@DockEllisD It's the Club Nintendo deck from 2006; goes for about $30-50 on eBay right now. I just checked mine and as far as i can tell from the low resolution on my terrible connection, all the cards they showed match.
this doesn't deconfirm anything and i feel like i'm going crazy seeing people acting like it does. how does being roommates make it less likely that they're gay? especially in a universe where no one has to share a house with anyone if they don't want to because you can own your own house with a zero-interest no-deadline loan of $500?
Spirits and even assist trophies don't mean anything anymore. The first Fighters Pass was planned out while the base game was still in development, so it's reasonable to assume that stuff like Geno and Shantae getting spirits and Waluigi still being an assist were consolation prizes for the characters they knew weren't in (like how Pit and Wario got trophies in Melee and then got upgraded to playable in Brawl) and therefore deconfirmed them from the original plan for the roster, but the post-Fighters Pass characters seem to be something that they weren't originally planning on and that they haven't actually started development on, or at least didn't until recently. If they're adding more DLC beyond their original plans based on fan demand, then all bets are off.
A character getting a spirit in the base game confirms that they weren't originally planning on that character being playable; it does not mean they are now bound by that and are not allowed to go back later and add that character. They can do whatever they want.
(And as for Geno specifically — he's been on Sakurai's radar at least since Brawl; now that K.Rool and Ridley are in, he and Isaac are pretty much the last of the historically most-wanted characters left; and the splash screen for his Mii costume in 4 — something that even Sans didn't get! — shows that they know the demand is there. I can understand him not making the cut for the base game + FP1, which is why he got a spirit instead, but if we end up getting 5 or even 10 more characters after FP1, I would actually be pretty surprised if he wasn't one of them.)
@JaxonH your analogy isn't even right. companies don't want you working overtime without authorization, but if you do, they are still legally required to pay you for it. if your company isn't doing that (and yeah, there's a good chance they're not, because most workers can't afford to lawyer up to make their employers comply with the law), that is illegal wage theft.
@ALinkttPresent They don't have to program any new colors; anything that represents the color of a joycon (controllers menu, the slide-in effect, the 3D joycons in the Labo instructions, etc) just reads the color code in the joycon and uses that. If you have Bluetooth on your computer, you can connect your joycons and use a program to change their internal color to any RGB value you want and games will use it. I changed mine to purple before purple was released and they showed up purple everywhere.
By my count there's only about a dozen first-party NES games left that have a realistic chance of coming to NSO outside of Japan (and it's looking like most big-name third-party games are going to end up in their own paid collections): Anticipation, Devil World, Kung Fu, Mach Rider, Pinball, Urban Champion, Zoda's Revenge, Nintendo World Cup, Super Spike V-Ball, and NES Play Action Football. Maybe Golf and Donkey Kong Jr Math to complete the black boxes, and Earthbound Beginnings, Mysterious Murasame Castle, Clu Clu Land D, and F-1 Race as possible imports. Every other Nintendo-published NES game either requires peripherals, has potential rights issues, or would require major amounts of new translation. Allowing for some more Japan-only and smaller third-party games, they'll have exhausted the catalog by the end of this year or early next year.
@King-X i mean unless you buy literally every game that's released ever, you do make pre-play judgments. Even if every game had playable demos, you don't have enough time to play all of them, so you'd still have to make judgment calls on what interests you. And sometimes you can tell without playing a game that it's not going to be what you're looking for. A Pokemon game where I can't have a complete collection of Pokemon is almost as uninteresting to me as a Paper Mario game with no story or characters.
50% "positive" comments and the positive ones are like "i really hope they reconsider this decision" because "hope" is a positive emotion, and people just saying "bring back the national dex" don't count as anything because they put a # in front of it? This actually shows that a strong majority of the reaction to the decision is at least wary/uncomfortable if not outright negative, and support will drop further when we see the full regional dex and which of our favorites were cut and there's no room for hope anymore.
