There's no real benefit for Nintendo in that situation. Co-marketing is plausible but full on publishing when SE will be self-publishing on a competitor's platform? Don't see it.
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There's no real benefit for Nintendo in that situation. Co-marketing is plausible but full on publishing when SE will be self-publishing on a competitor's platform? Don't see it.
Grylvak
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Took Friday off as well. A bunch of friends are coming to play Smash and Cards Against Humanity until the presentation begins. It's going to be a good night.
I hope you, and everyone on Thursday night, have a great time before/during/after the event.
CharminUltra
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hello are you a switch preorder?
I've moved to a relatively small town. The GAME store just has awful reviews on Google maps.
Amazon gives me no confidence for their delivery times for their free delivery.
That's how long the last three items I ordered direct from them took to deliver.
5 days.
6 days.
9 days.
Not to mention Amazon Logistic left some books I ordered in my black wheelie bin and left a note through the letter box.
It was the height of summer, the bin was full of bags.
And books all smelt like trash.
I want Switch, just don't know how to get one haha.
Compsiox
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So you took Thursday off?
Or did you take off on Friday to read into the hype all throughout the night.So I'm gonna be attending the Australian media hands-on event for the Switch later this week. I'll be doing a write-up for Progress Bar (check us out, we're shit! ), but I figured I'd check in this thread for any unusual things you guys might want me to look into.
Stuff like the Nintendo reps most-used buzzwords. How tactile the triggers feel. How good the carpet is. If a new Metroid is on the way. What soft drinks they had on offer, that sort of thing.
), but I figured I'd check in this thread for any unusual things you guys might want me to look into.Stuff like the Nintendo reps most-used buzzwords. How tactile the triggers feel. How good the carpet is. If a new Metroid is on the way. What soft drinks they had on offer, that sort of thing.
Some of the posts in the past few pages remind me of that Dave Chapelle sketch series, "When 'Keepin' It Real' Goes Wrong".
It would be ad dollars well spent, for sure.
Perhaps many will disagree with me, but square boxes are really unappealing and unnecessarily crop detail out of the art designed for them.
If you want small cases with the same dimensions as a standard box, you're better off making the boxes the length and width of a cassette tape case. And despite what people say about how "size matters" in this discussion, I really don't think it does and would provide a lot of benefits.
I mean, if you're not releasing games in a standard box size, might as well make it as small as you can get it for the savings that would net you.
Nintendo is still a well-regarded brand in Canada and Nintendo sells consoles here at a higher per capita rate than the US outside of the NES and the Wii.
I'm not surprised that EBGames is going where the money is.
I'd almost prefer that it would be left closed until 10 minutes prior. That first hour is basically 15-20 pages of nonsense hype posts that you have to wade through to get to anything substantial.
The other option is for people to exercise restraint, but... well, yeah.
Yes, people are aware that the talent left. But let's say, very hypothetically, that Nintendo owned these IPs. If Nintendo called them and offered them contractual work to make these games again, you think they would say no?
Nintendo has a very strong history of respecting and treating their development employees well, both inside and outside the company. It's probably why Platinum entertained working with Nintendo whatsoever, and they have been quite vocal about how positive that working relationship has been overall.
Unless they left these companies specifically because they didn't want to work on that IP anymore, I think Nintendo would be the best-case scenario to win some of them back.
Yeah, that.... that's saying something.
That's my #1 takeaway from the Scalebound cancellation, that Microsoft burned bridges there. What that translates into for Nintendo is yet to be seen, but it seems likely to me that their relationship with Platinum is about to get very cozy.
It would be ad dollars well spent, for sure.
Official Box design?
Perhaps many will disagree with me, but square boxes are really unappealing and unnecessarily crop detail out of the art designed for them.
If you want small cases with the same dimensions as a standard box, you're better off making the boxes the length and width of a cassette tape case. And despite what people say about how "size matters" in this discussion, I really don't think it does and would provide a lot of benefits.
I mean, if you're not releasing games in a standard box size, might as well make it as small as you can get it for the savings that would net you.
Nintendo is still a well-regarded brand in Canada and Nintendo sells consoles here at a higher per capita rate than the US outside of the NES and the Wii.
I'm not surprised that EBGames is going where the money is.
Rösti;227932376 said:
I'd almost prefer that it would be left closed until 10 minutes prior. That first hour is basically 15-20 pages of nonsense hype posts that you have to wade through to get to anything substantial.
The other option is for people to exercise restraint, but... well, yeah.
Yes, people are aware that the talent left. But let's say, very hypothetically, that Nintendo owned these IPs. If Nintendo called them and offered them contractual work to make these games again, you think they would say no?
Nintendo has a very strong history of respecting and treating their development employees well, both inside and outside the company. It's probably why Platinum entertained working with Nintendo whatsoever, and they have been quite vocal about how positive that working relationship has been overall.
Unless they left these companies specifically because they didn't want to work on that IP anymore, I think Nintendo would be the best-case scenario to win some of them back.
