TGE:
I've owned a Nintendo console since the days of the Famicom. Back then the words “video game” might as well have not even existed. We just “played Nintendo”. Nintendo reigned as the king of the home video gaming console. Nintendo had excellent first party games as well as the support of all of the 3rd party developers and publishers. Sadly, the same cannot be said today. Nintendo’s grip on the proverbial hardcore gaming market has weakened since the days of the GameCube. And in an unsurprising path forward, I don’t think the Wii U will change things over the long haul.
The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).
Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.
Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.
Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.
Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.
Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.
The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.
Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.
LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.
That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.
It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.
A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.
People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers
Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.
I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.
The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷♂️
Well, isn't it just a shame the "hardcore" are a small minority of the overall market. Microsoft suddenly realised this: enter the Kinect. Sony are clueless = 3rd place fail.
Honestly, whoever wrote this article, it's time to give up games journalism.
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Beat me too it Grumpy OG!!
Makes me laugh when people say the Wii is for casuals, I have a library of over 50 games, i'd say 20% of those are casual. When you look at my collection - Alone in the Dark, Another Code, Back to the Future Blazing Angels, Bully, CoD 3-World at War-Black Ops, Conduit, Cursed Mountain, Dead Space, Disaster Day of Crisis, Fifa 08, Ghostbusters, Ghost Squad, Golden Eye, Heat Seeker, House of the Dead Overkill & 2+3, Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword & Twilight Princess, Links Crossbow Training, Mad World, Mario Kart, Mario Party 8 Mario Strikers Charged, Medal of Honor 2 & Vanguard, Monster Hunter, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, Mario Bros Wii, Prince of Persia, Pro Evo 08, Punch Out, Red Steel 1+2 Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles, Scarface, Silent Hill, Smackdown vs Raw 09, Star Wars Clone Wars, Force Unleashed 1+2, Mario Galaxy 1+2, Paper Mario Tiger Woods 09, Tomb Raider, Warioware Smooth Moves, Wii Fit, Play, Sports & Sports Resort.
(BTW i must have about 8/9 downloaded from the VC)
Personally i don't think people gave the Wii a chance, just look at the titles there, people say their Wii is gathering dust but there are some fantastic games, even ones i am yet to own so to write off a console which is yet to be released which also has backwards compatibility is just plain retarded.
Sure games such as Black Ops & Force Unleashed look shit loads better on 360/PS3 but i love to play with the Wii Zapper, loads more enjoyable and i find it more realistic and as for Force Unleashed 1...well...closest you will ever come to being a Jedi!!
People wanna say Nintendo don't cater for the Core, look at my list again and you'll have no arguement!!!
I have been gaming since the Atari days and I currently own all 3 current gen consoles and a PC and I have yet to see anything that I would classify as "HARDCORE".
That being said there are a huge amount of "CORE" games on the Wii like jayzablade and scissor_runner mentioned above. It is to bad that the so called hardcore types cannot see past Mario and Pokemon.