@rjejr The family plan is $35 a year for up to eight people. Also those eight people don't actually have to be related, so if you know a couple friends who have Switches, group up with them and split the cost.
@Damo Would you go to a friend's birthday party and be like "Surprise! I got you a roll of paper towels!" and when they're like "Isn't that the roll I had hanging up in my kitchen five minutes ago" you go "Well I didn't say it was new!"
@Damo Come on. They've done SP versions every time; it's not surprising. The headline said they added a game. They didn't add a game; Twinbee was already on there. They added a savestate for a game, which is what they've been doing the whole time.
And the "i didn't want to spoil it" argument doesn't hold any water either considering the header picture for the article shows the game.
I don't buy the idea that it was taken out to make multiplayer less confusing. It's not like that would be the first time Mario Maker has let you make bad game design decisions. You can make a level that's just a bunch of doors and all but one of them drop you in lava; that's not an argument for taking out doors.
Aside from the characters, Mystery Mushrooms also did something that can't mechanically be done with any other elements in SMM: being Super but only one block tall. You can get close to that functionality with a shelmet, though you have to take some extra steps to make sure it actually gets worn and not used as a shell.
Assuming they keep the same form factor, they could sell just the tablet part of the Switch Pro on its own for like $150 and let you use your existing dock and joycons.
Games should have multiple icon options, like reversible cover art. One that's just the regular physical boxart (or what would be the physical boxart if it were physical) and one that's more abstract or artsy or whatever. I'd love to have that original icon on my home screen, and have Zelda use the reverse boxart, etc.
I had the Mirage Saloon Act 1 boss not spawn once. Fortunately there's also a bug where if you spin dash you can fall off the plane sometimes, so I didn't have to wait for the level to time out to start over.
Complaining about having to press A while holding B seems like a bit of a stretch since that's how you play Super Mario Bros on the 3DS. But anyway, I actually really want this.
I mean, the trailer's horrible, but what's wrong with $5 for what looks like a serviceable enough implementation of a card game? Vroom in the Night Sky is shovelware; this game makes sense.
The Change Target buttons in thumbs-up mode and single-joycon mode seem... ill-advised. Why not use ZL and SL instead of having to use your middle finger stretched around the joycon (with the wrist strap on, it's a little too big for that) or using the pad of your hand to press in the side of the controller (which you're probably going to press in on accident anyway)?
On top of all the times I've had 3DS cards pop out in my pocket and the way it makes for a smoother nicer looking exterior, I recently realized card slot covers also make a lot of sense now that more people are buying digital games — a lot of people might not ever even own any 3DS or Switch cartridges, so it makes sense to have a way to keep dust out of there.
@AlexOlney Most Links probably aren't of a social status where they'd have a formal last name; if there's any need to distinguish them, it'd be "Link of the Kokiri" or "Link of Skyloft" or whatever.
Actually, is "Dragmire" even a last name, or is it maybe a title given to the male Gerudo?
It does suck not getting something I want, but it makes sense. This was never supposed to be a new product line; this was something they threw together really quickly just so they could have something to sell in a Christmas season where their old console was completely dead and their new console wasn't ready yet. They started manufacturing it at one of the lowest points the company's been at in a while; if they made too many and lightning hadn't struck the way it did, they'd have two dead consoles collecting dust on shelves. The general public's reaction could have easily been "meh, that's neat, but I'm not paying $60 for the same 30-year-old games Nintendo's always pushing; why can't they make something new?" Sega's had plug-n-play Genesises (Geneses?) for years now, with more games and expandable memory, and most people don't care about those. In hindsight it seems obvious that they should have made 100 million of them, but this wasn't a sure thing. And with people complaining that they can't meet manufacturing demand on the actual new console they released a month ago, should they really be devoting manufacturing resources right now to what's ultimately a gimmicky toy? If the Switch fails, making more plug-n-play classic systems is definitely something they can fall back on, but right now the priority should be on maintaining the momentum of their actual product.
