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NINTENDOOMED
Yeah the console games are you nerd
>>344688778
Cool
Ok so what games can I buy for my wiiu in the future?
>>344688778
This board is about console and PC gaming, not mobile.
IT'S OVER, NINTENDO IS LITERALLY FINISHED
Does this mean nintendo will finally leave the hardware race and start to port games to steam?
>>344689025
The N64 and the Gamecube were both about as bad of failures as the Wii U, but Nintendo still made the Wii, alongside their entire handheld line, which were both massive successes.
>>344688914
This. This pic only shows nintendo to go more torwards mobile trash and away from their consoles and handheld. Esp after the trash show that the WiiU was.
>>344688778
I'm super surprised by how well GO is doing. It seems like it's everywhere.
>>344688778
>>>/vp/
So sick of the entire internet talking about it. You faggots are more obnoxious than Sonyponies and DaSfags put together.
![1426454910226[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/MZYjLfN.png "1426454910226[1].png")
>>344688778
They are going to go mobile aren't they.
>>344689459
Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem games are coming later this year
>>344688778
Hooray! Nintendo is now more cancerous and responsible for killing vidya than Sony and Microsoft
>>344689621
Nobody cares fire emblem
>>344689167
>castle crashers was first
>>344688778
> still barely scraping GameCube era Nintendo
mobile gaming is the future
sadlykill me now
>>344689685
>Nobody cares fire emblem
>last two games are the highest selling in the franchise's history
Ebin
>>344689459
They are 100% now. Good thing video games are fucking shit now, otherwise I would have killed myself.
> Nintendo recovering thanks to a phone app, and they have two more phone games of their biggest IPs coming soon
This certainly is Nintendoom. NX will probably end up like the wii u, 5 good games and nothing more
>>344689312
>>344689459
>>344689653
>>344689809
I literally remember everyone on /v/ bitching about how Nintendo was retarded for not wanting to get into mobile development a year or two ago.
>>344689298
>The N64 and the Gamecube were both about as bad of failures as the Wii U
>>344689167
>the man who runs the Sony Europe twitter is a shitposter
I bet he browses/shills here.
Pokemon Go is just a fad for normies, it's going to die faster than Flappy Bird.
>>344689685
I guess Fates wasn't a success
>>344688778
NINTENDO IS FINISHED
40 YEARS IN THE MAKING AND THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR NINTENDO
NEVEREVER.JPG
>investing into a fad
I seriously hope
>>344690023
it's not dying before they make billions.
>>344689931
>/v/ is one person
Truly the dankest meme this place has ever made
>>344690349
>/v/ isn't one person
Come on now, seriously. If you actually frequent this worthless website, you know you have no opinions the hivemind doesn't want you to have.
>>344689459
God i hope so.
>no more shit smash threads
>no more zelda nostalgia shit threads
>no more handheld fags
Sounds like a dream come true
>>344690889
>smash mobile thread
>zelda mobile thread
>>344690889
shouldn't you be on your overwatch containment thread?
>>344690883
>Sony still making consoles
>Nintendo is participating in killing videogames
Fanboys have a weird thought process
>>344688778
This is the future Nintendo chose
Look forward to:
Mario Go and Zelda Go
>>344690889
>wooooow can you guys please stop making threads about games?
>>344690889
>no more shit smash threads
Factually false
imagine how much this will go up when zelda comes out
do you think they regret selling the mariners?
imagine all the rare pokemon they could put in safeco field that people could only get access to if they bought a ticket
>>344691563
>Implying Sony isn't killing video games by turning them into movies
yes, yes, well done Shitposter...
HOWEVER
>>344691571
>Mario GO
>pets are replaced by goombas and koopas
>cue to a bunch of manchilds stomping dogs to death
>ZeldaGO
>nerds breaking public and their own property trying to find virtual rupees
I need this
>>344690889
You realize new mobiles games won't stop nostalgia threads
>>344691827
I take movies over mobile cancer everyday my toddler friend
>>344690889
>no more shit smash threads
You do realize fags still talk about melee all the time here, right?
>>344692095
Gee I wonder why...
>>344688778
>NINTENDOOMED
nintendo fags are pathetic. they like to ridicule the very reality that nintendo is becoming increasingly irrelevant in gaming by spreading their "doomed lol money in the bank" meme while nintendo is depending upon selling childish little figures (also functioning as the worse kind of DLC ever, not even respectable collectible figures buy fags would buy), mobile shit, with their new console confirmed for gimmick trash.
>>344691942
>Ralph plsGO
NORMIES WANT MORE
https://twitter.com/search?q=pokemon%20go%20mario%20kart&src=typd
>>344689701
thank you /pol/, me likes.
>>344692265
>b-but sonyggers
No seriously if I had to choose between liver cancer(moviegames) and blood cancer(mobile) I'd take the first option
>>344692518
>>b-but sonyggers
But you just admitted you're one
>nintendo fags are pathetic. they like to ridicule the very reality that nintendo is becoming increasingly irrelevant in gaming
>Mobile shit doesn't count because fuck you
>>344692496
>the normies are going to push Nintendo into being a mobile only company
>Nintendrones are currently applauding this turn of events
kek
>>344692654
Where did I imply that you consolewarrior?
