Serebii

I'd assume, for global compatibility, we're also getting it August 27th :p

Pic of the day. Victini and Xerneas are both support Pokémon. Victini's Victory Star boosts the attack of whoever throws the Poké Ball, and also prevents flinching. Xerneas's Geomancy increases the launch power of all fighters, but exceptionally raises it for whoever had the Poké Ball.

Yes, but they weren't, but are now being added I never get this line of thinking. I just hope the map is optional. I don't want it cluttering up my screen.

Registering standard too

And how well did they do?

Yeah. Sony and Microsoft need to put their main games on mobile too. God, they're so behind. LittleBigPlanet should be on iOS!

Flappy Bird is not a great game. Great games don't necessarily do well on iOS. You're falling into the same trap as analysts and investors. You're looking at the handful of successes and assuming that it's easy to do that

Look what came in the new "stability" update

Which is exactly my point. They have to strike it lucky in order to succeed. It's very hard to.

I'm arguing about the smartphone industry as a whole. Why would they waste resources for minimal returns when they can shove it into stuff that'll actually sell and make decent money.

Still wouldn't work. It would still devalue the public perception of value for their titles. It would not drive sales.

The market is so diluted. Do you know how hard it is to stand out in the app store? It's nigh on impossible. It relies solely on human word of mouth or throwing tonnes of money at Apple

You are correct. It's just his OoT and TP skins

Wasn't it confirmed that like 0.5% of the games on the App Store make like 80% of the money. The mobile market is horrific. It is very hard for games to succeed in it. People just look at the handful of successes and think "oh look, there's money there", but unless you either abuse in app purchases (which EU legislation is working to stop) or strike it unbelievably lucky, you'll fail. Look at games like Gunman Clive. That did better on the 3DS than on iOS and Android combined. Also, let's do a wee bit of calculation, shall we. Pokémon X & Y. Sold 12 million units in its first 8 months on sale (on a supposedly unpopular console). Assume $40 per game (yeah exchange rates mean different, but for the sake of argument, let's go with this. In just 8 months on sale, it earned $508 million in revenue. Now, let's say Nintendo release a Pokémon game on iOS (lol, so many things wrong with that but I'm hypothesising to make a point). Masuda and Nintendo in general are against IAP, especially Masuda, so they won't exist. To compete with other games, it'd have to be at a low price. $5 is a bit too high for games to be a success, so $1 would be the price. In order to achieve the same revenue, they'd have to sell 508 million copies. That's twice the amount of Pokémon games, including spin-offs, have sold since the release of Pokémon in 1996. Nintendo can make money on iOS/Android in the short term. Nobody is disputing that. However, the damage it would make to their entire business would be catastrophic. It would stop people wanting to get their hardware. It would devalue the brands "Why would I spent £20-£50 on a new <InsertFranchise>. I have an iOS game of them here for £0.69". It wouldn't lure people to their hardware, it would damage it. The mobile industry is a cancer at the moment. It is fundamentally destroying perceived value in games. When I revealed Pokémon Battle Trozei and Pokémon Art Academy to people on my site's Facebook, there were posts saying "It should be free". FREE for crying out loud. The sooner this smartphone gaming bubble bursts, like all others before it, the better else the industry IS going to crash and very few will survive it.

3DS sales are slowing, yes. However, that does not mean it is not a popular console or that their games are not popular. Why is it that it can only be seen as "popular" or a "success" if it passes the DS, which had the most anomalous sales of a device. Things can be a success and popular without breaking sales records, you know. Link Battle isn't shallow and Dash is just bad :p

You mean like their software on the 3DS?

Hells no. Smartphone gaming is so shallow and inaccurate.

urgh, the special edition is only at GAME or Nintendo UK's site I wanted it but I am not paying an extra £18 for a scarf

It's a Sakurai game. It's from Kid Icarus, like half the game's content :p

Screenshot time

Pic of the day. Look at these three radiant pieces... Yup, you guessed it! It's another combinable item like the Dragoon-the Daybreak. This is what it looks like when all three parts are combined together. How powerful will its beam blast be? FYI, you can fire shooting items while moving backward and forward. Change direction by flicking the Control Stick or Circle Pad toward the back of the fighter.

Ok, we get: Limited edition scarf Ganondorf DLC when you register on Club Nintendo Link & Zelda costume sets to come later.

For a tweet here and there, sure, but for his entire twitter? Eww no Did you seriously just make this decision because of this flawed logic jump?

Honestly is one of the most ridiculous things I have seen Nintendo do, especially the last bit.