Nintendo's closing down of its Community

[Ginger_Warrior]

Not a specific game, just something that interests me. I am a member of Nintendo of Europe and did actually participate regularly on their forums, so this news came as somewhat of a shock to me.

 

 

 

For those who have no idea what I'm on about:

 

 

 

Nintendo of America: http://forums.nintendo.com/

 

Nintendo of Europe (GB): http://www.nintendo-europe.com/NOE/en/G ... jrUen3iiWh

 

 

 

It seems strange to me that both Nintendo of America and Nintendo of Europe, neither of which have particulary been close to each other in the past, would close down their four-year-running success of a forums at the same time. Neither of the two were in trouble. Europe had a security fear, but the forums themselves were healthy and running. In fact, they spent loads last year installing new features after a load of us whined because the American ones were ten times better. So the fact that just a year after they've done that, they decide to close them altogether strikes me coordinated from the top somewhere.

 

 

 

I'm just wondering what they mean by, "new features". The NSider forums go further to suggest that the continuing success of the DS and Wii may have something to do with their decision. Put 2 + 2 together, and that points to Nintendo bringing new features out which incorporate online play properly. This is a complete U-turn to the attitude two years ago, which is that gamers on Wi-Fi should have no communication whatsoever.

 

 

 

What do you guys think? I'm personally hopeful Nintendo are eventually getting themselves round to organising some decent online play instead of making us do it for them! :)

[Abelmisi]

Old news.

 

 

 

I think it'll open up again soon. That forum was an insane experience, it got posts by the 10k's daily.

 

 

 

The wording there is pretty scary though, I must admit that. "Nintendo must unfortunately close the Nintendo NSider Forums message boards indefinitely", "We'll see you soon elsewhere on the Web.".

 

 

 

Let's hope that it is just a website makeover and it will be back up soon.

[spikerkid]

I was an active member too :(.. That sucked when I saw that when I tried to go on nsider :(. Hopefully they reopen :)