Nintendo Video Game • Page 10

Yeah I was obsessed with my DS. And those things are tanks. I still have the original model, and it still works perfectly and the standby battery still somehow works

 

Game Boy – Nintendo Switch Online adds Donkey Kong Land

 

Honestly...

Fuck Nintendo for this petty bullshit

 

That crab is the most adorable thing in the world or at least this past week.

 

Nintendo is very defensive. Back in 2020 a friend of mine knew someone that worked at a printing company and (not very wise) gave him a poster of upcoming cards. My friend (also not wise) posted them on Reddit. The next week he had private investigators at his house. He had to give up the name of the guy he knew at the printing company to Nintendo, who in turn terminated their contract with the printing company.

 

That's insane.

 

Yeah. Nintendo moves fast

 

Game Boy – Nintendo Switch Online adds Donkey Kong Land 2

 

Holy cow, a Sega update. Truly a Thanksgiving blessing.

 

Vividly remember playing this game my entire Christmas break in 1997, so yeah. I always associate this game with Christmas. Those snow levels had quite the charm and Christmasy music too.

 

Ugh. I'm currently drowning in this wave of nostalgia.

 

Kinda surprised that Nintendo doesn't ban consoles that use VPNs. Feels like a very Nintendo thing to do

 

I’m not sure they can? I’m not an expert but I feel like they couldn’t tell, that’s kind of the point of a VPN I thought

 

They could if they saw your location bouncing around all over the place in a way that doesn't seem feasible in real life, like how Pokemon Go bans people and Netflix restricts other households and VPNs. Plus, services become aware of IPs from some of the more popular VPN providers over time. I've been auto blocked by some websites using Nordvpn and Surfshark

 

All of my Chinese friends have told me 1) they don’t play Nintendo 2) no one in their friend group plays Nintendo.

Mobile games dominate so I initially thought that was the cause.

 

Hmm I get a lot of Chinese Pokemon via trade (though I guess those aren’t necessarily from the PCR) and when I was college I knew a lot of Chinese kids with a 3DS (which granted was a while ago). I think it’s largely a mobile market, but the Switch is at least more of a thing than regular consoles?

 

You don’t actually need one to use foreign eShops anyway, Nintendo doesn’t really care about that. They would need one if China itself blocks foreign eShops. I’m not sure how their great firewall works.

 

Anyway, the whole point is, this isn’t really a a big deal lol

 

Do you know if the names are in traditional or simplified Chinese? Pokémon is extremely popular in Taiwan thanks to Pokémon Go (a Pokémon Center opened up last year).

However, on the other hand, even if only a fraction of the population in the PRC plays Pokémon, it will still contribute a significant amount to global trade.

 

Not it just says “CHN”, but it puts those labels there based on the language you pick and not your location. I don’t know which label corresponds to which language option and which Chinese options there are. It could very well be mostly Taiwanese players.

 

In-depth: inside China's 'hidden' game console market

Some tentative sales numbers in there