.This game isn't that bad. Stop trying to be the devil's advocate, just because you're too lazy to get out in the real world. Yeah, the game could use some polishing. But it's a neat idea and addictive
>>344688778
They're doomed to forever have money in their coffers, and fans to fill those coffersuntil 50ish years from now, when their install-base starts to literally die out
>>344692496
That is one title I don't see how it can work out, since having it based on cars would be a horrible move, since it alienates people without vehicles and could promote speeding accidents, but GPS seems so wonky on GO that I cannot see people doing like jogging races or something and using random power ups.
>>344692340
>they like to ridicule the very reality that nintendo is becoming increasingly irrelevant in gaming
>Mobile game is everywhere means they're irrelevant
>>344692717
Sony went into mobile earlier than Nintendo, dumbass.
You should be happy they're getting on with the times and killing it.
>>344689298
Summer everbody
>>344690889
>no more smash threads
We will still have Melee threads in 2026
>>344689931
Doesn't mean people want them to do it, dipshit.
>>344688778
this is the future you chose
>>344693084
2bh it's Pokemon the one who's getting popular not Nintendo
If that were the case then it would move a few thousands of wiius units
>>344693538
this is pretty funny with that face
>>344693538
Now show us one with their handhelds :^)
>>344693654
Pokemon is partially owned by Nintendo though
Therefore they're getting popular as well
Also the Wii U has a crappy Pokemon fighting game not a mainline one
>>344694024
yes it comes in le epic "12-year-old console faggot starter pack set"
>>344693654
Pokemon is a handheld franchise.
It's most likely going to raise awareness for the DS family as well as the DS games for Pokemon.
>>344693214
>instantly assuming I like sony
because I laugh at retarded fanboys
>>344689167
oh NOW they are mentioning the Vita, where was the Vita at E3?
>>344688778
Nintendo is gonna go full mobile gaming then, nice.
>>344694429
Where did I say you like Sony? I just said that they went into mobile earlier.
Do you also assume that people are pushing them to drop their console and go mobile?
Don't get all defensive.
>>344691827
don't mind me, just pirating that image.
I like how you morons treat this as good news. It's like you WANT Nintendo to stop making GOOD GAMES in exchange for cheap mobile apps and toys.
>>344694125
Handhelds have a similar pattern iirc.
3DS has been their worst selling handheld.
>>344695338
>Not mentioning Virtual Boy
Every time
>>344694343
>>344694343
go back 2 redd i yt
>>344695482
Because the Virtual Boy is TOTALLY RELEVANT
Fucking moron...
>>344695936
>The handhelds have a pattern
>But the Virtual Boy...
>FUCK YOU NOT RELEVANT
>>344696106
Nintendo themselves don't even acknowledge the thing exists. It was a complete failure, why would it be relevant in a discussion about a pattern of declining sales?
You remove outliers when looking at trends. Do you even statistics? Go back to fucking grade school you stupid kid. Fucking kys, please.
>>344696345
nigger
>>344688778
So will Hanheld Consoles finally be killed after this gen?
>>344696345
>why would it be relevant in a discussion about a pattern of declining sales?
Because it was Nintendo's worst selling handheld, dumbass
>You remove outliers when looking at trends. Do you even statistics?
You can't have more than 1 outlier when looking at trends. If you take out the Virtual Boy, then there is no trend because the DS breaks that trend
You can't rewrite history
>>344688778
I regret not buying a week ago, but I at least get to watch that bubble burst without any risk.
>>344689459
Hell no. Even if the NX fails they will keep doing Home Consoles. Handhelds tho, i think this is it for them. I can't honestly see a 9th Generation with handheld consoles. The 3DS is the last for sure
>>344696740
There will be a handheld console of some kind so long as japanese kids still play them, and they do.
Handheld game sections are huge in japanese stores.
>>344695227
>It's like you WANT Nintendo to stop making GOOD GAMES
You mean good games like Star fox zero and amiibo party?
>>344696842
Mobile is bigger in Japan just a fucking Yugioh game there has 600000 pre subscribers for the beta while the 3ds one is dying
>>344696919
No. Games like Tropical Freeze, Planet Robobot, and Breath of the Wild.
>>344696968
Mobile is big in japan. That's right.
There's still a rather large handheld consumer base out there, though.
Typical stores I went to in tokyo this year had huge amounts of floor space dedicated to handhelds. Even the vita had multipla aisles of games. It's not shrunk enough to just evaporate yet, by far.
>>344693084
>>Mobile game
I lived to see the day that nintendrones defended DLC.
I lived to see the day that nintendrones defended mobile apps.
>>344695338
It was only a matter of time. As soon as game development started booming on Android I knew the writing was on the wall for Nintendo handhelds and a bullet in the head for Sony handhelds.
Pokemon Go, while as purely shitty and glitchy as it is, shows there's a huge appetite for Pokemon as it was once intended: a fucking exploration game where you interact with real people and interact with little monsters.
