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Well, it is the biggest gaming cross-over ever and I'm sure they pulled a LOT of nostalgia by introducing all of the Melee characters.

The game looks phenomenal as well so I'm glad it's getting a lot of attention.

I have been playing this all week. The score does not surprise me, it has been very good thus far in every aspect.

I prefer the Nintendo Direct format. It's quick and to the point.

I hope more companies move towards something similar going forward.

This looks absolutely incredible. Can't wait!

I just hope they add new single player modes and re-work the online mode as well.

@Nassov
I don't see your point, Wii Music was a new game - not a port. They've never had a port of an old title be the highlight of their entire show.

It's obviously a new game if it's going to be their main E3 title.

Having a remake would be like Nintendo going to E3 in 2016 having their main focus be on a port of Zelda: Skyward Sword (not Breath of the Wild) or last years E3 main focus being on a port of Mario 3D World (not Odyssey). To me it's just ridiculous to think it's a port at this point.

Eh.. I'm up for it as long as I don't have to do the throwing motion. Pokemon has been kinda stale lately, so it'll be nice to try something new IMO.

Nice. looking forward to seeing more.

I pretty much expected that.

I love Smash, but I hope they don't spend too much time on it during the Direct to be honest.. We will get more than enough footage and info from the Treehouse and tournament.

Pikachu.

I don't really get why anyone would want an Evee that can't evolve..

Hopefully one of them is the Spyro trilogy.

Quest:
Not interested at all.

Go Pikachu/Evee:
I like the look of them and how experimental they seem to be. I wanted them to try more things out with the franchise, so I am all for these games. I'm intrigued, will wait for reviews.

2019
No feelings, really. I'm just glad they informed us that they are separate titles. Personally, I want the franchise to take a bigger leap both visually and in terms of gameplay than just upgrading the Sun/Moon engine to HD, so I guess that will be what will determines my excitement, we'll see what happens in 2019.

Belmont would be a cool addition. Hope it's true.

Im not at all interested in this. But it'll be a nice test-game to see how well the Switch is able to stream games.

That sounds pretty great. I have full confidence in RETRO.

I'm not opposed to this. Pokemon needs some fresh new ideas thrown into the mix. The last few instalments have been very uninteresting to me.

I'll give it a shot. It looks pretty good imo.

Doesn't sound unreasonable. They've been quiet for a very long time, so it would not shock me to hear that they've been in development hell.

Hopefully that's not the case though.

Everything RETRO Studios touches turns to gold, so I'm not worried, whatever it turns out to be.

A StarFox racer would be interesting imo. But I doubt this is true.

Sweet, as long as all games are on the cart I'll get this day one. Same thing with the Spyro trilogy.

Sound very likely. Would be neat if they included gyro-controls.

Wouldn’t surprise me. I expect a lot of people will be disappointed by these titles though, because I believe it’ll “just” be the Sun/Moon/X/Y engine in HD with added detail to the environments.

Seems like a lot of fans are expecting a lot more.

Nice. Switch is fantastic for Indies, looking forward to this.

One of the best Nintendo Directs they've ever done IMO. Really good tempo and a lot of surprising and high quality content.

Very cool, will definitely dubble dip.

Donkey Konga 2, developed by RETRO Studios.

@judicious_echoes
Haha, a gender-swap in Bayonetta would be hilarious. It'd just be a guy going around pushing his scrotum towards the camera in most cut-scenes.

I like it, looks like a better fit than I imagined it would be.

Considering this is a straight up re-release with very little added content this is a ridiculous pricepoint.

I even though Mario Kart 8: Deluxe was a bit much at $60, and that game added a LOT more content than this does.

I will not be buying this. In my opinion they should have re-made the first game as well and re-released both in this package. But even then $60 sound like a lot for two old games.

I'm sure MyNintendo is worse than Club Nintendo, but it's also available to everyone, unlike Club Nintendo was.

For someone who never got the privilege to be part of Club Nintendo, which was only available in 8 countries in Europe at the time, I'm very happy they have created a more inclusive system that gives all users the same experience.