Yeah, that.... that's saying something.
That's my #1 takeaway from the Scalebound cancellation, that Microsoft burned bridges there. What that translates into for Nintendo is yet to be seen, but it seems likely to me that their relationship with Platinum is about to get very cozy.
DrROBschiz
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https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSw...poke_to_two_different_gamestop_managers_both/
2.5 Million for NA alone?
Doesnt sound too bad
2.5 Million for NA alone?
Doesnt sound too bad
DecoReturns
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Dont buy it. He claims 2 million nes classics were shipped when it was only 200,000.
Grylvak
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So I'm gonna be attending the Australian media hands-on event for the Switch later this week. I'll be doing a write-up for Progress Bar (check us out, we're shit!
Stuff like the Nintendo reps most-used buzzwords. How tactile the triggers feel. How good the carpet is. If a new Metroid is on the way. What soft drinks they had on offer, that sort of thing.
As strange as it sounds, i'd live to know how good the kickstand is on the back of the system.
DrROBschiz
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werent there reports saying they started making these since last june?
and wasnt it originally going to launch in 2016?
I thought they were ahead of schedule on manufacturing
PadWarrior
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Interesting
While I still think this thing will be a pain in the ass to get, I am willing to bet that bumped that number up by 1 or 2
DecoReturns
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I hope they show Fire Emblem in some form. Except Mobile.
SolidSnakex
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That should be able to fluctuate depending the demand. Although, 2.5m for one territory is a rather big fluctuation.
Lol Wii introduced so much to the gaming world. I'd even go so far as to say it helped bring about VR as we know it
Nintendo said 2mill worldwide by the end of the fiscal year.
He also said that amount could be adjusted based on consumer reaction to Switch and pre-order volume. And we're well aware of how positively Switch was received thus far.
That game is not even announced lol why would it be on there with all announced games outside of Monster hunter
Maybe but going from 2M worldwide to 2.5M on US alone is a bit (actually, it's way too friggin) overkill.
DrROBschiz
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ugh seem like such a low number
That's until the end of March which, considering the likely release date is the 17th, is literally two weeks.
CharminUltra
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I say a lot of things doesn't mean it's true
I mean Kimishima says not me, im def not kimishima
I mean Kimishima says not me, im def not kimishima
Went to Gamestop today to see if I could put down for a pre-order and was told I should line up Friday because stock is going to be extremely limited. I cannot fucking understand why this company is limiting stock. I'm not saying artificial scarcity, but it's obvious they're not mass producing early on in its life cycle. Absurd.
ElectricBlanketFire
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So you took Thursday off?
The latter.
DrROBschiz
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thats so weird since the rumors suggested otherwise and before Iwata passed it was originally being lined up to launch over the fall of 2016
but who knows how much got shifted since then
If Platinum Games makes a game for the Switch (and they will, at some point, if it isn't already in work), it will likely be Bayonetta 3.
PlatinumGames is a listed partner for the Switch, so they're likely working on something for the system.
Grylvak
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Correct me if i'm wrong but isn't the end of the fiscal year March 31st?
It's 2million units for March to spread across the entire world. So if each region only gets 650k units, they have to allocate a lower number of pre-orders for stores to guarantee they don't oversell launch stock. Nintendo won't want an Xbox 360 launch where it took months to fill pre-orders.
Correct.
Dark Cloud
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Any new news guys? I just woke up from a 😴
You heard that from your sources?
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Smaller the better for me. Less plastic wasted=better for the environment. I don't collect, so I don't care what cases look like. I buy physical only for things I want to be able to resell--especially Nintendo games since they retain value so long.
It could also just be that Nintendo allocated more units to retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, etc. Which they are known to do.
The 2M number is a quote from October, I'm hoping that things have changed since then
ArchedThunder
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Who else is going to F5 the shit out of Amazon when it's time?
Mihael Mello Keehl
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Im preordering at amazon, and gamestop going in the store after work so around 3pm friday
Grylvak
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2 million units worldwide is a very low number considering, but if the system launches on March 17th (as rumored), it doesn't seem as bad as a lot of people are making it out to be. It's still bad nonetheless and more should be put out there but we may learn something new on the 12th.
Of course that's just my initial thoughts on it and I may be missing quite a bit of info that could throw my thoughts under the bus.
ArchedThunder
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Are you getting two, or is the Amazon preorder a back-up for if you can't get one at Gamestop?
Dark Cloud
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If you wanted to wouldn't you preorder from like 2-3 different stores to be safe? I'll probably do that to be safe.
CharminUltra
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Same. If I manage to get both, I'll just keep the Amazon pre-order and then walk into GS to cancel that pre-order and hopefully make somebody's day.
purseowner
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Every cancelled Rayman and Rabbids project stings so badly.
PadWarrior
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That's what I'm doing. Amazon will be my back up.
Got you, family.
Dark Cloud
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Yeah. I'll have the multiple tabs (or maybe computers) ready to go lol.
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