Nintendo Shuts Down Forums - Indefinitely
- Scribbled on September 18th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Editorial Content, Industry News, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, Nintendo Gamecube, Nintendo Wii, Press Release, Rumor Mill, Virtual Console, WTF
The Wii and the DS may have been selling like hotcakes, but Nintendo has decided to redesign their official site, Nintendo.com, and have closed the forums “indefinitely”.
Nintendo says that the future of the forums past that redesign is “uncertain” and that the existing posts will be taken down after a week of availability in read-only format.
Outraged response by Nintendo fans were posted at the Joystiq article, with such sentiments as
- “Nintendo hates online, in all it’s nefarious forms. The Wii was the hint, this is the proof.”
- “If Ninty is demolishing their forums just to cater to the casual gamers (as possibly evidenced in the statement, ‘Nintendo is working… to support the continued success of Nintendo DS and Wii.’), then I say, SCREW YOU NINTENDO.”
- “How many hints do you people need that Nintendo not only doesn’t give a shit about ‘gamers’ anymore, but they don’t even want to be associated with them?”
- “As a four year member of Nsider (well, it would be 4 years in November) I can honestly say the people who run the boards don’t know shit about what the actual members want. RPG board? Taken away. Chat threads? Taken away.”
What do you think? Is Nintendo getting rid of the forums for good? Is this a middle-finger at “gamers”, as another poster grates? Comment away.
(Thanks, Joystiq.)
September 18th, 2007 at 1:10 am
It seems like a middle finger. I couldn’t imagine Sony or Microsoft closing their respective forums.
I was right! Nintendo hates gamers. I’ve been saying it since day one.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:14 am
So now Nintendo officially has NO COMMUNITY. They were limited when they had a forum, but now? Nothing.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:34 am
When God closes a door, he opens a window. A Joystiq commentator:
I went to that site, and the second I saw an article titled “The Faggiest Emoticon Ever”, it lost me. That and it claiming it killed Nsider, which was reminiscient of George Bush Sr claiming he was the reason the Berlin Wall fell.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:28 am
Nut-job-fanboys that would post crap like that, will be back no matter what.
September 18th, 2007 at 6:38 am
Wow, that’s a surprise. The Nintendo.com forums actually had a good community, and for them to just get shut down? Really strange considering how much cash is rolling their way right now.
I think they’ve truly lost the hardcore audience…
September 18th, 2007 at 9:23 am
You don’t have to be hardcore to post in a forum.
Another commentator at Joystiq offered Mount Moon for Pokemon fans.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Casual Gamers don’t post on the Nintendo Forums. That’s why Nintendo shut them down.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:04 am
The world isn’t divided into “Casual” and “Hardcore”. People who enjoy something will post in a bulletin board about it.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
My mom enjoys games. She doesn’t hit forums. Explain that.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
September 18th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
[...] Nintendo cierra los foros de su portal oficial en EEUU indefinidamente Published by September 18th, 2007 in Videojuegos Puede que Nintendo Wii y Nintendo DS se hayan vendido como rosquillas, pero Nintendo ha decidido, sin explicación alguna, cerrar indefinidamente los foros de su portal oficial en EEUU, como parte integral del proceso de renovación de su división on-line. Según la propia Nintendo el futuro de los foros es incierto, anunciando también que los posts ya publicados podrán ser leídos durante una semana más, aunque no editados. Las respuestas airadas de los jugadores no se han hecho esperar, con frases tan gráficas como "Nintendo odia el on-line" o "que te *** Nintendo". La verdad es que no se explica algo así. Esperamos opiniones. Fuente: Gamestooge. [...]
September 20th, 2007 at 4:09 am
I joined the Nsiders forum less than 2 months ago and was posting on their Wii boards regularly until this closure.
Let me just say that it had become a cesspit of daily rants against Nintendo by Nsiders who were more interested in the shortcomings of the Wii in comparison to the Xbox360 or Ps3. It’s like the long-term fanboys all felt betrayed that Nintendo was seeing someone else (the casual gamer).
It’s too bad that hardcore gamers are characteristically over-represented on public forums. If you were new to the Nintendo forums like I was, you’d think Nintendo’s fanboys were their worst critics.
November 10th, 2007 at 9:11 am
i’m eric. joining a couple boards and looking
forward to participating. hehe unless i get
too distracted!
eric
December 30th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
I feel disappointed when they close the forums, they said thier future is uncertain, maybe it’s correlated with the inappropreate behavior that people do. It’s annoying when people do spam attacks and say things like “Mario is a cool pokemon” and other pointless nonsence. Those people should learn to behave thierselves. Still, who knows what the future of the forums would’ve been? Life is a mystery…