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[ugoo18]

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- Online Pokémon Stadium World Championship (Wii U)
- Take Gamepad to friends house with your stats and figurines for local MP or online team deathmatch
- Buy and collect toy NFC figurines and toy NPC power up medals and arenas
- Monthly local and international tournaments with rare figures as prizes.
- TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads,
- Saturday morning TV Tournament show

My wallet just screamed in agony thanks to this.

 

[ugoo18]

10 years too late.

Spoiler

Don't tell me some are still playing?

There's always someone playing....in digital form. Don't know how many people still buy cards though.

It's more popular than ever right now. Granted the TV series has lost a lot of it's luster but the card game is even bigger now than it was back in the Pharaoh vs Seto Kaiba and GX days (The game has become a lot more in depth or complex compared to the early days as expected of any competitive game).

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

Let that pokemon nfc become real I am buying a new shelf to put in my room to hold all of that shit

 

[Terrell]

What's Kieghley doing wearing a Luigi hat?
Put your nacho pretiosa back on, Your Holiness.

 

[Aquamarine]

It's like the people in here WANT to be ripped off...anyway, if this happens in Pokemon it won't be in the main games and it won't be by Gamefreak because they do whatever they want basically

Well you have to remember that Nintendo actually experimented with this stuff once before. Remember collecting e-Reader cards for the GBA?

This is just the next evolution of that. Nothing wrong with Nintendo looking to make money, especially if it will help fuel the creation of more hardcore-gamer-centric titles in the future.

 

[LoftyTheMetroid]

Well you have to remember that Nintendo actually experimented with this stuff once before. Remember collecting e-Reader cards for the GBA?

This is just the next evolution of that. Nothing wrong with Nintendo looking to make money, especially if it will help fuel the creation of more hardcore-gamer-centric titles in the future.

I felt like that niche was fulfilled by DLC. I think Iwata even mentioned that during the Iwata Asks over NSMB2, talking about the SMB3 eReader cards.

I'm interested in what Nintendo is planning, but I fear that it will be gimmicky and/or overpriced if it takes inspiration from Skylanders or Disney Infinity. I'm hoping it's something genuinely cool or innovative...

 

[FreeMufasa]

I wonder if Nintendo is prepping a new IP based around the concept? I know it's going to be a crowded market once Disney Infinity hits, but I can see them doing some novel stuff with it that neither that or Skylanders are doing.

Think smash bros U will feature this

 

[Nekofrog]

Which is pretty much the reason they're not skipping it out this year.

NFC or not Nintendo are going to play hard ball once E3 rolls around.

Two years too late.

 

[Anth0ny]

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- Online Pokémon Stadium World Championship (Wii U)
- Take Gamepad to friends house with your stats and figurines for local MP or online team deathmatch
- Buy and collect toy NFC figurines and toy NPC power up medals and arenas
- Monthly local and international tournaments with rare figures as prizes.
- TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads,
- Saturday morning TV Tournament show

this makes so much sense that nintendo will never do it

 

[BlackJace]

Two years too late.

Yeah they should pack it up without releasing of their big titles.

 

[LiveFromKyoto]

There have been a couple of things tossed around as potential "saviours" of the Wii U.

NFC Pokemon is the one I can see really pulling it off. That could be humongous for them.

 

[ShironRedshift]

this makes so much sense that nintendo will never do it

Why would it make sense? Pretty much everything you could do in such a game you can already do in the current Pokemon games, except without the need for buying tons of figures in order to do so. The most significant difference between such a game and the existing Pokemon game is that that kind of game would be built around literally just milking people of their money, which is the real reason it wouldn't happen: Nintendo just doesn't work that way and doesn't treat their IPs that way, as they don't want to risk people ending up just getting annoyed by that kind of thing and feeling ripped off in the end and their IPs ending up devalued (especially as this type of thing carries the risk that people end up getting confused and start to think that they need the figures to play any new Pokemon games and just starting to give up on the series). Nintendo isn't a company like Activsion or EA that just doesn't care about such things at all, but actually is afraid of what could end up happening to their IPs in the future if they pull a stunt like that, and that's why they'd never do something like this.

