Mr_Master_X2
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I know that cartridges are a big part of what scared the third parties away from Nintendo and that it's the probably foremost reason Sony got a foothold in the game industry.
However, we must ask ourselves if old truths are valid. At the same pace as consoles have become more PC-esque, their future has become increasingly dark. I think that if consoles are to avoid fading away, they need more of an identity. Over the next few years, Smart TV's are going to emerge, so the point of having Netflix, Skype and other non-gaming applications are going to be pointless.
My vision is that next gen consoles should be a simpler, quicker, more convenient and cheaper way to play games than they are now. Clunky operating systems have increased the ammount of button presses and time to start a game and reduced the ammount of graphical fidelity you get for your money.
Solid state storage has dropped in price over the past years, while discs have increased. The major problem with cartridges on the N64 was that Nintendo had a monopoly on production, with waiting times so long that developers often didn't order second batches, even when their games had sold well. That problem has remained, since Nintendo have been using proprietary discs for all of their systems. And solid state cartridges have several pros which could be relevant today.
Of course we have the quick loading times, which has more relevance now than ever, with many high end games streaming textures. A cartridge could easily store patches, DLC's and make other really cool uses of writeable storage.
Am I saying that the game industry should pursue SSD's? Not neceserilly. I'm just saying it's a brighter idea now than in 1996. In the same way as electric cars being considered obsolete for most of the 20th century, but now are considered to be THE future.
There's potential for sd/cartridge or something familiar due to larger capacities and cheaper price. No idea if they're down to "would only make a 5 pound store price a game" dffernce sort of thing yet, though. Wouldn't it bring the actual console price/size down though, since no disc reader, lighter smaller fan (if even neccessary). It'd cut the console price down, and allow it to have more power for less cost. Something I've also heard is devs don't compress their games proper anymore due to large blu-ray sizes, so the space actually required in a compressed game card would be much less than a blu-ray so the cards wouldn't need to reach blu-ray size anyway (no idea IF that's true). But then again we can get bloody big cards now.
EDIT: Well, there's this article...
Seems positive, and I would hope IS where Nintendo are going, but...I have no faith they will. It's likely just people getting excited or nothing.
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Well, here's my first upload level ( with others in various stages of design).
Sooooo Easy! 171 Coins.
0B18-0000-005F-D3EF
It's easy, but full length. Maybe not easy to a newbie, but to everyone else. Couldn't see anywhere other than the title to put a coin count so it went in the title (for those wanting to "gotta collect 'em all!" since there's no Yoshi/star coins...yet?)
I've had multiple insane/devious ones in design, but taking ages and realized I should probably just get a few starter ones under my belt first to raise confidence/experience.
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Oops, posted in wrong thread, so moved to ID thread.
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Oh dear... This is waaay too addicting. I've played hours upon hours and it still feels like I've done nothing. I deliberately set about unlocking everything (accomplished, now hurry up extra DLC themes/enemies/power-ups/interactions). I made about 8 mini levels while I did that, now I've set about making a full-length Mario Bros level. About four fields in... Of course I spent ages on a puzzle bit, getting used to what it would allow (p-switching blocks won't drop a bob-bomb pipe, but it will drop a bob-bomb bullet).
I'm going to ultimately aim for one of each theme for each version, but will settle for one great level a version. I'm trying to decide whether an overall theme for a level or some sort of multi-style level is best (current one switches style every field like an obstacle course).
Clearly the best level right here lairdsWhat do you do when you realize you made crap compared to others...? I will get better! Yoshi bit was hilarious. Damn you, you cold bastard Mario!
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I could see a Metroid game like Zelda 2, with overworld planet map, then huge dungeon Metroid like areas. Areas would play like traditional Metroid, but you could have more unique areas since they don't have to be connected. Obviously not 100% like Zelda 2, it would still be Metroid afterall, and even the overworld would have Metroid like progression.
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I'm sure London is great, but I thought most sizeable towns had a lot of hotspots? It really improved StreetPass.
PS - Great Etrian Odyssey-themed avatar and signature, @darksnowman
Sheffield city centre has a right cluster fuck of relays. You could just walk around for an hour or so and get your ten, use them, get another ten... I never really come back with more than twenty as I just buffer the first ten then tag another ten because I don't like playing in public (robbers).
