Man I hear you. I bought a ton of VC games on Wii, only to find out I have to upgrade the games for a buck. It’s not a lot of money per game (although it does pile up) and is a fair for their work. I also own every Nintendo console released in Europe, so I’d rather hunt down the original carts.

Just to temper your hype a bit. It has massively downcut online features... And I mean massive.

While Splatoon hasn’t been officially announced, it would be a bit daft to include Splatoon so prominently in the reveal trailer without following through with that.

I love my day-one Wii-U, but with Splatoon and Breath of the Wild confirmed for Switch, Smash bros, Hyrule Warriors, Mario Maker and Wooly World on 3DS, not to mention the chance that more of it’s games could get ported, The Wii U really is a tough sell.

You make a solid argument.

Personally, I feel that forming a game development union would really come a long way. The Dutch gaming industry isn’t really getting of the ground because of Dutch resistence to worker exploitation (both by law and cultural mentality), in combination with foreign possibilties (it does make development cheaper).

I’m pretty sure one Iwata asks detailed how they’d lost some code though (mostly because it was kept on paper which yellowed out or was lost somewhere).

Not every game is made from scratch, but many games are. Old games used tricks on hardware to make it work, most pc emulators bake in these tricks in the emulator to make the games work. For Nintendo, they have to be sure their games runs optimally, meaning they check and reprogram the emulator on a game every time.

The f2p route in and of itself can be a business model like any other. The problem is that the f2p route fosters a short-term-financial-target-first mentality among developers, This means that you easily lose sight of long term goals.

Man.. I work as a coder, but not as a game developer. I’ve read a bunch of stuff that proves your point, but it’s still downright depressing.

Sorry, I phrased my point badly. It’s definetly possible, but they need to reprogram bits in every existing VC game, meaning that a direct port will not be possible. Unless they built the Wii-U versions future proof, but I doubt that’s even possible. (not at the $5 - $10 price point that they offer these games)

This basically gets me crying. I can really see the CEO with a god complex now. The saddest part is that Halfbrick should just die now (sad for all those working there now) but the truth is that Halfbrick will probably survive for a while until they really are just a name in a sea of names.

Blame/Thank the EU for that one, Holland is rougly the same. Our public transport cards suck though. They’re beyond horrible. As for contact less cards, I really don’t like it. Entering a pass-code is no problem at all, and having your card being able to do transaction’s means that you lose that amount every day if…

VC being compatible is an easy asumption to make. But it really isn’t. Just to name a few things. The controller support has to be remapped, the new save state function reutilized. And the hardware calls in all games have to be rewritten for every game.

One of the first anime I’ve ever watched was an English dub of Gundam wing in ‘95, I was 8 years old at the time and spoke enough English to fully understand what was going on. But not being a native speaker (in a country where hardly anyone speaks Enlgish natively) plus my young age meant I couldn’t asses the VA…

If anything, Nintendo needs to sell all the Wii U’s they can now before the Switch kills it completely. So telling the world the Wii U is over is a bad thing. Of course Kimishima will deny the report.

Great list, and pluspoints for not putting Smash in there. (it would be an obvious choice but I personally think that Smash 4)

Just a rumour, like anything else NX related. Notable dates are 23rd September (Founding date or Nintendo’s birthday if you will) 17th November (launch date of multiple Nintendo systems).

A bit late to the party, but personally I don’t think it’s the aged menu’s per se, but Dragon Quest being a 4th-wall-breaking marathon. I personally loved DQ IX (couldnt get through 4 and haven’t played any other)

i cover third person in my comment too.