Not for 3ds and Wii U I think. It still seems that the purchases are linked to the NNID:
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Nintendo FY 15 Third Quarter Financial Results Briefing (10.00 AM JST / 08.00 PM EST)
Not for 3ds and Wii U I think. It still seems that the purchases are linked to the NNID:
Bony Manifesto
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Well, behind the scenes, purchases are linked to the hardware.
Yes, that was also my point.
So reading the slides, it seems like physical game purchases won't grant you Gold points at all similar to what the Club Nintendo pamphlets inside each box did when the service was still running.
Instead, they'll take a Wii U DDP approach and only count digital purchases in order to gain gold points.
Not gonna lie, that sucks.
Instead, they'll take a Wii U DDP approach and only count digital purchases in order to gain gold points.
Not gonna lie, that sucks.
GabeTheGrouch76
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All according to keikaku.
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This is making me think that I might switch to digital-only for the next Nintendo systems. I was hoping they'd do something to support physical purchases, but I was thinking of moving towards digital in the future anyway.
Same. I pick what form my collection will take at the beginning of a generation and then stick with that.
Not of the slides, but the most important details have been released in a press briefing from NoE
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2016...=miitomo&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
dampflokfreund
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So still no interesting Nintendo news? Gosh they are so bad at PR
Craig Majaski
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The English translation is up, along with translated slides:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/160203/index.html
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Oh, wow, I didn't see the link posted on the prior page. I really need to go to bed. Sorry about that!
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/160203/index.html
Edit:
Oh, wow, I didn't see the link posted on the prior page. I really need to go to bed. Sorry about that!
Oh, cool. Thank you!
If was a financial briefing, not a PR event.
They released following information:
- Updates sales and figures until Q3 2015 (dec)
- Launch of Miitomo and Nintendo Account in march
- Pre registration will be up from Feb 17th
- Joining the pre-registration will give rewards
- A new reward program will be installed giving incentives to use the mobile app and visit/buy from eshop
- They have 4 other mobile apps/games in development, that will be released in the next fiscal year.
Again, this is not a PR event. Nobody except stockholders, business newspapers and die hard nintendo enthousiast normally follow these kind of things
Thanks!
It is impossible that the NX is a digital only platform, absolutely impossible.
Still, that doesn't mean that their PR is not bad.
It absolutely is.
It's only impossible if you view the NX as a replacement console to the Wii U or the 3DS, which Iwata said it is not. Anything is possible regarding the NX until the feature set is announced and confirmed.
DaSorcerer7
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maybe the nx is the prize and they haven't found it yet.
He never said that, and it very clearly is
higgsboson1997
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Yeah but the implications were that their poor PR was highlighted by this briefing. It wasn't, because this is not about communication with fans, this is solely for the business.
Nah, live-reporting isn't allowed anymore.
Yoshi
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Oh, then Yoshi support for NX hasn't been confirmed yet, either.
Graphics Horse
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Not much has.
But Macronix said enough to infer they will be making rom media for them once again.
Mihael Mello Keehl
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lol
Starwolf_UK
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Well the graphs sure surprised me. Given the pricing of the amiibo cards are a total rip-off in Europe (they are literally twice as expensive as any other region) I would have expected lower demand and hence lower shipment for the cards in that region. Of course the long term might be more telling here because shipments/=/sales (though apparently assholes like GAME do succeed with charging £5 for 3 Animal Crossing cards...).
Now the DLC chart slide was interesting to see Pokemon Rumble World beat Streetpass Mii Plaza. I'd be more interested in a revenue one though though that would get confusing for SSB (how do you count 3DS+Wii U DLC bundles...if it the eShop the purchase was made on?)
Traditionally it has been Japanese first > Internet google translates into English and gets it wrong > Official English translation. Kind of makes a mockery of the whole no live tweeting Q&A due to misinformation if the delayed English Q&A remains a thing.
