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I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
The shark tank thread is leaking again.

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Dec 26, 2008
RIP Nintendo

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Dec 26, 2008
How much ESRAM will it have?

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Dec 26, 2008
I hope they don't gently caress up virtual console on this one.

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Dec 26, 2008
My uncle works at nintendo and he says the NX is actually Nintendo's internal codename for the NES mini.

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Dec 26, 2008

MUSCULAR BEAVER posted:

I can't wait for super mario in glorious 912p

You think Nintendo would port their games to xbone?

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Dec 26, 2008
How good is DKC Tropical Freeze?

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Dec 26, 2008

Real hurthling! posted:

microsoft will buy nintendo and name it the nintendo nt

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Dec 26, 2008

Red Bones posted:

I agree with that shareholder who said they should make bread, I'd buy nintendo bread

Still a better idea than the Wii U Gamepad.

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Dec 26, 2008
Could the NX actually be a codename for the long awaited return of the Nintendo Cereal System?

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Dec 26, 2008

sarmhan posted:

Just wait for the inevitable PNES XL

Your mother still is.

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Dec 26, 2008
Will the NX fit into my jean shorts?

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Dec 26, 2008

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Dec 26, 2008
Usually Nintendo rumormongers protect their tweets when they get an avalanche of abuse when it turns out their predictions were wrong.

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Dec 26, 2008
The wait is over, Lanky Kong will finally have his own game.

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Dec 26, 2008
The NX is actually a detachable controller for the 3DS. Finally a dignifed way to play monster hunter.

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Dec 26, 2008

Quest For Glory II posted:

i want picross 3d 2



Where's the built-in vape? FAKE!

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Dec 26, 2008
The NX is a ball-in-a-cup.

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Dec 26, 2008
For real I would play a mature Mario game.

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Jonas Albrecht posted:

What would that even look like?

Mario has a gun, Mushrooms are magic, Mario must avenge the death of his wife Peach, bullet time.

Basically Max Payne.

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Dec 26, 2008
The Nintendo XXX.

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Dec 26, 2008
The call it the nintendo NX because the moment you see it the NX step you will make is to walk away.

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Dec 26, 2008

This is plausible.


This is more accurate however:

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Makes you think.

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Dec 26, 2008
There will be three NX SKUs, one will be made of sticks, one will be made of straw and one will be made of bricks.

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Dec 26, 2008
My Uncle works at Nintendo. He molested me.

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Dec 26, 2008

Anidav posted:

I just discovered this thread. I traded in my Wii U for an Xbone because I was hyped for Scalebound and Backwards Compatibility but Microsoft poo poo the bed too so now I'm stuck with no games and a handheld waifu generator. Now I wait to gently caress the lot off to EB or CEX for a NX.

You have a Pc-engine, what more could you need?

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Dec 26, 2008
I can't believe Nintendo would make a YouPorn app for the 3DS.

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Dec 26, 2008

FactsAreUseless posted:

I can prove definitively that the ZOG NWO will release the Nintendo Thrii (actual release name, as it is the third in the Wii series and there are three [thrii] sides in a triangle/pyramid - see Elder Protocols Glossary) on March 3 (3/3) of 2017: 2+7+0 is 9, multiply that by 1 and you get 9, and 3 times 3 (3/3, the release date) is 9. Furthermore, water micro-crystal analysis shows that water responds when you discuss the Nintendo Thrii by forming into a triangle/pyramid (three [thrii] sided shape), likely a result of chemical seeding in the atmosphere: the Bavarians in their Zionist (Jewish - JEW and ZOG both have three [thrii] letters) arrogance love to leave secret marks on their creations.

NINTENDO'S PORTABLE
SIMULTANEOUS 4-PLAYER
GAME CUBE


Sony evil is Microsoft worship.
Revelations for Pichu and
Pikachu's immaculate creation.,
that equates a whole lot of money
and the 'Missingno' of game glitches.
Cube synergy voids 2-company system.
4-players voids Windows god.
I bet you can't handle Mew.

