The thing is that it's probably a bonehead move that's meant to be a cute nod more than anything.
That robot example at the end made me think of the action figures you used to buy that would come with an extra piece for another figure. You had to buy the whole set to assemble that one toy. Imagine if any time you turned it on before full assembly it just screamed in pain cause it was torn into pieces, lmao.
They used to sell cocaine and heroine for kids, just saying.
When was the last time Nintendo did something scummy and people actually held them to account?
...you could say that for any big company. Not sure what your point is here unless you're trying to go with the classic "It's only defended because Nintendo", as if the same isn't done for all of them on here
Wait wut?
Not sure how you can say that after the Xbox One debacle. Cut their console sales down by over a third for having some anti-consumer stuff that didn't even make it to the console launch. On the flip side these days every conversation about PS5 games devolves into Game Pass arguments and plenty of people saying they're switching ecosystems due to Sony's decisions this generation. Obviously we're yet to see the net effects of this yet, but Nintendo seems to be in this weird Disney-esque position where they can do some pretty "anti-consumer" stuff and calling it out feels like shouting into the void.
Oh give me a break, Nintendo arguably gets criticized more often and more harshly than the rest of the two and let's not pretend there isn't an ardent defense force for Sony on here for every little thing, such as when their games don't get a perfect score from EDGE or when Jason Schrier and Mochi reported their hearings from Sony, or that the PS5's sales are or will be hurt in any way over any of their decisions. Never mind that you're ignoring the poor sales of like half of their consoles and the initial struggle of the 3DS. This idea that their decisions never harm them or that they don't get criticism is practically a denial of reality
MK is full of things like this and most of them lead to nothing. It's how they've always been. Mileena being in a friendship wasn't indicative of her becoming DLC prior to people knowing she was coming. Rain, Sindel, Sareena are all in MKX and non-playable. Ketchup, Mustard and Li Mei are in MK11 and unplayable. You even fight Cyrax, and you fought Sindel in MKX (I think Rain as well). There's more I'm sure in just the recent two games. Sometimes they come to fruition, sometimes they don't.
Honestly, I would appreciate it more for being so honest and laughably direct. This is subtly manipulative, and why I think way more scummy than just outright asking to buy a thing.
To be clear, Nintendo had a bad generation with the Wii U and 3DS because they managed to completely forgot how to market a product, not because they were doing anything shady.
Yeah, that's kind of my take as well. While I can appreciate how clever it is, it's also a bit scummy. Updating your toy to call for a newly-released one.
The Mario and Luigi RPG games have them saying the other's names a lot for what it's worth. Mario does say Luigi's name in LM3 too.
Iirc there were some popular dolls a couple of years ago that got sick and you had to pay microtransactions at the mall to get them medicines, as in, the mall was the hospital. That certainly was worse than this.
Nefarious? Really? What if you bought Mario and he got an update for a line for Bowser. You know the big bad guy he's been fighting for 100 years? But the Bowser toy came later. Is that nefarious and exploitation of children to get them to buy more? I have no idea what the people here are even upset about and you guys just come off as typing down angry words randomly.
Easy way to do this
