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Nintendo: Big Announcement on Monday
- Thread starter Tom Nook Sawyer
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blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
N64 games are a game-by-game case. I'm referring to actual BC, where you take the original medium of an arbitrary old-gen title and run it on the new gen.
ALL ABOARD.
Edit:
Real predictions:
-Undertale port
-Minecraft port
-Smash Direct date.
My guess with hindsight is Minecraft. I'm quoting this because that's my favorite Hype Train gif.
I'm very surprised this wasn't shoehorned into the Direct as, like, the first announcement. I mean, even if the Wii U's late to the party, and I was hoping for something else more pertinent to my personal tastes, this is still pretty big. As in, "I'm surprised that this was announced via Twitter" big. There was a thirst for Minecraft on Nintendo systems for awhile now; a bland, mediocre Minecraft clone managed to linger as one of the Wii U's most popular games just because it was the closest available option anyone had.
Regardless of how I feel about the series, and despite the console's dying state, this is going to sell gangbusters,
Regardless of how I feel about the series, and despite the console's dying state, this is going to sell gangbusters,
DAREALGUMMY
Member
And there it is.
prag16
Banned
To be clear, Nintendo didn't overhype this. Gaf (and the internet) overhyped this.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Cranky Kong's Denture Simulator for iOS.
Minecraft on Wii U next week.
Full Nelson.
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
ChronotriggerJM
Member
Disappointing, but still sort of major. Now the majority of kids games reside on Nintendo's console, which is good. I think it's a bit late in the game, but Minecraft is a beast, so we'll see :/
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
SinCityAssassin
Member
At least it was only said by a single person, and not the whole company making a big announcement.
It was said by Nintendo's indie guy who has been doing a lot of great work and even started that humble nindie bundle initiative.
I expected Minecraft.
AttamisZero
Neo Member
Bingo
fredrancour
Member
They didn't really hype it. they didn't even do a real official announcement-of-an-announcement thing. One dude who works in the indie game division mentioned in a podcast interview that there was a cool announcement on monday, and gaf did the rest because apparently we're addicted to hype trains and/or crushingly thirsty for nintendo news.
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
A Nintendo employee mentioning on a podcast that they have "a big announcement" = Nintendo hyping a product? Uh...what?
Nintendo's official channels made no mention of a product announcement to my knowledge. The only hype is the hype started by yourself.
perfect.
Yep! Just like I was saying earlier in the thread in how so many over analyze a thing and get so over-hyped, they then start acting like a company has killed their family pet and get severely disappointed.
Everyone is crushingly thirsty for news about things they love. Look at PSX and everyone over analyzing Layden's Crash Bandicoot shirt thinking and hoping a Crash Bandicoot game is in the works when it means just as little as whatever pin Reggie may be wearing on his suit at an event.
fredrancour
Member
i guess i showed my bias in thread browsing. i'm far enough away from buying a ps4 timewise that i'm only around to witness nintendo-related-thirst.
For like, the millionth time; Nintendo's PR department didn't trumpet from the rooftops that they were announcing "big news". A guy in a podcast essentially said, whilst chatting about some other indie stuff; 'oh yeah that reminds me, look out for some big news on Monday'.
GAF blew it out of proportion (initially in a humorous manner and as an excuse to post the usual hilarious gifs etc), then as always some take it seriously and inevitably get their ridiculous hopes dashed.
It was clearly, to anyone with any reason, only ever going to be Minecraft or possibly another indie release date.
dampflokfreund
Banned
Yeah but its Nintendos fault if there's nothing to look forward to, so of course the fan community is hyping every little stuff, hoping it would be something great everyone is waiting for.
But its Nintendo, they give a damn about their fans.
Gladly, I knew from the beginning it would be Minecraft Wii U, so I'm not disappointed in any way.
But news like this should not be worth calling a big announcement, even if it comes from a indie guy at Nintendo. They just should kept it silent, so nobody could hype the announcement up. They should never have said it would be a big announcement. Just announced it today and nobody would be complaining.
It's the Nintendo difference.
It was an offhand comment in a podcast.
So they shouldn't announce any games unless it's the one that you want. Gotcha.
dampflokfreund
Banned
"They should never have said there would be a big announcement on monday. Just announced it today and nobody would be complaining. "
To be fair, Minecraft is a big announcement whether some may not think it. It is essentially the Tetris of this generation for kids.
That is some victim blaming-ass victim blaming stuff right there.
So because of those who can't help but irrationally get their own hopes up and throw their toys out of their pram, Nintendo's entire staff from top to bottom should refrain from showing enthusiasm when chatting about a game. Gotcha.
dampflokfreund
Banned
I know, but the problem is, kids do not care about Nintendo anymore.
Atleast in my country (Germany)
Whenever I hear kids talking in a bus, they talk about violent stuff, Playstation and smartphones.
But it is big?
That has nothing to do with this.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
This announcement is great because:
1) It's actually a very big deal, so it absolutely deserves the label "big announcement"
2) It turns the screws for everyone who worked themselves up into a stupid hypegasm about Retro Studios Dark Matoor Startropics 3: A Fire Emblem Tale Featuring John Halo and Nathan Drake: Exclusively for NX: Which Is 1000 Times More Powerful Than PS4: Also Sony Is Not Good And Nintendo Is The Best.
Seems win-win to me. I was expecting something much smaller like a sale or announcement of an announcement or something.
1) It's actually a very big deal, so it absolutely deserves the label "big announcement"
2) It turns the screws for everyone who worked themselves up into a stupid hypegasm about Retro Studios Dark Matoor Startropics 3: A Fire Emblem Tale Featuring John Halo and Nathan Drake: Exclusively for NX: Which Is 1000 Times More Powerful Than PS4: Also Sony Is Not Good And Nintendo Is The Best.
Seems win-win to me. I was expecting something much smaller like a sale or announcement of an announcement or something.