It perfectly encapsulates what Pokemon was supposed to be albeit in a really lackluster way in this form.
>>344697384
I lived to see sonyggers defending no backwards compatibility and paid online.
>I lived to see the day that nintendrones defended mobile apps.
like fallout shelter amirite?
>>344688778
DELETE THIS
>stock goes down
>i-it doesn't m-mean anything it's j-just markets being w-weird
>stock goes up
>HERE WE GO BOYSSS THEY'RE UNSTOPPABLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>344697421
>Where you interact with real people.
Except you don't do that at all.
>>344690889
>yfw mobile games are going to be shilled and allowed on channel 4 due to nintoddlers needing a way to talk about their iphone exclusives
>>344696740
>The 3DS is the last for sure
Yes, the 3DS has failed to outmatch DS sales. Not to mention hardware sales for the 3DS already peaked and no amount of new Nintendo games will gain new players; only current 3DS owners willing to buy another handheld variation.
Which is why I don't see any of these new Pokemon Go players turning into 3DS owners when Sun and Moon are released. They're more likely to ask for iTunes gift cards than for a $200+ handheld.
>>344697421
>a fucking exploration game where you interact with real people and interact with little monsters.
You can run in to people playing it if you live in dense areas, but you really don't have much interaction at all with the monsters or other players in the game.
>>344694318
>Also the Wii U has a crappy Pokemon fighting game not a mainline one
>Pokken Tournament
>crappy
I bet you didn't play it, Pokken Tournament is more a fighting game than fucking smash bros.
I hope it sold good enough so Bamco works on a sequel.
>>344688778
fuck
should have bought nintendo shares
could have had TWENTY PERCENT MORE DOSH
>Make games by gamers for gamers
>Nobody cares
>Make shit for shit eaters
>Sells a ton
>THEY ARE SAVED
At what cost? Their soul?
>>344697534
>deflecting
nice save bruh. reality is hitting you in the face like a 12 inch black rubber cock and you are pretending it's the wind.
>>344697384
This is the future, a sad future honestly, but one we all expected. The worst always seems to just come true.
>Hype because of one game
>Memes
>Stock price jumps
Wow, fucking surprise surprise, it'll level out and drop off in a month's time.
>>344697863
>I hope it sold good enough so Bamco works on a sequel.
Well it sold more than SFV, that's something
>>344697894
Remember how people were happy that amiibos and disc locked content was doing so well for them?
>>344697894
>make games by gamers for gamers
More like
>ignore fan demands and make uninspired rehashes to cash in on brand name and nostalgia
Smash WiiU for example.
>>344697987
>it'll level out and drop off in a month's time
Like Candy Crush and Clash of Clans right?
>>344689167
Wow it's like that one time Battleborn started picking a fight with Overwatch.
>Nintendo is now held up by plastic toys and mobile games
How long until the first LEGIT 2D Mario Platformer on mobile?
>>344697950
>deflecting
that's you though? the reality is that this shitty mobile game's fame is hurting your feelings so bad that you're posting about it on the internet trying to feel superior.
>>344697730
>everyone congregating around places on their phones obviously there for the same reason
>not interacting
I've already met some people doing it and I don't even do it much. All it needs is a battle mode and friend list and it'll be the top mobile game for quite a long while.
>>344697859
This is true though as well and frankly sucks for people living in rural parts. I can't even think of a solution other than increase wild pokemon the farther you live from civilization which would encourage people to travel outside into the boonies to get rare pokemon.
Could work. Someone out there could have insanely powerful pokemon/gyms thus increasing interest into travel. The game has shitloads of potential.
>>344689167
>Sony is THIS desperate
nintendo is making money because amibo, mobile games, DLC.
nintendo is planning to make movies and NX is 99% confirmed to have a gimmick.
nintendo fans are literally swallowing down everything because nintendo is making money.
>>344698147
That's not what deflecting is.
>>344698127
Probably going to re-release the originals.
>>344698110
>Candy Crush
No one plays that shit anymore.
>>344689167
DELETE THIS
>>344698110
not him, but this game has none of what gives those games their longevity. It's too shallow and the core mechanics are something people will grow tired of due to being limited in what you can do by location.
>>344697894
>Make games by gamers for gamers
>Nobody cares
>Make shit for shit eaters
>Sells a ton
>THEY ARE SAVED
Literally what they did on the Wii and DS and why it was so successful, it was the console and portable system with the games your mom, your dad and your small sister could enjoy thanks to the simplicity of the interface and the accessibility of the games.
It actually surprises me they tried to capture the "hardcore" gaming demographic again with a half-assed effort like the Wii U, that was just an Xbox 360 with an "innovative" Fisher Price tablet instead of just making an HD version of the Wii with improved motion controls to continue sapping dollars from normalfags.
>>344698430
I was about to say "even a drunken spastic would be able to run an emulator with all the goddamn games all the way to mario 64" but then I realized we're talking mobile, so the denominator is even lower.
