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Solar_Crimson
03/28/25 11:10:12 AM
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Excluding the "Classics" section:
  • Super Mario
  • The Legend of Zelda
  • Animal Crossing
  • Splatoon
  • Pikmin
  • Kirby
  • Fire Emblem
  • Metroid
  • Xenoblade Chronicles
  • WarioWare
  • Donkey Kong
The lack of Pokemon here is a bit surprising, but I guess TPC handles all promo and news for the franchise, so they were left out here. But Pokemon is also a core franchise for them.

Thoughts?

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AceMos
03/28/25 11:12:18 AM
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only one i find odd to be there is warioware

granted the series does sell well just not a franchise i think of when i think of nintendo


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Solar_Crimson
03/28/25 11:15:38 AM
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AceMos posted...
granted the series does sell well just not a franchise i think of when i think of nintendo
Really? Wario is heavily associated with Nintendo (and for good reason).

If anything, I would imagine people thinking that with Xenoblade, since it's the second-newest franchise on the list, on top of being a series of anime-aesthetic JRPGs.

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Tyranthraxus
03/28/25 11:18:54 AM
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No Star Fox or F-Zero is a little bit sad

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Solar_Crimson
03/28/25 11:27:16 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
No Star Fox or F-Zero is a little bit sad
Star Fox is understandable, since there hasn't been a new entry since Zero and nothing to promote.

F-Zero is surprising since F-Zero 99 is still going strong.

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HudGard
03/28/25 11:30:12 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
No Star Fox or F-Zero is a little bit sad
Sad but tracks. B Team energy. Also Kid Icarus.

What I find surprising is no Yoshi. Like Wario Yoshi has definitely branched out to its own franchise and is still getting constant game releases.

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Metal_Gear_Raxis
03/28/25 11:31:40 AM
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Xenoblade stonks rising

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NeonPhoenix
03/28/25 11:32:03 AM
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No Smash Bros?

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Ivynn
03/28/25 11:32:34 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
No Star Fox or F-Zero is a little bit sad

Sad, but expected. They've never been big-sellers and Nintendo has all but given up on them.

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Solar_Crimson
03/28/25 11:38:49 AM
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HudGard posted...
What I find surprising is no Yoshi. Like Wario Yoshi has definitely branched out to its own franchise and is still getting constant game releases.
My assumption is that Yoshi is still folded in with the Super Mario franchise much like Luigi's Mansion is, since Yoshi--unlike Wario and DK--still is heavily associated with the mainline Mario games.

NeonPhoenix posted...
No Smash Bros?
Probably because of it being a crossover and including franchises that Nintendo doesn't own.

But yeah, like Pokemon I would also consider it a core franchise.

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Hejiru
03/28/25 11:54:53 AM
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Solar_Crimson posted...
My assumption is that Yoshi is still folded in with the Super Mario franchise much like Luigi's Mansion is, since Yoshi--unlike Wario and DK--still is heavily associated with the mainline Mario games.

Yeah Yoshi is just as much part of the Mario series as Mario Kart is. The only reason people consider it separate is because Smash does, and the only reason for that is because they wanted all 8 original fighters to have their own symbol.


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ConfusedTorchic
03/28/25 11:57:57 AM
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pokemon is technically a third party franchise, is why

nintendo does not actually own it or gamefreak

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masterpug53
03/28/25 11:59:22 AM
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As long as Metroid maintains a fingerhold on the list I've got no room to complain.

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AceMos
03/28/25 12:00:08 PM
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ConfusedTorchic posted...
pokemon is technically a third party franchise, is why

nintendo does not actually own it or gamefreak

they do own 1/3 of it thoe

but yea its not first party

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ConfusedTorchic
03/28/25 12:01:02 PM
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AceMos posted...
they do own 1/3 of it thoe

but yea its not first party

no.

they own a third of "the pokemon company" and mainly only handle merchandise and licensing.

though to be fair, gamefreak also doesn't really do much. creatures handles modeling and animations, all the assets. the engine pokemon runs off of is the same one creatures made for pokemon xy (actually the reason why performance tanked as soon as they put games on the switch, it's essentially running on an emulation layer). gamefreak really just throws it all together like a unity asset flip game

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Tyranthraxus
03/28/25 12:02:37 PM
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AceMos posted...
they do own 1/3 of it thoe

but yea its not first party

They own 1/3rd of it and then also own a majority stake in game freak who owns 1/3rd of it.

By proxy, Nintendo de facto owns the franchise even if they don't own it de jure.

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darkknight109
03/28/25 12:03:27 PM
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Ivynn posted...
Sad, but expected. They've never been big-sellers and Nintendo has all but given up on them.

