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The Nintendo Thread of Existential Doom

Violentvixen said:
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.
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Weird existential dissonance aside, I'm super jealous! We're hoping to go to Japan some time in the next year and the Nintendo Museum is absolutely on the list of things I'd want to do.

I've never really been much of a merch person, but looking at the pictures on the website you linked, I suddenly want one of those Super Nintendo mugs very badly. More of a reason to get myself to Japan, I guess!
 
Kazin said:
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)
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I have heard varying versions the merch limits, but not about the staff supplementing the displays so that's really helpful thank you!

lincolnic said:
Weird existential dissonance aside, I'm super jealous! We're hoping to go to Japan some time in the next year and the Nintendo Museum is absolutely on the list of things I'd want to do.

I've never really been much of a merch person, but looking at the pictures on the website you linked, I suddenly want one of those Super Nintendo mugs very badly. More of a reason to get myself to Japan, I guess!
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If you ever want to go happy to help design an itinerary/budget. We have a lot of fun recommending stuff and helping people plan. We're kind cheapskates though so we might suggest things cheaper than most people like. But people can upgrade from what we recommend, ha.
 
Violentvixen said:
If you ever want to go happy to help design an itinerary/budget. We have a lot of fun recommending stuff and helping people plan. We're kind cheapskates though so we might suggest things cheaper than most people like. But people can upgrade from what we recommend, ha.
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I'll definitely hit you up for recommendations if/when our plans move closer to reality, thanks!
 
Violentvixen said:
I have heard varying versions the merch limits, but not about the staff supplementing the displays so that's really helpful thank you!
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Yeah, and I forgot to mention that apparently they've got good Japanese and English speaking staff, so chat em up!
 
Buckle up, we're getting TWO Nintendo Directs in the span of one week. Nintendo just announced a Switch 1 only Direct for tomorrow morning:

Then there's the Switch 2 Direct next Wednesday...
 
I assume the one for tomorrow is just about games. "This will, of course, be available on Switch 2. More to come next week." I don't know if Nintendo cares deeply about generating (more) hype for S2 but that would do it.
 
I just want to know how that happened. Sony got a copyright credit on the end screen for the Patapon remakes. So weird!
 
4-So said:
Digital game cards might be the most Nintendo-ass Nintendo thing I've seen in a hot minute.
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I continue to be amazed that digital games can't just be tied to a Nintendo Account and you play them on any Switch you're logged into (one at a time, of course). At least this isn't a permanent one-time transfer like Wii to Wii U.
 
I like the digital game cards thing a lot, from the look of it. One of my big reasons for getting game cards is so I can lend them out, and even with the time limit it's nice to be able to do so with digital games for a bit.
 
Kazin said:
I just want to know how that happened. Sony got a copyright credit on the end screen for the Patapon remakes. So weird!
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Bandai Namco seemingly has carte blanche to rustle through Sony's IP attic following the release of Freedom Wars, thus Patapon and Everybody Golf coming back.
 
WildcatJF said:
Bandai Namco seemingly has carte blanche to rustle through Sony's IP attic following the release of Freedom Wars, thus Patapon and Everybody Golf coming back.
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I forgot Everybody Golf was a Sony IP (I've never played the series). Wow.
 
I see the digital game card functionality as ahead of the curve. Currently Nintendo seems to behave similarly to Xbox. Your account has a home system that can play any owned digital game you own with any account on that system, and when signed into a not 'home' system you can play any game you own while online only, and only for that account.

With this update I can go visit my nephew, who is on my switch family plan, and lend him from my digital library, not just my physical one. They didn't say but I'm assuming that, due to the hard 2 week window, the lendee may also be able to play that game while offline as well.
 
The bellwether for any kind of digital game sharing should be Steam's method + some kind of limited-life token for offline play. Nintendo digital game cards is a special kind of Nintendo jank. Almost charming, at this point.
 
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