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This would be interesting if it were a fun MP3 player, with headphone jack, bluetooth, and a micro-sd card reader in the game slot.

It mostly looks solid all around, and plenty of time to clean up what's lacking. I think it's good that they're being realistic with the ambition, rather than aiming to the stratosphere and using upscalers as a clutch to have it run well later.
Not feeling the gecko and feel my dedication to the water starter failing.

Hattrem! Though Hattena's whole line is really exquisitely good. Galar originals are broadly really solid overall. I think there's lots of wonderful alt forms too, like Hisuian Growlithe, Goodra and Lilligant, & Galarian Rapidash & Weezing.
The homunculus fossil Pokémon are a really inspired choice, as is the fact that there's no way to make the correct combination. I hope it stays a quirk of Galarian scientists, only those nutjobs could see their crimes against nature and think they did a good job.

The consumer friendly route would be to do both, put the games in the Service and also sell them piece meal to those that would rather pay for them, like Sony & Microsoft do. And to be fair, it took Sony time to learn that too, RE Director's Cut was PS+P exclusive for a hot minute before they allowed people to buy it (though they did honor PS3/P purchases so those people owned it).

The lack of a dub is the reason I never bothered to finish Central Fiction, really bad mistake to drop it at the tail-end of the series, especially when it was so good.

Sucks about the pacing issues, bad pacing can tank pretty much any piece of media experience. Still seems like a fun time overall if you can vibe with it.

It bothers me that the NA/EU cover has Mario seemingly hitting the ball away from the net, or I guess you could read it as a whiff given the facial expression.
Japan's looks like a poster you'd have on your wall.

@purple_shyguy IIRC in this world the German's have pounded the Italians and Japanese into submission to establish Germany as the sole ruler of the world. So you'd still be killing people in Nazi uniforms regardless of where you are in the world, and if the sheer number of people you kill in these games means anything, a ton of them outside the Germany levels would be non-German already.

I expect it's just a matter of time and while it would be nice to have the game available in time for the 3rd flim, I do get Ubisoft wanting to spread out their big releases a bit. They just released ACS, so I'd expect a Spring release for Avatar.

It's pretty impressive what DLSS is managing to do with those ultra-low resolutions, specially in docked mode where it's blowing it up on really large screens.

• The Japanese box-art is gorgeous and eye-catching. It's great, would make you look twice.
• The NA box-art has too much going on, & assuming all 3 boxes are the same size, the console itself looks small & crammed in the middle rather than being the center-piece. Any specific games and their logos should be relegated to the back of the box, except SF2.
• Europe does it a bit better, the console looks to take up most of the front, but there's so much regulatory bs cluttering it. Useful game count too!

PS. Consoles need to bring back colored-coded face buttons!

Nice! Game demo's are always welcome, even if a bit delayed, specially when they're not timed demos.

@Res462 The game that takes up the whole internal memory will be Call of Duty whenever that releases.

Guessing it will go: Berseria -> Xilia 2 -> Zestiria, and I expect a Switch 2 port of Arise sometime in between all of those. Wonder where they go after that, maybe the Vita games?

It's not a game that feels like it would be undoable or so bad on Switch, it's pretty and austere without being a graphics showcase, but it already suffers really bad & consistent frame-rate drops on PS5 in the early outside sections so they're not working with the most optimized code as is.

This is a really fun article. Slay Mega Starmie, Slay!

The Pokedex entry does make clear what they were going for, IMO it just fails to get there in a satisfying way. I'm glad it found it's audience, make the best out of a bad situation kind of thing.

It's a full-cover Akira Toriyama piece, you just can't beat that.

@Aswannsong exactly

Should be an easy win for CODA, OpenAI making their tools opt-out instead of opt-in was blatantly in the wrong.
All the big AI models (chat bots, image generators and video generators) are already trained on all of this IP before the public even gets a sniff of them, the very existence of the tech as it stands hinges on a "they won't sue us" mentality. Which to be fair, has mostly paid off.

It's no coincidence that they picked this set of characters from the last game to do this announcement. Given how Baby Metal dresses in uniform (always with skirts too) & this is to promote a collab, I expect a music video with them dressed as the daughters, maybe Su-Metal dressed as Lady D since she's the lead singer.

IMO the 10-pack option should feature some guarantee. Like guarantee a new card from the whole pack so it feels like it's still worthwhile when you're close to finishing the booster pack. So even if it doesn't give a diamond to help finish, a new star card would give you that nice hit that feels was worthwhile. As it stands, once you have less than 20 diamond cards left you're better off holding unto your pack-points than wasting them on that booster.

Ken's black pants makes his recolor kinda cool, black & yellow is a winning combination.

Considering this is running on the same engine Platinum used for Bayonetta 3, I'd say it's only a matter of time before it gets a Switch 2 release.

