4th March 2024, 5:47 AM
My 12 year old self would have loved this news. My modern self sees the rot across all giant companies and can't hold Nintendo up as "good" any more (especially with their recent lawsuits shutting down everything down to emulators themselves). Still, I can't help but think Nintendo's first party games generally steering clear of the monetization strategies that MS and Sony partake in help quite a bit.
(Not that Nintendo doesn't riddle their modern games with DLC costumes... they just hide those costumes inside artificially scarce Amiibo toys. At least spoofing the NFC chips inside them is pretty easy with a modern cell phone. I bought a couple ROB amiibo just to open one up and stick that sticker in my actual ROB, so my original NES ROB is also a fully functional Amiibo now.)
(Not that Nintendo doesn't riddle their modern games with DLC costumes... they just hide those costumes inside artificially scarce Amiibo toys. At least spoofing the NFC chips inside them is pretty easy with a modern cell phone. I bought a couple ROB amiibo just to open one up and stick that sticker in my actual ROB, so my original NES ROB is also a fully functional Amiibo now.)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)