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Soundwave on 22 May 2014

People have been talking about "Miyamoto's new IP" for the last 15 years, lol. The funniest part is at E3 2003 when a lot of people hyped themselves up over a rumors of the new Miyamoto IP and it turned out to be Pac-Man VS. Then you had the Wii Music debacle in 2008.

Miyamoto is the head of the entire software development division at EAD. He doesn't just work on one game. Every Nintendo game virtually involves Miyamoto in some way.



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Stefan.De.Machtige on 22 May 2014

One of best ideas Nintendo would show this year :).



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kljesta64 on 22 May 2014

this is no surprise. they want to print money!



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Mr Khan on 22 May 2014
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
Mr Khan said:
Conegamer said:
Not overly surprising, I must say. Just hope that these figurines if implemented don't lock off new characters, but we shall see I suppose.

I doubt either Nintendo or Sakurai himself would allow that, as it is counterintuitive to their philosophy.

What it will do, more likely, is run like the Smash Bros "name" system that they've been pushing since Melee, now yet more portable with the custom movesets we know about, as well as custom control schemes that Brawl had, and can likely store a versus record as well, the difference being that you have to buy a certain figurine to store data for that character (so if you main Marth, Villager, and King Dedede, and want to have portable data for your control scheme and moveset for each, you have to buy all three figurines. Can't put your Villager data on your Marth figurine).

Thats a really roundabout way if storing data not to mention you could only transfer data by physically transferring figurines and you would lose your data if you lost the figurine.

TBH, the anti-otaku in me would be compromised by the fact that I would have no choice but to buy the Peach, Rosalina, and Wii Fit Trainer figurines.

It's for the benefit of local multiplayer, and thus targeted at younger players who are more likely to buy such things anyway. It's not a roundabout way of playing data when you're often playing at your best friend's house, and instead of having to take five-ten minutes to set up your custom movesets and possibly custom control scheme again, and to have to do so every time you go to a place with a new Wii U, instead having your neat Meta Knight figurine carry your build with you, which syncs up in about 20 seconds.



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Dr.Henry_Killinger on 22 May 2014
Mr Khan said:
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
Mr Khan said:
Conegamer said:
Not overly surprising, I must say. Just hope that these figurines if implemented don't lock off new characters, but we shall see I suppose.

I doubt either Nintendo or Sakurai himself would allow that, as it is counterintuitive to their philosophy.

What it will do, more likely, is run like the Smash Bros "name" system that they've been pushing since Melee, now yet more portable with the custom movesets we know about, as well as custom control schemes that Brawl had, and can likely store a versus record as well, the difference being that you have to buy a certain figurine to store data for that character (so if you main Marth, Villager, and King Dedede, and want to have portable data for your control scheme and moveset for each, you have to buy all three figurines. Can't put your Villager data on your Marth figurine).

Thats a really roundabout way if storing data not to mention you could only transfer data by physically transferring figurines and you would lose your data if you lost the figurine.

TBH, the anti-otaku in me would be compromised by the fact that I would have no choice but to buy the Peach, Rosalina, and Wii Fit Trainer figurines.

It's for the benefit of local multiplayer, and thus targeted at younger players who are more likely to buy such things anyway. It's not a roundabout way of playing data when you're often playing at your best friend's house, and instead of having to take five-ten minutes to set up your custom movesets and possibly custom control scheme again, and to have to do so every time you go to a place with a new Wii U, instead having your neat Meta Knight figurine carry your build with you, which syncs up in about 20 seconds.

Well then it should be an option, and tying smash data to one's online account is a lot more effiecient. At the very least giving the figurines some practical use makes it a lesser "exploitation", for lack of a better term for getting children to buy toys.



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tbone51 on 22 May 2014
Euphoria14 said:
tbone51 said:
Euphoria14 said:
vivster said:
Yay for physical DLC.

Activision makes a killing selling their Skylander NFC figurines for $10-$15 a pop. I could see Nintendo asking for $15 minimum for each figurine and since they might have tranferring capabilities to multiple titles I wouldn't be shocked to see them charge $20 a pop.


Ok but Activision=/=Nintendo. Are yu wrong? Not exactly as your opinion can happen but look at DLC, nintendo has a few games with them and instead of charging the same price as you would think like other games, they surprisingly have done an excellent job with on how they do it.

Ex: NSLU is $20 which is practicallly a new game. Pikmin 3 had free DLC at a later date and then $2 dlc the first time, $2 dlc the second, then massive stages/etc for $5.

Wat im saying is dont think cuz X does it Y will also :)



tbone51 on 22 May 2014
Soundwave said:
People have been talking about "Miyamoto's new IP" for the last 15 years, lol. The funniest part is at E3 2003 when a lot of people hyped themselves up over a rumors of the new Miyamoto IP and it turned out to be Pac-Man VS. Then you had the Wii Music debacle in 2008.

Miyamoto is the head of the entire software development division at EAD. He doesn't just work on one game. Every Nintendo game virtually involves Miyamoto in some way.

Ok, so cuz something happens like that, that means for the rest f his life its the same? (meaning following a trend?)

Why dont you do games from before your list...

Pikmin

Mario

Zelda

and many more :P

Need to calm down, if its something like wat you said then fine but dont discredit it.