Manuals in Nintendo Games Are Really Dead Now – Quick Guides Gone
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There hasn’t been a proper manual in a Nintendo published game for some time now, instead Nintendo has been including a double sided ‘Quick Guide’ with every game.
This one piece of paper usually offered some quick tips, just as the name implies.
However the decision to move to digital manuals has copped another victim, now you won’t get any paper instructions at all. The Quick Guide is dead, you instead get one of these now;
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D is the first game to ship with with no paper manual or quick guide at all and in 2013 – it’s hard to blame Nintendo. You gotta be green.
Still, the manual – in all physical forms is gone now. Good bye notes page.
Thanks to @Jacobbles for the picture.
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Almost time to go digital, next they will make the boxes black and white.
All my reasons for getting the physical copies are almost gone.
Only thing holding me back now is the price…
Yep, I’ve already made the move to digital, and DK is even on par with JB/EB pricing. ($59.95) You also get double Club Nintendo stars for downloading it (if only there was something worthwhile in the catalogue) While on Wii U the Premium discount promotion brings $80 games closer to the usual $70 charged at retail.
This is BS!
I honestly thought all this time that I was getting jibbed by not receiving manuals (and sometimes even club nintendo cards)!
Honestly, it’s rare that I need to look at one, but it’s still apart of the set with the case and everything!
If Nintendo was serious about going digital then they would have given the Wii U a proper hard drive!
32 gb is fine for eshop and virtual console games but when games like Assassin’s Creed eat up more than half of the consoles storage space, why should anybody download any games? I don’t want to use an external hard drive and I don’t want to use up my internet downloading such large files. As for the 3DS, it’s not so bad as you can easily customise your SD card space, however, they shouldn’t ditch out on the manuals for those that want something real and physical!
I like the idea of a small HDD (well Flash Drive) it keeps the cost of the console down and you can use pretty much any HDD you want.
Would be nice if they included video instructions on the game card, in the same way they include cut scenes in the video games.
Or how about a link to an online manual or YouTube site then Nintendo.
I pity you if you need instructions for this game. I’m surprised they have stuck with manuals as long as they have. They have long been not much more than collectables.
Its very un-Japanese not to have some kind of manual with a game. It shows poor manners not to even mention that no manual is provided or is necessary.
well good think im not Japanese otherwise I might be offended