Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Has anyone played Arkanoid Eternal Battle on Switch? It's only $2 right now so I'm curious.
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The Nintendo Thread of Existential Doom
- Thread starter Becksworth
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- bopitivity time drift-compatible haven't outsold the ps2? pathetic. is nintendo doomed? its a cereal wow new super nintendo switch 2 x turbo & knuckles nintendo nintendo cinematic universe nintendo direct-ly into my veins nintendo switch nintendoom play it loud snitches get switches switch switch it up switch port when? the splatoon 3 game for the nintendo switch system the switching hour
I presumed!
It's also a super fun game, GameFAQS or just using Google Translate on the game itself will give you the basics you need. It gets puzzling pretty quickly.
I'm one of the few people happy that Culture Brain stuff is getting re-released. Please stick The Magic of Scheherazade on NSO at some point.
I'm one of the few people happy that Culture Brain stuff is getting re-released. Please stick The Magic of Scheherazade on NSO at some point.
Super Ninja Boy is super janky in all of its game modes:
- Top-down adventure
- Beat-em-up random battles
- Turn-based RPG boss fights
- Side-scrolling platforming stages
Whomever is cutting these trailers is fucking killing it. I’m not even much of a racing fan but goddang that made me excited for fuckin’ RR64.
I know we had thought in the thread that the N64 had basically been forgotten about, but apparently not!
I know we had thought in the thread that the N64 had basically been forgotten about, but apparently not!
Gold Points are not long fot this world.
https://nintendoeverything.com/my-nintendo-gold-points-discontinued/
https://nintendoeverything.com/my-nintendo-gold-points-discontinued/
Worldwide apparently.
And the other shoes keep dropping:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2...ont-work-on-switch-2-exclusives-says-nintendo
And the other shoes keep dropping:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2...ont-work-on-switch-2-exclusives-says-nintendo
A charitable read of these could be that Ninty is tightening up discounts in an effort to avoid setting $70 as the default price for Switch 2 games, but that is very optimistic.
Even if they do replace Gold Points with a new fun-bucks system, it'll likely be another downgrade. I still miss Club Nintendo.
Even if they do replace Gold Points with a new fun-bucks system, it'll likely be another downgrade. I still miss Club Nintendo.
To my knowledge, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was Nintendo's first MSRP $70 game. It was released (almost) two years ago, and is apparently the eighth best selling Nintendo Switch game for the system's entire history. I really hate to say it, but I am guessing at least first party Nintendo games will be a standard $70 going forward.
For the Gold Points, my guess is that the program will move or be duplicated in some way on Switch 2 to encourage you to buy a Switch 2.
While I don't love paying $70 for games, video games are one of the things that have actually stayed flat accounting for inflation. The $40 I would have paid for a PlayStation game in 2000 is today's ~$74 (in 2020 that was $60, because inflation has been going zooooom, but either way it's basically kept pace for a while now).
While I don't love paying $70 for games, video games are one of the things that have actually stayed flat accounting for inflation. The $40 I would have paid for a PlayStation game in 2000 is today's ~$74 (in 2020 that was $60, because inflation has been going zooooom, but either way it's basically kept pace for a while now).
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Spicy
The wild west days of the SNES, where I paid $74.99 for Chrono Trigger at Walmart and $89.99 for Final Fantasy 3 (US) at KB Toys in the mall.
In any case, gentle reminder that Nintendo is a business first and foremost, they do not care about making things easier on your pocketbook, and any nods toward affordability or "savings" are only there insofar that they guarantee sales for Nintendo.
In any case, gentle reminder that Nintendo is a business first and foremost, they do not care about making things easier on your pocketbook, and any nods toward affordability or "savings" are only there insofar that they guarantee sales for Nintendo.
This is why I hate it when a game company becomes too successful.
Becksworth
Aging Hipster Dragon Dad
Yeah, honestly I'm surprised gold points lasted 8 years. It was a promotion clearly from the post WiiU "gotta claw the audience back however we can" mindset.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
We're going to Japan in May and one of my bids was chosen in the lottery to go into the Nintendo Museum! I am incredibly excited. It was our last choice slot and is late in the day so we might not be able to do some of the cool activities like making our own Hanafuda cards but that's okay, just happy to go. This website has all sorts of pictures of the museum merch and we spent a bit looking into if it's possible to vacuum seal the controller pillows to transport them back to the US but sounds like they don't really compress. Oh well.
But I felt some real Existential Doom when bidding and buying the tickets as it involved syncing your Nintendo account to their ticket portal, calling Japan and all sorts of weird steps. Then at the end it made a big point of noting that we must have ID and as foreigners it has to be a passport and you have to show your Nintendo profile to enter as the tickets are saved under that. My Nintendo account is super old and doesn't have hyphens like my real/passport name does.
This made me think "oh no, I hope it's not an issue that my passport name doesn't match my Nintendo account name!"
And then I paused and realized the world is a very strange place because when would I have possibly ever expected to need those two things to have anything to do with each other.
But I felt some real Existential Doom when bidding and buying the tickets as it involved syncing your Nintendo account to their ticket portal, calling Japan and all sorts of weird steps. Then at the end it made a big point of noting that we must have ID and as foreigners it has to be a passport and you have to show your Nintendo profile to enter as the tickets are saved under that. My Nintendo account is super old and doesn't have hyphens like my real/passport name does.
This made me think "oh no, I hope it's not an issue that my passport name doesn't match my Nintendo account name!"
And then I paused and realized the world is a very strange place because when would I have possibly ever expected to need those two things to have anything to do with each other.
lmao jfc, what an insane thought to have to think
Still, congrats on getting in @Violentvixen! I'm super jealous. From what I've heard about the museum - and forgive me if you already know all this - but you are limited to, iirc, only 15 pieces of merch per person? Or possibly group? So I'd have a plan on what you plan to buy going in, if anything. Also they are super strict about photos on the second floor where all the good stuff is like prototypes and whatnot, and you'll want to ask the staff any questions you have, because at least when the thing first opened (and possibly to this day?) they don't have much signage explaining the context of all the stuff there, and the staff are apparently very well informed and able to talk about a bunch of stuff, interestingly enough. There's a several month old Patreon only Retronauts episode about all this, but long story short have a plan going in on what you want to buy/do.
And, you know. If you want to buy me every piece of Virtual Boy merch they sell, lmk lmao (this is a joke, don't worry)
Still, congrats on getting in @Violentvixen! I'm super jealous. From what I've heard about the museum - and forgive me if you already know all this - but you are limited to, iirc, only 15 pieces of merch per person? Or possibly group? So I'd have a plan on what you plan to buy going in, if anything. Also they are super strict about photos on the second floor where all the good stuff is like prototypes and whatnot, and you'll want to ask the staff any questions you have, because at least when the thing first opened (and possibly to this day?) they don't have much signage explaining the context of all the stuff there, and the staff are apparently very well informed and able to talk about a bunch of stuff, interestingly enough. There's a several month old Patreon only Retronauts episode about all this, but long story short have a plan going in on what you want to buy/do.
And, you know. If you want to buy me every piece of Virtual Boy merch they sell, lmk lmao (this is a joke, don't worry)