Nintendo Timed The New Splatoon amiibo Announcement Almost Perfectly

A few days after the disappointing news from the investor-meeting, Nintendo announced the new Splatoon amiibo. Coincidence? I think not. They knew exactly what they were doing, and it kind of worked. I'm very excited to purchase those new amiibo.

Even if they had no new games coming out, (which is not true, even for Wii U) Nintendo can tread water these next 11 months by releasing amiibo and trickling out more Virtual Console games. Please release more SNES-games on "new" 3DS. "Perfect Pixel Mode" is the best thing to happen to gaming in a long time.

Speaking of Virtual Console, it's a gold-mine that Nintendo has not really exploited to its fullest. Of course, when they were developing their systems in the past, they did not have VC in mind until Wii. Backwards-compatibility came on the Game Boy line of hardware and DSes because the past chips were built-in. Now with the NX, they have a chance to have forwards and backwards-compatibility on all devices going forward with a unified OS.

Nintendo has the deepest, richest, game-library in all of gaming. If they could continually sell their old games for little to no development-time, while developing new games as well, it'll be a good situation for them. Remasters and remakes are great as well.

We still need Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI, Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country 3, Mega Man X, etc. on "new" 3DS. What SNES games do you want on "new" 3DS?

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