SheAttack: "Many critics of the Wii U say that it’s setting itself up to be the GameCube 2.0. My rebuttal to that would be “Yes!”, using my best Captain Falcon impression. If the Wii U were to make their current audience familiar again with games such as, Geist, Eternal Darkness, Baiten Kaitos, Timesplitters, Viewtiful Joe, the Metroid Prime series, Wave Race, Battalion Wars, etc., that could lead to Nintendo go back in that direction and give the core gamers what they truly want – core titles."
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
The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.
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 🤷♂️
I would like to see some new features if they went to the trouble of porting gamecube games and likely charging 15 bucks at the least. I can only imagine the kind of hype melee with online play could generate.
it'd work better for them to have a team on a 6 month cycle thats sole purpose is to remake gamecube games in hd in the same fashion as wind waker. sunshine, fzero, warioworld, waverace, and even star fox adventures. 2 good releases per year added to their new releases instantly.
Hopefully I would gladly buy MGS the twin snakes to play in my wii u
I'd love for Nintendo to focus more on the core gamer, but I don't know if it's what best for them.
I believe the Wii U was the first home console Nintendo sold at a loss. This is relevant because the GameCube was actually a pretty powerful console relative to its competitor's, and subsequently had some very good looking games. I don't think Nintendo, with their current management, will opt to make a competitively powerful next console and I'm not sure that the general gaming enthusiast would buy into another underpowered Nintendo console just because of Metroid and F-Zero. Remember, the GameCube is Nintendo's worst selling home console ever.
I know a lot of people think the solution to Nintendo's problems are easy; but they are far from easy. If you think just games and marketing is all they need that's been proven to be wrong. If you think focusing more on the core is what's needed, that hasn't worked for Nintendo in the past with more momentum and goodwill than they have now. If you think they need to double down on casuals that's a shrinking market that is very fickle.
You get my point.
The truth is, there is no one simple solution. Nintendo needs to make a console that is sold at a profit, yet is both close enough in architecture and powerful enough to at the very least get ports of third party games. Nintendo absolutely has to at the very least get the biggest third party games on their system. Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, GTA, all of them. They need an online infrastructure and overall account system that is modern - along with the apps and amenities gamers expect. They need to invest in new IP's and reviving old IP's to appeal to the core gamer. They need to continue to make wonderful, eccentric and family friendly games. They need to do all this and more. If they don't, Mario/Zelda/Donkey Kong/Smash/Kart, etc. WILL NOT BE ENOUGH.
I know as gamers it's easy to say all a company has to do is make good games. But truthfully, for a console to succeed it needs a lot of things. The Wii U has some great games, and will likely get some great games this year. But Nintendo got most of the above wrong, and we see where the Wii U is at financially.
You know if it was possible to put Jet Force Gemini on the wii u. I would buy it in a heart beat. Loved that game