Will Captain Toad save Nintendo from failure?
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ZombiePlatypus
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This game alone won't save WiiU. It looks incredible though.
Pinko Marx
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Daytime crew here, you're on drugs.
blame space
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captain toad is awesome i played the demo the other day
it's going to sell 10m copies
it's going to sell 10m copies
The game feels like Nintendo's Toki Tori with no rewind button.
evilromero
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Your topic asks if CT will save Nintendo from failure. Based on its poor Japanese sales and the fact that it's coming after Black Friday when the majority of customers will have blown their wad, I'm going to say an emphatic NO.
Also, your entire post does read as a parody. Even you can see how niche of a title CT will be. By your logic Tropical Freeze should have lit it up. NSMBU as well.
Also, your entire post does read as a parody. Even you can see how niche of a title CT will be. By your logic Tropical Freeze should have lit it up. NSMBU as well.
Agreed. The ones on other sites are even worse. People shouting " The Wii U reminded me that games can be... Fun!!!"
Yes
Arc Christelle
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Hell no but it's an interesting perspective you have.
hmmm, sounds conservative, is that sell-in, or through?
pinkurocket
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Praise be to Captain Toad.
dragonflys545
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Yeah nope... But I'll be picking it up.
On that note, I would think Splatoon would have an exponentially higher chance of becoming big than Captain Toad doing anything to move systems.
Nintendojitsu
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Malio
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Captain Toad will be a nice 'filler' game, to help pad the Wii U's releases. But let's be realistic, no one really knows who Toad is, outside of Nintendo fans.
I'm sure it will be a fine game, and it'll sell decently, but it's not saving anything from failure. That ship has sailed and all Nintendo can do is hope for the best at this point.
I'm sure it will be a fine game, and it'll sell decently, but it's not saving anything from failure. That ship has sailed and all Nintendo can do is hope for the best at this point.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
I think a big issue issue Nintendo has is this herd mentality of self-identified "Nintendo fans." It used to be such a big boon - what brand wouldn't kill themselves trying to build that kind of loyalty? - but these days, that crowd is aging and the size is shrinking and becoming more loud and exclusive.
The more insular yet vocal it becomes, the more it's a turn off for younger gamers which really are their largest market.
Which is kind of sad, because Nintendo themselves really stand for the very opposite of exactly that. They are one of the most Inclusive entertainment brands and do, at least product wise, reach out to that 5 to 90 audience they've been clamoring about for years. Surprises and smiles for everyone. Charming games like Toad, Health games, action, fighters, mature, brain puzzlers, sleep aids - whatever. They want to surprise and delight.
But this thread is a good example of what I mean, looking at Captain Toad not for the charming unique game it is, but as a symbol - a rally cry for "real Nintendo fans to come together and save our beloved company!" - which obviously A) does a disservice to the game and what it is trying to accomplish and what its value to the player is by putting it on an unrealistic pedal and B) gets a lot of people angry because they feel excluded from the party in a sense
Either they don't have the nostalgia, never owned a previous Nintendo system to "grow up" with this character and therefor 'don't get' this message and just turn away from it instead of being curious about the game mechanics, don't have a wii u and can't play the game, are young and are met with this sense of "Nintendo elite" wall of expectation they can't relate to and lash out, or somehow are annoyed at yet another "save Nintendo" thread when they were initially just curious what this game was. It just isn't going to end well.
I was just really offering my two cents, but poor Toad. You finally have your own game and you can't just, well, be a game
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Happens so often with nearly every product Nintendo tries these days.
The more insular yet vocal it becomes, the more it's a turn off for younger gamers which really are their largest market.
Which is kind of sad, because Nintendo themselves really stand for the very opposite of exactly that. They are one of the most Inclusive entertainment brands and do, at least product wise, reach out to that 5 to 90 audience they've been clamoring about for years. Surprises and smiles for everyone. Charming games like Toad, Health games, action, fighters, mature, brain puzzlers, sleep aids - whatever. They want to surprise and delight.
But this thread is a good example of what I mean, looking at Captain Toad not for the charming unique game it is, but as a symbol - a rally cry for "real Nintendo fans to come together and save our beloved company!" - which obviously A) does a disservice to the game and what it is trying to accomplish and what its value to the player is by putting it on an unrealistic pedal and B) gets a lot of people angry because they feel excluded from the party in a sense
Either they don't have the nostalgia, never owned a previous Nintendo system to "grow up" with this character and therefor 'don't get' this message and just turn away from it instead of being curious about the game mechanics, don't have a wii u and can't play the game, are young and are met with this sense of "Nintendo elite" wall of expectation they can't relate to and lash out, or somehow are annoyed at yet another "save Nintendo" thread when they were initially just curious what this game was. It just isn't going to end well.
I was just really offering my two cents, but poor Toad. You finally have your own game and you can't just, well, be a game
.Happens so often with nearly every product Nintendo tries these days.
I think he has been annoying since SMB. It was always the joke during NSMBWii to make the worst players be the toads, same thing during 3d world.
Mass Effect
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Even with that edit, I'm not exactly sure what you're asking here.
I mean Captain Toad looks amazing, and I'm definitely going to pick it up whenever I get a Wii U, but it's probably not going to be this huge thing.
I mean Captain Toad looks amazing, and I'm definitely going to pick it up whenever I get a Wii U, but it's probably not going to be this huge thing.
Here For The Free Feed
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i have no doubts that nintendo will not fail at making a great toad game...
friskykillface
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Is the music just the captain toad theme played over and over and over? Cause that'd be amazing , I love that song B^)
Toad and Toadette will start the revolution
Toad and Toadette will start the revolution