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Exactly what Nintendo should do next generation

The madman Pdblacknoir shares his thoughts on Nintendo's situation. Videos and a nice image included....

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jacksonmichael5319d ago

Is that Scarlett Johansson? Well, I'm not going to bother asking why that's there.

OT: I think the inclusion of a the Last Story video speaks for itself.

ChickeyCantor5319d ago (Edited 5319d ago )

"The rumours tell me a 3-core cpu is in order, I dont think that a tri-core setup will be good enough unless their clock speeds are over 3.5ghz. Mirrors edge, possibly due to the pc port being unoptimised, required at least a multicore at 3ghz and thats without physx so they need at least 4 units to stay with the times and not get murdered by Sony and Microsoft’s hibernating beasts."

Just ramping up the hertz will not guarantee better performance... Nor adding extra cores will unless the system as a whole is optimized 1:1.

TruthbeTold5318d ago

Seriously. I don't care as much about power as I do performance and capability. I don't need the Wii U to 'be at least 3 times powerful as the PS3'. If it's 1.5 times the power of a PS3, but is far more optimized, efficient, has superior shading and resolution capability, then I'm good. I don't want it to cook my food, I want it to play awesome games.

All of that being said, my biggest worry/complaint/frustration with the little that I know so far is that it seems we're looking at 1 Wii U controller per console.

I DO NOT WANT TO PLAY THE NEXT SMASH BROTHERS ON A WII REMOTE OR ON A CONTROLLER THAT HAS ONE THUMBSTICK.

I don't want to play only online, or have an advantage or disadvantage when I play at home. Nor do I want to purchase some new form of 'Classic controller'. For once in my past decade of gaming I'd like to buy a Nintendo product that I can be satisfied with out of the box.

I want to spend my money on games. Not B.S. attachments that are created to fill gaps created by poor Nintendo's decision making. I honestly don't think they understand how frustrated gamers like me have become...

stragomccloud5318d ago

You say gaps for Nintendo's poor decision making. I'm pretty sure it's intentional. Don't get me wrong I love Nintendo... but they are are a business that's going to try to make you buy accessories. I don't think it's a coincidence that the Gamecube controller chord was so short when they were also selling the wireless wavebird controller.

mamotte5319d ago

you want ultra realist graphics in Nintendo games?

No, thanks, I'll stick with Wind Waker. It looks prettier than most current games.

Laxman5319d ago

I love Wind Wakers visual style. Its actually my personal favourite Zelda game, maybe besides Ocarina.

pdblacknoir5318d ago

yeah i loved that zeldas graphics too. my main point here is that ninty needs to allow for cuttinig edge graphics to match ps4 or 720s in 5 years in order for nintendo to grab lots of sony and microsofts market. imagine a new zelda with wind wakers style but using more power than 3 ps3s......

it would look beyond anything photorealistic

WooHooAlex5319d ago

First thing they need to do is delay the Wii-U into 2013, get a killer lineup of games, price it reasonably at launch and market it as a do-all machine.

If they do that, I think it should sell pretty well.

ChickeyCantor5319d ago

How will that work for their financial part?

You have the system ready but wait a year?
That will hurt them too much especially if some other company comes up with something similar between 2012 and 2013.

Laxman5319d ago

Much easier said than done. That would be far too a big a financial risk for any smart company to take.

theaceh5318d ago (Edited 5318d ago )

Agree with VIKEME.

Nintendo should wait until 2013. That way it will not appear to be too old when the next box and ps4 comes out. Average customers dont care too much about specs, they care more about novelty and fancy gimmicks.

Waiting a year could not hurt nintendo's pockets too much. They have money to burn thanks to selling 70 million+ will's and still making a profit on each unit since day 1. They should take this extra time to figure out how to add more touchscreen comtrollers to the device and avoid another embarrasing design decision, like that extra analog button adapter for the 3DS.

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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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Relientk7745d ago (Edited 45d ago )

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

PRIMORDUS44d ago (Edited 44d 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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Deathdeliverer70d ago

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

0hMyGandhi69d 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.

AuraAbjure69d ago (Edited 69d ago )

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

EveryPlatformGamer70d 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.

-Foxtrot70d 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_Box69d ago (Edited 69d 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

Inverno70d ago

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

Eonjay69d 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.

Inverno68d 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.

Killer2020UK68d 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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