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StarTopic Nintendo General Discussion |ST4 Jan. 2022| Resurrections

The next Switch model will be called...

  • Nintendo Switch 2

    Votes: 40 23.5%

  • Nintendo Switch Pro

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Switch 4k

    Votes: 13 7.6%

  • Nintendo Switch U

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Switch +

    Votes: 11 6.5%

  • Nintendo Switch Max

    Votes: 3 1.8%

  • Nintendo Switch Up

    Votes: 3 1.8%

  • New Nintendo Switch

    Votes: 5 2.9%

  • Nintendo Switch Advance

    Votes: 11 6.5%

  • Super Nintendo Switch

    Votes: 53 31.2%

  • Nintendo Switch Super

    Votes: 3 1.8%

  • Nintendo Switchxty Four

    Votes: 4 2.4%

  • Nintendo Switchcube

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Swiitch

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Change

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Nintendo Modify

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Nintendo Adjust

    Votes: 2 1.2%

  • Nintendo Wii U 2

    Votes: 6 3.5%

  • Other (Please specify)

    Votes: 7 4.1%

  • Switch Plus

    Votes: 5 2.9%
  • Total voters
    170
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Skittzo said:
Not sure if anything could be bigger than this, but the following could be of a similar magnitude without requiring acquisitions:

  • One of the big three fully goes third party
  • One of the big three announces a brand new console/handheld
That's about all I can think of.
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Microsoft goes third party, just because they decided to go insane this week lol
 
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Dardan Sandiego said:
I actually toyed with the idea of making a general acquisition discussion thread on Fami because of recent stuff but I was afraid that there might not be much to discuss.

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Dewit.
 
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Just realised Kotick is probably going to get a huge sum of money out of this when the deal closes and now I feel physically sick
 
Nintendo buying Konami, selling off Metal Gear, Castlevania and Contra and only keeping the rights to the TurboGrafx-16 and Hudson Soft's library
 
Emily said:
All of these Microsoft acquisitions are about beefing up a subscription service (GamePass).
I'm sure Sony will acquire some studios to beef up content on their upcoming service, too.

So the big question is: Should Nintendo get involved in these subscription wars? NSO has attracted 32 million subscribers so far.
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I think Nintendo has all the tools to bring their current NSO subscription up many levels still - they're just not in a hurry hehe, they've added just 3 of their own retro systems and one of Segas yet and more surely to come - I dont think they need to acquire companies to make a appealing subscription system. And honestly, I dont think MS needed Activision blizzard to make gamepass even better. But they bought them anyway, a 70 billion dollar investment is quite a price tag to just boost gamepass.

Now ofc, Nintendo could revamp NSO at some point and add more value to it by adding more games outside of Trials and retro systems, but I'm not sure they want race against Sony and MS there. But rather keep evolving NSO like they currently are but at the same time they need to adapt to what's currently going on. Somehow.. not sure how.
 
Skittzo said:
Not sure if anything could be bigger than this, but the following could be of a similar magnitude without requiring acquisitions:

  • One of the big three fully goes third party
  • One of the big three announces a brand new console/handheld
That's about all I can think of.
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Sega and Konami merge?
 
A few years ago, Square Enix said they were very interested in launching their own subscription service.

To build up their content portfolio, I wouldn't be surprised if SE tried to acquire/merge with another Japanese company.
 
The biggest problem with NSO is that a majority of people seem to just... not care about virtual console. At least speaking anecdotally, from a majority of my friends list who I know are subscribed + the group on my family plan who have the Expansion Pak, very few actually installed / played the NES, SNES and 64 apps...

Expanding out with DLC and other perks is a smart move and I'm excited to see where they take it this year. I far prefer this model to Nintendo succumbing to battle passes, since classic DLC often splinters the user base.
 
I sort of want Japanese publishers to merge because of whatever funny shortened name would come out of it

E.g. Tecbamcoco after Koei-Tecmo and Bandai-Namco merge
 
I tried the KH Cloud demo, and it worked very well - but man, the time limited demo surely wont atract any new buyers - it last about as long to reach the beach :p and run around for a minute.
 
Forget Japan, they need to bring back the glorious N64 era by buying PlayTonic and putting them on SilverNose 007 and Flawless Dusk!
 
In all seriousness, there's only really one move Nintendo can make in response to this industry shaking news:

Acquire Good-Feel, merge them with EPD and Intelligent Systems, and, invest the entirety of their liquid cash reserves, and use the entire workforce of the combined super-developer Entertainment, Planning, Development, Intelligence, Systems, Good, and Feel (EPDISGF) to create a new Wario Land game which is so bloated, so insanely ambitious, so full of farts, so well animated, so ethically disturbed and so philosophically misinformed that it crashes the entire gaming market (console, mobile, PC and streaming) and forces every gaming company out of business, thus ending this madness once and for all

Only Wario can save us now
 
I wish I lived on the planet where Wario Land 5 had a development team of 1000 plus and a budget of $9 billion
 
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MisterSpo said:
In all seriousness, there's only really one move Nintendo can make in response to this industry shaking news:

Acquire Good-Feel, merge them with EPD and Intelligent Systems, and, invest the entirety of their liquid cash reserves, and use the entire workforce of the combined super-developer Entertainment, Planning, Development, Intelligence, Systems, Good, and Feel (EPDISGF) to create a new Wario Land game which is so bloated, so insanely ambitious, so full of farts, so well animated, so ethically disturbed and so philosophically misinformed that it crashes the entire gaming market (console, mobile, PC and streaming) and forces every gaming company out of business, thus ending this madness once and for all

Only Wario can save us now
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Wario the trust buster.

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