@gareth-uk "I'd say the fact that they recorded themselves trashing it is evidence that there's at least £300/$300 that they DIDN'T give to charity."
so why are you wasting your time commenting on a website when you could be volunteering at a soup kitchen? that's two minutes that you DIDN'T give to charity
Yeah, no. The DS and DS Lite lasted 20-30 hours when they were new. If the point of the test was to compare it to an old used system that you don't do anything to fix up, then I guess, but even then that's unfair because the Game Boys in the test got to use brand-new AAs manufactured this year. If you're gonna replace those corroded AAs you got from Circuit City 20 years ago, you should also replace the decade-old, easily consumer-replaceable batteries in the other systems.
The artsy pictures are cool, but it would be nice to just have a straight-on picture of the 3DSXL resting on top of the tablet so we can actually directly compare the size. An angled picture of an open 3DS with a Switch somewhere back and to the side of it doesn't really tell me anything.
On the one hand, this is literally exactly what we said about the Wii U.
On the other hand, I can pull this out at any time and snap the controllers off and play Mario Kart, Snipperclips, Tetris, and presumably SNES games with anyone anywhere, so there's that. It's the only console other than the Famicom to always come with two controllers, and it's a handheld that's as portable as the 3DSXL. It could work this time.
I haven't touched a Switch yet, but I made a cardboard one a while ago that I think I got the dimensions pretty much right on, and if anything, the right joycon's offset stick feels like it's going to be slightly more comfortable than the left one (though the joycons are so small that it doesn't make much of a difference — if you have a Game Boy Micro, hold it with your left thumb on the d-pad and your right thumb touching the screen above the Start button, then try it with your right thumb on the buttons and your left thumb on the screen above Select.).
The top of my general hype list is pretty much a tie between Zelda and Puyo Tetris, but Snipperclips is definitely the one I'm most looking forward to playing in the stockroom at work with my manager. And I'm still not over how great it is that the Switch is the only console ever other than the Famicom that will always come with at least two controllers.
The pink square thing is kinda useless since there's only one. If there were two different colors of them, you could try out different marking scenarios and solve by contradiction. But it's still picross, so I still bought it.
(Why are the bonus puzzles still only tied to the first three games, though?)
"We're hoping that Nintendo Switch will be a system that will be the constant in your gaming life. Whereas previously, you would play certain things on your home system and certain things on your handheld. Our hope is that Nintendo Switch can be the system that bridges both of those and becomes the constant system that you're always using."
but it's totally not a 3ds successor you guys; the 3ds is gonna be around forever just like the gba
Not at $300, and not if there's a separate handheld. But if they make an affordable model that's more handheld-focused, and they get Pokémon on it, and it also sells well as a home console with a cool gimmick... maybe.
PS2 sold 150 million because it was a cheap DVD player (PS3 was an expensive Blu-ray player and Blu-ray ended up being much less revolutionary than streaming anyway, so it didn't happen again). DS sold 150 million because it expanded the handheld market in a way that was only possible because we didn't have iPhones yet (notice how every attempt on 3DS to replicate the success of Touch Generations — Nintendogs, Brain Age, CrossworDS (and then the ones they didn't even try to make on 3DS: America's Test Kitchen, Personal Trainer Walking, 100 Classic Books) — ended up bombing because while it made sense in 2005 to spend $120 on a DS and $20 on a sudoku collection because the alternative at the time was to carry around a big book of sudokus, it didn't make sense in 2011 to spend $250 plus $40 on the same thing when the smartphone you already have in your pocket anyway does a good enough job of it for free). Wii sold 100 million because it was a cool new fad that we'd never seen before and then it got Mario Kart and Netflix and price cuts and bundles to carry it beyond that.