This is straight-up not true, though. Every F-Zero game except for the weird GBA ones sold over a million copies (in an era where that was an impressive benchmark). Star Fox had an even higher peak - 3 million for the original, 4 million for SF64 (and even Adventures sold well at 1.8 million). Yes, it fell off afterwards, but to say they've "never" been big sellers is wrong.

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DarthEnvoy
03/28/25 12:10:11 PM
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Solar_Crimson posted...
Thoughts?
More barefoot dragon waifus in Fire Emblem pls.

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AceMos
03/28/25 12:11:33 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
They own 1/3rd of it and then also own a majority stake in game freak who owns 1/3rd of it.

gamefreak is a private comany

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Solar_Crimson
03/28/25 12:13:46 PM
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DarthEnvoy posted...
More barefoot dragon waifus in Fire Emblem pls.
Hopefully not lolis next time.

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Tyranthraxus
03/28/25 12:18:32 PM
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AceMos posted...
gamefreak is a private comany

That doesn't mean anything.

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ConfusedTorchic
03/28/25 12:19:29 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
That doesn't mean anything.

it means they can't be a core nintendo company or have any of their ips as a core nintendo franchise because they aren't nintendo

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TMOG
03/28/25 12:20:11 PM
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What is this app meant to be
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Hayame_Zero
03/28/25 12:22:12 PM
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TMOG posted...
What is this app meant to be
Nintendo Twitter

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Solar_Crimson
03/28/25 12:22:47 PM
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TMOG posted...
What is this app meant to be
It's supposed to give you the latest news and other miscellaneous info about Nintendo games and characters.

It was apparently so big that it was the final "big" announcement in yesterday's Direct, big enough that they even got Miyamoto to introduce it.

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Ar0ge
03/28/25 12:33:54 PM
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Another Donkey Kong Country game please.

Just finished replaying Returns and Tropical Freeze on switch. So good.
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Tyranthraxus
03/28/25 12:39:32 PM
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Ar0ge posted...
Another Donkey Kong Country game please.

Just finished replaying Returns and Tropical Freeze on switch. So good.

Have you also played through all the donkey Kong lands?

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Hayame_Zero
03/28/25 1:47:29 PM
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Ar0ge posted...
Another Donkey Kong Country game please.

Just finished replaying Returns and Tropical Freeze on switch. So good.
We may have gotten a third one by now if Nintendo hadn't have been like "fix this, please" when the Prime 4 fiasco happened and dropped it in Retro's lap.

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GiftedACIII
03/28/25 1:54:49 PM
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Yeah I think the reason Pokemon isn't on it is because they have their own channel for news.

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HylianFox
03/28/25 1:55:34 PM
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yeah, the lack of Star Fox or F-Zero isn't at all surprising

Nintendo has never shown either franchise much love
>_>

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Garioshi
03/28/25 1:56:43 PM
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There hasn't been a new Donkey Kong game in over a decade. Make a new one or take it off the roster.

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Turbam
03/28/25 1:56:48 PM
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Absolutely floored seeing Donkey Kong.
Maybe DK game next year?

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Evolician
03/28/25 2:01:14 PM
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Starfox is fucking dead.

RIP

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Evolician
03/28/25 2:16:35 PM
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Its crazy how Animal Crossing went from niche to third place with just one game.

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Tyranthraxus
03/28/25 2:25:21 PM
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Evolician posted...
Its crazy how Animal Crossing went from niche to third place with just one game.
Isabella and Ankha 34 had something to do with it I'm sure

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Solar_Crimson
03/28/25 2:44:51 PM
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HylianFox posted...
yeah, the lack of Star Fox or F-Zero isn't at all surprising

Nintendo has never shown either franchise much love
>_>
That's not true. There was a period in the early-to-mid 2000's where both series were getting lots of attention from Nintendo. Hell, F-Zero even got its own anime series, and they did also release F-Zero 99 a couple years ago.

And Nintendo also showed Star Fox a lot of love even into the 2010's, even releasing Star Fox 2 finally and letting the characters appear in the Switch version of Starlink: Battle for Atlantis.

Sadly, they've done nothing with it since.

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AceMos
03/28/25 3:28:25 PM
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Evolician posted...
Its crazy how Animal Crossing went from niche to third place with just one game.

what do you mean 3rd place this is not ranked from most important to least

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Hejiru
03/28/25 4:25:03 PM
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Evolician posted...
Its crazy how Animal Crossing went from niche to third place with just one game.

One game? Animal Crossing has been steadily growing in popularity all along.

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HylianFox
03/28/25 4:28:41 PM
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Yeah, Animal Crossing has been a core IP for like 20 years now

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Snip-N-Snails
03/30/25 10:01:48 PM
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You should try out some of their other franchises.

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_____Cait
03/30/25 10:32:41 PM
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Xenoblade huh

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