Many times, video game companies tend to “cover up the truth” to favor marketing issues, leaving fans aside. That’s why today we bring you the 10 biggest Nintendo lies in history. Prepare your little heart for so much betrayal.
Nintendo 64DD
In 1993, with the announcement of the new console Project Realitywhich would end up being the Nintendo 64I also announce a data storage system called Nintendo DD It would come out in 1995.
This system would serve not only to expand the system storage to nothing more and nothing less than 64Mb (I know what you think, but at that time it was a lot of memory), but it would also allow the console to be connected to the internet, adding more features and improving the video game quality.
Nintendo He also added that he was developing many games for this accessory such as Zelda 64, Super Mario RPG 2a game of Pokémon.
What happened to him? Well, in the end it was released on the market in 1999, only in Japan, and with two years to go before the release of the next next-generation console from Nintendothe Game Cube. It came out out of date, very expensive, and the games they were “developing” never came to light.
XL Lies
Video game conferences are usually a very big door to create expectations among fans. In 2012, with the Nintendo 3DS With only a year on the market, rumors and publications in Japanese newspapers arose that spoke of a new version of the console, the Nintendo 3DS XL.
In the middle of the E3 conference (E3 2023 is officially canceled), they asked Shigeru Miyamoto if those rumors were true, and if they were going to release that version of the console. To which Miyamoto replied that NO, that they had no plans to relaunch a more modern version.
What were the consequences? The sales of the 3ds continued to boom until, 3 weeks later, Nintendo officially announce the departure of the 3DS XLmaking Miyamoto break our hearts.
Nintendo won’t make mobile games
In the year 2013, Nintendo suffered one of its biggest setbacks, with the loss of 176 million dollars. Satoru Iwata He came out to show his face and admit that they had made mistakes and misfocused some strategies (possibly referring to the poor sales that the new console was having, the WiiU).
But we’re here to talk about lies Nintendoand one of the biggest of the company was in an interview in The Wall Street Journal to the own Satoru Iwata. In it due to the loss of money, he was asked if Nintendo was going to make the leap to mobile devices.
Satoru Iwata said they were not considering making mobile games. What if they did Nintendo would cease to be Nintendo. That making mobile games was sure to give them short-term profits, but he didn’t contemplate that you would start off as Mario will be released on mobile devices. Here our analysis of Super Mario Run y Mario Kart Tour for mobile devices.
WiiU and its Gamepad
WiiU it may be by far the least successful console you’ve ever had Nintendo in all its history. A poor marketing campaign (a lot of people didn’t know it was a different next-gen console than the one Wii), which led to Nintendo to have very bad sales. What was the solution Nintendo? More lies.
When the console was announced, they received several criticisms focused on the Gamepad. Firstly, because it was not very well known what the screen was for, the controller was quite large, but, above all, because only one person could play with a Gamepad at a time. Nintendo’s solution was to announce that the console would be compatible with several Gamepads and that the following year they would be sold separately.
Neither of them was real. No game could be connected to two Gamepads at the same time, and at no time was it released separately.
The story of the first amiibo
In 2014 they presented themselves in society amiibo figures with some prototypes at E3 that gave a lot to talk about. The most “rogue” journalists took a look at the figures presented, amazed by their enormous details. However, the product that the fans received was not just like that.
The characters’ faces weren’t as detailed, and details were even completely missing (in her prototype amiibo, Peach was wearing underwear, but in her release version… better not talk about it). Even so, amiibo today are high quality collectible figures and that they give a lot of play, so it looks like they took note!
Nintendo Switch won’t replace Wii U or 3DS
When it was announced to Nintendo SwitchMany people thought when they saw its hybrid design if the console would be the next generation of the then WiiU o to 3ds.
Nintendo came out to say that the 3 consoles could coexist together, despite the rumors that said it was coming to replace the WiiUand that later the successor to the 3DS would be presented.
It’s been 6 years since the release of the Nintendo Switch, and it could not be said that they have lived together, but that the hybrid has swept away its older sisterhood. You just have to see how Nintendodespite telling us that they would live together, has closed the eShop for Nintendo 3DS and WiiUand stopped supporting those consoles.
Joy-Con Drift
He Joy-Con Drift It is already a common problem in most Nintendo consoles. Most people who own a Nintendo Switch console will have experienced this problem, or will have had to send them for repair. In 2019, a quality class action lawsuit was launched against Nintendo for said ruling. Nintendo assured at the beginning that it was not a real problem and that it had not caused major inconvenience to the players.
Obviously, he had to apologize for the drift, and right now it’s totally free to repair Nintendo Switch Joy-Con. Have you experienced this problem?
Lie Prime 4
E3 2017. Nintendo announces the new console, and with it several games, such as The Legend Of Zelda Breath of the Wild, Xenoblade Chronicle 2and the expected Metroid Prime 4.
Year 2023… We continue without Metroid Prime 4. He reboot of the title, 4 years ago, has made fans desperate and some have even thrown in the towel. With each Nintendo Direct, it is expected to see an announcement of the highly anticipated game. This is what usually happens when things are announced without complete security. That you may end up lying and disappointing the fans.
At least we could have Metroid Dread this generation, an excellent game from which we leave you our analysis.
galar pokedex
I have to admit that this lie is more than Game Freak that of Nintendo itself, but we are going to take it equally because of how painful it was.
When the eighth generation of Pokémonthere was great criticism when Junichi Masuda announced the trimming of the Pokédex. Masuda I explain that due to the new animations of each of the Pokémon that would be present in the game and all the animations of the attacks, it would be impossible to be able to put all the Pokémon that existed to date in the game.
When the game came out, players were able to see the animations it was talking about. Masuda, adding those that were also recycled from other previous games. Within months, they sold us expansions where we could have more Pokémon that had been left out, which made the fans angry.
Nintendo cartridges
To finish, we are going to talk about a universal “lie”, although Nintendo never told us anything about it, it has made us feel very foolish. And if I told you that blowing the cartridges… doesn’t it work? How many people from the 80s and 90s have blown the cartridges of Nintendoand when I put the game back on the console, did it really work?
An experiment carried out in 2012 managed to show that this method not only did not work, but that in addition to being bullshit, it could negatively affect the hardware of the cartridge.
When the game didn’t work for us, it was because the console had some nickel bars that didn’t make contact when inserted, and it was necessary to make it work. But when you took it out and put it back in, the bars would lower slightly and you could make that contact.
In favor of Nintendo It must be said that they released a cartridge cleaner for sale. But the people preferred to continue blowing. Could you tell me how many cartridges you have blown in your life?
Did you like the article? Do you know any other lie told by Nintendo? We are waiting for you in the comments.
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