Microsoft is a sacriligeous institution.
Only SSBM makes you godly.
Without SSBM, where are you?
Without SSBM, is there god?
Death to counterfeit cartridges
and ROM hunters everywhere -
destroying videogame industry.

Front composed of four ports.
1 corner human knows but left side.
One-player is less fun than the family form
of 4-player beatdowns.
1 human equates boredom.
Miyamoto is creation body.
Mario is the perpetual body.
Humans bartered their soul
to get Pokemon stuff.
***********************************************
$1,000.00 to one disproving the Gamecube.
$100.00 for 1 MIT student found not playing Gamecube
Cube. $500.00 for 1 MIT professor eat-
ing Gamecube. To be awarded after dessert.
************************************
Theoretical Panasonic's powerful processors are the
4 fundamental forces within Gamecube.
Gamecube is is F.F.E. or Fun for Everyone.
It is Reminiscence in the Corporeal Realm. It is the Holy
Grail of old-school geekdom. It is the Ultimate Nostalgia Trip. It
is the Rose-colored Glasses Theory. It is the Cube
to End all Cubes - and is a totally different
platform from the G4 Mac Cube.
Awareness of the Gamecube can lead to academic ignorance.
************************************
Gamecube lecture at E3
May 25th, 3
to 5 pm in Lecture Hall 08-4567.
Lecture for media people only. Also sneaky kids.
Your Gates is invited to attend
and a chair will be prepared.
Will 'fun for all ages' be allowed,
or will blinded bigotry prevail
in pimply dorks & whining about the lack of blood
by and suppressing Gamecube?
Remember "Little Mac".
How many chump diedwhile
trying to defeat Iron Mike?
Does Iron Mike honor those chumps?
Iron Mike did not defeat Soda Popinski.
Ought not go for a stomach jab,
when a uppercut to the jaw will suffice?
Bald Bull is overrated -
hit him in the stomach when he charges.
Glass Joe is not difficult at all.
Don Flamenco has cool hair.
Soda Popinski is really Vodka Drunkenski, despite what we told you. Also
We should issue a Punch-Out! remake sometime
and make it into the next Pokemon.
Gotta punch 'em all,
and sell lots of marketing slop.
**********************************************
A 'Big Bang' for DVD-Based systems.
A 2-port console = a two-wheeled car.
A 4-port console = God.
4 ports allow for melee,
but doesn't cut out three players either.
Gamecube more Cubic than thou.
********************************************************************************
Miyamoto is wiser than all gods and
scientists, for he has created
over 4 simultaneous series with
delightful characters all in one
console, though sometimes they are delayed
they are always perfect.
The years spent waiting for Mario to arrive
mean nothing when you revolve the plumber around Bowser.
Miyamoto has created entire universes
of 'human experience'.

Humans are educated stupid
because they are really dumb
and cannot even comprehend
the Gamecube programming code
when our god Miyamoto explains it to them.
Sony enslaves human mind
with its third parties.
Third is unnatural and must
be relied upon to rein in the market.
DVDs have deadly virus
that will destroy your system.

Game Cube's ineffable Truth.
'Cubeless World' is not Truth.
Sony justifies all human evil.
Game Cube is a test for Truth.
Rectangular design is slop bucket.
Cube sales 75% not Cube sales.
Evil is 75%, belief and truth is 25%.
Game Cube is all that is good and right.

There is 'absolute proof' that
You are Sony stupid.

Videogames are a Nintendian Princple,
& you are too dumb to know.
To ignore it is to support evil.
Microsoft makes little children work in sweatshops,
so no tycoons are worth saving.

Sony is Microsoft is Sony is Microsoft.

Think of the Game Cube as a 4-cornered monolith of Truth-
room representing the 4 powers of Mario, Link, Pikachu, and Kirby.
They will show the stoopid such as yourself the true path to enlightenment.
1-power mustachioed plumber singularity - that
equates to the Messiah.

Microsoft builds word bomb,
kinda like old Trojan Horse
filled with deadly deception and empty promises.

