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It's not a huge success : it's just "good". Or "OK".

Remember that when you buy a 10$ ticket, about 3.33 goes to the theater, 3.33 to the distributor (to cover the marketing, which cost about ... 1/3 of the budget) and 3.33 to the producers.
(Those are not the exact numbers but let's simplify it this way because that's the idea).

So if a movie costs 85M$ like Sonic does, it must make 3 times this number to refund its producing budget.

Sonic must make 255M$ to refund itself.

It has been released worlwide since 2 weeks, and is way far under what made Pokemon outside of the US.

So if you follow the tendencies of the worldwide market, it should make between 300-320 in the end. Which is good for a 85M$ movie. But not great and certainly not "a huge success".
When you know how things work in Hollywood, it's obvious that with Sonic and Jim Carrey on the poster, producers were expecting to make more money.

A sequel will cost more money mostly because of the actors who will ask a far bigger paycheck. So it's not quite sure they will greenlight it. Because if Sonic 2 makes 300-320 again, it might not be enough this time. That's a risk.

When I realized how people get huuuge backlogs of games they will never play, I understood that a digital game don't really "exist".

And that's a really sad reality.

So for me, it's physical as much as I can.

@Tantani Turns out, it's not.

@sleepinglion I agree.

Sega Ages on the Switch in portable mode, it's almost like the original experience : I don't feel the lag.
But I do in docked mode.

But the Sega compilation was way more awful when it comes to input lag.

@Pichuka97 In the FAQ of the kickstarter page, they say Wonderful 101 will go on other plateforms soon after.

I don't believe Wonderful 101 will hit 60fps on Switch when it gets busy on screen (not a chance !) or even on PS4 Pro at 2160p. I really don't. W101 runs worst than Bayonetta 2 on WiiU and Bayonetta 2 don't hit 60fps on Switch.

I'll wait for the Digital Foundry analyze and if I'm right, I'll wait for the Xbox One X version.
Or maybe I'll buy the PS4 one when the PS5 release.

Switch version it is to play it on portable mode.
Input Lag is not an option on such a game.

@kingbk can't agree more.
Still it's a incredible tool. But parasited by morrons.

The guy has the name of the most famous Nintendo emulator in the world. Of course he has a Switch on stage.

@iammikegaines Go read the comments under the last tweet of Kobe, published yesterday before the crash. It's crazy how much people can be that unrespectful.
So yeah, I understand the fear of bad comments even here.

What an awful tragedy...

@TurboTEF Yeah, I've played a little with my PS2 on it and a RGB cable : Gradius V is absolutely stunning.
SF Zero Fighter's Generation too.

I've tried the Megadrive and the Saturn and it's gorgeous.
I've yet to try my Dreamcast.

I love my OLED, its HDR especially, but man CRT are something different... and awesome too. And it's so good to play with no lag (I'm very sensible. The 21ms lag on my OLED is a nightmare for me)

Funny, I got my Wii out from a box in the basement... yesterday !
It was the first time I turned it on since... 2012 !
It was like seeing an old friend again.

I wanted to try it on my new 20" PVM with the official Nintendo RGB Cable I bought this week-end. And the result is... gorgeous.

I always had the memory of a machine with bad graphics, atrocious aliasing everywhere, fuzzy edges, but it was because I used it on flat screens, not CRT, with the poor composite cable that was sold with it.
Even later in 2008 when I bought a Plasma and YUV cables, it was not THAT beautiful.
Everyone should rediscover Wii on CRT with RGB : it's gorgeous.

Cherry on the cake : Virtual Console plays 100% like original hardware, which is amazing and impossible on hdmi consoles (even on Wii U)

Yeaaaah... the was pretty obvious no ?

The biggest surprise of the year would be to have the sequel to Breath of the Wild at the end of 2020. That would be... awesome.

He is a talented guy.
But, as with the Smash characters before, his take on them is quite nightmarish I feel.

