Nintendo Switch 2 - For the Soytendo consoomers to speculate about the successor to the Switch, recently announced for 2025.

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Fox Girl Enjoyer said:
You can sue Palworld all day but the Chinese are coming in and will create competition and reduce profitability.
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lol that's such a stupid mess. The Palworld devs made so much fucking money at launch Nintendo could win a dozen times and not put a dent in their purse. They'll just keep on selling it, and even if Nintendo somehow convinces a court to kill the product and bar the Palworld devs from selling it, they'll just rename it, change up the art style a bit, and start it all up again.

"But muh precedent!" Nigger the chinks don't give one flying fuck about your laws. They'll just keep on selling that shit straight from China. Even if you ban it from all the storefronts they'll just sell it from their own, and you know people will still go for it.
 
moocow said:
lol that's such a stupid mess. The Palworld devs made so much fucking money at launch Nintendo could win a dozen times and not put a dent in their purse. They'll just keep on selling it, and even if Nintendo somehow convinces a court to kill the product and bar the Palworld devs from selling it, they'll just rename it, change up the art style a bit, and start it all up again.

"But muh precedent!" Nigger the chinks don't give one flying fuck about your laws. They'll just keep on selling that shit straight from China. Even if you ban it from all the storefronts they'll just sell it from their own, and you know people will still go for it.
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Pocketpair is a Japanese company, so I imagine Nintendo could fuck them over much harder than if they were operating out of China. They're going after Pocketpair for vague gameplay concepts rather than art direction, after all.
 
Raging Capybara said:

The chinks are going after Animal Crossing now. Good, Nintendo is getting cornered on all fronts.
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I'd really love to see a game that kind of returns Animal Crossing to its "roots" as a life sim in a rural Japanese countryside town, mostly surrounded by forest. Your character then moves in and steadily starts improving life there by repairing local facilities, unlocking more areas to travel, until eventually the small dying country town is thriving again.

Oh wait, that's Stardew Valley.
 
Zaireeka said:
Pocketpair is a Japanese company, so I imagine Nintendo could fuck them over much harder than if they were operating out of China. They're going after Pocketpair for vague gameplay concepts rather than art direction, after all.
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Oh I thought they were a Chinese company. Heh ... god dammit, am I gonna get anything factually correct this week or am I doomed to shitpost from ignorance by accident?

Still, Japan's patent system isn't quite as insane as America's is it? I was under the impression (here I go assuming again :story:) prior art actually has power there to deflect from retarded patents.
 
Fox Girl Enjoyer said:
AlphaDream was fine since all they made were Mario and Luigi games. They tied themselves too much to those games. They also had a lot of debt.,
Rare however was the ones keeping the N64 alive. Nintendo was struggling but had a small niche in the US with the N64. That completely collapsed with the Gamecube. It also says a lot too when the only time Donkey Kong was a significant selling series was when Rare made it (even DK64 did well). Retro's games did well but never close to DKC's sales.
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Nintendo could put them on other games, they were obviously very talented.

Yeah, I think I heard Bananza didn't sell super great either, did fine but not a breakout hit.

Timaeus Testified said:
I'd really love to see a game that kind of returns Animal Crossing to its "roots" as a life sim in a rural Japanese countryside town, mostly surrounded by forest. Your character then moves in and steadily starts improving life there by repairing local facilities, unlocking more areas to travel, until eventually the small dying country town is thriving again.

Oh wait, that's Stardew Valley.
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Can I get that but with good art and no faggotry?
 
Crossposting, but fwiw, here's the new CEO for NOA.

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Replacing the American branch CEOs few months post launch of a new product really looks bad.

In general Nintendo is acting really fucking weird in the last year. Yeah they were always greedy, but now it comes as trying to torpedo their own brand.

The most mundane explanation is them owing a fuck ton of money to the Yakuza, or having some insane internal spending that they keep under wrap.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Replacing the American branch CEOs few months post launch of a new product really looks bad.
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It’s been 6 years and they replaced him with the VP who was there way longer. She’s been there longer than Reggie, the dude that picked Bowser as his replacement.

The real cynical take is Nintendo went “the majority of consoles Reggie was in charge of trying to sell did terribly and his replacement is doing just as bad in selling stuff to the public. Get rid of him”

But people really underestimate how long 6 years is, especially if you come in from the outside.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Replacing the American branch CEOs few months post launch of a new product really looks bad.

In general Nintendo is acting really fucking weird in the last year. Yeah they were always greedy, but now it comes as trying to torpedo their own brand.

The most mundane explanation is them owing a fuck ton of money to the Yakuza, or having some insane internal spending that they keep under wrap.
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It took a long time for the Switch 2 to even be unveiled, there were probably some issues internally for a long while.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
In general Nintendo is acting really fucking weird in the last year. Yeah they were always greedy, but now it comes as trying to torpedo their own brand.
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The people who have been in charge since Iwata died are more finance types than engineering types, and they are literally testing how high they can push prices without torpedoing demand. They have probably come close to that point with Switch 2.
 
6MillionCoofs said:
It’s been 6 years and they replaced him with the VP who was there way longer. She’s been there longer than Reggie, the dude that picked Bowser as his replacement.

The real cynical take is Nintendo went “the majority of consoles Reggie was in charge of trying to sell did terribly and his replacement is doing just as bad in selling stuff to the public. Get rid of him”

But people really underestimate how long 6 years is, especially if you come in from the outside.
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The issue is the timing. Sure, he's been there a decent time, but you usually don't can the CEO of the subsidiary that oversees your biggest market this early. The console won't be 7 months old by the time he leaves. He's basically there through the holidays and that's it.

It should also be noted that Davon isn't alone. The actual CEO is Satoru Shibata who headed up Nintendo of Europe and has a lot of other roles at Nintendo. This seems like a tard wrangler position and its kind of similar to what happened with Jim Ryan (who also fucked up and got canned). Contrast this to Reggie where he left 2 years after the Switch was out and he got to make a whole video on Nintendo's Twitter. This feels like a "he got forced out" kind of retirement and not the normal retirement. The fact he's out on a quarter end feels kind of like a cooperate decision too.
 
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