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Turkish said:


WTF nail polish on a man??

He speedruns painting his nails and streams it live to 2k+ viewers. He's also the Wind Waker record holder. Don't question the dude.

You can donate for different polish colours.



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Soleron said:
Turkish said:


WTF nail polish on a man??

He speedruns painting his nails and streams it live to 2k+ viewers. He's also the Wind Waker record holder. Don't question the dude.

You can donate for different polish colours.


I wouldn't care even if he beat Demon's Souls under an hour. I find nail polish on a man very distasteful.



Turkish said:
Soleron said:
Turkish said:


WTF nail polish on a man??

He speedruns painting his nails and streams it live to 2k+ viewers. He's also the Wind Waker record holder. Don't question the dude.

You can donate for different polish colours.


I wouldn't care even if he beat Demon's Souls under an hour. I find nail polish on a man very distasteful.

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I'm actually quite surprised that Nintendo didn't make this move much earlier. It's been a fact for several years that increased connectivity between various platforms would be the way of the future (or should I say the way of the present?).
Since Nintendo made preparations early on with minor connectivity between N64 and GBC, and a more bold attempt with connectivity between GC and GBA, I assumed that the company had already made necessary restructuring for a future merger of their various platforms. I'm surprised that restructuring hasn't even happened yet! Nintendo are way behind other companies...

With this knowledge I'm willing to say that the reason why connectivity between GC and GBA was a failure, was because the company lacked the necessary structures to handle such a thing. I believe there has always been an internal competition between the handheld division and the home console division. Before the Bluetooth era, such competition was healthy. But sometime around 2001/2002 it started to become destructive.

I doubt we will see many results from this merger in the near future. The full impact will probably come in effect with the next generation of hardware 4-5 years from now. Brace yourself Nintendo!



Hamister said:
I'm actually quite surprised that Nintendo didn't make this move much earlier. It's been a fact for several years that increased connectivity between various platforms would be the way of the future (or should I say the way of the present?).
Since Nintendo made preparations early on with minor connectivity between N64 and GBC, and a more bold attempt with connectivity between GC and GBA, I assumed that the company had already made necessary restructuring for a future merger of their various platforms. I'm surprised that restructuring hasn't even happened yet! Nintendo are way behind other companies...

With this knowledge I'm willing to say that the reason why connectivity between GC and GBA was a failure, was because the company lacked the necessary structures to handle such a thing. I believe there has always been an internal competition between the handheld division and the home console division. Before the Bluetooth era, such competition was healthy. But sometime around 2001/2002 it started to become destructive.

I doubt we will see many results from this merger in the near future. The full impact will probably come in effect with the next generation of hardware 4-5 years from now. Brace yourself Nintendo!

The said R&D building that would house the merged units is now in year 3 of its construction.  Add to that the planning prior to construction, one can deduce the decision took place just a few years after Iwata implemented the last major restructuring 9 years ago.  The decision to announce it again, remember the story broke with Nikkei who had previously reported on the R&D facility, is what led me to speculate it was a PR move.  This week's Wii U numbers are so ugly, Nintendo wanted to project an outward and onward image and let Wii U have some breathing room from attacks.  That's just my guess which could be far from the truth.



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Yes I agree that planning of the merger must have started probably 5-6 years ago, however considering Bluetooth and wireless network communication became a consumer reality as early as 2001/2002, I'm surprised that Nintendo's restructuring plans didn't take shape around 1998/1999 when the technology and its potential use was still in development in various places around the world (including at Nintendo). I'm surprised that Nintendo didn't act earlier on what they must have seen comming. In fact Nintendo embrased it from a marketing perspective as early as april 1999 when they released the Transfer Pack for the Nintendo 64, even though it was not a wireless connection). Considering later attempts with GameCube and Game Boy Advance, they must have known early on what to expect from wireless connectitivity in the near future (say 2010-2013). My point is that they should have started planning for a merger between their divisions as early as 1998/99, and made it a reality 5-6 years later.