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Why I Have Given Up On Nintendo

Max Level: The NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) was the first console that I have ever owned. I remember jumping on top of Goombas’ heads while keeping a steady pace and trying to beat my high score at the same time, was so exhilarating as a kid. Playing Super Mario Bros. on the NES was something special, something magical. My parents still have old photos of me as a child in diapers, enjoying various games that the NES had to offer — I was a very happy child at the time. Sometimes, my older cousin would come over and indulge on some multi-player with me , when he babysat me; there was nothing like couch multi-player at that time. It was wonderful, playing games such as: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Duck Hunt, Megaman, and Castlevania . My next console was the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System), everything that I loved from the previous console was there, but with upgraded graphics and a much sleeker design for its body and controllers. Then there was: the N64 (Nintendo 64), GameCube, Wii, and the Wii U.

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Garethvk4411d ago

Ours just sits on the shelf. I did play the new Donkey Kong a few times but it got boring fast. Their p.r. is awful as they want all the coverage but never send product to review. When you say fine, no more coverage their cry poverty and then send some old 3Ds codes to appease you. Now they want us to push Mario Kart 8 and said well we will log your request. I said no, you guarentee a review copy or no coverage.

mohuzas4411d ago

I find it interesting how a lot of people feel entitled to free shit these says.

DarthZoolu4411d ago

I have a WiiU I have Nintendoland, Pikman3 and NSMW3D. I beat 3dw in a day. Pikman was fun for 3 days.

@mohuzas I find it interesting that a company refuses to do what consumers are asking for. I also find it interesting that Nintendo thinks they can charge what they do for their games. Based on development costs Nintendo games should be about $15 cheaper across the board.

I once thought Nintendo should be a software company, but I was wrong because I don't want to play the games the way they have been making them for the last 8 years on any system.

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Garethvk4411d ago

If they are getting free write ups, free magazine covers, free radio spots, free newspaper articles and more how is it wrong for us to expect a review copy now and then? All the other companies send product otherwise your giving them free advertising. Plus they expect you to tell people how great something is but do not want you to play it in advance.

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wonderfulmonkeyman4411d ago

Who needs YOU to do a review when the rest of us will gladly do them for free, once the game is released, and send along the reviews to major sites everywhere, because we actually love the games?
Take your entitlement and kick rocks.

Garethvk4411d ago

We offer national radio, newspaper, online, and an international magazine. If a company asks you for coverage it is standard ti provide review materials. Nintendo doesn't. So when Sony, Microsoft, e.a and the others do so and Nintendo does not, why should we continue to take time and resources to support then over others?

3-4-54411d ago

Hey Gareth - Need some cheese with that whine ?

Garethvk4411d ago

I dont care we get plenty of stuff from the others and much better games at that my point is they do not support reviewers the way the others do hence they do not get the coverage others get.

N4g_null4411d ago

Thanks for posting. Now we see the real reason why Nintendo doesn't get any coverage or just gets the "oh well nintendo is boring crap". The media wants to dictate what they want. I think it's time other gamers start their own sites. We have too many older immature people in this industry. These people have lost sight of what gaming is or was and it has become a cog in the social media gold rush.

One thing you can always point out is they care enough to bad talk nintendo. If they really didn't like Nintendo and their current games then they would move on and not look back.

An adult does not wine about a corporation. They state their case and move on. I've been waiting on sony to become a real console power house in game play since the ps2. It hasn't happened..... maybe I should start a few websites demanding this? Maybe I should talk about sony selling shares back to square? Maybe I should look into why sony kart game suck why they have no 2d games coming from in house? Why do they have accessories that have no good games attached to them?

This would cause a real storm and make my website a ton of money also. Nintendo has no fanboys we go where the good games are.

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wonderfulmonkeyman4411d ago (Edited 4411d ago )

Why?
Because review copies are a courtesy, not something you're entitled to, and there are plenty of other ways that you could get a copy of the game.
A rental, or borrowing from a friend who will also get the game, amongst other options.

There are plenty of people out there who are more than willing to do a review without expectation of a free copy of the game.

You're demonizing them over a favor that you're used to receiving from others.
You make it sound like you've been spoiled and now think you deserve to get a free copy of anything you write a review of, POSSIBLY on top of whatever you get as a paycheck for the work in the first place.

If you don't want to do reviews for good games because you don't get the games for free, then regardless of system, leave those games to others who actually appreciate them enough to go out and buy them, to put their opinion out there for the benefit of the community at large, rather than for favors paid to them.

You are replaceable in the review market.
There are plenty of others that will get copies of the game, free and otherwise, and do reviews in your stead.

mii-gamer4411d ago

It seems that you are the entitled douche, and the way you behave in these feorums, particulaarly when people call out your BS (especially in that article you wrote about the Wii U mall experience last year, yes i remember because memory is incredible) pretty confirms this. You are a snob and I don't blame nintendo not wanting to work with you, nor should they.

http://n4g.com/news/1461184...

http://n4g.com/news/1417238...

Have a seat, take a that finger out of your ass and be exposed.

mii-gamer4411d ago

It seems that you are the entitled douche, and the way you behave in these feorums, particulaarly when people call out your BS (especially in that article you wrote about the Wii U mall experience last year, yes i remember because my memory is incredible) pretty confirms this. You are a snob and I don't blame nintendo not wanting to work with you, nor should they.

http://n4g.com/news/1461184...

http://n4g.com/news/1417238...

Have a seat, take a that finger out of your ass and be exposed.

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x2geex4411d ago

Article sucked. This guy would rather have a movie story line then AAA game play? He has it backwards. Prolly would get his ass whipped in Mariokart and Smash Bros.

randomass1714411d ago

Thing is you can have both. But just because Nintendo games don't usually have them doesn't mean the games are bad. And besides, some of Nintendo's games have a lot of story. Kid Icarus Uprising, Metroid Prime 3, Xenoblade Chronicles, this author just hasn't played the right games.

RPGrinder4411d ago (Edited 4411d ago )

Sorry I cannot take this guy seriously. All of his points are not only ridiculously false, They are generalized nonsense.

WalterWJR4411d ago

Funny timing as I just bought my first Nintendo console since the GameCube.

DarthZoolu4411d ago

I got my Wiiu for $100 anything more than $200 is not worth it.

randomass1714411d ago

It's an HD console with a gamepad that you can play games on and an upcoming Mario Kart and Smash Bros. game. Of course it's worth $200. Why don't you just demand you get a high end PC for $100?

wonderfulmonkeyman4411d ago

You have apparently forgotten that underselling so drastically is why PS3 stayed in debt for so long.
Nintendo doesn't want to have their own creation leeching profits out of them.
The tech inside is worth more than $200; anything less than that would be stupid to expect.

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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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Relientk7751d ago (Edited 51d ago )

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

PRIMORDUS50d ago (Edited 50d 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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Deathdeliverer76d ago

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

0hMyGandhi75d 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.

AuraAbjure75d ago (Edited 75d ago )

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

EveryPlatformGamer76d 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.

-Foxtrot76d 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_Box75d ago (Edited 75d 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

Inverno76d ago

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

Eonjay76d 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.

Inverno74d 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.

Killer2020UK74d 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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