Nintendo shuts down official forums "indefinitely" (Joystiq)

[R.O.B.]

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii

Pop quiz time: You're a video game manufacturer with an insanely loyal fan base that has joined together to turn your official online forums into a vibrant, thriving Internet community. What do you do? Answer: If you're Nintendo, you shut down those forums and leave their future up in the air during a site redesign.

A cryptic message on the NSider Forums main page today announced that the message boards have been disabled "indefinitely" pending a complete overhaul of the entire Nintendo.com site. 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.

In the meantime, Nintendo suggests users who want to continue talking about the company should consider "starting their own Nintendo discussion sites." Sounds good to us. After all, why should a big company like Nintendo have to incur the cost of hosting, promoting and moderating a community of fans devoted to talking about their products when the fans can do it themselves?

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[Pegasus]

No big loss.

[~NeonFire372~]

I loved the official forums.

[Pegasus]

*shudders* Good for you.

I found it to be one of the sloppiest run forums I've ever seen with tons upon tons of multiple threads, extreme fanboy-ism, and some atrocious English.

[Mendez]

Originally Posted by Pegasus

*shudders* Good for you.

I found it to be one of the sloppiest run forums I've ever seen with tons upon tons of multiple threads, extreme fanboy-ism, and some atrocious English.

It's like that on ONM too...

At least most people here show signs of being educated normal people.

[Pit 42]

NSider was loaded with spammers, plus their guidlines had become WAY too strict. I'm glad they're down, but unfortunetly, this means an influx of noobs on all the popular forums.

[Ns!d3rluv3rPikachu<3]

HaI!!11 I 4m frum d4 N!n10d0h furomz but dh3y clozd doWn s0 i c4m3d her3 2 t4lk uhboot stuf lik p!k4chu n d0gz n mar!0 n stuf. I R gunA b sp3nd l0tz tim3 her frum nwo 0n. k? diz plas3 wil b awsum/ it juzt 2 b4d dat nint3nd0 plas3 shut its3lf off u no? w0w dis plas haz c00l sm!leez/

[Shortay]

Originally Posted by Ns!d3rluv3rPikachu<3

HaI!!11 I 4m frum d4 N!n10d0h furomz but dh3y clozd doWn s0 i c4m3d her3 2 t4lk uhboot stuf lik p!k4chu n d0gz n mar!0 n stuf. I R gunA b sp3nd l0tz tim3 her frum nwo 0n. k? diz plas3 wil b awsum/ it juzt 2 b4d dat nint3nd0 plas3 shut its3lf off u no? w0w dis plas haz c00l sm!leez/

Somebody ban this person please =)

[jackaroo]

Originally Posted by Shortay-01

Somebody ban this person please =)

I agree. Ban him!!! He likes pikachu. I think thats a big enough reason.......



Oh yeah and hes writing in a dodgy style.

[DivineOmega]

Originally Posted by Ns!d3rluv3rPikachu<3

HaI!!11 I 4m frum d4 N!n10d0h furomz but dh3y clozd doWn s0 i c4m3d her3 2 t4lk uhboot stuf lik p!k4chu n d0gz n mar!0 n stuf. I R gunA b sp3nd l0tz tim3 her frum nwo 0n. k? diz plas3 wil b awsum/ it juzt 2 b4d dat nint3nd0 plas3 shut its3lf off u no? w0w dis plas haz c00l sm!leez/

Please please please cut down on the elite speak. It can make understanding really difficult for those unfamilar with it. Thank you.