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Tag: nintendo

  • The Grande Pokemon product placement?

    The Grande Pokemon product placement?

    This is news today…..

    Tattoo artist Kane Navasard shared a photo of Ariana Grande’s new ink on Monday, tagging the singer and writing in the caption, “For the best Pokémon trainer in the game, @arianagrande.”

    Grande previously posted a photo of the tat on her Instagram Story, thanking Navasard and writing, “I’ve wanted this for so long.”

    The tattoo depicts the Pokemon character Eevee, which has fox-like ears – similar to the cat ears Grande once favored wearing – and a big tail.

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    But inquiring minds would love to know… who paid!? Certainly a tattoo could not be product PLACEMENT, could it!?

    The 25-year-old tweeted about her love of the “Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!” Nintendo Switch game on Sunday, telling a fan on Twitter how she spent one of her recent days off playing for 15 hours.

    NEVER… RIGHT///
    ?

  • WIRED magazines opines: Discontinuing the NES Classic Is a Classic Nintendo Mistake

    WIRED magazines opines: Discontinuing the NES Classic Is a Classic Nintendo Mistake

    WIRED magazines opines: Discontinuing the NES Classic Is a Classic Nintendo Mistake:

    All of this written by Julie Muncy at WIRED:

    Considering the dizzying popularity of the NES Classic—Nintendo reported in January that they had sold 1.5 million units—it’s difficult to find the logic in ending production. The product’s entire brief life seems, in hindsight, to have been a rolling disaster: Product shortages popped up almost immediately upon release in November, and even now, four months after the holiday season is over, Nintendo still hasn’t managed to overcome the scarcity issues. Repeatedly, Nintendo has stated that they were surprised by the high demand for the micro console and their supply chains struggled to product enough units to accommodate it.

    It shouldn’t have surprised the company, though—and the fact that it did is awfully telling. Preloaded with 30 original NES games, the Classic offered an entire generation of Nintendo fans an easy way to play games that they hadn’t spent time with in years. It’s a different, broader audience than the type likely to buy a dedicated Nintendo home console like the Wii U or Switch, and it hit all the right buttons at a time when the availability of classic Nintendo products was at an all-time low.

    This points to an ongoing problem that has plagued the company for years: Nintendo doesn’t seem to understand, or be interested in, the ongoing interest and affection people have for their old games. People, whether they consider themselves gamers or not, want to play Mario games, want to remember what it was like to catch Pikachu for the first time, want to feel the thrill of getting the Master Sword in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, and videogames in general are excellent at evoking it.

    And I couldn’t agree more.

     

  • Mario bank run

    Mario bank run

    The big day arrived.. MArio Run was able to be downloaded to play on iphones..

    And almost immediately as millions of downloads occurred, a collective groan about just how boring a game it actually was.. the hype told us it would be like Pokemon Go.. instead we were left with a couch potato game that could be completed entirely in three hours. Not much more than that, despite the commercials falsely advertising a highly interactive game in public..

    Mario Run.. Done.

    And now stocks are responding in kind..

    As a matter of fact, Nintendo’s stocks are down 11% since the Mario Run game became available! 

    Meanwhile in the APP store, where fortunes are made and flappy birds are craved, users who downloaded the Mario game gave it a mere two and a half stars or of five.. Very bad news for the game, which by the way also costs $10.

    One critisicm almost coming from insiders: The fact Nintendo charged the full fee for the game up front instead of multiple smaller ones and users get further..

    Despite the amount of the initial fee or smaller ones, the fact remains: Mario Run is a completely uneventful and unimaginative game that seemingly borrowed none of the best traits of the original games. So much could have been done, virtual reality wise and Pokemon Go style… But instead a lazy way out was made.

    And terrible reviews and a stock slide have developed..

    And if it is any consolation it the NIntendo stock, DeNa, the company that helped made the game, had a stock drop of 14%…

  • Mario Run gets big downloads … but the fun doesn’t last long

    Mario Run gets big downloads … but the fun doesn’t last long

    Business insiders were predicting a potential stock bounce when Mario Run was released by Nintendo. So far nada. There are, however, some mighty large downloads of the game taking place. Including in my own house.. It was downloaded 2.85 million times in its first day alone..

    But!!! Maybe wait!! Analysts at SuperData, meanwhile, have downgraded their expectations for Super Mario Run’s first-month revenue from $60 million to between $12 and $15 million,, SuperData also expects a price cut after the holidays are over..

    There may be a bigger game in place..

    Mario Run is NOT going to be the next Pokemon go (even I was misled in this department and thought it was going to be much more interactive than what it turned out to be) .. I was actually quite shocked when Nintendo allowed a game to be used on phones.. and when it turned out to be another game in the endless running genre, it was less than exciting. That said, it also has increased Nintendo’s brand and potentially brought Mario to another young generation that wasn’t overly familiar with it. I remember playing Mario on the original Nintendo. This mobile app new ensures that a new generation will recall their first game being played on their parents iPhone..

    Initial ratings for the game were strong. The surge was short term. Some more negative reviews here and there are being peppered into the mix..  Even the way the game treats Peach and Toad are being called into question..

    I think the choice to make this game a constant running game is what will impact sales and most likely the fun.. Pokemon Go was a worldwide sensation this year. This was the year to end strong with another interactive game to get people outside… to make Mario become an obsession. To see question marks and bricks in the virtual world in front of them, and be forced to do something to break them. Now that would have been fun. Instead some less than creative dullness crept in to the making of Mario Run..

    Another flaw: Super Mario Run” can be completed in about three hours … from a couch.. with no action. It will not change your life. Pokemon Go did.. Mario Run will be a blip on the radar.. A big miscalculation in my opinion..