Thread 720484184

What the fuck were they thinking?

>this will generate a lot of buzz on social media!
It worked

>>720484184 (OP)
they'll buy it anyway

>>720484184 (OP)
I was just mad watching this
they HAD the 3ds...

>>720484184 (OP)
holy shit Nintendo is retarded

>>720485527
I'd rather fucking finger my ass

>>720491601
The 3DS released 14 fucking years ago dude

>>720484184 (OP)
>What the fuck were they thinking?

>>720491829
Yeah?
AND?
They had the 3DS's entire lifespan to do something and they didn't

>>720484184 (OP)
It's fun.

>>720491995
>we're gonna resell the thing that flopped hard without fixing any of it's problems
why would you ever think this is gonna rake in the money

>>720496092
It's a different time. Bad products flopped back when the VB was first released. Today, balding millennials will buy ANYTHING Nintendo puts out and Nintendo has slowly been escalating how little effort they need to make to get their money for years now.

>>720484184 (OP)
It better come with the entire library. Otherwise, fuckin lel

>>720496092
>why would you ever think this is gonna rake in the money
Nintendo wasn't a cult then.
But it's a cult now.
If things like Pokemon can still sell, they can sell literally anything to the cult.

>>720496291
actually us balding millennials are pissed off at Nintendo and their anti-consumerism. they can suck my balls

What's next? The Power Glove? What kinda crack are they smoking in Nintendo and who thought this was a good idea

>>720496291
>Today, balding millennials

>>720484184 (OP)
>Our audience is stupid enough to ironically drop 100$ for a meme
would be my guess

>>720484184 (OP)
>these retarded manchild paypiggies will literally pay $100 USD for a $2 piece of plastic

>>720484184 (OP)
>What the fuck were they thinking?
Koizumi humiliation ritual.

>tendies rebuy the same nes/snes/n64/gc games on every console
kek

>>720484184 (OP)
>5 gamecube games after months of release
>tell everyone you plan to dripfeed fucking virtual boy games on top of everything else

these nips need to be stopped

>>720496450
>Russian sailor taken prisoner by the Japanese, 1904, colorized

>>720496454
There are a couple of interesting games for it and it’s a funny piece of history. If they dumped the whole library on NSO and the actual headset was a 20$ optional accessory for the weirdos who want it that would be pretty understandable.
A lot less so when it feels like you’re being price gouged for a joke with you as the punchline.

>>720496375
It doesn't come with anything. You have to subscribe to their online service to play the games, and they're going to release the games "over time" instead of all at once, even though there's only 14 total.

>>720497429
so if my NSO sub lapses my 100$ headset is useless?

>>720497673
Yeah, and also Virtual Boy is only available on the more expensive "Expansion" subscription.

>>720484184 (OP)
How many games will they even bother releasing for this thing? Will people pay 150 bucks for a stupid toy with 3-4 games? With the only games anyone may want to go near being wario and jack bros (watch it not be present).

>>720498603
That’s just fucked up.
For what you are paying the roms should all be loaded on the headset. Make it a standalone piece of hardware like the NES and SNES classic. Locking the games behind a sub fee is jewish as fuck.

>>720498603
All this cost, and effort, and every single Virtual Boy game is absolute shit that nobody will want to play for more than 5 minutes (not because of eye problems, just because it's boring).

>>720484184 (OP)
At this point even their greatest failures are defended so it's no wonder they have no fucking shame.

>>720484184 (OP)
Quite the opposite, their retro peripherals like the NSO controllers have been very successful and the Virtual Boy is seen like this weird and even exotic console, it will sell out.
>>720491829
Now this is when they didn't think at all, 3DS was the perfect console for VB ports, luckily there's a 3DS VB emulator that can even play the games with 3D.

>>720498790
14. Jack Bros is included.

im looking forward to them failing to create artificial scarcity with this thing

I actually have 2 of those things

>>720499376
You can't buy the VB accessory in the first place if you don't have an NSO subscription, not even the cardboard version. They're exclusive to the My Nintendo Store. This is supposed to be a niche thing for enthusiasts like the other NSO controllers, it's not a mass market product.

>>720484184 (OP)
their previous flops will retroactively become the best things ever because this the switch era nintendo

>>720491601
It was just incompetence. The Chinese people at iQue they had developing the 3DS's virtual console(source: leaked source code) just weren't up to task. I mean, look at the accuracy of the gb/nes emulators they made.

>>720498816
yeah theyre not making classic consoles anymore that was a trend that lasted two seconds after remembering they can rent you ROMs

>>720499510
Yeah, and that's what makes it feel so scummy. They're dressing this up like it's some love letter to enthusiasts, but it's just gatekeeping wrapped in nostalgia bait. If it was really for fans, they’d make it a fun standalone novelty like the Game & Watch stuff, not this dripfed, paywalled mess behind a sub-only storefront. At least back in the day when you bought a dumb peripheral, you got to keep your buyer’s remorse.

>>720484184 (OP)
>What the fuck were they thinking?

>need a subscription to be able to buy the $100 peripheral so that you can then be dripfed a bunch of ancient roms of a horribly flopped system
I'm honestly speechless with what Nintendo is getting away in the Switch 2 generation so far, and we're only a few months in

Jack Bros we are so back

>>720500501
>Mario's Tennis will release on the same week as Mario Tennis Fever
Kinda funny how things turn out.

They're going to sell $10 worth of materials, $10 worth of manufacturing and $10 worth of shipping costs for $100 and are guaranteed to sell out to people who will likely use it once and put it on a shelf.

It's free money If they keep the greed reasonable and they don't outproduce what dumb scalpers are willing to buy in bulk and resell later on ebay.

>>720484184 (OP)
I’m going to keep coping by pretending it was a late april fool’s joke.

Humiliation Ritual

The virtual boy failed because the games at the time didn't offer anything more than the snes at the time and the peripheral was costly, also released near the PS1 launch.

>>720500902
>nuke Japan twice
>get cursed to make your descendants look and behave like spergs

>>720500723
>It's free money If they keep the greed reasonable and they don't outproduce what dumb scalpers are willing to buy in bulk and resell later on ebay.
There's a limit of one unit per person.

This
*fart*

>>720496475
it's true, I'm balding from the front