>>344688778
It's probably just another fluctuation since investors are irrational as fuck.
>>344698472
can you keep your racism on /b/? Thanks.
>>344690889
>Sounds like a dream come true
>/v/ i literately filled to the brim with nothing but Mobile games.
>>344698497
>It's too shallow
>Compared to Candy Crush
>>344698508
I know, but that was my point. Are you really saved if you do completely different shit to get by?
It's literally konami and pachinko.
>>344688778
You'd better sell your stocks now. People are soon going to realise how little content PGO actually has and will quit en masse.
>>344698512
Yeah, even though they too have emulators in the damn ios/play store, I can still see the games being really successful just because it's ~official~. Pretty sure that's also what happened to the GTA games that are also now on the mobile platforms.
>>344688778
Why do you act like this is a good thing?
Now they will do nothing BUT smartphone shit.
>>344688778
Seems pretty doomed to me since this means they will suffer a fate worst then death and go mobile.
>>344688778
>>344688778
They are doomed. Not financially, but as a worth a shit gaming company.
Hope you like p2w mobile games, Nintendo fans.
>>344689167
:o)
>>344698725
I know people hate when someone ironically shitposts, but PGO isn't successful because it's good, it is because it is textbook"lol im such a nerd xD - the app".
>>344689459
I only hope they start putting out PC versions at some point.
I own a SNES, N64 and GameCube, but that was my last Nintendo console, since the Wii looked so uninteresting.
I got the CPU to run Dolphin in 2K resolution without much of a hiccup and played tons of Wii U games at my friend's, but native PC versions would be nice.
>>344698985
WiiU has 13 million sold. You don't need to lie to get your point across that the WiiU tanked, so don't.
The success of pokemon go pisses me off. Instead of Nintendo finally being punished for making shitty games and not living up to expectations, they are rewarded with a huge profit increase that's only going to get better because of a stupid ass mobile game.
>>344698747
>>344698826
What do you expect them to do?
Keep making gimmicky handhelds when smartphones literally have the potential for every gimmick in the book including VR?
They'd be stupid not to at this point. Jump the gun and go mobile. Focus all your talent and marketing into making solid as fuck games in a shallow as fuck market.
I'm not even a huge Nintendo fan and with this reception I'd run with the money. There is no more money in handhelds crafted for closed out hardware.
>>344699079
too many pc gamers pirate
>>344697384
Everything is OK when Nintendo does it.
Mobile games are acceptable on /v/ now that Nintendo became a mobile developer.
I like how everyone is saying Nintendo is going to mobile, when there's no source, and no confirmation about that. The amount of misinformation that goes around this is absurd.
I also like how people think Pokémon is proprietary of Nintendo.
>>344698127
It won't happen.
And all the good games they made are on the 3ds Wii or Gamecube, with the one exception being Bayonetta 2 on WiiU.
Just start pirating their shit.
>>344697894
How does it feel to know that you're the minority, anon?
You've shat on every major game released for the last decade. Every game the critics say is good, you say is bad. Every game with a good usescore, you say is bad. Every game millions of people like, you say is bad. You're angry and depressed and you're surrounded by people who think just like you. But how does it feel to know that you don't matter any more?
You don't like video games any more. You say you do. You buy a bunch when they're on sale on Steam. But you never play them. How does it feel to know that there are people out there, millions, tens of millions, who play and love video games?
You call them "casuals". But can you really say that you were that "hardcore" when you were a kid? Hell, can you even say that now? How can you be "hardcore" when you haven't played a single video game in months?
Face it, anon. You're not a gamer. You haven't been a gamer in years. You're a gaming enthusiast. You read about games and argue about games and complain about games but you don't play games. The people who actually play games, who actually care? The people who actually matter? They're out there right now, on their phones, having the time of their lives with their friends, catching Pokemon. And you're in front of a computer, desperately trying to come up with a reason for why the popularity of this game isn't good for Nintendo. Oh, of course, a perfect reason!
>t-they're not making games for REAL GAMERS like me who don't even play games! They're making games for people who actually play games all the time! h--HAHAHAHAHAHA nintendo is SAVED!!!
You're seriously pathetic, anon.
>>344689653
>more cancerous than Sony
>>344699172
You tell that all the other Japanese companies that keep shitting out PC ports because they make a nice amount of money from the sales.
It's almost like when they actually have games people might want to play; they make money
HOLY SHIT
I THOUGHT THE WINNING STRATEGY WAS TO TELL THIRD PARTIES TO PISS OFF, NOT LET THEM MAKE GAMES
Has there actually been a situation where a big game company left exclusively for mobile? Or are just memeing?
>>344699378
several
SNK and Sunsoft are two notable examples.
>>344699378
Capcom tried to do it
It failed horribly
>>344699048
The problem is that fads like that only last for a moment. This game will be dead and buried within three months.
>>344699235
I'm not even arguing for them to go pure mobile.
Just invest in pokemon going mobile as fuck and taking over instead of whatever in-between company has done this half-ass as fuck "game" they can't even straighten out yet.
