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Daring Options for Nintendo

The [a]list daily: "We analyze the dangers Nintendo is facing, and suggest some ways to overcome them."

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rinslowe4606d ago

Would the halting in japan manufacturing have anything to do with Nintendo's chosen chip manufacturer; Renasas being bought out last Nov?
That surely would have put a spanner in the works.
And Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze being delayed really only signifies two things; 1) Retro need more time to bring the game up to their usual perfectionist standards and 2) The guys in Nintendo realised that both Mario 3D world and DKC TF would benefit more in sales being released a few short months apart as opposed to the same month?

_QQ_4606d ago

or... retro is only putting 40% of its resources into this game,while the rest work on metroid which would explain why a 2d platformer takes over 3 years to develop and will only cost 50$.

BOWZER354606d ago

Pulling the gamepad IMO wouldn't be a bad idea, simply because more people would get one if it were cheaper. Then it would be a huge seller like the Wii.

MEsoJD4606d ago

No one has made the gamepad appealing or made the case that it enhances gameplay. The most use people have gotten from it is using it as a drawing tablet.

marloc_x4606d ago

The "gimmick" of a dual screen handheld worked out, and that improved on the performance and functionality of a concept Nintendo introduced in the early 1980s!

marloc_x4606d ago

Next gen will not be about cheap RAM. It will be about innovative gameplay and imaginative hardware.

MEsoJD4606d ago

Based off of the upcoming systems and games it's obvious that it's about improvement in performance and functionality of existing ideas/principles/hardware. Nintendo tried to reinvent the wheel with the gamepad which isn't inherently a bad thing, but it's flawed. So far, it's come off as a gimmick. An expensive controller that in many cases, requires you in games to take your eyes off the main screen for extended periods of time, to perform task that would be easy enough before with traditional controllers. The gamepad is neat, but since it's Nintendos main controller, they need to make it's uses obvious, the problem is that they have failed so far. Sale it separately from the box so you can get more out there.

Benjaminkno4606d ago

This guy doesn't know what a gimmick is.

Dude.. look it up!!

We won't be talking about this in a year.

MS and Sony should be more worried. Im willing to bet MS will lower their price to compete with Sony a year from now.

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marloc_x4606d ago

A steady stream of top notch exclusives should do the trick.. Kudos to Nintendo for having enough balls to not pull the trigger until these games are just right!

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

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).

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Relientk7743d ago (Edited 43d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS42d ago (Edited 42d ago )

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.

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Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

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.

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Deathdeliverer68d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi67d ago

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.

AuraAbjure67d ago (Edited 67d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer68d ago

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.

-Foxtrot68d ago

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.

Outside_ofthe_Box67d ago (Edited 67d ago )

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

Inverno68d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay68d ago

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.

Inverno66d ago

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.

Killer2020UK67d ago

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 🤷‍♂️

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