Great list. But I don't get one thing : even in your review of the game, you never say that ORI AND THE BLIND FOREST is 60fps on Switch ... while it was 30fps on Xbox. The Switch version is BETTER than the original one. Which is unbelievable.

Does someone knows if there's some kind of cross saves between plateforms ? As it's a game that requires A LOT for the player to be online and keeps all its data on warner bros's servers, I guess it's possible no ?

I would love to buy it on the switch to play on the go but I don't want to start again from scratch all what I unlocked on Xbox.

Simple, funny, cool.
But white letters on light colors makes the PS4's UI unconfortable to watch.
Best PS4 themes are darker.

I get the dream he had. But the result was three people akwardly speaking the words their PR's had negociate for months to have an equal importance each other.

It was so unatural, so "fake".

But kuddo to have try this. It comes from a good spirit indeed.

@KitsuneNight I didn't get it. For me, you sounded like an old man yelling at clouds

Bring PARODIUS for christ's sake.
You're might be our last hope Hamster.

@KitsuneNight It's a home console too so yes it does count.

What it means is that this hybrid idea was a very clever one to boost up the home console market there.

@MH4 🤷‍♂️

@angelus They finally made a movie with Vulture : Spider-Man Homecoming, the reboot of the reboot. It was meh.

If you like good movies, watch Amazing Spider-Man, especially the second which is a masterpiece. Brillant plot, brillant music, brillant actors and brillant directing.
A lot of geeks and nerds and comicbook fans don't like this movie : don't listen to them.

I wonder if this rom has any clue about the story of the movie.
Almost no details from the movie leaked, except the casting of John Malkovitch as the Vulture.

Rudolph Giuliani not sounding like a crazy lunatic maniac is also astonishing to discover in 2019.

@tendonerd Because your eyes are adjusting to the expections you have from a movie or a video game.

Wonderful, gorgeous and glorious video games cinematics would be criticized as being "too cheap" in a movie. People won't connect to it because it's not what you expect in a movie.
Like the Diablo 4 cinematic for exemple.

I still dream of Kratos and Master Chief joining Smash Bros roster.
That way you could have Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony fighting for real

I'm sure Sakurai got the same idea one day.
Did it went immediatly to the trash or not, is a story we won't have the answer soon I guess.

This list lacks today the Hori Split Pad Pro. I can't take my Switch for travel without this pad : it so much better than the joy-cons.
It changes everything !

@NotTelevision What poison ? I just comment what I see and have an opinon on it.

@nab1 Oh yeah Capcom VS SNK Collection would be awesome.

And a Marvel VS Capcom collection too, WITH X-Men VS Street Fighter and Marvel VS Street Fighter included !

I've spent many many hours on Street Fighter Zero 3 back in the day on Sega Saturn and I loved the new characters (especially Dee Jay), musics and stages. Including the World Tour Mode that I obviously finished.

So Street Fighter 30th Anniversary, which includes only arcade releases, doesn't do justice to the lovely memories I have from my favorite episode.
I prefer Street Fighter Alpha Anthology on PS2, which features Alpha 3 Upper with all the extras (except World Tour Mode - nobody's perfect)

So.. well... I'm glad to have it on Switch to play on the go. But I'm disappointed anyway. I hope Capcom will change that in a next release.

So the guy looks good after 25 years but his girlfriend/wife has become a chubby mom with too much make-up on the face and clothes from my grandma.

That's a strange way to see things Capcom :/

@PickledKong64 I totally agree with you. I watched one episode back in the day and it was too sick. And not very good.

But I couldn't resist the joke to say "Hey, you mean we have to produce that ?" and wait for people to google it

@SilentS This anecdote made my Day 😂

@PickledKong64 Hahaha ! It's a cult anime/manga from the 90's. It really did represent the dark side of anime : unaccessible for those who dreamt to see something so forbidden. And an easy target for those who wanted japanese anime banned from europe and usa.

It's soooo cult.

Fun fact : the movie Silent Hill (2006) pays hommage to this anime with its last action sequence.

@Elvie Aaaah Akira. Great pick.

