Nintendo Power - Nintendo's Biggest Failure

I was playing Chef RPG through the first 1/2 of this vid, so i still don't fully understand wtt this thing was supposed to do...but sounds like the storage "restrictions" (more like absolute failure) made this whole thing a completely miserable forgettable nothing. Can't fkn STAND storage capacity "issues"...

Correction: Famicom Disk Writer did indeed have many exclusives.

...I can kinda see why they keep going after flash cart devs now. Those guys are doing essentially what this is, but for FREE. Ok, the aiding in the theft of games doesn't help either, but it IS a very similar thing to this, and one of the biggest issues is that Nintendo does not go to the effort of making their preservation public anymore (as far as I'm aware, they still have like, everything, but they just aren't accessible).

nintendo power really pulling the classic nintendo commercial failure move of coming out realistically 2 years later than it needed to in order to be successful, and not being adverised in an accessible way leading to people either not quite getting it or just, never hearing about it

If Nintendo got through this, why didn't they keep the eShop open longer on the 3DS? From their own experience, how could they not have seen that there was nothing to lose by keeping it open? Could 3DS servers be that difficult?

um actually, pokemon gen 1 did have programmed colors if you played it on the super game boy 🤓

Wasn’t Mega Man & Bass (Rockman & Forte) originally released on this service?

There seems to be a general problem with the subtitles in this video in that almost every time an amount of currency is mentioned, the subtitles and narration don't match.

I think Marketing(unfortunately) is the biggest culprit. Second if not equal to that horrible storage space

Something is very strange with the subtitles.
Every time a price for a product is mentioned, it differs from the price written in the subtitles...

Turns out I didn’t know gaming!

Ok whoever edited that long list of "games that should have appeared in the system" really needs to editorialize less, it was getting obnoxiously long and speculative.

Blockbuster Video and Sega tried something similar to this in North America called "Game Factory," where you could buy a blank Sega Genesis cartridge and have video games written to it, just like Japan's Nintendo Power service...

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Currently Nintendo's biggest failure is the Palworld lawsuit!

Some of the N64 games didn’t age well……. While some others did

I can't believe Sonic was almost on a Nintendo system all the way back in the Super Nintendo days!

When you say they couldn't do it, do you mean it was technical or legal hurdles? I imagine technical, but it doesn’t hurt to ask.

When you wake up and realize you are in another dimension of reality because Nintendo Power was never an American video game magazine but a video game vending machine in Japan..... oh also there are no 7-11s only "Lawsons". I just tried to go to McDonalds and it was a McDowells and Eddie Murphy was waving at me through a window while holding a mop.

LOL I thought this was about the magazine Nintendo Power which was not a failure!! I have every single one from the first to the last!!

Am I crazy or am I hearing a phone ringing (in the music maybe) during the video

this is one of those things that would have done numbers five years earlier, but the technology wasn't there yet, nor the experience with the media

it's so weird thinking that used media could be illegal

One wrong estimate can bankrupt a company... looking at you Atari, overestimating Pacman and ET.

How did you guys find out about this? I'm a HUGE nintendo fan and never have heard of this before

And here I thought Nintendo's biggest failure was letting Reggie retire and replacing him with a guy named Bowser

When I clicked on the video, I thought you were talking about the Nintendo Power magazine; I loved that magazine...

Forest of Beginnings sounds like it would have been wonderful.

nintendo does this all the time. Digicube killed nintendo power so they called their next system nintendo game cube...omfg lol

Another amazing video! Thank you for always deep diving and interviewing people to make the videos more accurate. amazing stuff!

Thanks for the video,i never knew nintendo power lasted so long as a mail-in. It was kind silly tough in retrospective to thnik that they had those machines up and running at stores in 2007 :D

Know why this story isn’t a bad one? Because they were trying to fix issues with small publishers and gamers while not making it about the money. That’s the Nintendo heart that needs remain present

it's so ironic that Nintendo once thought "we have to preserve old games for history" and now they are the ones taking down roms and emulators and refusing to sell old games

Why prices on the subs doesn't match the voiceover ones?

Great video

Really thought this video would be about their magazine .

Wtf i Loved Nintendo Power

This honestly feels like a "Mandela effect" for me. And i don't even really believe in that concept😮. I have been a gamer for many years, and have seen countless gaming content covering those days and I have NEVER heard of this. Mind is 💥

Who would have thought there was a time when Nintendo actually wanted to "preserve" games.

Why are all the numbers different in the subs than in the spoken narration?

Any other Channel I would have ignored because the title looks that clickbait

Your TITLE IS CONFUSING...
Nintendo Power is to most a magazine. Consider adding 'catridge system' or whatnot 😊

Never knew any of this. Thanks for the report.

Turned a ten minute video into a 43 minute dragged out loop. Boring.

I have been watching your content for way over a decade. Now I'm getting tired. Not because of the content, but age. It is normal. Video is normal. Good mood to all!

I didn't click on your video for 11 days because I thought you were saying the magazine was a failure.

from what ive seen/read i get the impression that nintendo was very much snobbish towards america. they had a culture that japan would be their stomping grounds but that they would toss america a bone and grace us with some of their products. they were not focused on maximizing this other market across the sea.

Imagine Nintendo caring about the preservation of old games. 😮