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“Year of Luigi”, Nintendo Sidetracking

Mario is the character we all know and love, why is the focus going to Luigi? This change seems a little strange. Along with this the Wii U is struggling with sales. Why would Nintendo focus on Mario’s brother instead of Mario himself? This seems like an odd solution to Nintendo’s problems.

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Dylila4119d ago ShowReplies(1)
DaThreats4119d ago

Because they had put too much focus on Mario
Share the spotlight with his bro Luigi

Snookies124119d ago

I always thought Luigi was cooler.

PopRocks3594119d ago

It's not really a focus. More like fan service. Super Luigi U and Luigi's Mansion were announced. What else after that? A slew of other Mario games.

DEATHxTHExKIDx4118d ago

Not only that the new Mario and Luigi RPG is focused in luigis's dreams.

PopRocks3594118d ago

Fair enough, but it's not really enough to justify calling it a "Luigi" experience when you're still playing as Mario. At least in Luigi's Mansion and Super Luigi U you're actually playing as Luigi.

Jek_Porkins4119d ago

Luigi has his fans, I remember the backlash when the Gamecube launched with Luigi's Mansion, now that game is looked at like a gem and people asked for another so often that they made a sequel for the 3DS.

I personally prefer Luigi being that I'm a younger brother, so I'm definitely all in for the year of Luigi.

DigitalRaptor4118d ago

I think they should've made Luigi's Mansion 2 for the Wii U, but that's just me.

wiium644118d ago

but what problems? the wii u sales are good, especially when you compare ps3 first three months at 1.7 million, world wide, and the 360 at 1.8 million systems world wide, 3 million is actually great, see http://www.technobuffalo.co... so wait until the e3, mario, zelda, smash bros, and the other big guns will get sales going even more.

Hicken4117d ago

How are those sales distributed? All we've seen recently are poor sales for the device.

The only reason why it appears to be doing so well is because of the exceptional launch. Sales have been pretty bad since then.

wiium644117d ago

wait until the e3, sales will pick up, and wait until sony and microsoft release their machines, let's see how they sell, in this rough economy, they may do no better than the wii u, then what will you say?

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Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

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Profchaos7d ago

Great news it shows that Nintendo intends to continue developing ports of AAA games to its next gen platform

H96d ago

Buying studios from embracer now is a great deal, they must be dirt cheap at this point, Nintendo is a opportunist, they wait until someone fall so they get their best deal

OtterX6d ago

That is some serious brain gymnastics you have going on there. 🤔

H96d ago

I didn't do any gymnastics I can assure you, honestly I don't know why you think that, not hating I seriously don't see why you think that

ZeekQuattro6d ago

Yeah I don't know where that came from. It's rare for Nintendo to flat out aquire studios. Guess they were trying to be edgy but why flex on this studio. 🤣

Kneetos5d ago

At least they are safer from layoffs with Nintendo then any other company

banger886d ago

I hope someone buys Piranha Bytes, their future isn't looking good right now. I love their RPGs, they're janky as f***, but they have heart and soul.

Relientk776d ago

Nintendo saw the Mortal Kombat 1 Switch port and were like, "Yeah, these guys are worth acquiring."

You can't make this crap up lol

Profchaos6d ago

Mortal Kombat 1 was never going to port well I'm sure they told wb it wasn't going to work but wb wants that sweet sweet 140 million install base

In the end wb approved the project cleared the milestones and allowed the product to release

SonOfOsiris6d ago

Yeah this guys ported MK11 which is great, Hogwarts Legacy which is great, and MK1 is now ok, play it every day

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Game Developers Have Begun Confirming Nintendo Switch 2 Support

Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.

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How Many More Victims, Like Garry's Mod, Will Nintendo's Hurtful Crusade Create?

Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."

RiseNShine23d ago (Edited 23d ago )

The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.

gold_drake23d ago (Edited 23d ago )

i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.

nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.

people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly

mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.

zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.

nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.

its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.

but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.

Inverno23d ago

Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.