Topic: Episode 267: The Friendly Ghost

[roykoopa64]

Amazing work Greg, what else can I say?

As always, great podcast. I loved the mailbag reply concerning the state of Nintendo, and how seriously 'out-of-touch' with reality some gaming 'journalists' really are when they proclaim Nintendo will be going the way of Sega.

[Sundoulos]

YMMV regarding the show's style, but Player One Podcast is generally friendly towards Nintendo, and they often complain about media not giving Nintendo games a fair shake.  I still prefer the NWR podcasts, though.

I used to listen to Gamescoop quite a bit, but I eventually tuned out.  (I do like what they do with their occasional 8-bit music episodes.  In spite of some of the other annoying guys who were on the show, I listened to Nintendo Voice Chat until Craig Harris left.  I'll still occasionally listen to an episode, but I'm amazed at how many facts about old Nintendo games that they manage to get wrong.  I'm getting persnickety in my old age, I guess.

[NWR_DrewMG]

YMMV regarding the show's style, but Player One Podcast is generally friendly towards Nintendo, and they often complain about media not giving Nintendo games a fair shake.

this.

[TJ Spyke]

Kudos to Greg, just listened to the podcast. If it wasn't for the intro, I wouldn't have know that the episode was any different than normal.

To the reader who mentioned Nintendo buying Rare. Rare is 100% owned by Microsoft now, so Rare won't be going back to Nintendo unless MS wants to sell the company to them.

I stopped listening to Game Scoop because they seemed to just hate on Nintendo non-stop. The only podcasts from IGN I listen to are Channel Surfing (TV focused) and IGN Digigods (DVD/Blu-ray focused), and IGN Daily Fix.

[NWR_Neal]

YMMV regarding the show's style, but Player One Podcast is generally friendly towards Nintendo, and they often complain about media not giving Nintendo games a fair shake.

this.

also this.

[adadad]

2. As KDR correctly identified above, as of now, there are not really any tangible benefits for consumers in download-only gaming.  But, there are benefits for companies in terms of screwing us!   So, I for one am very content to see Nintendo continue "lagging woefully behind" in this regard.  Plus, as Greg said, right now Nintendo's business model does not need any revamping from their end.  If consumers still feel first party games are worth the $50 price tag after years on the market? Guess what? That is Nintendo's reward for delivering on QUALITY.

Other companies who are trumpeting disposable, annual, releases and DLC up the whazoo are going to have to keep treading that water and seeing how far they can nickel and dime consumers to recoup their bloated budgets.  As Lindy acknowledged, those map packs ain't never gonna be free again, people!  And how long do you think it will take before we start seeing "Platinum Editions" released AFTER some "Gold Edition"?  : :

The fact that the conversation eventually lead down the path of "well, hypothetically they could do away with NDS functionality on the 3DS," yea, I guess that would help them get on board with downloading full NDS games.... it would also be a rip-off! And not Nintendo's style.

"But NinSage," some might already be typing feverishly, "the new Wii remodel took away GCN support!"  Yea, it did, but that's not because it is going to try and sell you downloadable GCN titles.  In other words, the business model is saving on hardware costs, not trying to squeeze you for digital transactions.  Also worth remembering, this comes on the heels of being a full console generation removed.  I am content with the industry-wide standard of having one previous generation of backwards-compatibility.

Thus, lag on, Nintendo!!  .... oh... and keep making hardware your competition needs to imitate 

I don't see why on earth you cling to this asinine assumption that offering digital downloads necessarily entails exclusively bad consequences for the consumer. With console games, DLC has paved the way for what are effectively expansion packs (GTA4's DLC episodes for example). In the past an expansion like this would've had to be retail-only, and the limited shelf space and high cost of retail have limited the creation of expansion packs to a select number of extremely popular PC games, like The Sims, and even then at an extortionate price to the customer. Rip-offs and bad practices exist in the gaming industry regardless of whether it's digital based or not. I'm not saying we as consumers shouldn't be critical or undiscerning, I just disagree with your characterisation of online transactions as a uniformly bad thing.

[Crimm]

Four days till The People's Champion returns to reclaim his belt.