James Nutting @ DBR writes: As a gamer I love Nintendo, but they sure don’t make it easy for me. Their financial dominance is no trump card when defending the most backward of design choices or their current obsession with stupid names. A recent interview with Forbes has seen the company blunder yet another aspect of their latest hardware. At least they’re consistent.
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
The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.
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 🤷♂️
meh it makes sense to pass judgement on something when its actually you know BEEN SHOWN
This guy has seen the online!? Wow!!! How did he do it!?
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Completely agree with all previous comments. It's FAR too early to judge the Wii U as a console or as an online platform.
To the author of this post, I'm happy that you have an opinion and that you managed to clearly write it into a blog post; but honestly do spare us the whole "doomsday" mentality and actually try to bring us with an original and unique view point.
Since your evidence is non-existent (basically a series of executive quotes that have been patched together) it is very easy for the rest of us on the internet to dismiss this as non-sense. In the future, at least wait until Nintendo actually confirms their plans, because for now you are just disagreeing with your own speculation. That's just silly.
From what I read elsewhere Nintendo is letting 3rd parties develop their own online which is cool for 3rd parties for giving us regular updates or even lower priced dlc...(if possible)
But by not having a unified structure or guidlines to follow means every online will be different. Will we have to sign in to EA then out,then sign in again when we play an Activision game? Then sign out and in again when we play an Ubi game? questions questions questions.
You make some good points, but, how can you call this a blunder? I just dont see this as being a big problem. But then again, i use the same username and password for pretty much everything (i have 1 back-up and a few variations).
I think that its unfortunate that no one has stepped up to the plate and addressed the potential benefits of not having a universal network.