(Note here that I'm talking just about sales, which are pretty removed from what we "hardcore" ""gamer"" types would consider actual quality of the games. The Wii, DS, and PS2 all had some of the best games of all time, but so did the Gamecube and the Wii U, and the Switch will have its share too; it's anyone's guess whether a masterpiece game ends up being a Super Mario World or a Yoshi's Woolly World in terms of system-selling)
Does the Switch have a cool enough gimmick to make it a necessary purchase to 100 million people? Maybe. But it's definitely not guaranteed. Personally if I were the president of Nintendo, I'd be sticking to vaguer language than that. But I'm not the president of Nintendo.
You could still have detachable joycons on a Switch Mini — scale the tablet down to the size of a smartphone / non-XL 3DS and other than Home and Capture, which could be moved onto the tablet, the buttons and sticks (which should probably be circle pads here) could be the same sizes and positions. And HDMI out shouldn't be a problem; just keep it at 720p. A Switch Mini should still keep the features that give it the name Switch; otherwise we've either got a Switch SKU that doesn't have the one very well-known and easily-understood feature it's supposed to have, or we've got two consoles with completely different names that are actually mostly the same thing (and then what name do you put on the cartridges?).
To the people saying the Switch can't be a 3DS replacement because it's too big: detach the joycons and it is literally the size of a 3DSXL and two Game Boy Micros. You can find room for that. And in a year, if there's still a market for pocket-sized dedicated game consoles, they can make a Switch that's the size of a smartphone that only plays in 720p. Their goal for the past five years or so has been a single development platform. They're not going to kill off a successful console right away, or give any signals that they're doing it soon, but they don't actually intend on keeping two consoles with completely different architectures in the long term.
Right now, it needs to outdo the Wii U, so it's a home console that's also portable. If it works, in a year or two they'll make one with the bottoms shaved off of the joycons and the tablet part scaled down to the size of a phone and that'll be a handheld console that also has an HDMI out port. If there's still a market for dedicated handheld consoles by then.
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Re: Your Favourite Mario Characters Will Appear In Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics
@DockEllisD It's the Club Nintendo deck from 2006; goes for about $30-50 on eBay right now. I just checked mine and as far as i can tell from the low resolution on my terrible connection, all the cards they showed match.
Re: Random: The Official Animal Crossing: New Horizons Guide Puts To Rest One Bit Of Romantic Speculation
this doesn't deconfirm anything and i feel like i'm going crazy seeing people acting like it does. how does being roommates make it less likely that they're gay? especially in a universe where no one has to share a house with anyone if they don't want to because you can own your own house with a zero-interest no-deadline loan of $500?
Re: Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast Publisher Has More Announcements On The Way
I'd definitely rebuy the original Jedi Knight with the live action FMVs and the N64 podracing game
Re: Nintendo Reconfirms Terry's November Arrival In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Spirits and even assist trophies don't mean anything anymore. The first Fighters Pass was planned out while the base game was still in development, so it's reasonable to assume that stuff like Geno and Shantae getting spirits and Waluigi still being an assist were consolation prizes for the characters they knew weren't in (like how Pit and Wario got trophies in Melee and then got upgraded to playable in Brawl) and therefore deconfirmed them from the original plan for the roster, but the post-Fighters Pass characters seem to be something that they weren't originally planning on and that they haven't actually started development on, or at least didn't until recently. If they're adding more DLC beyond their original plans based on fan demand, then all bets are off.
A character getting a spirit in the base game confirms that they weren't originally planning on that character being playable; it does not mean they are now bound by that and are not allowed to go back later and add that character. They can do whatever they want.
(And as for Geno specifically — he's been on Sakurai's radar at least since Brawl; now that K.Rool and Ridley are in, he and Isaac are pretty much the last of the historically most-wanted characters left; and the splash screen for his Mii costume in 4 — something that even Sans didn't get! — shows that they know the demand is there. I can understand him not making the cut for the base game + FP1, which is why he got a spirit instead, but if we end up getting 5 or even 10 more characters after FP1, I would actually be pretty surprised if he wasn't one of them.)
