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Nintendo and Connectivity
Thursday / 05.18.06 / 12:06AM / Joe / all entries in Slashdot Comment History
Background: this discussion was held just before Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures came out and everybody was all uptight about GameCube games that required a GBA to play. The eReader was also a big bash-Nintendo topic at the time, being a device that used trading cards to unlock content or add content to GBA games. Complete original discussion here. My favorite part is the anonymous third-party posting after my reply.
Pisses me off
by Jerf (Score: 0, Flamebait)
Nintendo's marketting is really pissing me off. I own a GBSPA and I don't regret it, but their shameless attempts to make you buy extra crap for it is infuriating, because they cheat and make things that have no technical reason to require a Gamecube, or a Gameboy, have them.
I might have bought the Mario games, rehashes that they are, but I'm ticked off that to truly use everything on the cart, I have to shell out for a e-Reader. Why? No technical reason, just that Nintendo wants to sell you an e-Reader.
It backfired; now I'm considering getting a flash ROM for the GB and putting the Nintendo emulator on it instead. To hell with that crap.
So here's another game that sounds like it should be playable with just two Gameboys but requires a Gamecube (probably). I am not impressed here at all.
Not going to stop buying games for my GB but I find myself avoiding Nintendo's first-party games like the plague. I don't have a GameCube, I'm not going to get a GameCube, I don't want a GameCube. (I have a PS2 and if I get a second console it'll be an XBox... or considering the likely timing of that purchase, an XBox 2 if it's reverse-compatible at all.)
I'm a customer, not a mooing cash cow to be milked. The way it works is that I give you money for functionality... you don't withhold functionality in stuff I've already bought until I fork over extra money, I consider that a hostile act of war.
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Re:Pisses me off
by StocDred (Score:5, Informative)
Do you have any idea how the GC Four Swords works? Everybody plays on the TV, but if one player ducks into a cave or house or something, that player switches to the GBA while the other 3 remain uninterrupted on the TV. Game Boys and a TV are required elements, so the game has more screen real estate to play with.
And as already noted, the eReader can add in totally new SMB levels. Totally new. Not unlocked or hidden, totally new levels that haven't even been created yet. (Of course, this assumes Nintendo will actually take advantage of this ability...)
I know it hurts you to spend money, but can you see how there are actual gameplay enhancements here?
Where's this spendthrift attitude over Xbox Live, where you pay a monthly fee for the service and then additional fees for Premium Content?
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Re:Pisses me off
by Anonymous Coward (Score: 0)
God, your right! I bet Nintendo has a ploy with tv manufacterors to sell you tvs to play the games, food companies so you'll stay alive. All sorts of shit. You also have to buy another controller if you want more than one player playing. That's some fucked up shit.
Don't forget for some games, you have to finish it all the way to get secret stuff. God damn it, Nintendo. Keeping the good shit from sorry players.
My god you don't have to buy this shit you fucking moron.
CRY CRY WHINE i gotta buy some more shit becuase i'm a fucking idiot and don't know how to not buy it
god damn you nintendo
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