The Nintendo Direct official thread

[CrazyT]

Cloud in smash.... holy fucking shit. Thats it. Thats fucking it man, Nintendo direct delivered. Fuck everythin

Edit: Phew. That was unexpected. Well here's the trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRLo5_JPaew

[Tad]

Overall, it was okay. They dipped into their back catalogue which is nice, but if you buy Nintendo stuff, the chances are you've played them already. The ZeldaPT most certainly did not look like anything was reworked. The dolphin emulated version looks better!

I'm annoyed by Nintendo's crappy management of Starfox and this wii u game looks no different. The sad thing is, we all know it won't sell and they'll use these crap sales as a reason not to make another one. Having to render to two screens is clearly effecting the games overall quality, so why do it. Nintendo?

Oh, and the Amiibo dlc/microtransaction stuff can go die in a fire. It's an awful thing to cut on disk content and the lists are just getting longer with each game.

My last comment will be the superb troll by Nintendo at the end. I wonder how many people thought they were getting FF7.

[CrazyT]

Its funny what Final fantasy 7 does to people. It hit me pretty hard as well. Ff7 is just one of those games man

[crackdude]

Sorry, DLC for a two year old game doesn't excite me in the leastest.

[George]

I dunno what people expected? I mean its like... all their big games are announced. If they continue to sprinkle their big announcements then when it comes to E3 it will be the same shit again "Nintendo has nothing etc".

Not disagreeing that they have 'almost nothing' and that the future is NX. But this is in the middle of November, I didn't expect new announcements until sometime in Feb-June. Not November.

Dragon Quest VII & VIII I see you.

I think this is just more for fans to understand that Nintendo is paying attention and working on hitting consumer demands. Getting Square's Dragon Quest games, special edition Fire Emblem package and even Mother 3  finally being brought over.

Not huge for non-fans, but pretty good considering...

[CrazyT]

The thing with directs is that they always do have a lot of games I want. This one had more than I can afford actually. But ultimatly a direct is PR and is supposed to catch a lot of people´s attention. Tbh what this one did show great content and it ended with a BANG. I realize that most directs in the past, including E3 lacked that Bang. But then again E3 requires a loot more to impress people. Its all about expecations I guess. And in the end this one delivered for me personally.

[pirovash88]

DQ is what I've been waiting for some I'm content with this Direct.

Could the showing of Cloud in Smash subtly mean that FF7 remake is coming to NX?

Also yokai is awesome.

[CrazyT]

The small bit they showed of Zelda Wii U was another thing that surprised me.



The artstyle direction is just wow

[Berto]

Sorry, DLC for a two year old game doesn't excite me in the leastest.

For FFVII fan, it doesnt matter where the game he would be show up, as long as he showed up.
If I were Nintendo I'll contact Activision to get Crash and Spyro to the game...
To add tension to their rival since they couldn't get them in PSASBR. 

[crackdude]

I'm not saying having Cloud isn't cool. I was just expecting more games! They presented NOTHING new, after an even more lackluster E3.

The WiiU has had 2 good games this whole year. TWO! While other platforms are swimming in great games.

I expected Nintendo to step up, but the most exciting thing is DLC, rereleases of 20 year old games (NEXT YEAR) and a remaster of a game that IS ALREADY PLAYABLE ON THE CONSOLE.

But wow those 3.7 seconds of new Zelda am I right

[CrazyT]

Probably why theyre mostly supporting their infinetely replayable games like smash, splatoon and mario maker. At least here thats also the reason why it keeps getting used. Xenoblade X is the only game im buying for the wii u this year. The rest of my time goes to other consoles/PC. Its also the reason why I cant really be upset anymore about the lack of releases. Between the wii u and other consoles i have a hard time keeping up.

[crackdude]

I'm thinking about poor little Billy that wanted to play Smash so much, as well as all the other Nintendo franchises. And now he does have Smash........and that's it.

Poor Billy won't buy the NX when it comes out. In fact, I highly doubt he'll ever buy any Nintendo console again.
This is the Sega Saturn all over again, and this time not even the portables are stopping the sinking ship. And while I like to see Nintendo fail (yes, I'm a Sega fanboy, who would've known), I hate to see the last gaming company with tradition going down the DLC, plastic toys, F2P roads.

[Tad]

I don't want Nintendo to go as such, but they're making it increasingly difficult to bother with them anymore. Pokemon played a huge part of my childhood and so did the N64, but they just keep going for this gimmicky stuff and failing to adapt at all.

[CrazyT]

I'm thinking about poor little Billy that wanted to play Smash so much, as well as all the other Nintendo franchises. And now he does have Smash........and that's it.

Poor Billy won't buy the NX when it comes out. In fact, I highly doubt he'll ever buy any Nintendo console again.
This is the Sega Saturn all over again, and this time not even the portables are stopping the sinking ship. And while I like to see Nintendo fail (yes, I'm a Sega fanboy, who would've known), I hate to see the last gaming company with tradition going down the DLC, plastic toys, F2P roads.

I mean its a pretty shitty choice either way for a little kid. Because either its a dead console with very few games but all of them suit him. Or its the one with amazing support but little of it actuallly suit him and has to deal with either the big AAA games like COD, witcher, assassins creed etc. Or the few kids games that actually also exploit the kid with games like skylanders, disney infinity, lego dimensions. Unless nintendo starts to only support 1 console (or whats rumored to be a hybrid), I dont think they can make a platform attractive by themselves, for themselves and also third party. I do not see someone buy a nintendo console for a witcher game ever. 3rd parties also wont be bothered(or dont have the expertise) to make games in the vein of nintendo's. They've failed on the wii when they had the installbase. They wont try it again with the state of the industry and a lower installbase. So nintendo is basically all by themselves. Notice that all 3DS games are exclusives either through their own works or partnerships/deals. 3DS with its low specs can still manage, but HD is taking too much resources from them I think.

[crackdude]

I mean its a pretty shitty choice either way for a little kid.

I dont think they can make a platform attractive by themselves, for themselves and also third party.

The points I most agree with.

After Iwata's passing it was important for Nintendo to show a great line-up. A good focus. As it stands, it seems he was the last true videogamer on those board meetings.
Nintendo is done for.