Now the DLC chart slide was interesting to see Pokemon Rumble World beat Streetpass Mii Plaza. I'd be more interested in a revenue one though though that would get confusing for SSB (how do you count 3DS+Wii U DLC bundles...if it the eShop the purchase was made on?)
Which language?
Traditionally it has been Japanese first > Internet google translates into English and gets it wrong > Official English translation. Kind of makes a mockery of the whole no live tweeting Q&A due to misinformation if the delayed English Q&A remains a thing.
I'm certain Nintendo will do everything they can to get Yoshi onto the NX.
He did:
Though I cannot confirm when it will be launched or any other details of the system, since I have confirmed that it will be 'a dedicated video game platform with a brand new concept,' it should mean that we do not intend it to become a simple 'replacement' for Nintendo 3DS or Wii U
But I'll interpret your reply as a leaked confirmation of the opposite, since you're much more likely to have inside info on this.
How do we know that? They didn't splurge on Yoshi merch info at the Q3FY15 briefing! Yoshi delayed until 2017!
UnemployedVillain
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It's a financial briefing not a press event
Graphics Horse
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Well Iwata said simple replacement, it's probably not that simple.
It's a bad financial briefing.
The key word being 'simple'. As in it won't be a simple Wii U2 or 4DS.
I don't have any inside info, I wouldn't be posting in this thread if I did. But there's plenty of indications from Nintendo that it will be their next main platform and WiiU and 3DS are being left behind. like Tanabe at E3 regarding Metroid Prime:
By Nintendo's choice.
Neff
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It's their new system and they're obviously going to make games for it, and it's almost certainly being made with their development consolidation plans in mind, but they've repeatedly pressed the idea that it's not a replacement or successor for either of their current platforms.
http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/03/n...onsole-wont-be-a-new-version-of-wii-or-wii-u/
Kimishima also stresses that Wii U in particular will continue to be part of their schedule.
Captain Smoker
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No, by the fact that it's a financial briefing.
So it's a law that specifies that more transparency is forbidden in case of financial briefings?
Edit: I mean just look at infamous companies like EA.
UnemployedVillain
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According to who? Random internet forum dwellers who Nintendo aren't targeting or addressing or give a shit about because the briefing isn't relevant to them in any way? Maybe when we start seeing their stockholders and board members tweeting "Shitty briefing" I'll agree
Baron_Calamity
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They've said that before when the DS came out.
Neff
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Indeed they did. And I don't blame them. And had the DS not taken off like it did, they'd have come out looking like they said the right thing.
What's important regarding the Wii U is that it more or less comprises the bulk of Nintendo's core market, and the console isn't even 4 years old yet, and most owners probably haven't even had one that long. They could dump it in order to focus on NX, but that would potentially entail several risks. Alienating their long-term audience in one fell swoop, at the behest of a new, unproven device, and ditching a piece of hardware which is -despite poor performance- still working for them, would be bad business in any situation.
3DS is entirely different as it's been on the shelf longer, and stretched much further outside of Nintendo's die-hard audience, so any kind of successor will probably be welcomed. In addition, my gut tells me that NX will be closer in terms of marketability to 3DS than to Wii U. But as always I'm open to being wrong.
Spieler Eins
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Expect meltdowns on several levels, especially after the next Zelda delay. Because that game ain't coming out before the NX is here, especially with someone from financials leading Nintendo now. So you better all hope for NX 2016.
Don't be so naive. 3DS and Wii U will be a goner after NX marketing gets going. That's just standard PR to not scare their current platforms' userbase too early (which they always had and never fullfilled). Their lineups already look abandonded at this point, so by next year they'll be non-existent.
I think it's less impossible than we think.
Nintendo seems to be willing to take risks and do things for the sake of being different. It seems like digital only could be the kind of ham-fisted cost cutting, 'forward thinking' sorts of things Nintendo might do.
Would be the first Nintendo console that I wouldn't buy, and it'd make me really sad.
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