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Re: UK Charts: There's No Stopping Mario Kart World And Switch 2

123akis

The most interesting one to me is MK8 Deluxe! I know it's already been commented but I want to put in my own words: Probably from those that are still yet to dip into the game with all the commercials and cannot afford a Switch 2 right now like myself (I've had the game since day 1 on Wii U and Switch, just I can't afford switch 2).

It could also be from people that are enjoying MK World so much and never had the previous game. This really highlights the success of Switch 1 with people still buying the console!

Re: Nintendo's Strict Policy On MiG Carts Is Creating A Problem For Secondhand Switch 2 Buyers

SirLink

@Ikswoltok nonsense. If you really want to punish pirates, you just ban their accounts while demanding that whoever makes a Nintendo account add their data (or their parents' data in case of minors) together with traceable payment methods. Once they identify you, you can't escape, until you do an identify theft which would definitely attract all the attention of the authorities.
Banning a console only punishes 2nd hand buyers. But maybe that's what they are really interested in at Nintendo, since in their mind 2nd hand buyers should buy new products instead.

Re: Where Are Mario Kart World's Non-Mario Racers? Producer Kosuke Yabuki Has The Answer

zombie-paper

I’m also having mixed feelings on the new roster? The mainline characters are great as always, and I love all of their different outfits. It’ll take some time for some of these new characters to grow on me though?? I’m not sure?? but I guess the biggest complaint I have is how the character select screen is laid out? Yes you can sort to have all of your characters with their outfits in a column, but I’d much rather have the outfits on a second separate screen after you pick your initial character? It just seems a bit cluttered and messy for me as it is now, but I’m also getting used to it.

Re: Best Sonic Games Of All Time

Moridin

“Debates will rage forever about whether 2 or 3 is best — it changes depending on the day, but we tend toward the former.”

If it’s the former rather than the latter, then why didn’t you guys pick S2 for the number one spot? Lol.

Re: Digital Foundry Is "Happy" With Switch 2 But Feels The Screen Is "Problematic"

hammers1man

@RasandeRose I will also point out that you are wrong, the Ally and Ally X do not support HDR gaming with their screens. Windows 11 even tells you that the display does not support HDR for gaming or desktop or apps. So if there is no option in Windows to turn on HDR for desktop, apps and games so you are certainly not playing games in any form of even basic bare minimum HDR like the Switch 2 screen has.
I think where you are confused is that the Ally screen supports HDR for streaming video but so does my portable 15 inch 144hz monitor that I use when traveling. But like the Ally that was never advertised as a HDR screen.

Re: Nintendo's Strict Policy On MiG Carts Is Creating A Problem For Secondhand Switch 2 Buyers

FortniteJ

@Fleischyy
Reasonable?
Why would anyone spend $130 to then copy the games that he already owns on physical cart onto another physical cart?
It's a waste of money.

Wouldn't it be funny if there was a lawsuit and then the sales numbers of the "MigThief" and the "MigDumper" were made public?
I wonder how much worse the "MigDumper" sold. My guess is 1-2% at max compared to the "MigThief". Realistically probably even far less, maybe 0.1%

Reminder that this kind of crap destroyed the PSP, and was also horrible on the Nintendo DS. On the DS I remember buying that GTA game for almost next to nothing and it was a few weeks after release. I wondered what the hell happened. Sales numbers were horrible, similar to the 2nd PSP GTA game, but even way worse than that. GTA sell like hot cakes, so the correct explanation was thievery.

Re: Digital Foundry Is "Happy" With Switch 2 But Feels The Screen Is "Problematic"

hammers1man

@KoopaTheGamer Asus explained to the YouTuber The Phawx that VRR on an OLED uses 2.5 times more power than on an LCD VRR screen. It is more to do with the controller of the screen than the actual screen. Mini LED with VRR also uses too much power. So this is the main reason we don't have any OLED VRR handhelds yet, it is not about price as there would still be expensive PC handhelds with VRR OLED screens if this was the case.

Re: Nintendo's Strict Policy On MiG Carts Is Creating A Problem For Secondhand Switch 2 Buyers

Ikswoltok

@AllBLK It is not very neighborly to call the police on my neighbor for breaking into my house and making a sandwich. The people chanting "anti consumer" have got to be children. This move by Nintendo is the most logical and predictable thing a company can do. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have been doing this for years. But the sheep have been enraged by social media because stuff costs money. Yikes!

Re: Smash Bros. Director Sakurai Laments 'Unsustainable' AAA Game Dev, Discusses AI And Uncertainty

Anti-Matter

@Yoshi3
I personally like the games with huge world size to explore as long they are still for kids and have some activities to do when I play the game just for enjoy the random activities from wandering around, doing the available small activities like fishing or collecting fruits or diving under the sea, enjoy the scenery.
There are two different category of big world exploration games.
1. Free Roaming = Smaller size of Open world style games with limited area size to explore such as Super Mario Odyssey, Sly Cooper 2 / 3, Go Vacation, Paw Patrol World, etc.
2. Open World = Bigger and seamless size area to explore like LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER, Yonder The Cloud Catcher Chronicles, etc.
I will die in happiness to play new Animal Crossing with Free Roaming or Open World style for the world exploration + The SIMS style for designing the house and landscape.

Re: Celeste

harrystein

The girl in this is Trans? I'm reading this is an article posted today that won't let you comment. This is news to me and I've beat the game 4 times now. Lol... I guess story in a video game is just pointless and this seems even more so nonsense. Why would that be a topic of a video game?!

Re: Digital Foundry Is "Happy" With Switch 2 But Feels The Screen Is "Problematic"

hammers1man

@RasandeRose The Rog ally screen has a better response time and doesn't have that motion ghosting that the Switch 2 clearly has. The Switch 2 to me is comparable to those cheaper monitors with motion ghosting because of poor response times. The Ally's smaller screen gives it better pixel density so it also looks sharper than the Switch 2 screen and yes I prefer that 7 inch form factor. We obviously won't have OLED response rates on LCD but would of been nice to have had a better screen with less motion smearing. There are negatives to OLED also, 30hz capped 30ps I just can't played on an OLED, it's horrid. I stopped playing Breath of The Wild because of this. Crazy picking a game up 5 years later and tbh now it plays wonderfully on the Switch 2 docked on an OLED TV upscaled to 4K 60hz. For me it is probably gonna stay docked 90% of the time and my Ally X which has fantastic battery life is my traveling handheld.

Re: Smash Bros. Director Sakurai Laments 'Unsustainable' AAA Game Dev, Discusses AI And Uncertainty

MikeP

@Yoshi3 Couldn't agree more. Heh, maybe I agree too much, with my fondness for arcade games dictating much of what's in my Switch library.

But in the end, whether or not a game can sustain an audience beyond the initial purchase comes down to game feel and fun mechanics, which Nintendo swears by. The Switch sold like hotcakes, and the Switch 2, despite my grave reservations about pricing, is off to a great start-- and neither of those are dependent purely on open-world Zelda sales. (Or open-world Mario Kart sales, but come on, it's a new Mario Kart either way!)

And Zelda already had a long history of strong mechanics to put into an open world. When will AAA publishers and developers take a freaking hint?

If everything is open-world just for the sake of being "SO F**KIN' BIG," that's a good way to collapse the industry. Not even AI will save you, because then the customers will notice the game sucks. 🙄

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