The Nintendo News You Missed Last Night

Ugh Skylanders, Disney, now Nintendo. All things I have no interest in getting NFC chipped toys of. Now if they made an NFC warhammer game or something or D&D, that would be cool.

I wonder how populair those Nintendo figures will be.

I mean, you're up against Skylanders, that is an established franchise and Disney/Marvel/Soon Star Wars. Seems like it's an uphill battle for good ol' Nintendo.

Skylander clones and phone games. Just what I always wanted from Nintendo.

speaking as someone who loves CRAP on their desk, sure why not more figurines expressing how much of a nerd I am. Hope it works with Snake eater and Resident Evil Revelations

LOL, good design nintendo

That's nothing to do with nintendo's design, he was answering why skylanders figures can't be put on the wii u controller instead of the skylanders platform thing if the controller supports NFC. I imagine these nintendo produced things won't work like that.

At least early access gives you something to play for <$60. This IMO, not just to Elsie(aka Nintedno), the media continually approves of this business practice with opens arms and it's disgusting. They will slam early access and DLC but embrace this practice with open arms. This is a joke.

I'd imagine Activison also wanted the portal to keep manufacturing costs of the figures down. Everyone else plays with RFID, and the entire point of Skylanders is that they work on multiple platforms.

Look into Golem Arcana (by Harebrained Schemes) or Prodigy (by Hanakai Studio). They're sort of playing around with the idea. I think there are more, but those are the two that comes to mind.

Reuters does game news? (Of course they do. I'm just accustomed to see their names in more business-e types of business)

Anyways. Nintendo figurines, not a bad move, I would presume

Is 'emerging markets' still code for China and India, or does it mean something else now? Not sure how Ninty sees itself raking in cash in two of the top countries for software piracy …

Maybe they're worried about just making too much money on Mario and Link figures.

Eh. All right. Whatever keeps them afloat enough to continue making video games. I don't personally care for anything in that article one bit, though.

Have to admit, I really hoped "Nintendo's getting into the NFC craze" was more about Zoë Quinn and less about Skylanders. Ah well.

Sadly the majority have not converted to digital media, at least on consoles. It amazes me how many people still buy boxed PC titles as well.

Wait... people buy those things? I wouldn't even know where to find them, since most retailers don't hold them in stock...

OT: I guess its cool, but I wish they would work around the capacity problem of NFC to prevent saturation. I can see how it would grow into a problem if each figurine could only handle a handful of games.

Damn between all these Disney Infinity figures and now Nintendo ones, I'll need a second job!!

I still prefer to buy physical copies of games; console and PC. I enjoy having a shelf of titles I can browse through. I get why digital is the way things are going - convenience and cost - but I think I'll always love the feeling of opening a brand new box.

Copying a three year old idea from Activision and vaguely dabbling in mobile games... well, can't say something nice don't say anything at all I guess.

But hey, new Pokemon! Well... a new Pokemon remake anyways. Keep on keeping on Nintendo.

So, Nintendo will be Zoe Quinn compatible now...good news.

I kinda wish the NFP existed when The Wonderful 101 came out. That would have been SO COOL!

The implication with the NFC chip is that they implimented it into the Gamepad long before anything Skylanders related was announced (i.e. they would have been developed simultaneously). The news is that they are finally going to use it - which is different to the original pitch in that it was added as a feature for other developers (most notably, Ubisoft) to use. This is important since doing it with their own titles proves they are actively trying to prove why the gamepad is so good themselves (and not just waiting for third parties to prove it since they were the ones who advised Nintendo to add it). It's going to take a lot of effort on their part, but at least they are trying. Clearly the Gamepad has not been used effectively and is basically pointless right now apart form some very fleeting and specific uses. This is a tip-off that they are trying to amend that (regardless of if it will work).

I feel bad for all the people expecting them to do something different from the other NFC games. Hell, I would be surprised if the implementation wasn't more generic than we're already used to, what with the multiple title functionality thing.

I agree with you. I like to have the physical copy of games, specially those that I know I will return from time to time... But I don't know if its still possible to have them on PC. I don't know many stores that have shelve space dedicated to boxed PC games. The only exception being the Blizzard games, that I still see occasionally.

Whelp, I'm going to buy the shit out of the Ruby and Sapphire remakes.

If only they were going to do an Emerald one. Oh well, Pokemon Bank will help with that. Hopefully.

My closet is full of game junk and it really is all junk and has no intrinsic value beyond "the game" it is attached too. I understand how people like "the feelies" but keep in mind that a lot of people don't want more stuff in their house like this because it turns out it is difficult to get rid of where even throwing it in the dumpster may get you into trouble.

Really, only the larger electronics places still do -- like Fry's and Best Buy. I'll order a PC game on Amazon and have it shipped with, Prime usually.