I would go for Gunnm too.

@PickledKong64 I was about to say "Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend" but I don't think people will get the joke 😅

"Produce the best manga the world has ever seen"

So we have to produce Dragon Ball ? 🤔

@tourjeff I have a soft spot also for Real Bout Fatal Fury Special Dominated Mind on PS1, which is a very unknown entry but has cool gameplay, great graphics and musics. It had also two new characters : Alfred and White, who we never saw again in the serie, except as cameos in characters endings or stage backgrounds.
Alfred is the hero of this episode, White is the boss and is designed as Alex in A Clockwork Orange.

And I have a soft spot for Real Bout 2. Raaaah, such a lovely episode.

@sdelfin It was a pleasure and an excitment to discover each year the new KOF. I remember I was a little disapointed by 97 after having spent all those hours on 96. But I still enjoyed it A LOT.

By the way, I played on japanese PS1 at that time. And the soundtracks were the ones from Neo Geo CD. And it was a blast to listen.

@StevenG Yeah but support for cart is awful too : sound is bad, picture is bad, .... Buy a real Megadrive instead !

@sdelfin I totally agree with you, 97 is a very good entry into the franchise for the newcomers. Even 96 if you want my opinion.

I even prefer 96 for one single reason : musics.
For the record, as you noticed, 97 lacks a lot of music : they didn't have the time to finish them for the release... Which is an unbelievable anecdot in the KOF series. I played it on japanese PS1 at the time and it was the same.

96 features some of the best musics, best sound design and best stages in the series.

98 is still the best.

Well. It's a great trilogy

@gaga64 Sakurai loves to spend time in details. But I guess there will be more things to be revealed like new Mii characters outfits and themes.

@Xansies I agree with that. I don't think a "Switch Pro" would present a bigger gap as the New 3DS did. And I think the more probable scenario would be that a "Switch 2" would be a PS4 with 4K ability in some way.

BUT. Never forget that the "probable scenario" in the Wii U's time, when it was obviously a failure, was that they go for a big technical leap for the next console, going back in the technical war with Sony and Microsoft. Everybody thought that they had absolutly no choice but that one.
And... they went "the Nintendo way", with a whole new concept, the Switch. First reactions were "Oh no, they're doing it again, they never learn and that will be a huge failure again obviously !", which is kinda funny to remember two years later as the Switch is an enormous success

As you say, the Switch makes more and more sense every day as a handheld machine. So... are they gonna leave the home console market to competitors ?
I'm sure they won't. But I can't guess what they're going to do for that because Nintendo has its own way.

Maybe the Switch is made only to strenghted their handheld power as I was assuming in my last post. Maybe not

I think Switch is a transition console.
Some signs show more and more that it's a portable in Nintendo's heart. And that it's the succeessor of DS and 3DS.

That's a big technological leap for a portable.

So maybe it hints that Nintendo is preparing a new home console, a big technological leap too. Maybe as powerful as PS5 ? Who knows 🙂

(go crazy internet !)

@Ventilator Yeah, I know about the XBox 360/One complete remap option. When I discovered that about 2 years ago, I e-mailed immediatly a friend to tell him he could now play Red Dead Redemption 1, which doesn't include the invert option. This friend can't play with "normal" axes and, as a western movie genre fan, he was so frustrated not to be able to play this game. He welcomed this news with joy

It's a great feature on XBox and it's very sad it's not available on Switch and PS4.

@Ventilator Do you invert X axis too ? I've read some comments about people doing so as well but never tried it.

@Big-Pepsi No no, they don't suck. All I'm saying is they would be better at video games if they made the effort to adopt inverted Y axe.
It's very hard at the beginning but it becomes a lot more natural very fast.

I did that a couple years ago because I knew all those facts... and I can't go back since ! It feels soooo much better.

@Ventilator It's totally normal, that's how the brain works.
"Normal" axis makes the brain less at ease with movements. So people playing with normal axis have less chances to be good.

But they are used to it 🤷‍♂️