1.5M ratings
277k ratings

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
cuteshirokuma
demengineerz 

New Nintendo 3DS Japanese Ad feat. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu!
chaofanatic

Everyone else is cheering while Samus is just like “What the fuck is happening to me?”

Source: demengineerz

More you might like

reyaltyy
tinybit92

I think my favorite thing about Nintendo Labo is that it makes perfect sense when you remember that Nintendo is actually a toy company.

I have this shirt, it’s got a little Luigi on it next to the Nintendo logo and the words “established 1889” and whenever I wear it, people tend to do a double take and tilt their heads in confusion at the date before saying something along the lines of, “that seems incorrect.”

Nintendo was founded in 1889 and originally made Hanafuda cards. They branched out over the years and made playing cards, the Ultra Hand, lightgun toys, they even invented the Love Tester. Eventually finding their niche in video games.

They’re a video game company now, and always will be since that’s what they’re good at, but they were a toy company first.

Whenever they come up with their latest seemingly nonsensical idea and premier it to the world, there’s always those people who are surprised and confused. This seems like a stretch from video games, they tend to think.

But you’ll never be surprised by anything Nintendo does so long as you remember that they were a toy company first.

friendbot friendbot

I think the really interesting thing about this whole conversation is the idea that pop culture no longer directly associates video games with “toys”—they associate video games with “electronics”—and that is PRECISELY what the video game industry marketed itself as for the past several decades to appeal to adults.

Video games ARE toys, gang.

Always have been, always will be.

This doesn’t make them bad or superfluous. Video games are a massive portion of entertainment and art in our world.

That Nintendo would do as it has always done, and remember that its foundation was entertainment that anyone of any age could participate in, is unsurprising.

I can’t say for certain if Labo will be any kind of success or not, but regardless if it flops or sails, it’s honestly a bit heartwarming that there are people in this industry that haven’t forgotten the roots—the PURPOSE—of video games: To Have Fun.

Source: tinybit92

Fire Emblem: Heroes Crossover

Hi Everyone! Recently @danganronpaibukifan, some friends, and I have been working together to create some concept units for characters we want to crossover into FE:Heroes!
Together we are called Team Crossover and so far we have created units from both the Super Mario and Legend of Zelda franchises - the first that will be posted up will be Bowser: Koopa King!
We really hope you enjoy our crossover units and we hope that if they pick up enough, we’ll be able to send our ideas to Nintendo and maybe even get our characters published in-game!
Another thing we also want is a team of artists that can help us by drawing concept art of our characters (for free) which we can then also display and share on here and to Nintendo!
We all hope you enjoy this and we look forward to making more characters and seeing your lot’s responses!!!
- Team Crossover

fe heroes fire emblem legend of zelda super mario mario loz concept nintendo Team Crossover mod nowi Mod Nowi
reyaltyy
nentindo

Nintendo will always dominate game discourse and discussion because they make one thing clearer in a TV ad than Sony or Microsoft do with their combined marketing budgets:

“video games are a thing you play”

that sounds like a no-brainer but Nintendo exercises this idea in their marketing so much and that’s why they’re so successful with the casual and core markets. all of their Nintendo Switch ads are half video games and half people actually playing the fucking video games. compare that to Sony’s abstract dreamscape big-budget superbowl ads (which i love but they don’t get anything across) and Microsoft’s…fuck, does Microsoft even market the Xbone anymore lmao

everyone else, especially Microsoft, operates by milking the fuck out of the already established core market. “4K VR HDR RENDER-PROCESSING 16 GIGAFLOPS THE MOST POWERFUL CONSOLE ALIVE IT’LL FUCK YOUR WIFE FOR YOU” is just riding the trend wave and is a bunch of desperate short-term shareholder dicksucking

even when they do actually showcase games they, again, focus on the “immersiveness” of the content, which is fine in regulation, obviously people want to know what the plot of TLoU 2 is gonna be, but it’s almost all that. the biggest reveals for Sony and Microsoft are gameplay demos for their tucked away titles, when that should be the whole shebang! show me this game being played! i want to play the game so fuckin play it, don’t show me a short film about how cool it might be to see things happen while i play it

and on a slight tangent this is why i think the future of E3 conferences and stuff will be “playable trailers.” Sony and Microsoft would see a fuckhuge spike in pre-orders and investments if after every E3 trailer they said “like what you see? you can download that segment we just showed off and play it tonight”

i ended up talking about everyone else except Nintendo more than Nintendo but my point is that Nintendo actually cares about playing the goddamn game and that’s why they’ve become synonymous with “video games” to the casual market, because they’re the only ones who give enough of a shit to actually associate their brand with “play” rather than “games”

captainsnoop

This is a really good post and Nintendo’s philosophy of supporting “play first” is one of the biggest reasons why the Nintendo Switch is selling so well right now.

Like, Microsoft can spend billions of dollars a year putting on these extravagant shows demonstrating the Power of the Cloud and showing just how many beads of sweat they can render in real time on the driver’s asscheek as he drives a photorealistic replica of an expensive supercar that I can only imagine breathing the exhaust of. Sony can show you the most immersive Dad Simulator that will make you Feel things you never thought yourself capable of Feeling.

But you know what’s beating both of those companies? 

An underpowered Nvidia tablet that you can plug in to your TV.

Why?

Because it’s got Mario and Zelda on it, and the eShop has a highly curated list of fun, inexpensive indie games. 

Sure, PS4 and Xbox One have all of those same inexpensive indie games, but they bury them under countless advertisements for streaming services, TV shows, and sports events. In order to get to the part of the store that’s just video games on your Playstation 4, you need to go through like three sub menus before you stop seeing TV shows.

And that’s on a console with the word “Play” in the goddamn name. 

On the Switch, you see video games first. The link to the eShop is right there. You can click the link to the eShop and it’ll immediately show you twenty brand new fun pixel games. The only sub menus in the eShop are re-arrangements of the games so you can see what’s new, what’s selling well, what’s coming soon, and what’s discounted. 

People love the “pick up and play video games” appeal of the Switch. They don’t care about ass sweat, they don’t care about feeling like you’re watching a movie, they want to see Mario jump. 

If it’s not fun, what’s the point? 

That’s not to say that narrative-based games or games with stellar graphics are invalid, not at all. I love a good narrative-focused game. It’s just that those things are relatively niche. Sony and Microsoft spend billions of dollars marketing niche products when the mainstream audience just wants to see Mario jump. 

Nintendo is the only company that understands that people buy video game consoles to play video games. Not to jerk off to graphics running at 4k that run like a slideshow and therefore feel awful to control. Not to pay for fifty dollar a night Baseball PPVs. They wanna play a video game, and the Switch delivers that clearly, quickly, and wherever they want it. That’s why it resonates with people. 

Source: nentindo
elfiot
elfiot

i wanna make a ‘multiplayer nintendo games’ discord server for ppl here to use so we can find other ppl who play similar games (animal crossing, pokemon, etc) + get in touch with eachother. pls like this if youd be interested + if enough ppl would join ill add a link !!

See this in the app Show more