This past week, my friends and I had gotten together for another weekly day of game time. We opted to shoot for the remaining stars that we had not yet achieved in Nintendo Land's Co-Op/Competitive attractions. These remaining games were Metroid and Pikmin. After so much time, about three months of these weekly ventures (about twelve days altogether), we had finally succeeding in achieving start status on the attractions. Obviously it's a meager accomplishment in itself, but it was still pretty cool to have finally beaten the entirety of the game.
Note: Forget mastering this game. For a game supposedly marketed toward casuals, I've seen some pretty challenging stuff come from Zelda: Battle Quest.
Having finally ended the game, I've come to the conclusion that it was a mistake to only bundle Nintendo Land with the black Deluxe SKU. The game really should have been bundled with all of the consoles and I think a solution that could have fixed this is as follows.
Nintendo Land should have been F2P, Free To Play.
The game that was bundled could have come with demos with limited playthroughs of each attraction. Once these playthroughs were done, you would have to buy the attractions you liked best. Or perhaps you could only play each attraction a certain amount of times each day. Something to encourage the player to purchase the full attraction. I think a price around $2 - $5 would have been appropriate.
Beyond this, Nintendo could have expanded upon the game, increasing the amount of attractions to something beyond the original twelve. There could have been new attractions based upon other Nintendo IPs such as Kid Icarus, Fire Emblem, Ice Climbers and other such franchises ever deserving of more notoriety.
I think by doing this, Nintendo would have made the game far more accessible, given the eShop some much needed attention, and found a way to still provide quality content at a fair and economical price for the consumer. Perhaps they can do this with Nintendo Land 2, if that's ever made. Either way, I think Nintendo really ought to think about embracing the F2P model. If done well and handled carefully, I think it benefit them and their fans.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
This is a great idea. If Nintendo was so dang serious about showing off "teh potential!" of the WiiU, it should have been included with every single Wii.
The problem is that Nintendo is woefully behind the times when it comes to promoting their own games and features. Their big-name games sell because of the name, and everything else gets ignored.
The goal was to make the DX version the "only" one worth buying. While some people might disagree with me, if you ABSOLUTELY had to buy a Wii U, then ti would be illogical to not spend the extra money... it was just too much better by comparison.
Anyway, the problem with your idea is that it requires a lot of things you're not accounting for. First and foremost, Nintendo would need a create a way to unlock the extra modes. So this means they would need to press, package, R&D and market another version of the game, which I can assure you would cost them more than simply giving everyone the game straight up. The other reason, which shows poor research on your part... is storage. Despite the PS3 and Xbox having huge hard drives, the basic Wii U (the one you're talking about) has a mere 8 gb of data. According to sources, you lose about 10% to formatting, so now you're at 7.2 gb. The OS / preloaded things take up about 4.2 gb of data, so a basic Wii U has a mere 3 gb of useable data. Finally, the same sources claim Nintendo Land takes up a total of 3.2 gb of data, so you couldn't even fit the full game in the first place.
So as you can see, your idea doesn't make a ton of sense.
Technically it is free to play if you bought the bundle. IMO the superior game out of the bundles. So much fun when you get a group of people to play.