More focus on that. There is quite obviously a hunger for exploration and pokemon. Capitalize on it by making Pokemon the go-to Nintendo asset on mobile.
>>344699238
What the fuck are you talking about? Are you retarded? When did I shit on every major game release? Do you even know me?
Are you autistic?
Nintendo is more or less irrelevant to core gamers now, the fact they were once calling the shots in the industry and bringing the house down with massive handheld and console sales which gave birth to a plethora of games that have now been reduced to smartphone ventures and licenced games of existing ip's on google play is sad.
>>344699167
There will always be money in handhelds, 50 million users wont just disappear, even if the next 3DS sells 20 million it will still be profitable and provide a platform for them and third parties to continue the legacy and traddition of handhelds. The vita is doing it with 10 million sold and a dedicated fanbase, the 3DS can do it too.
>>344691913
ONE GAME
>>344696106
How the fuck is the virtual boy a handheld? it was a shitty attempt at VR.
>>344689459
>The new Super Metroid Prime game is finally announced
>It's for iOS and Android
Impending mass suicide
>>344699167
>What do you expect them to do?
Not them, but I expect them to make consoles and then make games for those consoles.
holy shit batman.
It's almost like their strategy of making consoles and then not making games for those consoles is a doomed effort from the beginning.
It's almost like the last thirty years of telling third parties to piss off a bridge finally quit working in the digital age where Nintendopower isn't the sole source of gaming news anymore.
>>344699378
Konami is the only major game company I can think of that seems to think mobile only is the way of the future, but haven't seen much of anything from them after Kojimbo left.
>>344697894
This faux elitism is why gaming is really in the rut it is now, where kids are all over M games to appear "cool", women are actively lashing out to squash the minority discontent within their hobby, and dudebros are the face of the industry when it comes to common consumer
Gamers are gamers, the games are subjective; Mario Picross has an audience, but nowhere near the appeal of Minecraft. The audience doesn't matter in the end, since fun games are fun, and gamers will flock to fun games.
>>344688778
It's a big jump but still not as big as the jump they usually experience around the holidays.
I know this, because I flip Nintendo stocks often. It's a pretty reliable way of turning 500 bucks into 1000 bucks if you're willing to wait a few months.
>>344699632
Japan alone is more than enough of a reason to keep making handhelds.
>>344699378
Konami comes to mind but they are on Pachinko atm.
>>344699238
>Face it, anon. You're not a gamer. You haven't been a gamer in years. You're a gaming enthusiast.
>>344699484
>SNK and Sunsoft are two notable examples.
They aren't really big anymore though
If it were the 90's I could see that
>>344699632
>There will always be money in handhelds
Exactly and I didn't word my post quite right. I meant to continue doing handhelds but also get deep into the mobile market with really good games that make the others pale in comparison.
Eventually release the same games side by side but have exclusives or make the games look better on fucking purpose because why not it'll get a clone 1 week later.
There is SO MUCH fucking potential. My brain is swimming.
![Black_f99a98_573463[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/6SWGm4q.jpg "Black_f99a98_573463[1].jpg")
>>344698593
Fite me.
>>344699138
The image I editted was from 2014 or 2015 or so when the Wii U had a lot less sales
>>344688778
Yes.
>>344699917
Gaming enthusiasts are to gamers what "science fans" are to scientists.
>>344699956
When they swapped, they were big. They were huge in the smartphone and arcade markets in Japan. Sunsoft itself had just come off of being the sole creator of Neo-geo games.
The problem is that mobile games, and yes they made mobile games in the 90's in Japan on those little shitty nokias, are merely sustainable unless you have the new big thing. The reason companies flocked to them is because they were certain.
Even in the 90's when these huge companies tried to be the next angry birds, they were eaten alive by the fact that mobile games, even then, are a very use-once-and-throw-away medium.
>>344700026
My only concern is that is I really think they have to choose either market, because if Nitty did decdide to hit both platforms their games would need two separate builds and that would complicate the development process and considering the far lowered price margins on mobile, one thinks how they would pull that off or find a profit unless their games are a million-tier smart hit like GO
>>344700312
smash*
Nintendo didn't even make it, investors are actually retards.
This is so wrong.
Nintendo reduced themselves to be simple prostitutes.
>>344700126
>owning a cat
Found the problem. He is retarded.
>>344700520
I don't see it that way
I see it as Nintendo, for the first time since the 90's, let a third party developer in its ecosystem.
And if it had done this in the Gamecube era instead of going FULL NIPPON STRONK THIRD PARTIES GET OUT MARIO WILL LET OUR PLATFORMS SWIM FOREVER, then the Xbox and Playstation would be mere curiosities owned by collectors.
But it didn't.
It's just now learning how full-retard Iwata and Miyamoto's business practices really are with this one experiment.
>>344688778
>d-delete this
>>344699831
>Gamers are gamers
This is actually why gaming is dead, the whole "let's mix everybody together and pretend we're all one and the same" ruined more than just gaming.
>>344688778
Sigh, I am so going to miss handheld video games.
