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Here's What 'Project Cafe' Needs to Succeed

NextGenRetro: We know what we want from our next Nintendo console. They need to grab that hardcore audience back and get those software sales up. The question is can they do it? I think they can, and here’s how.

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Shackdaddy8365492d ago (Edited 5492d ago )

They need games. That's why the 3ds isn't selling well right now - no games. That simple...

ChickeyCantor5491d ago

Actually there is little promotion to the 3DS.
Nintendo hoped it would get around by word.

Some people still don't realise its a new system.

fluffydelusions5491d ago (Edited 5491d ago )

I see tons of promotion. I see commercials, ads for it all the time. Also if you go into any Best Buy/Gamestop etc they have them out on display for anyone to try. As mentioned above, it's really the lack of games IMO. If they brought it out with Zelda it would have sold a lot better.

Raendom5491d ago

No he's right, it's de games. The hardcore is the very first fanbase you get with a new system and Japan definitely know the 3DS is a new system...

Hell, the DSiXL sold amazingly well and that wasn't a new system.

Project Cafe should launch with at least 1 anticipated first-party Nintendo game. No pilotwings or nintendogs or sh*t like that. Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Pokemon take your pick.

NukaCola5491d ago

The 3DS is too damn expensive, and that is the real reason why. If this ProjCafe/Wii2 is like $400, it is not going to sell. The price is going to make the most impact on it's sales. Followed by the line up and features.

Active Reload5491d ago

Probably because it doesn't look like a new system.

ChickeyCantor5491d ago

Eh you guys do realise the 3DS sold BETTER than the NDS in its first month right?

I do believe people still don't get the difference between the NDS and 3DS.

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HxCGamer5491d ago

i like that the screenshot in the article is of Zelda running on dolphin haha

but yea i am not sure how this console will sell, i feel like they aren't strictly aiming for casuals anymore

Shackdaddy8365491d ago

Release a new mario kart, a new mario game, a new luigi's mansion, a new pikmin, and/or a new F-zero on release day and they should be selling bundles.

fluffydelusions5491d ago (Edited 5491d ago )

They need stronger 3rd party support and better online IMO. I already know what to expect from Nintendo themselves...Mario HD, Zelda HD, Kirby HD etc etc.

Tigerfist5491d ago

Bring back the old NES/SNES spirit, with lots of awesome games for everyone's taste.

fluffydelusions5491d ago

TBH, it was different back then. The only competition really was the Sega Genesis. These days they have to compete with MS/Sony which more or less own the hardcore audience.

Tigerfist5491d ago

Yes indeed, but they really had something going there. If they play their cards right, they might just pull that again!

Oldman1005491d ago

Them video games are quite the gizmos. I'd like to see some of them on this new nintendo electronics system.

tigertron5491d ago

In order to succeed with ME, it will need lots of hardcore games, a much better online infrastructure - ditching those friend codes for a start, having top notch graphics and physics, have plenty of third party support, new IPs and of course, having the classic Ninty games. Oh, and better multimedia functions i.e. Blu-ray playback etc.

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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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Relientk7760d ago (Edited 60d ago )

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

PRIMORDUS59d ago (Edited 59d 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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Deathdeliverer85d ago

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

0hMyGandhi84d 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.

AuraAbjure84d ago (Edited 84d ago )

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

EveryPlatformGamer85d 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.

-Foxtrot85d 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_Box84d ago (Edited 84d 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

Inverno85d ago

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

Eonjay85d 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.

Inverno83d 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.

Killer2020UK83d 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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