Badlucktroll
Member
Can i do the same with Konami and ask them about Silent Hill and Metal Gear?
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Nintendo Fan spent 40,000$ on Nintendo Stock so he could ask executives why the company won't make more of a fan-favorite series
AMSCD
Member
Problem is that GX needs analog triggers. Switch Pro Controller doesn't have that.
Heck they could port GX to Switch with nothing but 1080p docked enabled and online multiplayer to "test the market" and I'd buy it for 60 bucks.
The Fartist
Gold Member
The Holy Mountain is like a .GIF machine
edit: Jodorowsky movies in general, come to think of it
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64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
GAF needs to host a fundraiser to get 1 million bucks, so it can all be invested into Nintendo and we can collectively go ask them to make a new F-Zero. Then, and only then, will we see results.
Bo_Hazem
Banned
I think he can get a profit out of those stocks as well. Nintendo is healthier than ever, but of course things could go down as well.
the_master
Member
Well invested!
Instead of investing in random crap you don't care about, invest in the things that you love.
And ask the question!
Well played
Instead of investing in random crap you don't care about, invest in the things that you love.
And ask the question!
Well played
Lunarorbit
Member
Ah this person is going to make money on that Nintendo stock so I don't get all the hand wringing.
Draugoth
Gold Member
That would actually work, unironically.
Edgelord79
Gold Member
I was more writing at the implication of the headline here. Not the actual investment.
Torrent of Pork
Banned
What a legend.
Kiddo Cabbusses
Member
Possibly, but considering Konami has it's hands in other businesses you're probably going to have more conflict with others' interests even compared to this.
Well, the economy's tanking, so he can't exactly be cashing out that money in the short-term now.
Nintendo's pretty safe, though, so he's just gotta hold out a decade.
That said, one of the difficulties of buying stock like Nintendo's/Konami's is that they're not NASDAQ or NYSE, which makes them simply harder to purchase even if you have the money. I don't have access to them on my own stock-purchasing apps, otherwise I'd have bought them already.
And, well, of course, who else actually has 40k to go around? I sure don't.
justiceiro
Marlboro: Other M
He needs to buy all shares if he really wants Nintendo to touch f zero again.
Bluecondor
Member
Am I the only one who read this story and immediately thought of this?
Nintendo needed Omelette the chicken at this meeting. Omelette only uses 5 attack points per argument. $40,000 guy would've taken a seat in seconds.
Nintendo needed Omelette the chicken at this meeting. Omelette only uses 5 attack points per argument. $40,000 guy would've taken a seat in seconds.
Icymanipulator
Member
That’s so baller
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
"Sending me dick pics won't get me to reveal the release date for the new F Zero. Does that ever work?"
Naked Lunch
Member
F-Zero GX is still the best game ever released on a Nintendo console.
Fuck Nintendo for never releasing a sequel or at least an HD remaster with online play.
Fuck Nintendo for never releasing a sequel or at least an HD remaster with online play.
PonyStation4
Member
Thread title should be "Nintendo fan invested 40k" not "Nintendo fan spent 40K". They didn't just throw away money to ask the question
MrTroubleMaker
Member
lol that amount does squat. if it was like 25% of the company then they will "listen"
StateofMajora
Banned
I will do the same thing but with a lot more money.
Unknown Soldier
Member
If he's smart enough, he'll hang onto that $40k worth of Nintendo stock.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
… then they bursted out laughing *hahaha suckers*.
lostinblue
Banned
JimboJones
Member
Please make a game in a series that routinely underperforms and the last big one was an especially big flop.
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HoofHearted
Member
lostinblue
Banned
F-Zero GX was a flop?
It's certainly not their biggest hitter, but that hasn't stopped them from doing niche games before.
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yurinka
Member
Companies like to make money, so they make sequels of their IPs that make more money. Some series like F-Zero didn't have good sales, at least not at the level of the IPs they constantly bring back again and again. Pretty likely Nintendo considers IPs like F-Zero wouldn't sell enough to justify the cost of bringing them back.
Numbers may not be accurate, but seems safe to think it didn't sell a million copies. I assume back then sales weren't that bad considering the relatively poor Game Cube install base and that racing games weren't that popular outside a few IPs.
https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/F-Zero
Numbers may not be accurate, but seems safe to think it didn't sell a million copies. I assume back then sales weren't that bad considering the relatively poor Game Cube install base and that racing games weren't that popular outside a few IPs.
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Captain Chaos
Member
I think they'll bring it back for the next Switch, probably in the form of a GX remaster.
Stunts like this help. Top guy!
Stunts like this help. Top guy!
Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
Thats not a problem.
I can play F-zero GX with a Generic controller in a PC (you know how) .
TLZ
Banned
daffyduck
Member
Buying Nintendo stock is a bad investment?
Edgelord79
Gold Member
StateofMajora
Banned
Are you suggesting it didn't make a profit or just that it wasn't a huge hit?
Times change. The series has got a lot more recognition over the years from the internet, and the install base would be far bigger.
Fuz
Banned
It's a good investment though.
Edgelord79
Gold Member
lostinblue
Banned
Yes, according to that it sold ~0,7 million, which isn't stellar, but we have to remember that the Gamecube only sold ~22 million units.
That's a 1:31 ratio. So that would equal to 3.1 million on the Wii or Switch (consoles past the 100 million mark).
Starfox has been doing so-so since after the N64 days and it still got new releases here and there. I think Nintendo just doesn't have ideas or know what to do with it, technically the last F-Zero they did was F-Zero X.
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OldBoyGamer
Banned
He had the opportunity to ask about the Metroid prime trilogy on switch and he asked about fZero? I mean I liked fZero but…..
yurinka
Member
I'd release a new F-Zero as Mario Kart standalone DLC.
Add some F-Zero Stages, F-Zero ships and F-Zero songs as a skin to play on a special F-Zero game mode without items and without the other stages and vehicles. The Mario Kart has a Mario face on the cover, so it would sell.
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kraspkibble
Permabanned.
gamers are some of the weirdest people on the planet.
fair enough if the guy has enough money to do this but it's a bit pathetic.
fair enough if the guy has enough money to do this but it's a bit pathetic.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Say what you will, that's a baller ass move.
AJUMP23
Gold Member
Only if he sells it at a loss. What if he sells his stock for $50,000.
Kev Kev
Member
Alebrije
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Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Nintendo is the king of sitting on big properties for years, only to unleash the floodgates. Luigi's Mansion started as a minor hit on GameCube, the series was dormant for 12 years, and it's sequel on 3DS sold almost 7 million copies. 3 sold almost 12 million.
It's like the longer Nintendo lets these series lay dormant, the bigger the splash they can make once they bring it back.
I don't think F-Zero will be any exception. No doubt they've tried and failed a few times over the last few platforms to bring it back, but I guarantee it will happen.
It's like the longer Nintendo lets these series lay dormant, the bigger the splash they can make once they bring it back.
I don't think F-Zero will be any exception. No doubt they've tried and failed a few times over the last few platforms to bring it back, but I guarantee it will happen.