Confirmation:


LIFE ENCOMPASSES A 4-PORT CUBE PRINCIPLE
Mario has a lion's share
Pokemon has slightly less
Link Holds The Middle
Kirby is for the dedicated
1 - 4 PLAYER Smash Melee
4 ports - no need to take turns
Mario has a sunshine
Link hve a stalfos-knight
Pikachu has a rare candy lvl-up
Kirby has a bright day
i do not know what I am saying either
Sony fandom is a lie.
Your CD is someone else's DVD, someone else's Minidisc and even someone else's 8-track. Do you know that Nintendo is a simultaneous 4-player cube that rotates on startup every day it is started on earth? You are Sony stupid and unable to know Nintendos's 4-Player Game Cube Creation.

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Dec 26, 2008

These loss edits are becoming rather abstract aren't they?

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Dec 26, 2008
she got a donx.

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Dec 26, 2008

Raserys posted:

i have applied oracle bones and geomancy to determine that the nx announcement will coincide with the next arrival of halley's comet, an auspicious sign for super mario galaxy 3

Thats in like 40years though

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Dec 26, 2008

Chaltab posted:

Maybe it previously belonged to an obsessive recluse that actually replaced the clock battery.

Edit; I mean who else would have actually bought that awful Catwoman: The Movie game.

Someone who liked Catwoman the movie starring Halle Berry.

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Dec 26, 2008
Catwoman 2 will be an NX launch title.

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Dec 26, 2008
Going to go out on a limb here and say that the NX will have an RTC and be able to keep time when you turn it off.

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Dec 26, 2008
Thanks to technology, skilful developers and consumer demand, gaming has never been so varied. That may be a statement that goes against the sense some have of a gaming scene packed with remasters, sequels and iterations of long-established genres, but it reflects the broader picture. We have consoles, portables, PC / Mac gaming, smart devices, VR and (to a degree) web-based games all clamouring for attention. The gaming population, as a result, has never been bigger.

This thought occurred to us in a week where the lengthy Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past arrived while the announcement of Super Mario Run from the week before still lingered. Two entirely disparate games, yes, yet both important releases to Nintendo; one is a much anticipated third-party release finally coming to the West; the other looks like a simplistic mobile take on Nintendo's most bankable franchise.

This flexibility and diversity will be key for Nintendo moving forward, too. It finds itself in a challenging spot, which also presents an exciting opportunity. For the past couple of generations the big N has been drifting away from hardware rivals and existing in its own bubble, and the relative success of the 3DS and struggles of the Wii U have only widened the gap. Nintendo, in some respects, is in its own unique place in the mainstream gaming market.

Sony and Microsoft continue their technology-based tug of war in the console space, with the upcoming PS4 Pro and 2017's Microsoft 'Scorpio' adding new twists. They're scrapping over the lucrative mainstream triple-A space, generally, with Microsoft also making notable moves to bring the Xbox brand closer to PC gaming. Then we have the mobile space, in which Apple and Google largely pay lip-service to gaming on iOS and Android; their stores welcome all developers and have few regulations or control. Wild West platforms they may be, but they're fast growing and worth billions of dollars in annual revenues.

Nintendo, though, isn't directly competing in either space; the Wii U has finished the process started by Wii in terms of drifting away from mainstream third-party retail games, in particular. The audience focused on FIFA, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Fallout or other similar big name multi-platform franchises won't own Nintendo hardware as their only system, because those games aren't delivered - they may consider big N devices as an extra option. Likewise those that play most of their games on a tablet or phone don't get that sort of fix on Nintendo hardware.

Yet that is the opportunity - Nintendo is on its own ground. We've mentioned the problems with Wii U, but by the same token the 3DS has defied gloomy early sales to establish itself as a success. It's not hit the heights of DS, and won't get close, and its momentum has slowed a little quicker than is ideal, but over 60 million units have been sold with a game library packed with unique titles. The system is nowhere near powerful enough for many ports of multi-platform hits, while its infrastructure and eShop don't make it a fit for masses of smart device-style games. The 3DS library, when you look at it, has thrived on being unique and interesting to consumers, offering something different from other gaming systems.

