Escort Mission writes: Last week, we heard the baffling but somewhat unsurprising news that Nintendo was blocking The Binding of Isaac from release on the 3DS e-shop. The game’s creator, Edmund McMillen, cited “questionable religious content” for the embargo, which soon drew the ire of progressive irritants eager to tar the moral majority for, once again, ruining all their fun. The thing is, this situation has gutlessness written all over it, and Christians have just as much reason to roll their eyes at Nintendo as non-believers do.
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.
In Catholic schools. It gathered so much negative attention, that the mandate had to be retracted. It soured his status with the christian community, and could cost him a lot of votes, come election time.
I didn't mean to bring politics into this topic, I was just trying to make a point. Ever heard the saying, "What's good for the goose, isn't good for the gander?"
It would be great if Nintendo recanted their decision, by releasing TBOI on the 3DS's e-shop channel. Problem is - it would cause a media backlash, and they couldn't afford to take that chance now that the 3DS is finally being recognized by the mass media of consumers.
If I told you the real reason why this game was banned from the 3DS shop, you wouldn't believe me.
But everything that has been said so far, all the excuses given, are all only a small piece of the real truth.
At the end of the day, Nintendo didn't not publish Binding of Isaac on the 3DS because of "religion". They chose not to release it because it has the potential to offend, both in terms of items within the game and because of the content's handling of religion.
That's a world of difference. Everybody at Nintendo could be staunch atheists and absolutely love the game, but if it could offend 60% of the people who own a 3DS, it doesn't make any sense to bring it to the console.