The Nintendo News You Missed Last Night

NFC and Pokemon remakes?

No thanks. I know plenty of people will eat that shit up, but I'll pass.

@xplusy: Over 150 to collect!

NFC Pokemon?

Catch them all for $9.99 USD each!

Instead of NFC toys Nintendo should make more Pikmin 3 DLC. :D

Does this mean Zoe Quinn is a certified second-party Nintendo developer?

Mortal Kombat TV will be a reality, finally!

I think all of this sounds terrible and dirty. I feel like this is going to lead to people paying $5 a pop to unlock new beds in Animal Crossing. This seriously feels like the last thing Nintendo needs. It might be great for getting kids to hassle their parents, but I can't believe this will turn out well.

Also, for all the crap everyone talks about the space requirements of physical media, how is keeping a bunch of action figures going to be any better?

@mechanized: Pokemon.

I don't get the point of this. Skylanders has characters gated by means of purchase to unlock them in the game. Nintendo characters are all part of long running franchises, you can already play as them in games. There are already a ton of mash up games involving all the key characters as well. What exactly can they do with this that would be interesting?

This could be interesting. Using NFC figures for multiple titles has my interest. But seriously, that's the lamest code name I've ever seen.

Pokemon. I'm talking about trading cards with RFID chips in them, Poké Balls, AR Pokemon battles with your 3DS. Gotta catch 'em all, man. Chase the dragon, Nintendo.

@kcin: False on many levels, but I have a feeling this is just a manifestation of the blind hive-mind dislike for Nintendo rearing its bull-headed mug again, so whatever.

This is nuts... Nintendo originally turned down Skylanders before they went to Activision.

And instead of having the deathgrip on market, here they come with a probably ok, version of their own.

Nintendo will be fine. This is all really lame though and I couldn't be less interested. I guess the Wii u was their "core gamer" initiative and it failed, so here we are, catering to kids and phone game people.

This headline isn't going to make any sense tomorrow.

Oh jeez.. if there are going to be Nintendo NFC figurines to collect.. oh jeez you guys I don't know. This could be bad for me.

Funny how popular opinion (and mine, for that matter) is "Hey, if Nintendo didn't make hardware, imagine the effort they could put behind games!" And now, Nintendo's thought is "Hey, what if we had more hardware....!"

@gunslingerpanda: They are not completely different things. With these figurines, they've simply turned down the storage size and turned up the aesthetics, making them appealing in a different way than classic storage media. It's still a data storage device, it just has a different kind of value to some people. The choice to buy them or not which you present isn't a choice if you want to use the data they hold; they don't simply sell DLC characters of Disney Infinity figurines in lieu of purchasing the figurines themselves, and I doubt that Nintendo will, either.

I'm guessing Nintendo will be releasing some sort of micro console. I'm curious as to what kinds of games they will make for these emerging markets, though.

@dvdwalker8: That's my worry. I'm totally digging Disney Infinity and look forward to new stuff from that, but I'm worried over-saturation will kill it for everyone.

That said, it's not impossible that this is just going to be the future of toys. Maybe this is what saves Nintendo as well as the toy industry.

Nintendo seems to be the go-to punching bag for a lotta folk, but I'm still rootin' for em.

The death throes of a Colossus won't leave your heart free from pangs.

@sargon: They're completely different things. One is a figurine that you can buy, or not, that's cool; the other is a formerly ancillary method of holding data that is now obsolete.

So let me get this straight, we transition to digital media to eliminate useless discs and boxes, then replace them with other unnecessary items that consume even more space?

There's already too many figurines like this out there and more are on the way from the existing games. This is going to end up being like Guitar Hero and Rock Band battling it out for shelf space at the stores. I have some of the figurines for Infinity and Giants and the quality on them isn't consistent. As a collector, I really have to look at them to make sure the paint isn't all messed up. I'm sure little kids don't care about that aspect but if they want me to collect them, they need to be of a good quality. Not really interested in this Nintendo thing because Nintendo games don't really do anything for me anymore. A Mario figure or something might be cool but if I want that, I'm sure there's other better collectibles like that already out there.

that NFC thing, could be cool with smash bros.

Cool, man. I'm sure once I get some figurines in my new condo, the ladies won't be able to resist!

Very curious what Nintendo's next wave of software will look like.