wonders what would happen if Nintendo just didn't release any info until shortly beforehand, for real. Challenge the modern perception that people need 6-12 months of mental preparation before a product appears in stores.

Not finding a lot of good writing on the subject though.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/new-products-like-the-iphone-announce-early-or-go-for-the-surprise-rollout/ (decade old)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect

If you haven't announced it before it goes into production, then you run the risk of Chinese factory workers unveiling the product for you with leaked lovely cell phone pics.

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon

elf help book posted:

Yes, because their investors will probably ask "why mario isnt on phone".

I'm sure the investors are also interested in their next big hardware since this is possibly being treated internally as the follow-up to the 3DS. Dunno though, this is Nintendo's show. If they want to delay the NX to later next year, that's on them and I'm personally fine with it if it means it makes a better console.

elf help book
Aug 5, 2004

Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up

bloodychill posted:

I'm sure the investors are also interested in their next big hardware since this is possibly being treated internally as the follow-up to the 3DS. Dunno though, this is Nintendo's show. If they want to delay the NX to later next year, that's on them and I'm personally fine with it if it means it makes a better console.

You just called them a-holes.

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon

elf help book posted:

You just called them a-holes.

Cuz I can't play Pikmin 4 yet :colbert:

A Great Big Bee!
Mar 8, 2007

Grimey Drawer

InFlames235 posted:

https://m.reddit.com/r/NintendoNX/comments/55mszg/in_pokemon_the_pokedex_usually_resembles_some/

So Reddit is freaking out over that new pokedex as apparently all the pokedex's resemble a portable console Nintendo has had and that one looks like a tablet with detachable arms. Confirmed? :o

Every NX will have an actual Rotom inside it, as Nintendo announces that it has also made Pokemon real.

zolthorg
May 26, 2009


a moron who just invested a bunch of money into a vr focused studio in an industry that has a 1000+ dollar buyin to even have a vr setup is completely disconnected from the reality of marketing / market penetration in the games industry
huh.

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

zolthorg posted:

a moron who just invested a bunch of money into a vr focused studio in an industry that has a 1000+ dollar buyin to even have a vr setup is completely disconnected from the reality of marketing / market penetration in the games industry
huh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-omR1rXcPrE

zolthorg
May 26, 2009

FPzero posted:

I wonder if people would be talking as much about NX if it had been announced back at E3. There's like some weird unintentional reverse marketing/hype revolving around the whole "When will it be revealed?" thing. Only problem is that the general population, the more important market to target with a new console, is left in the dark because they're not a bunch of crazy people making predictions on the internet.

its only important to market to these people if you actually have enough units to push to them and start in like, september at the latest, much like the mysterious marketing push that started a month ago with an ugly space 3ds and the small nes?

or like nintendo did with the smash/splatoon bundle?

they're going to start announcing info about the nx in january, or end of december, they would kill their holiday quarter if they started mass marketing something coming out in 5 months immediately after doing their holiday quarter marketing push

zolthorg
May 26, 2009


his studio has already failed
i told him this on twitter the day he announced it
its three years early, there's no market
after selling his (potentially hilarious games) for psvita amounts of units maybe he can go and write season 4 of rick and morty and make money again

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Stan Taylor
Oct 13, 2013

Touched Fuzzy, Got Dizzy

zolthorg posted:

his studio has already failed
i told him this on twitter the day he announced it
its three years early, there's no market
after selling his (potentially hilarious games) for psvita amounts of units maybe he can go and write season 4 of rick and morty and make money again

So would you say... Squanchtendo is doomed?

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