kayeyearekay Wrote:and nintendo STILL wont sell GC controllers in america

Loose Wrote:lolwat? ; )

http://www.smashbros.us/us/characters/nester.html

Takebacker Wrote:April fools

Lozmaster Wrote:the trick is that smashbros.us isn't the website, the official site is smashbros.com/us

Lozmaster Wrote:Sakurai may well still end up with an april fools joke, but this ain't it.

Arrol Wrote:We all thought Mihile was an April Fools joke before.

Loose Wrote:You guys are no fun.

Lozmaster Wrote:Why would they?
They don't make hardware that uses it anymore, and haven't for 3 years. (That was when they dropped gamecube support from EU wiis anyway).

Despite the smash bros communities massively inflated ego, there aren't that many of them to make it worth running a manufacturing operation for antiquated hardware. Given how many near identical knockoffs there are on amazon, I presume whatever license nintendo had on the design has expired, so it's really easy to get them anyway.

kayeyearekay Wrote:ive got a heavy hand, and i can break any knock off with less than a week of casual play. Most players hate knockoffs for how cheap they are and how easily they malfunction. Nintendo stopped selling the controller even though the first WiiU supported the controller.

they are still being manufactured and sold in japan. nexon nintendo is still losing revenue on console and console related sales. They're afloat on their over-bounding handheld sales. if nintendo shipped & sold a million brand new controllers to USA, they would sell out in under six months tops. toss a bit of advertising, and a "disney-style" limited release, maybe some pre-orders... It's easy revenue.

But NOOOO, like you said, nintendo wants NEW "innovations". The reason they are so against SSBM is because its fifteen years old (and still great) but old. As the game developer, im surprised they didnt copy/paste *cough* PORT, the old game onto their new systems, in addition to their new smashbros games. hello FF7.

Im dead serious about the GC Controllers tho; Even the new WiiU2(?) classic-style controllers are not as robust. They are better than knock off products and work with Wii, so u can play the GC disc on a first Wii; I know people who "import" controllers; however many hoops they have to jump through, just to replace their 15yr old hardware :p

because taking a "vacation" to "nintendo factory" and returning with "twenty" boxed controllers is a fun "weekend".

kayeyearekay Wrote:ive got a heavy hand, and i can break any knock off with less than a week of casual play. Most players hate knockoffs for how cheap they are and how easily they malfunction. Nintendo stopped selling the controller even though the first WiiU supported the controller.

they are still being manufactured and sold in japan. nexon nintendo is still losing revenue on console and console related sales. They're afloat on their over-bounding handheld sales. if nintendo shipped & sold a million brand new controllers to USA, they would sell out in under six months tops. toss a bit of advertising, and a "disney-style" limited release, maybe some pre-orders... It's easy revenue.

But NOOOO, like you said, nintendo wants NEW "innovations". The reason they are so against SSBM is because its fifteen years old (and still great) but old. As the game developer, im surprised they didnt copy/paste *cough* PORT, the old game onto their new systems, in addition to their new smashbros games. hello FF7.

Im dead serious about the GC Controllers tho; Even the new WiiU2(?) classic-style controllers are not as robust. They are better than knock off products and work with Wii, so u can play the GC disc on a first Wii; I know people who "import" controllers; however many hoops they have to jump through, just to replace their 15yr old hardware :p

because taking a "vacation" to "nintendo factory" and returning with "twenty" boxed controllers is a fun "weekend".

kayeyearekay Wrote:if nintendo shipped & sold a million brand new controllers to USA, they would sell out in under six months tops.

Lozmaster Wrote:Numbers pulled out of someones ass are my favourite kind!
If Nintendo was still selling gamecube controllers on any serious kind of scale similar to that, they wouldn't have stopped selling them.

If you can seriously break a decent quality controller (Spoiler, the cheap 3rd party ones are cheap because they're pomegranate, spend more and you get better quality, like virtually every product in existence), you need to seriously pace yourself or whatever the heck it is you're doing to your controllers. It's not like they're n64 ones where the analogue sticks became impossible to centre if you looked at them too hard.

I can't think of a single company selling 12 year old controllers for systems they don't produce.

kayeyearekay Wrote:they want people to buy that new junk with the screen in the middle.

Sakurai Wrote:Pic of the day. Luigi might be thinking, "Who would've thought I'd get to show off the Poltergust in Super Smash Bros.?!" Wondering if it's going to suck something in? Yeah, it probably will.

kayeyearekay Wrote:when does nintendo ever do things that "make sense"? nintendo does whatever nintendo wants because: nintendo. its not hard to check amazon/ebay sales of knock off 3rd party controllers, and then looking at the reviews, seeing how bad they are and how fast they break. nintendo is too stubborn to bring back controller sales to USA. they want people to buy that new junk with the screen in the middle.

GCCs are still being sold in japan.