Nintendojo: Nintendo’s continued experimentation with non-traditional pay models has proven to be hit or miss so far. Though generally universally derided, Nintendo has taken a couple of different approaches with free-to-play in a bid to be competitive with some of the mobile titles that have been using it to pull in huge sales. Some games, like Pokemon Shuffle, have a more Candy Crush-esque monetization approach, granting fans limited tries or lives with a mandatory waiting period before being able to play again– unless they’re willing to fork over more cash to keep playing without interruption, of course. I tend to dislike that style of free-to-play, as it can kill momentum and is too aggressively greedy. The other way that Nintendo has implemented free-to-play is much more agreeable, as seen in Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball. In that title, players are given trial versions of its various baseball games, and can choose to buy whichever ones they like. This is much more reasonable, especially because it doesn’t require constant injections of cash to keep playing and progressing.
COG writes - 2015 was far from the 3DS' best year, but Nintendo's handheld still managed to have a wide array of good physical and digital-only games.
VGChartz's Craig Snow: "Puzzler retail releases are quite rare on consoles, with perhaps the most well-known in recent years being Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, so it's a genre where the nominations are often dominated by the handheld arena or from surprise indie hits. This year is no different in that respect - three of the nominees below are handheld-only titles, and the other two are downloadable indie titles, and we fully expect that at least one of them will be unfamiliar to the majority of our readers. Hopefully this award will give all of the nominees listed below a little bit more exposure; they certainly deserve it."
Join Hardlydan and Amras89 for game talk and fun! This time, The Gamesmen talk about the Retro VGS, Link and Zelda get married in GameStop, Lego Jurassic World, the Monster Hunter X announcement, how to get banned in Smash, Project Treasure gets a gameplay trailer, an upcoming Lego game, a new game Kholat, and DirectX 12 news. Games discussed are Splatoon, Boxboy, Pokemon Shuffle, Brain Age Express: Math, Stretchmo, Monster Hunter Ultimate 4, Puzzle & Dragons Z, The Witcher 2, Elite: Dangerous, Fast & Furious Legacy, CSI Hidden Crimes, Trials Frontier, and The Witcher 3.
