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Nintendo Now Tells Nintendo Gamers It's Your Turn

Nintendo Now calls out Nintendo gamers for not buying the games they vocally demand and ponders if that trend will continue now that Nintendo has granted their wishes with a non-casual focused E3.

TheViper5073d ago

Casual, core or both. Vote what you want with your wallets people.

leapfrogger5073d ago

I totally agree with that statement. I feel it sometimes holds more true with the gaming and tech industry than anything else.

schlanz5073d ago

Most Nintendo gamers demand Nintendo games, and for the most part, they buy them.

NSMB: 15m
MK: 22.5m
SMG: 9m
SMG2: 2.8m (in 6 weeks)
SSBB: 9.5m
Zelda TP: 5.6m
Super Paper Mario: 2.25m
MP3: 1.6m
Punch-out: 1.1m

Pretty much every Nintendo published or developed game sells a million. The article mentions MP Trilogy not reaching 600k.. but keep in mind 1 and 2 combined for about 4m, and 3 and the trilogy combined for about 2m.

qface645073d ago

doesn't matter to me as long as i think the game is good

phantomexe5073d ago

For me Nintendo is to little to late. There have been some great games on the wii and a few rpgs comeing soon that i want bad but over all i kind of just stop trying to find the jems lost in the shuffle of games like deca sports. Ofcourse this isn't nintendos falt like alot of you sad fanboys want to think. Nintendo needs to leap forward and start doing what sony and MS have been doing to them for years. Add things like tropies and a better online setup without those friends codes. They copyed nintendo for years and still do but at least take a few ideas from sony and ms. Most of my gameing today is done on the PS3 or Xbox but i still remember most of the things i enjoy today came from ideas that nintendo came up with just never caped on.

Focker-4205073d ago

They only demand it because they wanna pirate it. Thats all. Sure alot of dedicated fans will buy it but the majority will get it for free. Why do you think the DS userbase is so huge yet they don't sell much software.

TheViper5073d ago

Uh, Focker. Piracy on Wii and DS are nowhere near as bad as you're trying to make it out to be.

DS has the best software attach ratio of any portable console in history.

Now i do understand that many European nations have a high piracy rate because the R4 chips are sold in every store but outside of those nations most gamers haven't even heard of the R4 chip.

extermin8or5073d ago

um the R4 cards are illegal, you can't walk into a store and buy them at least in the UK i think its the same for the rest of europe

RonXD5073d ago

You don't even need a chip to pirate games. All you need is a SD card and you're good to go.

CharlesDCI5073d ago

How was their E3 "non casual focused"? I didn't know having a good E3 showing made them not casual anymore.

Alos885073d ago

This is a moment that is pivotal to whether Nintendo pays us any attention in the years to come. Either buy the games we claim to want, or have Nintendo's theories that we are all talk confirmed.

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Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

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Profchaos14d ago

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

H914d 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

OtterX14d ago

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

H913d 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

ZeekQuattro13d 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. 🤣

Kneetos12d ago

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

banger8814d 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.

Relientk7714d 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

Profchaos14d 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

SonOfOsiris13d 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."

RiseNShine31d ago (Edited 31d 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_drake30d ago (Edited 30d 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.

Inverno30d 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.