Tony Polanco from The Koalition writes:
"Given the most recent earnings report from Nintendo, we decided to make tonight’s main topic about the Japanese gaming giant. We get into a discussion about how, despite catering to their fans, the company continues to struggle to remain relevant. Why is the Wii U system failing to sell despite it having more exclusives than its competitors? Is the 3DS the only thing keeping Nintendo afloat? Would becoming a third party developer help them? We get into all of this."
Other topics include: PS Vita losing three apps, Joystiq shutting down, the Fantastic Four trailer, and a the live-action X-Men TV series.
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 🤷♂️
This was a good show. Got heated in the Nintendo segment lol
Going third party would hurt more than help.
Nintendo has reported a net profit despite the low sales, and Amiibos are selling like wild-fire.
And Nintendo hasn't even gotten its full catalog of first party IP's out on the system yet, most of which will certainly see profits rise even further.
To say that Nintendo's somehow in danger enough that they'd need to do something as stupid as go third party is just erroneous.
It's called a slump.
It happens to all game companies at one point or another.
Nintendo isn't going to need to pull a Sega in order to "stay relevant."
Hell, the fact that they're still garnering that much attention despite being third place in sales means they're still plenty relevant in the industry, whether haters want to admit it or not.
It is amazing, Nintendo posts profits of over 200 million dollars and the snakes and slime come out in their droves screaming doom.
This on the cusp of Nintendo releasing a Zelda game and an updated hand held, a update that has already sold 2 million units in 3 months in one country. These doom mongers are desperate.
Always they talk about the wii u. However, the wii u is only 2 years old and is at half the sales of the game cube. What is more the install base buys software with over 50 million games sold to only 9 million consoles. However, it was the sales drop in America of the 3ds that caused Nintendo to half their estimated profits. The wii U is performing exactly as Nintendo predicted for 2014. Experts my ass.
Nintendo is not losing money.
They are only making money.
So what are these so called experts even talking about?
It is clear that the negativity towards Nintendo stems from a very strange place.