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Sold 522,556 physical in its first week in Japan. Compared to New Leaf: 603,064
Incredible.
Us humans do love our Animal Crossings. Hopefully it gets proper directed advertisement in the UK like the last one.
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I had no idea there was an update. Not 100% it yet, but haven't played in a while other than to get my 20+ diamonds a day. Building up to buy EVERYTHING.
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My bet is there's forest, temple, ice, volcano and sky temple levels. With a main/overworld level that connects/leads to each of those other levels, options/pathways opening up as you do each of the levels. My guess? Forest to start, which opens path to temple, ice and volcano (some 3 piece collectible items), which then opens path to sky temple.
Which then opens up Lorule, which has similar "dark" level versions and has a similar level order pattern.
Then after that there's a "true" final level with last boss battle on. So 6 "worlds" in each of the two realms, with one true finale. For a total of 13 worlds. As to how many stages on each of those, that's anybody's guess.
My guess is "you know who" is eventually playable, who I shall not mention if you have not finished LBW. Which you probably SHOULD before playing this, as no doubt this game will spoil the spoiler.
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Nintendo 10?
Nintendo Cross (as in cross platform...handheld and home console with same architecture/os but different specs/functionality)
We don't know for sure yet :p
Would it REALLY be Nintendo 10 considering we're a few off the tenth home console...?
I think at this point we can all assume it stands for cross, as in cross platform OS or at the extreme end fusion (NOTHING can be ruled out without knowing more, as any logical person will agree). The fact 3rd parties seem interested is great...but we've been through THAT specifc craptread more than once, right? At this point "interest" means shit all.
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Enjoyed it, controls get easier (CPP). But then the only other MS game I've played is the first on PSONE.
I've been meaning to go through them since completing this, been looking for a cheap CUBE remake of number one ever since.
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Looking at the Gamecube I don't buy this. Nintendo had I think the best games console that gen, scuppered by proprietary discs, lack of internet and weak storage. But aside from those, the data processing side was phenomenal, all done for an awesome price. If Nintendo had applied that same approach to the Wii, and then the Wii U I think things would be very different now (in a positive way)
Agreed, I thought the CUBE was a phenomenal machine. It had everything going for it. But like you state, they always miss something.
I think, no matter what direction they head in, they need a checklist to make sure they've got all the bases covered that other consoles have covered.
They can't really do anything about the starting late thing, though. The only way they can turn that around is if they turn it into a positive thing i.e. use the time that's passed to acquire components cheaper (because they'll be cheaper) and make a slightly more powerful console than the others. They'd have to eat losses for a while, but whether they tank or not is whether fans jump for it or not. Which is unpredictable (which is why they're unlikely to go this route).
Even if they did get a slightly more powerful than the competition's machine, the only way it would advantage them is if devs based the "main" version of multiplats on the NX dev and go from there with making the other versions, which with the distrust/hate for Nintendo I can't see them doing.
Though with the supposed fusion or cross-platform OS, I think they're trying to give third parties a wider base for their games, so that if they release on Nintendo there's more options, more chance for profit.
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It's only pointless because you aren't getting it. And I really, really cannot believe you picked up on the £1 thing as if I am actually suggesting to you that they are making a pound.
The amount of profit they make, they do not consider worthwhile pursuing. Straight up comparisons to other companies are daft because they are not those companies. What might be considered good profit to another company might not be to them. For instance, they might make much more money doing something else, and have only limited staff/resources to allocate, such that localising is not considered more profitable than doing the other thing to them. You need a bit of perspective.
Have you seen the amount of portable DS/3DS games SE puts out compared to home consoles? It's a lot. The NTSC/PAL combined sales of some games are likely worth more than the whole of Japan's. The truth is, translation costs aren't THAT much, at least not to the point it's completely not worth it even. We're talking about a dev with thousands and thousands of staff that has the money to even hire out translators if its own are stuck elsewhere. Compared to certain other companies who pump translations out like nothing that have far less money and far, far less staff and resources, anyway. I can "understand" and have "perspective" to understand they don't have to, and it may not be as profitable as Final Fantasy 37 or Kingdom Hearts 10, but considering 3DS games costs significantly less to develop and that they only need to take translation into effect for profits at this point, the total cost to them to profit ration is quite high in the profit area. Which I'm pretty sure is something they should be taking into account. Companies that base all their profit on the latest "shiny and expensive" game are the companies that are usually one or two failures away from collapsing in on themselves and being bought out. For any sane company, ALL profit is worth it, especially if it's many, many times more profit than the cost put in.
