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@mattesdude This baffles me to no end, just gives us some color choice of joycons Nintendo. Not only can you customize your switch, it also fills a function since games can display the right color on screen.

@Knuckles-Fajita this is also shows the whole stick of "support the companies" doesn't work when it comes to multibillion corps.

@MattFox she confirmed this ten years ago, it isn't news. And she did that because fans had already figured it out. But how about you go and vent this on an Harry Potter site instead of a Nintendo one?

Didn't you see the direct? It was in there as well.

Thank you Captain Obvious, we could never have come this far without you!

At the time, many tried to replicate the success of magic the gathering. Pokemon is one of the few that have had main stay.

@Mr_Kaos it isn't head mounted, you hold it in front of your eyes. So I would be very surprised if it works with anything else.

@ilikeike Pokémon shield have also been localised in the states and is now called "Pokemon good guy with a gun"

Pikmin 4 + extra characters because a certain site have strange restrictions.

Seems like a list flipping death would be on.

@link3710 dedicated servers would solve this. They can't attack another person if they can't find them. They find them because they have a direct link to the other person.

Yeah, but what does he know? Fudgin' casuals.

Overall I think gaming has an elitist problem where people are name calling others because they are not "hardcore" enough.

@Tsurii it is called personality rights. "The right of publicity, often called personality rights, is the right of an individual to control the commercial use of his or her name, image, likeness, or other unequivocal aspects of one's identity."
From Wikipedia. Note that US isn't alone in this.

@SwitchForce his motivation might be money, but the laws are written so it doesn't matter if the offender earns money or not. That is a common misconception I see repeated time and time again.

Another is that he needs to sue every one. That is also false. He can give his silent blessings to anyone. And it would be super strange if it needed to sue every one, then he would have to play every game, watch every TV show and every movie. And if anyone would slip through, he would lose his rights.

No one can own dance moves. But that isn't what this is about. This is about his likeness. And those dance moves are tightly connected to him. That is the first person I think about when I see them. There is no denying it.

I personally think this is as bad as all other forms of copyrights, they are stifling culture more than helping nowadays. The original copyrights were 14 years, with an option to have another 14. That is more reasonable IMHO.

@mantez It did that years ago. It is also funny to see that NL commenters that usually like copyrights suddenly have become negative in this case.

@SBandy it is called "personality rights" and are most similar to trademarks. I am not a lawyer, so I don't know if it is applicable in this case.

@Vepra Yes, that is true. Blame the copyright system that has gone unchecked for so long.

@SwitchForce money has never been an issue. It is about control. Why do you think fan games disappear on a regular basis?

"Due to the timing of the copyright, he may not actually have a case, as the emote was added to the game on 2nd January 2018 - well before this issue was raised"
Time has nothing to do with it. The copyright laws are written in such a way that it is EPICs responsibility to ensure they are not breaching anyones copyright, and any work are automatically protected. In this case, they will have a hard time saying they accidentally created a move in the likeness of a famous move. And calling it "fresh" confirms it even more.

He might not have a case regardless, but time has nothing to do with it.

Games like these live and die depending on a healthy community, so it isn't surprising.

This is also why subbing for online isn't healthy. It shrinks communities and it will undoubtedly make smaller titles having a harder time to survive.

@Octane they are both troll bait. Even though this one is true!

I am quite sure Sony/Epic are in breach of GDPR on this subject. One of the articles in GDPR are the right to data portability. Any EU citizen that have had a fortnite account tainted could challenge this.

I think it is a good thing Suda does this. It isn't often one of the giants care about lesser known titles like this 'Smash' game. Now, I don't think this will impact the sales of the tennis game that much, but Suda even mention them should give them a boost.

The plants are a reference to his mustache. He is all but confirmed as a playable character now!!!!

@LordGeovanni red/blue is not entry level anymore. Old games were hard because arcades needed to be hard to earn money. But even if it was entry level for you, the next entry had a player base drop of 30%. And after pokemon go, the most casual experience as of yet, pokemon sun/moon gained 50% more players over the previous entry.

I don't get all the whining from the so-called hardcore gamers. We are living in the golden age of gaming, we have super easy games as well as super hard games. Why whine over the ones that are easy? Buy another game.

And it is even worse when it comes to this game. Next year there will be a new core game. You can safely skip this entry since it is a spin off.

@LordGeovanni This is an entry level pokemon game. This means they can get people to buy a pokemon game without dumbing down the core experience. Because that is the alternative if they want to broaden their player base.

@ZombieGavinS depends if it becomes an hard or soft brexit. If you want an hard brexit, you can change your laws however you want.

But if you want access to the inner market, you will still be bound by all EU regulations regarding goods, pay almost as much as you have done but you will not have any say in the law making. And you will need a visa to visit EU.

