Jeff Schille of Game Rant writes: "Nintendo’s long term focus on the casual market has allowed the company to dominate its competition, but at what cost. While the Wii waggles its way into the hearts and homes of casual gamers the world over, longtime fans of Nintendo’s classic games and systems — hardcore gamers — feel increasingly alienated by the company who’s games many of them literally grew up playing. They are uninterested in motion control, and resent the Wii’s last-gen graphics. These days, those gamers are far more likely to play Halo than Metroid.
But after years of neglect and indifference, something remarkable appears to have happened. Nintendo has heard the protests of the hardcore community, and has answered them. Not with a statement to the press, and not with a game, but with a system. A powerful, innovative system that is arguably the most cutting-edge piece of hardware Nintendo has ever produced. Hardcore gamers of the world, Nintendo made the 3DS for you."
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 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
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.
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.
Lol, 3ds is made for the hardcore gamers? Nintendo catering to the hardcore is the definition of a paradox. 3ds is the equivalent of a psp with a 3d screen so I don't understand the sheep lying to themselves and trying to convince themselves that the 3ds is powerful and will cater a lot to the hardcore. From what I've seen of the 3ds is that 70% of the lineups are games that people have played like a decade ago and the rest of the games are sequels with no new ip in sight. The screen is a little over 3 in. Wide and people are convinced that ps2 type graphics on a small screen is amazing. To each his own, I see the 3ds for what it is which is a new Nintendo handheld with old technology with a 1degree angle 3d screen