The Pop-Culture E-Zine
Whoa, gotta set aside about 14 minutes and watch this brief tour of the Nintendo Museum with none other than Shigeru Miyamoto!
The Nintendo Museum is scheduled to open on October 2nd, 2024, in Kyoto, Japan! This is one item we definitely want to cross off the bucket list!
source: Nintendo Of America
Nintendo enthusiasts have reason to celebrate as the highly anticipated Nintendo Museum in Kyoto, Japan, is set to open its doors this spring (or autumn if you like in the northern hemisphere).
Originally slated for a 2021 opening, the museum’s completion has been confirmed in a recent financial earnings report. The final preparations are underway, with an official grand opening expected later this year. The museum promises to be a landmark destination for fans of the iconic video game company.
This will be another venue to add to the already growing “This to do and see in Japan” bucket list! For more details, visit the TimeOut article here.
During Nintendo’s 83rd annual shareholders meeting, President and CEO Shuntaro Furukawa discussed the company’s plans for a seamless transition from the Switch to their upcoming but unannounced game console. Furukawa emphasized the importance of Nintendo Accounts in facilitating this generational shift.
Nintendo has previously acknowledged the significance of accounts in their future business strategies, as highlighted in a special report released at the end of 2021.
When asked by an investor about specific measures in place for the transition to a Switch successor, Furukawa acknowledged the challenge of transitioning customers from one console to another. He mentioned that in the past, the company had to rebuild its relationship with customers each time.
Furukawa highlighted that Nintendo Accounts, which have exceeded 290 million, are cross-platform and can be used for both console games and mobile apps. He concluded by assuring that Nintendo will strive to make the transition to their upcoming console as smooth as possible for customers.
Nintendo has been known for its delayed adoption of new technologies such as cloud saves and 4K gaming, and its online accounts have lagged behind. Unlike Microsoft and Sony, who have had persistent cross-generational accounts since the early 2000s, Nintendo has faced challenges in previous console transitions, like the complex process of transferring games from the Wii to the Wii U. It has been necessary for Nintendo to catch up for some time, and it’s encouraging to see that they are now recognizing this need.
story source: The Verge
Jirard “The Completionist” Khalil has spent a smidgen under US$23,000 (~ AU$34,300) buying EVERY available Wii U and 3DS game before Nintendo shutters these respective eShops at the end of this month (March 2023).
This is definitely one way to preserve games, but let’s face it, we don’t all have tens of thousands of extra dollars sitting around, waiting to be used to buy up every game for these now deprecated Nintendo systems. We can’t even imagine the storage required to save and store all of these games – that’s a lot of microSD cards and solid-state drives!
Jirard should be commended, as he could have easily chosen the dark path, piracy, to achieve a similar result.
Completionist by name, completionist by nature, we salute you Jirard!
PS: When you are done watching the vid, read Kelsey Lewin’s Twitter thread on how this could solve the whole “preservation of games” puzzle.
source: Jirard The Completionist on Twitter
Yeah, you read that title right! Thanks to the hard and meticulous work over the last 7 years, Metroid Mike 64 has created Super Mario Bros. 5 using Super Mario Maker 2.
Metroid Mike 64 has fused classic NES/SNES 2D Mario platforming action with 40 full courses spread across 8 worlds. He has used elements from Super Mario World, Super Mario Bros. 3 and the one that started it all, Super Mario Bros.
We reckon Shigeru Miyamoto would be quite impressed with Metroid Mike 64’s wonderful creation! What are you waiting for, grab the Maker ID (0G9-XN4-FNF) and have some fun!
I’ve finally finished creating my Super World in Mario Maker 2 and have unofficially named it Super Mario Bros 5. I’ve been working towards this moment since 2015, trying to create a classic Mario game that plays as if Nintendo created it themselves. pic.twitter.com/eUNvHQysVq
— Metroid Mike 64 (@MetroidMike64) September 25, 2022
The gameplay is all classic Mario. I’m not trying to troll you or purposely try to kill you, I’m trying to provide you with something Nintendo should’ve done already, make a full Mario game within Super Mario Maker 2, that’s fun as heck! pic.twitter.com/EXCiPtvsPp
— Metroid Mike 64 (@MetroidMike64) September 25, 2022
Unique course design like this airship course that’s made to look like a tank. This is Wendy’s Battletank of Doom. pic.twitter.com/lYQPKBaLNY
— Metroid Mike 64 (@MetroidMike64) September 25, 2022
source: Metroid Mike 64 via Twitter
We always love coming across clever folks doing extraordinary and clever things, and Will It Work? is no exception!
Will It Work? caught our eye with his cool mods with old school media being used on modern consoles, which is quite impressive.
In the below video he attaches an Iomega Zip Drive (Ed: remember those 100MB disks!) to the Wii U to test whether such a small piece of media (Zip Disk) can be formatted by the console, and even better, if any games will fit on the disk. Watch and find out!
source: Will It Work?
A very cool video of the evolution of Nintendo consoles by our good friends at GameSpot Today I Learned!
Before some of you say, “But where is the Game Boy, DS and 3DS?”, relax, this is the evolutionary line of their consoles, not their handhelds. Having said that, it seems like the Virtual Boy doesn’t fit in any category 🙁
How many Nintendo consoles have you owned since their Color TV-Game 6?
source: GameSpot Today I Learned