It's been time since at least Sword/Shield, it's ridiculous that not even the animated cutscenes feature voice acting.

Just 12 characters, most of those slots are just filled by both Team Avatar's*, then you have Azula and 1 more character. I'd guess the final slot goes to a boss like Ozai, Zaheer or Kuvira, or more likely Uncle Iroh.

*Aang, Katara, Zoka, Toph, Suki, Zuko, Korra, Asami, Bolin and Mako.

Hope it's an amalgam of GT and Daima SSJ4, in the same vein as kid Goku is of DB and GT. He could really use a little of the red "x10 Kamehameha" juice to stand out among the other 20 characters that shoot a blue kamehameha.

Can't believe Goku gets yet another variant, while Superhero Piccolo was right there to give the poor guy some extra juice. At this point just make a sequel. lol

It's a fantastic game! Highly worth it, highly recommend playing it in Russian.
It should scale well on Switch as the game leans on it's art direction, camera angles and lighting to shine, and not on hyper detailed graphics. I think it's gorgeous

That was very sweat!
Can't wait for Nintendo pacifiers that play Pikmin tunes to release in the next couple of weeks.

3 variants + Lesnar makes for a bad DLC pack. These games already come with half a dozen Cena variants, & Lesnar being released this quickly means he's mostly recycled from last years game (just with a new head model).

@RenanKJ Probably for the same reason it recently got PS5-Xs ports: resolution boost, 60fps, better load times, some ever so slight visual enhancements (that you'll never notice), & for the sales teams it puts the game back on shelves in current gen boxes. All for fairly minimal effort.

I would take less enemies on screen at once for a stable 60fps, but having a silly huge number of enemies at once was a big selling point so I understand their choice. IMO a stable framerate is better than one that's all over the place, yet it would be best to have the option to chose.

Short of some catastrophic tariff misstep I expect her to do as well as Bowser did, which was perfectly fine, if a bit hard to gauge accurately given how behind the scenes his work was. She won't have to shepherd the division through another console launch anytime soon so she should have a fairly smooth start at least.

Nintendo sure likes Sales & Marketing people being President. lol
I wish him a nice retirement, he chose to be a more behind the scenes president, though it's just harder to gauge his impact when he's not as in-your-face as Reggie was. I'm sure he did his best in the role and was fairly successful, which was make the shareholders a mountain of cash in the US of A.

This story reinforces my need to always carry wired earbuds on me, I carry a pair: 1 3.5mm and 1 usb-c.

@JumpingJackson Yes it is a thing on the PC1. Though at least from my experience it's a little too subtle, as if the vibrations are coming from deep within the controller and barely making it to my hands. It's different compared to say a dualshock 5 where you can feel the unique vibrations more intensely.
This could just be the games I've been played with it & I do my best to try most games with it since my Lite doesn't have rumble.

I wonder is it not possible to copy data from the Gamecard unto the Switch? Like why not do what most PS4|5 games do, which have all the data on the disc that then copies it on the console's memory? That would be the solution to the memory speed issue & the cartridges would still mean something as they would hold the actual game inside them.

Good review! Thanks for the word of caution towards Lite owners, it's always a shame when games just don't scale well to the smaller screen.

Clearly I have to rewatch Waters of Mars, as I don't remember her in it.
Sounds like her job is to give you challenges & missions to complete outside the story in a Danger Room environment & maybe provide ways to replay missions via simulation? It does create a easy avenue to do DLC based on the movies though, by adding sandboxes based on them (the circus from Octopussy could work wonders in a Hitman format).

This was very unexpected!
$30 seems expensive when Tomb Raider and the Soul Reaver Collections (also by Aspyr) all cost that and provide multiple games. Could have done the 2nd game, Invisible War, in there as well for that price.

Seeing the mess it is in other platforms, it should have been delayed elsewhere too. Hopefully this means Switch 2 is getting a stable game on launch day.

Splintered Fate doesn't have a playable Splinter? Gotta fix that stat

Sucks that adult Goku SSJ4 and Vegeta SSJ3 are their own separate characters. If they weren't getting full adult Daima lines, then at least add them to the Z-End character lines.

Love Lil Gator Game! Seems like a perfect project for your little dark bat friend to take a more central role.
Don't get why this isn't just a sequel, so many years later.

Might was well have included the modern entries for this, that would at least fluff the number of playable entries.

the European one looks like a repurposed classic Mortal Kombat cover, just switched out the logo and name.

There’s no excuse for a PS Vita game to be running poorly on Switch 1.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant it's a thread tied to their needle weapon.

Hopefully it's a manageable size, handhelds keep getting bigger & bigger.

PS. Vita Slim came in such wonderful colors.

End of October-Early November would be my guess, there's plenty of time between Pokémon and Kirby for it.

Looks absolutely wonderful!