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I'm not sure I agree with this. This generation has shown more than ever that a lot of people are quite willing to change sides. You could even look back to the last generation as a good example as well.
The PS2 dominated during that generation yet in the next one the 360 took a lot of Sony's sales. Fast forward to this generation and the tables have turned again, with Microsoft now lagging behind Sony.
Sure, you will get the crazy people who won't touch anything other than Nintendo/PS/Xbox but the majority of gamers have shown that if you market the product towards them, have a good advertising campaign and a fair price point, you will then have them on your side.
I have no doubt in my mind that if Nintendo released a console that was the same as the others, got all the same 3rd party support and had the same kind of online setups then they would clean house. The have one thing that the others don't and that's a history of well known IPs at their disposal. Having those, as well as the same 3rd party support as the others, would kill a lot of the need to have another console.
This is all I want and I think it's a very simple request. With a robust online system, Nintendo's own games could REALLY shine through and give many games some legs.
No doubt they could take some sales away (those that just buy Sony/Microsoft for the multi-plats but are true Nintendo fans), as I said, but the anti-Nintendo sentiment and fanboys that have had the same console 3-4 gens in a row now to follow their consoles games series is just firmly entrenched now. PS2 was a different world ago.
No one wants them to sell it at a big loss. If they release the most powerful console they can for around £250, I'm happy. It's worth remembering that Gamecube and N64 were sold for tiny losses at various times in their respective lifespans..I hope they move away from the Wii U and 3DS model of selling a console at a big loss, it's just not needed. If the 'gimmick' is making the console financially unviable, it's not worth it.
Of course we don't, but if they tried matching the specs
of the other two they'd have to incur losses if they wanted to sell at a competitive price. It'd hurt them more, too, because they don't have other departments profit to prop them up like the others. It might "just" be feasible if component prices are down enough, but it still leaves them at the point where most have already made their "multiplat console of choice" this gen, and they chose the ones that aren't Nintendo...because they currently don't offer their multiplat needs.
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Note I said good profit. Any profit could even mean just £1 - why would they chase that. We are saying the profit is not so worthwhile to actively pursue.
Otherwise you are saying they just hate certain groups of people (and love leaving huge amounts of cash on the table), which I'm sure you'll agree makes no sense.
I'm sure it's more than a £1, dude. <_< Certain other companies with substantially less resources with games that sell as much seem to think it's worth it to translate their games. I can see this back-forward is pointless. Enjoy your day.
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If Nintendo went all "Copy Console No.3" and it failed, the money loss they experience would do VERY bad things to the company. And it WOULD fail. (NOTE: by fail, I mean fail compared to not selling as much as the others, not profit wise/game quality wise...which apparently some people think doesn't matter...LOL)
Because...
1) Fanboys have already taken their pick of "uber powerful console". They've made their console bed and stuck to their specific console for 3 or 4 gens now. No radical fanboy is going to touch Nintendo even if it went uber powerful, the same way they refuse to touch their opposite (Sony or Microsoft).
2) They don't have the money to sell it at a loss (because they're gaming only, and can't continue to tank/drain money like the other companies that have sixty-billion other divisions propping them up). Sell it at a loss, not make profit. Sell it at "real price", too expensive for anyone to buy.
3) It'll be 2-3 years later by release for a console the same power as the other two, getting the same multi-plats...but gamers already own one of the other two. So why would they buy it...?
That's why Nintendo goes it's own way. That's why they make profit. That's why they're still live and kicking.
It's possible they could go uber. They could probably release a PS4 level power console late 2016/2017 now and make profit due to things being cheaper...but will anyone other than Nintendo fans buy it? It's possible there are some PS4/XO buyers that are true Nintendo fans and only buy the other consoles to get those multi plats Nintendo doesn't get anymore, that would come back to Nintendo. Is it enough...?
