Middle of Nowhere Gaming Associate Editor Esteban Cuevas (@Colorwind) talks about what the new Nintendo handheld should be.
Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group
Great news it shows that Nintendo intends to continue developing ports of AAA games to its next gen platform
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
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
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. 🤣
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.
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
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
Yeah this guys ported MK11 which is great, Hogwarts Legacy which is great, and MK1 is now ok, play it every day
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
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."
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.
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.
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.
"If the handheld wants to be able to work with a home console, then the dual screen setup has to go."
Are you sure about that? This could render WiiU backwards compatibility obsolete. Wouldn't they want to leverage these games that millions of gamers haven't played yet, especially Mario Maker?
"making it clear it’s a Nintendo product. Something simple like the Nintendo Touch or perhaps the Nintendo Next (as a call back to the NX codename) would work."
I completely agree. There were rumors (and probably ideas on the cutting room floor) that the WiiU was going to be called the "Nintendo," and that would have been awesome on its own. They really need to ditch "Wii"-anything in the title.
"Nintendo needs third party support if it wants to appeal to everyone, as it should, and I believe Nintendo will be able to gain that support as it already has more credibility in the handheld market."
It would be nice, but if they can cut development in first- and second-party studios to just one system, they could increase profits easily by having just one big install base and one platform to develop for. It's important for them to have third parties on board only when they want to make games that would fit the system, not some tacked-on Arkham City nonsense like before. Third parties will come when there's a big enough market. I don't think Nintendo needs to pay them to bolster their launch like last time.
"Nintendo likes to try to appeal to everyone but has been unable to marry the casual and hardcore markets."
Younger consumers are definitely throwing the concepts of "hardcore" and "casual" into disarray - I mean, what's Minecraft or Ark or DayZ? Or heck, Splatoon? I've been challenged more by The Witness than I've been in Bloodborne. Plus you've got Mario Maker, which isn't just a hit in WiiU attach rates, but also on Twitch and YouTube. It's been an avenue for really easy levels all the way up to insane, ingenious contraptions of doom. And if you can't beat em', you can watch instead (er, that sounded wrong...).