Kotaku:
At an investor's meeting today, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata talked a lot about how great Nintendo's Metacritic scores are—even going as far as to brag that Nintendo's current releases have higher Metacritic numbers than Sony's or Microsoft's.
Um, congrats?
Keep in mind that Iwata is talking to boring investor types. That, and this Metacritic chest thumping is depressing.
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 🤷♂️
lol.. sure Metacritic is broken when games that are expected to score highly don't. But games like TLOU, GTA V, Mario Kart 8 show why Metacritic is justifiable.
Great games will have great Metacritic scores.
Obviously because metacritic likes nintendo. They're the only publisher last year that came out with games that weren't broken or unfinished. I dont really get the Metacritic hate. You can hate on people who judge purely by metacritic, but thats not the sites fault. Seeing 50 or so different opinions on a game, theyre usually indicative of the quality of the game regardless of whether or not you personally like it.
The only exception are obviously reviews blatantly motivated by ad revenue, such as ME3, or Titanfall. Those are easy to point out though.
Is this only news now that nintendo is behind in sales? Because theyve been mentioning metacritic for years now.
As they should. Not only do they not release shoddy/shady software, they are not afraid to get reviewed sometimes weeks before their games get released.
While Metacritic's review system is clearly flawed, I don't think it's much of an issue here when Nintendo has proven itself to be one of the most consistently reliable developer's in the industry by critics and consumers with or without basing them on a numerical review scoring system.
This isn't to say that Nintendo doesn't make some bad game design choices in its developed titles. For example, as polished and as fun as Mario Kart 8 is, the battle mode is a disappointment due to the unnecessary changes made to its level design approach.
Because no other publisher uses or pays attention to metacritic amirite?