[Dark Age Iron Savior]

pika pika.

[Lick Meth]

[SuperWes]

It angers me so much that people are going apeshit over deletable save data. It's reasons like this that developers are encouraged focus on feature sets instead of the things that actually matter.

-Wes
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[drobe]

I wanted to throw out a counter by saying that undeletable saves would probably be deletable on homebrew carts, and that the pirate would inherit the world on your shoulders capcom.
But, nevermind.
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[Kinto]

[Monsieur Eek]

Majora's Mask came out more than a decade ago.
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[SuperWes]

There are more differences between Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask than there are between Super Mario Kart SNES and Super Mario Kart Wii. It's more a question of intent and ambition than anything else.

-Wes
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[Duckzero]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

I should probably straight up agree with Talbain that any discussion about how much people should pay for games will never be useful or objective due to the nature of currency itself.

[BenoitRen]

Doesn't Japan already have variable prices for video games? Games like Dragon Quest go for the equivalent of 80 bucks over there.
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[SuperWes]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

People are complaining that the game is bad! They can complain about both! I know you have a hard time fitting more than one thought in your head at a time, but not everybody shares that problem.

Plenty of shitty, rushed, half-assed games have the ability to delete save files and/or start new ones in the same slot. The game had at least eight months worth of development, probably more, and I imagine enough people worked on it that someone had time to implement an erase/restart save feature, no matter how much work was already done with the MT Framework and imported assets. You're right in that Capcom was seeing what they could get away with, but in this case it was seeing if they could get away with a measure to discourage renting and used sales.

[glossolalia]

expecting that games be reasonably functional pieces of software at a basic level is KILLING ART

[glossolalia]

anyway why are you guys always making me aware of what people on other videogame message boards think. i come here specifically to not be aware of what people on other videogame message boards think.

[Rud31]

what GBA games don't give you a way to delete your data?
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[Kinto]

I think people were mostly pissed off at the idea of it becoming a new anti-tradein policy. It almost seems that given the choice between zero piracy/tradeins and more sales, more piracy, more tradeins but exactly the same amount profit, most companies would choose the former.

They look at tradeins and piracy like those are sales they should be getting but aren't, rather than sales they weren't getting either way.

I'm not saying they're wrong, I have no idea what the actual impact of piracy or tradeins are. But it seems like increasing the amount of people who play your game has got to be pretty good for business for when you make the eventual sequel.

[SuperWes]

I see my desire to get people to stop talking about this has backfired. Bah!

Anyway, I wanted to point out that the chance that this was actually done as an anti-used sales measure is slim. The real reason it's missing is because the game was half-assed in every way imaginable, and when they had a week left in development they chose to add a feature that might help sell the game rather than implement a save wipe. It had more to do with priorities than design or marketing, and if Kotaku hadn't flipped out, it probably would have been the right decision to make.

As evidence I'd like to point out that the game does not have a single player campaign. If they were going to put effort into the game they probably would have started there!

-Wes
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[Renfrew]

I picked up the newest issue of Nintendo because it had a special on the SNES and I wanted to be grumpy about Quintet never getting any love. Surprisingly, they spotlighted Actraiser, Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia and talked about how much it sucked that Terranigma never came out here.

I then looked at the review section and saw that one game had a 7, one had a 5.5 and everything else had less than a 4. How dire is your game release schedule when you can't even get good scores from Nintendo Power?
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[firenze]

[Kinto]

It seems likely that such games would end up being ported to everything that could run them anyway, there's no reason devs wouldn't try to maximise the range of games like that. In the past you couldn't put something like Outrun Online Arcade on a DS, but putting it on 3DS is much more plausible. As far as I can tell these digital distribution channels are still fairly niche, so there's little reason why they wouldn't make either a 3DS port for retail release or for it's own online store (which Nintendo apparently wants to start pushing, little evidence of that so far though).
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[death parade]

Nintendo are a bitch to develop for. Higher requirements made of the developer than iOS or XBLA.

[Kinto]

What's the difference? Do they demand higher license fees or what?
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[Toptube]

Square probably did so many DS games because its the most successful videogame hardware in history.

[glossolalia]

[Rud31]

[Toptube]

On the off-topic: don't put your appstore games up on Amazon's store.

[Kinto]

Hahaha fuuuuck that's shockingly retarded.

What's up with the Amazon app store, Toptube?!
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[Persona]

To be on XBLA, you need to have published 3 previous titles on Xbox, meaning you can't get on there unless you're co-published by someone else who fits the credentials. It's pretty silly.

This isn't the case for the indie arcade, of course.
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[Tulpa]

[Kinto]

So...which app store ISN'T run by subsaharan african warlords?
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[Tulpa]

on a spectrum, both the iphone and google app stores are better than amazons.
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[Lick Meth]

In (worrying? Surprising?) news about the 3DS again, rumours are circulating from an apparently very reliable French gaming site that the 3DS will be getting a re-launch next year with a second analogue stick, whilst Nintendo are doing their best to create an add-on solution for existing owners. The re-launch will also have a vastly reduced focus on the 3D element.

[radish]

A relaunch is pretty surprising, but (if true) focusing less on the 3D isn't. I've got it turned off on mine pretty much constantly.

Also, if this is true,
uhhh.... I might trade it in for a Vita? And maybe buy the relaunch version when they're games worth getting?

[Bennett]

That's not going to rescue the prestige of the brand. They should suck it up, pull the plug on the 3DS, and enact some kind of viable portable plan (like my ultra-cheap connected-GBA suggestion, for example).

[Takashi]

[firenze]

I can almost see scrapping the 3DS brand and trying to rebrand/relaunch with a modified machine. Not entirely implausible, and it would be pretty cool to see any big media/entertainment company giving up on 3D!

Also, considering this is in Japan around TGS, it wouldn't shock me at all if Dragon Quest X was part of this conference in some way.

[Moogs]

Nintendo will abandon the handheld market and develop/publish for iOS MEGATON!!!

[A New Duck]

Is the 3DS really that big a disaster? Or is video game punditry just bigger business than it was half a decade ago?
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[Bennett]

You don't slash the price by a quarter after four months and issue a public apology unless you're having a disaster.

[Sniper Honeyviper]

I'm convinced that all the naysayers about the end of dedicated gaming handhelds are in denial.

[Duckzero]