Personally, I don't really care where they go with the home unit as long as they don't ignore their portables in favour of propping up a console that's already fallen down.
I'm sure Nintendo doesn't care about matching PS4/XO as long as they make profit.
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If guaranteed good profit was there they would do it. It's as simple as that.
It is, and has been proven. So you tell me the real reason then? (Because it's not lack of profit, and I've no bloody idea what it is). The only one that faffed up was Joker 2 because they announced it after they'd just released Pro version in Japan...so people waited for a game that never came. The game has done very well in later sales (which won't be tracked due to obvious reasons, and probably still made total profit combined US/EU on translation costs before later sales surge) Were they super sales? Probably not, but full EU/NTSC territories sales always resulted in profit, especially since they only really have to make back translation costs.
Face it, it's an utter waste to have so many games that could result in extra profit that nobody can be bothered releasing. The only thing I can assume is, is that SE are still under the assumption us westerners don't really like classical JRPGs.
Imagine this; imagine if they'd advertised the DQM series like Pokemon was. Spaced its releases in the blank space in-between Pokemon releases? It looks like Level-5 has realised the obvious and are going to do just THAT with Yokai Watch in the west.
They're wasting the potential of their IPs because all they see western gamers as "ooh gimme that shiny expensive latest Final Fantasy!!" and that's it.
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How conveniently you seem to have forgotten that Nintendo themselves published several Dragon Quest games in the West. If SE isn't keen and neither is Nintendo, then that speaks volumes regarding the sales they garner.
Let's be honest with ourselves, it just doesn't sell very well here, and no one wants to take the risk and who can blame them? They're companies, not charities.
There's no "Onry grorious Nippon" attitude, that would imply xenophobia and utter stupidity.
I didn't conveniently forget (huh?) I don't see why they should have to constantly do SE's job for them. They've proved the profit is there from past experience, they should have picked up their own slack by now. Nintendo's not doing much of that anymore because it's spread so ridiculously thin they can barely get their OWN games out.
The profit IS there. A profit good enough for most other companies.
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It's very hard to understand given the photo cuts out half of the Japanese text, but yeah, given there's a black border around the DQM3J reveal, it's most likely to do with the 3DS release of VIII and having new costumes.
Given how bad Joker 2 sold here, this will never be released in the West. I remember picking up a sealed copy for £5
LOL As if "THAT" would be the reason if doesn't get a UK release. It's not getting a UK release because SE says NO, because it says no, because only Japan is allowed Dragon Quest games on the 3DS. I wish there was some sort of non-dscolsure for SE games where they couldn't announce them to the world outside Japan if they had no intention of releasing them as I'm sick of hearing about games I'd 100% buy but can never play just because SE have given up on translation for all their games except "shiny £100 million budget games" for PS4/XO.
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Horrible news. My thoughts are with his family.
That pic says it all. Rest in peace, dude.
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Go watch this link now (those interested)
The game looks so much better than first reveal hints at. It looks like there is a sort of main game, with you roaming around an actual town (though obviously not with usual trimmings) with your goal essentially to design/build the whole town inside/outside. With the game having loads of character interactions cut from New Leaf. I likely will buy this now.
Is this game ANOTHER victim of subpar E3 trailer explanation?
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So this is a "Best of" remake special with some new stuff?
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Awesome. Looking forward to it.
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This Nintendo Game Card Case is now available in the #ClubNintendo Stars Catalogue
1,750 Stars
Awww...I want that. If only I hadn't blown all my points just to get them out of the way. Got 800 left...and two lots of console points missing (another 2000 total?). I suppose if I buy some new games, since there's plenty with stars I haven't bought yet. If I had money...LOL
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Quick way (or slow) is just to fill all your bank boxes, which isn't hard if you've been trading for gen after gen (or IV breeding). Then just wait and trade your miles for BP. I racked up over 1600 BP to transfer to AS and bought one of every item. Obviously it's slow if you don't have many mon, but if you put your mon away and forgot about the bank...you could have a right treasure trove of BP to harvest.