wsoxfan1214
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Hopefully.danootz said:
I paid $250 for mine. Now, I realize that was my choice, and I had/have no issue with it. But the games are for those people. Not people who used a store-created/receipt loophole to try to get both.
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Official "Free" NES/GBA games for 3DS thread of Nintendo's guilt
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I paid $250 for mine. Now, I realize that was my choice, and I had/have no issue with it. But the games are for those people. Not people who used a store-created/receipt loophole to try to get both.
ConradCervantes
Banned
IT IS NOT A LOOPHOLE. THE RETAILERS OPENLY OFFER THIS TO CUSTOMERS.wsoxfan1214 said:
Goddamn.
Pancakes R Us
Member
Keyword = currently.Shiggy said:
Nintendo will happily get people to pay for these games in the future.
wsoxfan1214
Banned
ConradCervantes said:
"store-created"
Possibly silly question: on August 11th I connected to the eShop and got a message in the "News" section telling me flat out that I was an ambassador. I log in today and that message is gone, seemingly replaced by a new message titled "3DS Ambassador Update". Should I be worried that the initial message was removed? There's no message in the News section that tells me I'm an ambassador anymore.
AceBandage
Banned
Moodkip said:
It was removed for everyone so that it wouldn't show up for non-Ambassadors.
AceBandage
Banned
Of course. Don't worry. If you logged on before the dead line, you're fine.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Absolutely. But if you're not part of the Ambassador program, whether or not a game is on the list shouldn't make any difference. Either way, there's no guarantee they'll come out anytime soon. And whether or not Minish Cap or some other specific Nintendo game is part of the program, there's no telling how soon or late it will be part of the standard VC releases.Pancakes R Us said:
Everyone probably sees the exact same messages, so they'd just remove the "Yep, you're an ambassador!" message once people are getting into the shop who don't qualify. As long as their system has a record of your system showing up sometime, they'll know you're in.Moodkip said:
There's a new message in the eShop News section regarding an update in the Ambassador program. Sometime during next week Nintendo will launch a website that will let you check if you're in the Ambassador program by entering the 3DS serial code. There will be another message when the site is live.
Yep.Javier said:
Though reminds me of that rumor (that only one site reported) about Nintendo asking Wal-Mart for the serial numbers they sold earlier. Imagine if that turned out to be true and that's the reason they're issuing a "put your serial number to check" program. XD
Electivirus
Member
wsoxfan1214 said:
They're not affecting what games you get; why should you give a crap?
JoshuaJSlone
Member
If it's just running them in DS mode for now, it should be eitherDSN2K said:while working on this Im wondering how much the GBA games will take up the screen....my guess has been...
GBA in DS frame, unscaled
or
GBA in DS frame, scaled
Well, the actual image wouldn't need to have that division between dark gray and black, but I thought it would be helpful to see the GBA/DS/3DS split.
AceBandage
Banned
The 3DS records everything you do, so I'm sure it'll record GBA games.
Risible
Member
So am I the only one who feels really, really suckered by Nintendo? Those smart enough to wait got to have their cake and eat it too - they spent $80 less than me and also got the 20 free games.
I know, perils of early adoption and all that, but this one really stings for some reason. I won't be buying new hardware on release again.
I know, perils of early adoption and all that, but this one really stings for some reason. I won't be buying new hardware on release again.
AceBandage
Banned
Risible said:
You obviously felt it was worth $250 when you bought it.
You have no one but yourself to blame here.
Mailenstein
Member
Good work on the OP update!
Mockingbird
Member
Risible said:
Well, if it helps, you also got 3D Classics: Excitebike and 11 3D trailers which they'll never get to own on their 3DS. Ever. Unless someone hacks it. I'm also sure most of the people that bought one now didn't get a free Ocarina CD unless they bought the game at launch. Plus, if you bought one from amazon, you got some sweet $25 game credit. You also got to own a 3DS one month before the people buying it now. That has to be worth something.
I bought one at launch and I still have no regrets. Just from buying the 3DS and its games at amazon, I've gotten $65 worth of credits too.
AceBandage
Banned
RedSwirl said:
The NES games will be.
The GBA games supposedly won't, but who knows.
storafötter
Member
Shiggy said:
Uh those things wouldn't work for me as I live in Norway. Another thing is I have not done any friendcode stuff, only read you had to connect to the E-shop. Internet connection should be enough to register my 3DS I think.
Cheesemeister
Member
Brazil said:
And how, exactly, did you do that? Sell one and buy another?
Dreamwriter
Member
Nintendo doesn't work that way. They have never sold a game system for a loss until now, it's one of the reasons they can remain profitable even when their system is selling the worst among their competitors. They just don't believe in the idea of giving away the razor to make money on the razor blades, they view the game system as just as much a source of profits as the games. And it's very obvious this was NOT part of Nintendo's plan at all - their execs took huge pay cuts for failing the company in this, and being forced into such a drastic step.carfo said:
Of course you would rather be handed a wad of cash for free, duh. But Nintedo isn't a charity, they didn't have to do anything at all. In fact, it's rather unheard of for Nintendo to just give away so many of their best, most popular games, let alone 20 of them. The way Nintendo runs the VC, they wouldn't even *sell* all those games for years, we'd get them at a very slow trickle, with a dozen Alleyways between each Metroid Fusion.carfo said:
The reasoning behind the price cut is to keep the 3DS from flopping. It's an emergency measure they were forced to do, without it they would have had to remove the 3DS from the market entirely to minimize losses like they had to do with the Virtual Boy. The system was selling so poorly that no developers were making games for it - 3DS games were being canceled left and right, big publishers weren't hiring developers to make new 3DS games, etc. Big developers were deciding that even the iPhone's super tiny profits were better than 3DS because so few people owned 3DS's, and that situation would just get worse when Sony's PSVita came on the market for the same $250 (Sony has ALWAYS been about selling their systems for a loss).carfo said:
It's because, as I said, Nintendo doesn't work that way with the VC. Their plan for the VC is obviously, keep the games coming weekly to keep interest in it, and release the best games at a slow trickle, both to keep interest in the VC going, and to keep people buying third party VC games and games that might not be quite as awesome as Nintendo's biggest AAA games. The GBA itself probably wouldn't have been seen in the VC for a couple years if not for this. This is a one time dump of Nintendo's best games to the small number of people who paid full price for the 3DS as an apology for the price drop, to minimize bad feelings.carfo said:
AndyMoogle
Member
Considering the rate at which we are getting GB games, we might get GBA games in 3-4 years.AceBandage said:
Isn't it obvious? Nintendo put this program in place as a reward for those who spent an extra $80. If those who purchased for the $170 price are getting this, Nintendo may as well have not instituted the program in the first place. It now does nothing to reward the early adopters as they still could have waited for the price drop and be in the exact same situation as the $170 crowd. I can't believe this actually has to be spelled out for you.Electivirus said: