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At Tokyo Game Show, Nintendo conspicuous by absence

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By Makiko Yamazaki and Tim Kelly

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Maybe it doesn't want to be associated with a games show where the highlight is being able to legally grope as guests could with the VR headsets.

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Who the hell wrote this? Do some homework, they never go to TGS and have their own event.

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Indeed Nintendo never go the TGS, year after year, most of the attendee are people taking picture of the booth girls with no real interest in games, hardly a show of interest.

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Maybe it doesn't want to be associated with a games show where the highlight is being able to legally grope as guests could with the VR headsets.

That's likely to be the bit of technology from this game show that will last longer than any others. It will be upgraded and upgraded until virtual sex is a thing.

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Strangerland: "That's likely to be the bit of technology from this game show that will last longer than any others. It will be upgraded and upgraded until virtual sex is a thing."

Oh, I have no doubt -- same as I have no doubt robots will excel most in the sex industry before anywhere else. I'm just saying perhaps Nintendo didn't want to be that obvious. Parents might not want to see Mario Kart next to fat guys groping a doll while they drool at whatever they see in their headsets.

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I respect Nintendo for its games, especially for Mario. That game is my childhood and I play it online at http://www.friv4online.com/ . And I also downloaded that game on my phone, so now I'm the happiest person in the world

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Citizen2012: you comment, I think is based on the public days, it seems you have not gone there for the business days. But, even if you go to TGS during the public days, although there is no doubt a great amount of people interested only in the girls, the main interest are on the games.

A whole other thing is that YOU are interested in the girls but could not forgive youself to be one of those people.

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Gogogo:

Who the hell wrote this? Do some homework, they never go to TGS and have their own event

So maybe the reaction is a bit over the top, but it's pretty obvious that the writer knows very little about video games. Other problems with this article:

--"Animal Forest" is known as "Animal Crossing" in English.

--Stating that the reason for Nintendo's lack of mobile presence until now is because they wanted to "keep to their Wii console business" seems a little strange to me. Nintendo rules the handheld business with the 3DS, and if mobile is competing with any console gaming, it's most definitely with the handheld systems. If they were strategically staying out of mobile, it was to not sabotage their handheld console sales. This article also talks about the Wii like the Wii U never existed. If we're talking about Nintendo's business model and ventures, you can't leave out the massive flop that was the Wii U.

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