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@thor8467 There’s not a lot he wouldn’t do in the search for Dr Goodhead.

An origin story sounds interesting. I bet he did quite a few oddjobs before sending his cv to MI5.

@VoidofLight

“ They make their money off of selling hardware. They sell said hardware at a loss however”

I think your only goal is to win an argument that we’re not actually having. Let’s just agree that Nintendo make all their money by making a loss.

I’ll just be glad that the headlines will no longer be things like…

“Here’s a first look at the font of the switch 2 options menu”

There are people willing to pay over a million rupees for a Pokemon card, so in that context, I think this is an absolute bargain.

$70 works out at around only 5 cents per glitch.

It’s like Nintendo just knew I had a massive pile of $80 bills sitting around with nothing to do. Spooky!

Having never played a borderlands game before, my initial reaction was that he doesn’t seem very interested in procuring new customers for his company.

You should always charge to 71% Then press up, down, left, right, up, down, left, right, X, A, Y, B. Then howl like a wolf (only do this on a full moon, though.) If done correctly, you can now play as Bowser in Super Punch Out. Doesn’t do much to help the battery though.

Yeah, still not tempting me to buy one Nintendo, but keep trying.

Ah, the memories of phoning in sick to work so I could complete it without the pesky interruptions of whatever that thing is that happens on the other side of windows. Would never do that now of course. Mainly because I’m self employed and don’t need to phone in.

@Discostew
“Think this attitude is a reason why they are a "former" Rockstar dev?”

I know a former Rockstar Leeds dev. They sacked the entire team the moment their work on Chinatown Wars was completed. Nice company.

“ Dr. Nintendo offered more than pills” Sounds so much creepier than it should.

On a more serious note, most people will suffer from poor mental health at least once at some point in life and it warms the heart to read this article.

To be honest, I find it hard not to root for the other side no matter if they deserve it or not. Nintendo have become the school bully and I just don’t like how they behave these days.

@Scrubelicious When companies give you a free digital download with your physical purchase; for me that’s a “win win”.

@Matt-e-r Amazing, thanks!

@Matt-e-r Please let me know where you buy your t shirts! I get through so many in my work.

Where I live, we have a saying that certain people can “see you coming”. It means that someone will raise the price of something based on what they think you’re willing to pay. For me €80 is too much, even for a game that I really want and there are so many people saying similar things and if I can’t afford the games, I’m not going to buy the console

@Matt-e-r Yeah, I think I’m mostly in agreement. Nintendo have basically priced it at what they believe they can get away with charging and that’s their choice of course. Apple have been doing this forever and it doesn’t hurt their business, but Apple have a very different client in mind.

Time will tell, but I think Nintendo’s pricing strategy could prove the defining matter of how well they perform this generation.

@Akeratsu I note that the PlayStation boss is quoted in another article on this site as backing up the idea that scarcity = value. He says that Switch 2 exclusivity will justify the price hike of 1st party games.

I think this is beginning to digress from the topic though. Nintendo has always had apologists rooting for its worst ideas and that won’t change this generation. Joy con drift doesn’t exist etc.and of course 80 quid for a game is very reasonable when you consider that it took some skill to make and will be fun to play.

@Akeratsu It’s the very basics of economics. Countries keep gold reserves because it’s a rare, desirable metal and its price is stable because of it.

Bitcoin has to be mined and therefore has a value. Digital items have can be more valuable than physical equivalents.

You’re right though that a game download has little value, yet somehow people are willing to pay too much for it. If you had to choose between 2, would you invest your life savings in Mario Kart World downloads, or gold?

I’m not a believer that the monetary value of an item is directly influenced by the entertainment value. The value of an item is literally the scarcity to desirability ratio. Mario Kart world may well be desirable, but it certainly won’t be scarce. 80 quid is plain greedy.

Somehow, Nintendo managed to perfectly sum up in an accessory precisely how I felt about the Switch 2 reveal.

I’m not planning on getting a switch 2 for quite some time and I don’t subscribe to online, so gimme HD Windwaker on Switch please!

Hope it has an option to make the screen 14” so we can really feel like we’ve travelled back to the days when our hair and teeth were all accounted for.

I’m dubious of the comment about having to run at full power to fully emulate. I highly doubt that the switch 2 could emulate switch at anywhere near an acceptable level. Looking forward to finding out if I’m right over the coming months and years…

That’s a shame, because Super Soccer is a fairly big part of the SNES story. It was a launch title in my country and Nintendo advertised it as if it was their own.

A SNES library without Super Soccer, is like when Mario loses his cap in SM64. Nothing is broken, but it just feels wrong.

It finally happened. Nintendo ran out of ideas.

Lawyer breaks down what makes an emulator illegal by saying…

“ "While you can’t immediately claim that an emulator is illegal in itself, it can become illegal depending on how it’s used"”

Here’s a quick list I compiled of other things that are very similar.

Spoons - perfectly legal, unless you maliciously poke someone in the eye with the handle end; should be banned.

Chicken drumsticks - perfectly legal, unless you remove the meat and maliciously poke someone in the eye with the pointy end; should be banned.

Paper - perfectly legal, unless you roll it up into a point and maliciously poke someone in the eye with it. Should be banned.

Thanks Nintendo lawyers for clarifying that emulators are indeed legal.