I would guess you can change your consumer protection laws in both cases since it probably won't effect EU citizens in this case.

Giving odds can be useful, but it depends on what the odds are talking about. For example, in fire emblem heroes they give you the percentage to get a 5* or 4* hero in the summonings. But the problem is that you have no idea about the odds to get a specific hero because they can still be any of the hundreds in the hero pool.

Physical blind bags are different in that if you get a duplicate, you can trade it, sell it, burn it... If you get a duplicate in a game, you are at the mercy of the developer if you can do anything about it. Developers can also change the odds on the fly if you buy too little and get to many big names.

@JasmineDragon he might be smart, but they definitely had gratuitous gore that was just cringe worthy in how misplaced it was.

I don't have a problem with mature content if it is handled correctly. My biggest complaint is that much of the gory stuff wasn't for enhancing the story line, it was for shock value.

Just because you can add edgy stuff doesn't mean you should do it everywhere. In fact, it is better to be more conservative with it to add more weight to some scenes.

@Lameborghini No, it is not. This is a freeform game as opposed to gridbased in fire emblem. I would recommend that you watch a video.

@Jayrcee I use this: https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-3DS-Game-Card-Case-24/dp/B004K6LQAS
Works fine.

I think two things were a problem this year; pacing and no funny moments. Smash got far too much time, and the other things got too little. I started to zone out halfway through the smash bit. Better pacing would have been better.

Nintendo has had fun moments in their directs. This year was so serious, and it becomes bland as a result. It felt more like an infomercial instead of the big gaming period of the year.

Yo-kai watch GO. (And in two years they make the spin-offs yo-kai watch let's go jibanyan and let's go whisper)

I think the big dragons will try and push for this. If every smart-TV suddenly is capable of having the latest fifa or madden where you only need to buy a controller, why bother buying a dedicated console? Much cheaper (at least on paper) for many.

The big publishers would be happy to cut out a middle man (Nintendo, sony, etc) in the process.

@SmaggTheSmug while that might be an overreach on Blizzards part, they were called pandering to LGBTs/SJWs long before that. While I wrote my post in jest, it was around that time some started voicing their concerns on how they forced 'agendas' down their throats. Just look at how these people are now reacting to Battlefield V... or farcry 5 before it...

I don't think overwatch would have been as successful as it is if they hadn't made such an diverse cast. Diversity broadens the gaming hobby. This isn't a bad thing.

But I am not sure it is an overreach on Blizzards part either. If people start harassing their players outside the game and they can prove it, why wouldn't they start banning people?

@brandonbwii they made tracer gasp gay. So according to some people it is of course pandering to the LGBT community.

@LemonSlice well, isn't that how patents are supposed to work? Patent a common solution so you don't need to fight with any pesky newcomers.

@ThatNyteDaez But the problem is that the money doesn't go to improving online at all, it goes to other stuff. If it really went to improve online, it could have been worth it.

@Octane Not only is the cost negligible, the platform holders doesn't host the servers in most (if not all) cases. There is a good reason rocket league can say it is a press of a button to enable cross-play, it is because they use the same servers.

Warning, this game may make you emotional: https://youtu.be/0GW-Y445jUc

Many fall in the face of chaos; but not this one, not today.

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@KirbyTheVampire Nintendo isn't that big. Last time I checked, they had 5000 employees. This is quite low for a multinational company.

@MegaVel91 no, I don't think fair use applies here. It isn't a review, criticism or parody, which are the strongest fair use arguments you can use. It does however limit the market for Nintendo to make and sell their own block, the very reason copyright laws exists.

You don't need to register a trademark, if it can be associated with the owner it applies automatically. The block screams Nintendo, you can't deny it.

@MegaVel91 @scrummer Copyright laws are very restrictive. Even if you don't earn a dime, it is still illegal under current laws. You can't copy any works, patterns or trademarks. This is clearly a derivative work on existing Nintendo properties.

Don't get me wrong, I think copyright laws should be less restrictive. This should be legal IMHO.

And it is every bit as illegal as copying a game under current copyright law.

Awww, Mario and Bowser finally express their love for each other! I don't understand why Peach has that shocked look though, it has been obvious for years!

@MoonKnight7 stand-alone mode.

My only beef with the game is that it has the same release date as the xcom 2 expansion.

@maceng it is because the hardening is a special process, they can take more money for it. But still, the entire manufacturing cost for an iPhone is around $200. https://www.google.se/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2016/09/20/iphone-7-cost/%3fsource=dam

And no, you need to have a certain volume to be profitable. Otherwise they need to offset it by raising their prices.

@Nintendo_Thumb all electronics are like that. The ones doing the components get almost no profit. An iPhone costs roughly $200 to manufacture.