 

[Takao]

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- Online Pokémon Stadium World Championship (Wii U)
- Take Gamepad to friends house with your stats and figurines for local MP or online team deathmatch
- Buy and collect toy NFC figurines and toy NPC power up medals and arenas
- Monthly local and international tournaments with rare figures as prizes.
- TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads,
- Saturday morning TV Tournament show

This is the problem with NFC on Wii U. Look at where the Pokemon statue is. It's actually where the NFC reader is on the Wii U Gamepad. That thing is going to fall off the moment you try to use the controller. Which means you'd likely have to have a button (or touch screen command) just to swap out characters with one locked for gameplay even when the figure isn't on the controller. Unless you're busting out Wii motes to actually play the game it's no where near as seamless or user friendly as Skylanders is.

 

[DaBoss]

This is the problem with NFC on Wii U. Look at where the Pokemon statue is. It's actually where the NFC reader is on the Wii U Gamepad. That thing is going to fall off the moment you try to use the controller. Which means you'd likely have to have a button (or touch screen command) just to swap out characters with one locked for gameplay even when the figure isn't on the controller. Unless you're busting out Wii motes to actually play the game it's no where near as seamless or user friendly as Skylanders is.

You wouldn't have to keep it there at all times. It can be made so you just put it on and then you take it off and it would still be activated.

 

[Exterminieren]

I don't think we'll see NFC Pokemon in an actual battling game.

It wouldn't surprise me if Pokemon Rumble U were announced to support NFC functionality, though.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Things you can do with NFC:
- Easy purchasing via NFC credit card
- Secondary authentication via NFC authenticators
- Novelty toy junk like Skylanders, but that already exists on Wii U without the Gamepad NFC

Pokemon, definitely (if Nintendo is smart).

 

[Effect]

This is the problem with NFC on Wii U. Look at where the Pokemon statue is. It's actually where the NFC reader is on the Wii U Gamepad. That thing is going to fall off the moment you try to use the controller. Which means you'd likely have to have a button (or touch screen command) just to swap out characters with one locked for gameplay even when the figure isn't on the controller. Unless you're busting out Wii motes to actually play the game it's no where near as seamless or user friendly as Skylanders is.

Small suction cups should solve the problem. After a while they're wear out and you'll want to buy a new one. They get people into buying the same figure multiple times.

However I think people do miss why Pokemon is so popular and why bringing it to a console isn't a guaranteed for it to be a hit. Also why the fabled Pokemon MMO wouldn't work either. What they're doing with Pokemon X and Y is the direction they need to go in while allowing for more internet play. Console wise something like Pokemon Battle Revolution is where I see them going. Or an RPG completely different and independent of the main series on the hand held. You can't just take the hand held series and slap it on the console though. That's not how people want to play it. It's just suited more to a hand held even if you are playing the game at home (which I don't doubt a LOT of people do).

 

[Somnid]

The Skylanders model of having the figure sit on the NFC spot is dumb. All you need to do is tap and hold it when you want to save. It doesn't need to sit there.

 

[bequietdrive]

The Skylanders model of having the figure sit on the NFC spot is dumb. All you need to do is tap and hold it when you want to save. It doesn't need to sit there.

Pretty much this. A fully fleshed out Pokemon Stadium type game , not a rush mess like PBR but something that actually has a decent amount of content with NFC support could be massive.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

The Skylanders model of having the figure sit on the NFC spot is dumb. All you need to do is tap and hold it when you want to save. It doesn't need to sit there.

they are trying to market it as important and needed key to the game, if parents/kids knew it was just a code on a chip you only needed to scan, well that's not as cool to market

 

[Axispowers]

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- Online Pokémon Stadium World Championship (Wii U)
- Take Gamepad to friends house with your stats and figurines for local MP or online team deathmatch
- Buy and collect toy NFC figurines and toy NPC power up medals and arenas
- Monthly local and international tournaments with rare figures as prizes.
- TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads, TV Ads,
- Saturday morning TV Tournament show

Dear mother of god.....

 

[Bullza2o]

I'm excited for a possible Pokemon + NFC combo but really scared at the same time.

Maybe they can do this with the TCG also. This way not everyone can get legendary/rare Pokemons.

 

[Vexxan]

I know Nintendo's trying to be innovative but I just want regular games. It's not like the NFC possibilities are endless, adding Pokémon to it is the obvious choice for a money cow but I seriously hope Nintendo isn't spending all their time thinking of what they could do with NFC.