From that perspective, as the 3DS ages and Nintendo gears up for the March release of the yet-to-be-revealed NX, the company can highlight a solid level of loyalty not just from a hardcore group of fans, but others that have invested in a 3DS while so many other distractions and offerings are available. Nintendo likes to repeat the somewhat clichéd mantra of 'games sell hardware', but it has been proven to work. If it was quite as simple as Nintendo of America's Reggie Fils-Aime makes it out to be, however, the Wii U would have matched the 3DS; ultimately, the portable has been a more rounded and appealing product. Besides, historically Nintendo has enjoyed more consistent success with handhelds than home consoles.

The battle for player's time, however, will be the most keenly fought in years to come. Hardware and games are less expensive than ever - if you doubt this, ask gamers of the '80s and '90s how much a boxed game cost back then - and there's an almost ridiculous amount of choice. A common first-world-problem seen online is "my backlog is too big" - this writer is no different, hoovering up discounted games, PS Plus downloads and small download titles that go in a digital pile of content waiting to be played. A lot of gamers likely also have a lot of hardware without really realising it - multiple home consoles, PCs, a 3DS and / or Vita, phones, tablets. These gadgets just accumulate, and sometimes gather dust.

After all, there are only so many hours in a day. For many it's a lovely problem to have, and in some cases it's simply a reality of life. When talking about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild when trying it out during the Summer, some of our UK team shared the hope that simply romping through the story will be an option, as they don't have a spare 100 hours to do everything in the game. Work, education, family, social lives - they all demand time and leave less opportunity for playing games.

So we have a dizzying number of choices, a limited amount of time, and of course limited money. This isn't a problem exclusive to Nintendo, but it is a problem that can suit the big N assuming it makes the right moves. It also means that fans that lean more towards Dragon Quest VII than Super Mario Run - to return to those extreme examples - will need to accept that the company will dabble in some basic, simplistic and quickfire games.

Through its DeNA partnership Nintendo is making a big play for the mobile market. Presumably NX will be a dedicated gaming system with a number of full-blooded, meaty exclusive games that demand our time and commitment. What'll be interesting will be to see how much Nintendo looks for the middle ground on NX. We've argued in the past that medium size games (with middle-of-the-road prices) can be a winner for Nintendo - relatively snappy and affordable games that offer more than a smaller eShop game, but ask for less commitment than a full-blooded $60 retail title. In fact, Nintendo already makes some games like this, though it currently tries to charge in the $50-60 range for them.

Some - including this writer - will be more than happy to split their Nintendo gaming time between full-scale big-budget games, fun smaller efforts and mobile games. Nintendo and supportive third parties have an opportunity to produce a broad range of content suited not only to a diverse audience, but to cater to different moods and circumstances. We may not share Shigeru Miyamoto's sentiment that it's worth playing Super Mario Run while eating a burger, but there are times when a five minute distraction is welcome. Then we get home, settle down and play something a little more demanding.

Whatever form the NX takes, we know it'll have a console-like component (based on the games confirmed for it, including Just Dance 2017) so Nintendo will be able to target the living room, portable gaming and mobile. Its fans can vary from enthusiasts that dive into all the company has to offer, to those that enjoy one or two types of games or devices. Either way, Nintendo has flexibility, and with that is the potential to win over a sizeable audience.

That's an exciting prospect. Nintendo, after some troublesome times and hard-earned successes, has the opportunity to carve out its own unique place in the market. That, after all, is the Nintendo way.

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Dec 26, 2008
Nintendoomed

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Blazing Zero posted:

just spitballing some promotions that might save nintendo:

free lootcrate sub for 3 months with nx preorder
buy two nx, get 2000 twitch bits
free copy of tim schafer's next smash hit with nx preorder

Star Citizen NX

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Nintendoxx

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http://www.play-asia.com/wii-u-maxplay-converter/13/706eq9

Instead of waiting for the NX get a car ciggarette lighter power connector for your Wii U and experience the same thing.

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