>Goodbye physical buttons and analog sticks
>More watered down games with meh at best gameplay elements
>Even more quick and dirty rehashes
>Copying whatever else is popular
>IAPs, IAPs everywhere for everything!!
SIGH, even if the "handheld" NX has no region locking it is still too late.
I still think things would have been better if they just had a corporate shakeup during the early years of the Wii U and embracing the good things the industry was doing(cross-buy, working with developers on hardware and software needs, getting a fucking clue with internet and online play, etc), instead of just essentially giving up and going the cheap mobile route.
>>344699831
Konami really isn't mobile is the thing. Konami seems to be stretching to every market that isn't gaming because their investors had one bum year on the books.
This was followed by their best product ever sold, but don't let facts get in the way of Konami self-destructing.
>>344700312
True. A more level-headed approach of just letting franchises like maybe Pokemon and Animal Crossing could really work well. Not everyone who likes every Nintendo franchise is going to want to play it on a touch screen.
Still, the potential with certain franchises is there.
>>344688778
HOW?
>>344700676
Says the dog.
>>344701063
Konami execs are all addicted to pachislot. Pass it on.
>>344701061
If Nintendo stops making handhelds, the Vita 2 will suddenly suck that entire marketshare up.
people don't like to talk about it, but the Vita and 3DS are at a very distinct set of odds against one another in Japan. Sure, the vita flopped outside of Japan, but 3DS getting off its throne just because it had one good mobile title? Not fucking likely. It still has something nipping at its heels.
>>344701136
>HOW?
Guess who took over when Iwata died.
>>344701136
>>344701079
GO is one of the first times in the last thirty years that a third party has had access to Nintendo IPs
Hotel Mario and CDI Zelda scared them away last time, resulting in the tightest walled garden ever with their two consoles.
This is akin to the Berlin Wall falling, not Nintendo abandoning their handhelds.
>>344701061
>SIGH
Fresh off the boat, from reddit, kid? heh I remember when I was just like you. Braindead. Lemme give you a tip so you can make it in this cyber sanctuary: never make jokes like that. You got no reputation here, you got no name, you got jackshit here. It's survival of the fittest and you ain't gonna survive long on 4chan by saying stupid jokes that your little hugbox cuntsucking reddit friends would upboat. None of that here. You don't upboat. You don't downboat. This ain't reddit, kid. This is 4chan. We have REAL intellectual discussion, something I don't think you're all that familiar with. You don't like it, you can hit the bricks on over to imgur, you daily show watching son of a bitch. I hope you don't tho. I hope you stay here and learn our ways. Things are different here, unlike any other place that the light of internet pop culture reaches. You can be anything here. Me ? heh, I'm a judge.. this place.... this place has a lot to offer... heh you'll see, kid . . . that is if you can handle it...
>>344697826
Know I'm late, but I guess this is why 3DS are the second highest sold console every week, right?
>>344700676
Toxiplasmosa Gondii is real, cat owners never had a chance.
>>344701290
>If Nintendo stops making handhelds, the Vita 2 will suddenly suck that entire marketshare up.
>>344701454
Hence the NX.
Most likely a fusion of both the console and handheld.
Now? Probably just whole lot more Pokemon. There's no guarantee anything will work like it on mobile. I could see Animal Crossing working well in some way but I don't have the vision for it.
>>344701079
Not him, but I think that in general the mobile environment is very different to the handheld environment. Games don't need to have as much depth. They need to be designed around socialization and/or around very quick play sessions. 5 minutes when you're bored, here and there.
GO is a phenomenon. It shows the power of mobile. You can enter the overall public consciousness with it. People can base their lives around mobile games. It's a completely different market to traditional video games.
GO is like a VRMMO, or a massive, unending game of Capture the Flag. It's a game where YOU actually go out and play the game, you don't control some little digital avatar. That's hugely important. Human beings LOVE games. A game you're constantly playing against millions of other people? That's neat. The cute and cuddly characters only help out.
Mobile and video games need to be seen as completely different things. Video games are sit-down-and-have-fun. Mobile is go-out-and-have-fun. Video games are played with a controller - mobile games are played as much with your own body as the phone.
>>344701593
>I can't look up sales figures outside of meme charts posted on /v/
>Here's a meme image
>>344701290
>Vita 2
>>344699235
It won't go full mobile thats for sure but handhelds are dead now. i doubt they will make a new one after the 3ds
>>344701290
>vita 2
Sony's had their fucking asses kicked twice in the handheld market, the ONLY way you'd get a vita 2 is if nintendo dropped out, and would you look at that, suddenly microsoft sees dollars in the handheld market.
>>344701290
>Vita 2
I own a Vita. I like it. It's not getting a second in ANY western country.
The PS4 happened. It's a thing. They like money.
>>344701969
>>344701897
>Sony's had their fucking asses kicked twice in the handheld market
Not in Japan, in Japan Sony almost kicked over Nintendo.
Memes or not, the system has had a very solid life and tremendous number of sales there. Take Nintendo out of the equation, and suddenly, the Vita has no real competition.
>Microsoft handheld
>In Japan
I'll repeat, it would have no real competition if it weren't for the 3DS.
