Now that Nintendo’s got the announcement of financial losses out of the way, it can look ahead to plans for the coming year. Follow-up statements to investors revealed that Nintendo's 3DS retail games will be available to download later this year, with Wii U games hitting both digital and retail from day one. It'll all kick off with a little game called New Super Mario Bros. 2 in August, as it’ll be available both as a physical boxed release and as a direct download. The devil is in the detail, however, so Nintendo Life has a look at what was said, and how the digital sales will work.
If you were a 90s kid excited about Nintendo’s upcoming N64 console, you likely read something somewhere about the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive, also known as the 64DD or DD64.
Other nominees include games like SimCity & Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
There are some good nominees in this list that are deserving to be inducted also, but I feel Metroid has had the most impact on the industry out of all of these. Look how Metroid influenced the evolution of the Castlevania games, and the "Metroidvania" subgenre of games have become a prevailing force in gaming today. Especially now, Metroidvanias are bigger than ever.
I can very much see Resident Evil being added later too, bc it really did popularize and define the survival horror genre. I would say that one is next in line.
If any Metroid game should get the honor it should be Super Metroid , it's perfection in my eyes . 30 years later and I still feel it's the most epic shit ever .
The GBA remake deserves it or Super Metroid, the original was a very sloppy and rushed game programmed in 3 months and it shows.
If you've never played the remake, it's absolutely a must play, fixes basically every flaw in the game. Check out ExoParadigmGamer's comparison video.
“Before even Kirby was born, HAL Laboratory released the super-cute puzzler Adventures of Lolo in 1989 and it has held up beautifully.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
After reading the article and then reading the comments on it it boggles my mind how people never really understand what they read.
First many gamers are complaining that they don't want to pay the same price for digital copies as they do for retail copies. Ok, I get it....your not getting the actual game, the box, instructions,and there in no S&H cost involved so it should be cheaper. Well, if you read what Nintendo said they were doing, you would understand how pricing is going to occur. Nintendo will charge stores, EX (Best Buy) the same price for a digital or retail copy. The store has final say on the final price of both the digital and hard copies. Nintendo charges a flat fee to retailers for the actual game itself regardless of format. So its the stores that control the final price of a digital copy not Nintendo. The store is saving on S&H and the store is saving extra retail space to sell other products. They can pass the savings to the customer if they choose to.
Next, people are complaining about only being able to download a digital copy to one device. Well, yes that makes sense. It stops something called piracy. If you could download it to any device you want, that means only 1 person has to buy it and then put it on as many 3DS's as they wanted. That's not a good thing. People think if they break their 3DS or want to buy a new one the game will be lost forever. Do you honestly think Nintendo won't let you transfer the game if there is an extreme incident. Didn't they allow DSi owners to transport games to 3DS.....arent you able to tranfer 3DS E-shop games at least once with a system transfer? What makes everyone think just because Nintendo is locking your digital game to one system you will get screwed if some happens to your 3DS?
Then everyone is saying the digital games need to be linked to individual accounts. Um, that's what Club Nintendo is for! If you link you 3DS to your Club Nintendo account, guess what.....everything you buy gets stored on your account. This is how Nintendo keeps track of everything you have. Plus, we already know Wii-U will have individual accounts so everyone really needs to just relax.