Comments on: Nintendo Shuts Down Forums - Indefinitely

By: B Man

B Man — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:00:30 +0000

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…

By: xztheericzx

xztheericzx — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:11:04 +0000

i’m eric. joining a couple boards and looking
forward to participating. hehe unless i get
too distracted!

eric

By: jlee

jlee — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:09:23 +0000

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.

By: Nintendo cierra los foros de su portal oficial en EEUU indefinidamente en Nivel99.com

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:00:04 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: jonahfalcon

jonahfalcon — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:47:13 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence

By: MitchyD

MitchyD — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:45:03 +0000

My mom enjoys games. She doesn’t hit forums. Explain that.

By: jonahfalcon

jonahfalcon — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:04:52 +0000

The world isn’t divided into “Casual” and “Hardcore”. People who enjoy something will post in a bulletin board about it.

By: Chris Gueco

Chris Gueco — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:37:19 +0000

Casual Gamers don’t post on the Nintendo Forums. That’s why Nintendo shut them down.

By: jonahfalcon

jonahfalcon — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:23:04 +0000

You don’t have to be hardcore to post in a forum.

Another commentator at Joystiq offered Mount Moon for Pokemon fans.

By: Devin Grimes

Devin Grimes — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:38:55 +0000

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…

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:28:48 +0000

Nut-job-fanboys that would post crap like that, will be back no matter what.

By: jonahfalcon

jonahfalcon — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:34:25 +0000

When God closes a door, he opens a window. A Joystiq commentator:

We’ve had huge amounts of NSiders try to invade and register at GTFOutsider upon losing their precious forum. We’ve been down more than a Birdo at a… a…

Meh. You can fill in the rest…

…It’s not our fault that when people think “NSider” and “natural enemy” they think Outsider.

Well, I guess it is, but still. Enjoying the eyeballs, but we’ve had to reboot like 3 times this afternoon when they mucked up our server. We’re having to look into a more robust server and forum software ourselves. We were trying to stick it out until SMF 2 but that’s not going to happen now.

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.

By: MitchyD

MitchyD — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:14:53 +0000

So now Nintendo officially has NO COMMUNITY. They were limited when they had a forum, but now? Nothing.

By: Chris Gueco

Chris Gueco — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:10:23 +0000

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.