Which is why Nintendo isn't leaving.
>>344699632
>Core Gamers
Core gamers need to accept you're becoming more irrelevant. Console gaming is a whale tank. I mean, the whole 2 year generations thing is purely designed to attack the whales who love graphics and will spend 400-500 dollars for 360p extra. That's a fucking whale, man. Software sales are going down every year and the big guys get bigger. Whaling. The only company not fishing for whales in the console industry is Nintendo, and they're failing at it. Yet, in mobile their success is EXPLOSIVE. What does that tell you about console gaming? I hate this honestly, but i'm not blind. I've accepted this is the future of gaming unless Nintendo finds someway to make consoles more relevant in the world of smartphones.
>>344701516
>Sigh = reddit
Oh fuck off reddit.
>>344689167
that thanks response sounds more desperate than sarcastic, because no one cares about pokemon copy games that have generic looking uncharismatic shit monsters
>>344702398
>almost
So their biggest market was still behind, you're operating under the assumption that literally nobody wants the handheld market.
>>344702461
>Core gamers need to accept you're becoming more irrelevant.
"Core Gamers" are the only market that is going to predictably buy video games year after year.
This is the SAME EXACT FUCKING MEME that was slung at us by casuals during the Wii era.
And surprise! All those fucking 'non-core gamers' left for easier to access pastures!
It's like trying to predict the long-term planning habits of cats or dogs. They live for the moment, and if you aren't in that moment, then you're gone. Your name just becomes another logo in a sea of shit that they consume and throw away.
There is no chance in fuck that mobile is going to ever become the go-to place for developers.
>Nintendo will never pander to the casuals
>Nintendo will never release another Wii console
>Nintendo will never go mobile
>Nintendo will never go third-party
>>344689931
good for the company is not good for the customer, for example cod and cod-clones ruined fps for years and does so even today
>>344702398
>Take Nintendo out of the equation, and then Sony aren't competing with Nintendo.
>>344702398
Vita is not even close to 3DS. And PS4 took like 2-3 years just to even get close to Wii U. Japan is Nintendoland dude. It's been since the 3DS. That's why Sony has essentially become an American company. Hell, even it's Playstation headquarters is in America now. What does that tell you?
>>344692496
mario kart needs good controllers, damn people are fucking stupid
>>344702874
>>Nintendo will never pander to the casuals
>>Nintendo will never release another Wii console
Things that were never said to justify my retard logic
>>344699720
mario maker is nice too
>>344702661
>So their biggest market was still behind
Actually:
attackofthefanboy.com/news/ps-vita-gaining-ground-japan/
http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/06/24/ps-vita-passes-4000000-units-sold-in-japan/
You're wrong.
Vita in Japan has been in a neck-and-neck horserace with the 3DS for the past several years. Only recently has the 3DS pulled ahead in any significant margin.
Recently being after Sony quit giving two shits about the Vita and left it to the wolves. Sometime within the last two years.
>>344702984
In Japan you illiterate cunt. They aren't dropping the Japanese market because Xbox exists.
>>344702989
>Japan is Nintendoland dude.
Fucking rofl. Japan is mobile market land. It has it even worse there than we do over here because of how long it has existed.
>>344702671
Console Market is a whale market. Unless the barrier of entry is dropped, it'll eventually fade away. The predictability is also disappearing as well. The trends are showing that less games are becoming successful and the one's that are... are disproportionately successful in comparison and only a handful of genres are bought anymore. That's a shrinking niche for people who whale over a few games. If there is no breadth in the industry, then that means it ain't mainstream.
>>344702874
Can we please wait to see what hte NX even fucking looks like before we say this?
>>344689167
damn that's embarrassing
>>344688778
Getting happy because nintendo is making money with phone games.
All this means is that they will probably fuck their core followers and focus on making shit phone games like Pokemon Go since the profit is that much bigger and the investment is almost non existant.
All they had to do for Pokemon Go was create an Ingress clone that required almost no investment and through nostalgia they hooked in millions of normies and will get a crapload of cash.
If you think this bodes well for Nintendo handhelds and home consoles you are a moron.
Pokemon Go success is a bad news for bigshot nintendo games since they will start to focus more on phone games.
>>344702989
>Japan is Nintendoland dude
Is that why everyone and their mother is making games for Sony systems?
>>344700153
but it doesn't really matter to me if someone has played shit like dota or wow for 5k hours and nothing else and knows nothing about the industry on wide spectrum
>>344703340
>>344689167
I think the problem here is that no one wants to 'catch' those things. They look like Kamen Rider CG monsters that would get blown up.
Meanwhile, Squirtle and Charmander still look roughly the same since the 90's.
>>344690889
Prepare for mobile gaming threads on /v/. Thanks Nintendo.
>>344689459
What's so bad about this? They can release a proper controller for any phone and you can get the same, if not better, experience than a handheld.
Why the fuck people, specially nerds, are so scared of change. This means more money for them, more games for us, cheaper and no need to buy overpriced hardware.