Nice.

I wish you got a bit more back for retail games, it should be at least half of the downloads (2.5%) IMO.

But all in all I like this system. I've already bought Night in the Woods for half the price. It's the first time I've used my coins since the inception of MyNintendo.

Neat. Its nice to see Odyssey continue selling.

@Bod2019
No challenge? I'd like to see a picture of all your star ranks on the cups, please.

Personally, the rubber-band AI drives me crazy. It's cheap difficulty, but definitely not easy. Getting 3-stars on the cups is hell on earth IMO.

The article says that we're unlikely to see a revision this year. Which I can agree with.

I do think we'll see one in mid/late 2019 though.

Strange.

You had to have a MyNintendo account and have played at least 2 hours of the game you wanted to review in order to be able to submit a score.

So I doubt an overflow of negative reviews was the reason they shut it down.

@BAN @Neon_Blues
Well.. Yeah. That's more consumer friendly. if you give someone a score from a trusted publication and a score from a unknown publication, who would you personally choose? As with both Metacritic and IMBd, the general consumer will also put more weight to the trusted publications, so the scores they calculate should be even better representations of the consumer consensus than when using a standard average - not worse.

Not to mention, a weighting scheme will also minimise the risk of a smaller publication up-voting or down-voting a game based on pure fanboy-feelings (I mean, just look at the user score for most games...). Technically, I can make my own publication and start giving out perfect 10:s to every Nintendo game. If they didn't use weighting a scheme, my scores would destroy the representativeness of their averages - which would be a bad system to use.

Finally, while I agree that not showing the weighting method is poor practice, it might be the case that if they reveal exactly how they weight their scores it can be abused mathematically by those who provide them and result in bias.

@Neon_Blues
I disagree. Taking an average of all scores, assuming the sample is large, is a good system. It's true that it will be affected by extreme values, but that's just how averages work in general. It's definitely a lot more reliable than any single review score for the average person.

It's very impressive that 11 of the 24 rewards are Switch titles. Just goes to show what a great launch-year the Switch has had.

New costumes and filters are nice. I don't think the Balloon minigame is for me.

Very cool, better late than never!

Well, I like that they don't differentiate between them on the eShop. It's always cool to see an indie-game alongside some high budget AAA game.

But I hope they don't start slacking off with this mentality. Indie-games, to me, are not system sellers but rather a really nice complement to the overall library. Nintendo still need to push hard for devs to keep releasing games like DOOM, Skyrim and Dark Souls.

@Zuljaras Agreed.

All this does is make me worried that, like with L.A. Nior, we're going to have to download half the game despite buying it physically.. If that's the case I'm not getting it either.

I have no doubt we'll see a original MH for Switch at some point considering how popular the system is in Japan.

They still haven't made a numbered sequel to MH4, so I guess we might see a MH5 on Switch.

Will buy both the Crash trilogy and this if/when they release on Switch.

Sounds decent, the conversion-rate is quite a blow, but as long as they're more useful I'm fine with it. I haven't used MyNintendo in forever because the rewards are so bad, hopefully this fixes that.

I'll take increased utility over pure dollar value any day of the week.

@Rhaoulos
You're right, sorry.

@bone
Sony or Naughty Dog does not own the rights to the games anymore. All the assets and music is re-made in the trilogy and is therefore fully owned by Activision. So they can port this to any platform without Sony being able to say anything about it, just like Microsoft can port Banjo Kazooie to any platform they want without Nintendo being able to do anything. You can see the copyright claims for the game in the Playstation Store, neither Sony nor Naughty Dog are included meaning it's fully owned by Activision.

Not surprised at all. But glad to hear it might be happening soon. I've been waiting to hear if a Switch version was in the works.

I'll buy it in an instant, love the original trilogy.

Very impressive.

It'll be interesting to see how it'll perform this year and if they can keep the momentum going. I think LABO could be a real hit or miss investment (hopefully a hit though).

I have no doubt they're working on a port or a Switch exclusive MH game as we speak.