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#1 GAMER1984

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Posted 07 May 2014 - 12:19 PM

Yep E3 will be very interesting. Nintendo have been very quiet lately either way something big is going down IMO. Speculation on what it could be????

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Posted 07 May 2014 - 12:27 PM

Just QoL
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Posted 07 May 2014 - 12:30 PM

Was thinking of posting this up. Beat me to it again I see. 

 

Anyways, while I would really REALLY hope this is some sort of big acquisition of a major third party or something of that nature, I get the sickening feeling that it's something for Iwata's dumbass QOL pet project. 


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Posted 07 May 2014 - 12:41 PM

Anyways, while I would really REALLY hope this is some sort of big acquisition of a major third party or something of that nature, I get the sickening feeling that it's something for Iwata's dumbass QOL pet project. 

It is, can't be anything else. They've been talking about it a lot


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Posted 07 May 2014 - 12:52 PM

Was thinking of posting this up. Beat me to it again I see.

Anyways, while I would really REALLY hope this is some sort of big acquisition of a major third party or something of that nature, I get the sickening feeling that it's something for Iwata's dumbass QOL pet project.


Ha! Not liking Iwata pet project!!!!! I dont either and think its a waste of time lost me at first focus on HEALTH. This God ststaus Iwata has built up over the years still amaze me. E3 will show us a lot one way or the other.

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Posted 07 May 2014 - 12:55 PM

Maybe he spent it on new suits?

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Posted 07 May 2014 - 01:01 PM

Ha! Not liking Iwata pet project!!!!! I dont either and think its a waste of time lost me at first focus on HEALTH. This God ststaus Iwata has built up over the years still amaze me. E3 will show us a lot one way or the other.

 

It's a shame really. Imagine where that money could have gone otherwise. Buying out Platinum and possibly Mistwalker for example.


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Posted 07 May 2014 - 01:25 PM

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Posted 07 May 2014 - 01:52 PM

A finger scanner!

 

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Posted 07 May 2014 - 01:53 PM

100M is a lot of money.
Being tech, it might be related to QoL.

 

Too bad Nintendo already said "no new HW at E3".
The mistery continues!


 

 


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Posted 07 May 2014 - 02:04 PM

It's a shame really. Imagine where that money could have gone otherwise. Buying out Platinum and possibly Mercury Steam for example.


We think alot alike.

100M is a lot of money.
Being tech, it might be related to QoL.

Too bad Nintendo already said "no new HW at E3".
The mistery continues!


They got you at "NEW"

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Posted 07 May 2014 - 02:05 PM

DéliopT, on 07 May 2014 - 10:53 PM, said:
100M is a lot of money.
Being tech, it might be related to QoL.

Too bad Nintendo already said "no new HW at E3".
The mistery continues!

Nintendo have denied the DSi XL, 3DS XL and 2DS months before they announced them.

I don't think 100 million is a lot for a large company.

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#13 GAMER1984

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Posted 07 May 2014 - 02:16 PM

Nintendo have denied the DSi XL, 3DS XL and 2DS months before they announced them.

I don't think 100 million is a lot for a large company.


Hopefully enough for a couple independent developers for some new fresh ips that can evolve overtime into greatness

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Posted 07 May 2014 - 02:35 PM

R&D for their new handheld I imagine.



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Posted 07 May 2014 - 02:55 PM

My thought is that since Sony sold 9.52 million shares of SquareEnix a couple of month's back; that those shares is what Nintendo bought. [The original linked news post said that it could be anything. :P ]

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Posted 07 May 2014 - 03:27 PM

Today I read that R&D for just the Xbox One controller was $100M.  I obviously know nothing about this but how could that possibly be true?!?

 

At any rate, if hardware R&D is really that expensive for a controller then I suppose this could be for hardware but nothing major like an actual console.


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Posted 07 May 2014 - 03:49 PM

My thought is that since Sony sold 9.52 million shares of SquareEnix a couple of month's back; that those shares is what Nintendo bought. [The original linked news post said that it could be anything. :P ]

Why? Nintendo already owns every worthwhile peice of talent golden age squaresoft ever had. Ff6, ff7, xenogears, chrono trigger... Nintendo has the majority of the talent behind those games. Most of them are working on X right now.

The only thing they dont have is in mistwalker.

Squeenix is just a festering rotting husk.

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Posted 07 May 2014 - 04:55 PM

Hopefully enough for a couple independent developers for some new fresh ips that can evolve overtime into greatness

I don't mean 100m is a tiny amount to buy a company, I mean 100m isn't a lot for a large investment into anything when the company is as large as Nintendo.

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#19 GAMER1984

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Posted 07 May 2014 - 06:03 PM

I don't mean 100m is a tiny amount to buy a company, I mean 100m isn't a lot for a large investment into anything when the company is as large as Nintendo.

 

hopefully we will find out as soon as june10th



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Posted 07 May 2014 - 06:09 PM

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Small R&D price tag sounds about right.

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