>muh touch
Like I said, bluetooth controllers exist since like 5 years ago.
>>344688778
>mobile gaming saving nintendo
This is nothing new.
>>344703421
And that's why I think releasing the first 150 was planned. And I think it will stay like that for a while.
>>344703230
>Vita in Japan has been in a neck-and-neck horserace with the 3DS for the past several years. Only recently has the 3DS pulled ahead in any significant margin.
And the N64 outsold the PS1.
See I can make up history too
>>344688778
>shares going up due to shitty cell phone game
Is that something people who like Nintendo consoles and handhelds should be celebrating?
Based Sony is the only Japanese company left putting out REAL games. We need to make a /mobile/ board for Nintendo, Konami and all the other shitters, or just start sending them to /soc/.
>>344703526
Yes it is, because it's gaijin games that are doing it.
Picture how fucking impossible Nintendo was to work with if you were an American developer in the N64 or Gamecube era.
A western developer just beat every single Nintendo game made in the past 40 years and you think that's 'nothing new'?
This is it, this is the first sign that Nintendo is going to let 3rd parties develop for their systems again without absurd connections/money deposits.
Remember when Nintendo told the skylanders guys to fuck off initially because they wanted strong nippon skylanders instead? That mindset is over. This is the single biggest wake-up call that any company could receive.
>>344703230
>Actually:
>attackofthefanboy.com/news/ps-vita-gaining-ground-japan/
>http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/06/24/ps-vita-passes-4000000-units-sold-in-japan/
>2 outdated articles from 2013 and 2015
This is desperation
>>344703421
Agreed. Overdesign is a common problem in modern game design and can suck out all of the charm of an otherwise good concept.
Get rid of the aesthetic and mechanical bloat, and you have a much more charming game.
>>344703607
Great, don't read my links, be a faggot.
You fit in well on /v/.
>>344703385
Console market is heavily western now. Nintendo is doing terribly in the west on consoles where the main western console market is. 3DS is an outlier that is slowly fading away. Nintendo has a chance with the NX to be even bigger than the Wii with it but it can't be a typical console. It needs to address the smartphone elephant in some way that makes people consider it while smartphones exist as a cheap gaming device. In other words it needs to complement mobile phones while at the same time do something smartphones can't practically do. I don't know how Nintendo is gonna address this, but their words on NX seem confident. So who knows?
>>344703385
>Japan only makes games for the Japanese
>>344703615
It's not the why, it's the how
Their stock is soaring because they opened up their walled garden to a third party developer for the first time since the 90's.
And surprise! They made a shitton of money from it!
It's almost as if Nintendo is a criminally mismanaged, xenophobic company who listened to retards for the past twenty years who totally believed that Mario and Zelda could keep them in the lead in every region.
>>344696630
Is it me or in the last times everything that that guy in the pic touch becomes shit?
>>344698985
Woah woah waoh
You cannot compare a free download to a $200+ console.
>>344704151
>It's almost as if Nintendo is a criminally mismanaged, xenophobic company who listened to retards for the past twenty years who totally believed that Mario and Zelda could keep them in the lead in every region.
It's called arrogance. It happens to pretty much every company after a humongous success. Look at PS2 to PS3, Xbox 360 to Xbox One, Wii to Wii U, SNES to N64, etc.
>>344704151
>xenophobic
hahhahaha, oh wow, why their biggest division is in murricuntland if they are so xenophobic? americans are the most disgusting westerns there is, no way they are xenophobic
they are too cheap on hardware and mismanaged
>>344704151
God, the nips are so fucking retarded and don't understand the Western market at all. At all
>Nintendo relying on gimmicks to suck in normies
Sounds about right, can't wait to see what other great mobile titles they'll release after animal crossing/ fire emblem
>>344689167
To be fair I had more fun with the first Invisimals than I have with GO right now. But that was on the PSP, not Vita.
it's all over bros
sony won!!!
>>344705113
"lul"
FYI, NX is being announced at Paris Games Week (yes, not until October)
>>344689459
You bet your ass they will.
Why do you think some of us are pissed?
>>344689459
I hope so. I don't mind Nintendo themselves, but Nintendo fans needs to stop shitting up the home console market scene. If they exit the home console market we won't have to deal with them anymore.
>>344698117
Not really
>>344689701
ITS CRUSH THE CASTLE YOU FUCKING swine
>>344692496
Cancer incarnate.
Technically, Pokemon Go isn't Nintendo, its TPIC
>>344705353
I wonder if it's Nintendo VR like some rumors said
>>344695227
Welcome to neo /v/.
>>344703490
Mobile games are hot garbage.
Also the entire mobile game market resembles the 80s video game market
The games are just advertising for their consoles tards
>>344705643
You are literally stupid
Do some research. Miyamoto explicitly stated they disliked VR atm
you would have to be a mindless nintendrone or someone who hates nintendo to be happy about this. Go's success means nintendo is going full mobile. the new zelda with nintendo's biggest dev team won't even come close to the amount of profit go will make for them. the choice is clear, mobile is the future you chose, nintendrone.