Re: Stardew Valley Creator Opts To Self-Publish Game On Switch Amid Chucklefish Allegations
@JaxonH your analogy isn't even right. companies don't want you working overtime without authorization, but if you do, they are still legally required to pay you for it. if your company isn't doing that (and yeah, there's a good chance they're not, because most workers can't afford to lawyer up to make their employers comply with the law), that is illegal wage theft.
Re: Random: Nintendo's Latest Firmware Update For Switch Removed A Neat Effect
@ALinkttPresent They don't have to program any new colors; anything that represents the color of a joycon (controllers menu, the slide-in effect, the 3D joycons in the Labo instructions, etc) just reads the color code in the joycon and uses that. If you have Bluetooth on your computer, you can connect your joycons and use a program to change their internal color to any RGB value you want and games will use it. I changed mine to purple before purple was released and they showed up purple everywhere.
Re: Pokémon Sword And Shield Won't Support Pokémon Global Link
i still don't understand what the global link is so this is probably a good thing
Re: A Rewind Feature And Two NES Games Are Coming To Nintendo Switch Online This Month
By my count there's only about a dozen first-party NES games left that have a realistic chance of coming to NSO outside of Japan (and it's looking like most big-name third-party games are going to end up in their own paid collections): Anticipation, Devil World, Kung Fu, Mach Rider, Pinball, Urban Champion, Zoda's Revenge, Nintendo World Cup, Super Spike V-Ball, and NES Play Action Football. Maybe Golf and Donkey Kong Jr Math to complete the black boxes, and Earthbound Beginnings, Mysterious Murasame Castle, Clu Clu Land D, and F-1 Race as possible imports. Every other Nintendo-published NES game either requires peripherals, has potential rights issues, or would require major amounts of new translation. Allowing for some more Japan-only and smaller third-party games, they'll have exhausted the catalog by the end of this year or early next year.
Re: Tweet Analysis Reveals Controversial Pokémon Cull Has Fans Evenly Split
@King-X i mean unless you buy literally every game that's released ever, you do make pre-play judgments. Even if every game had playable demos, you don't have enough time to play all of them, so you'd still have to make judgment calls on what interests you. And sometimes you can tell without playing a game that it's not going to be what you're looking for. A Pokemon game where I can't have a complete collection of Pokemon is almost as uninteresting to me as a Paper Mario game with no story or characters.
Re: Tweet Analysis Reveals Controversial Pokémon Cull Has Fans Evenly Split
50% "positive" comments and the positive ones are like "i really hope they reconsider this decision" because "hope" is a positive emotion, and people just saying "bring back the national dex" don't count as anything because they put a # in front of it? This actually shows that a strong majority of the reaction to the decision is at least wary/uncomfortable if not outright negative, and support will drop further when we see the full regional dex and which of our favorites were cut and there's no room for hope anymore.
Re: Preview: Things We've Learned Playing Super Mario Maker 2
@rjejr The family plan is $35 a year for up to eight people. Also those eight people don't actually have to be related, so if you know a couple friends who have Switches, group up with them and split the cost.
Re: Hands On: Pokémon Sword And Shield’s Dynamax Mode Has Us Shook
They should just say that the no-non-Galar-dex thing is a commentary on Brexit.
Re: Nintendo Throws In A Surprise NES Game With This Week's Switch Online Update
@Damo Would you go to a friend's birthday party and be like "Surprise! I got you a roll of paper towels!" and when they're like "Isn't that the roll I had hanging up in my kitchen five minutes ago" you go "Well I didn't say it was new!"
Re: Nintendo Throws In A Surprise NES Game With This Week's Switch Online Update
@Damo Come on. They've done SP versions every time; it's not surprising. The headline said they added a game. They didn't add a game; Twinbee was already on there. They added a savestate for a game, which is what they've been doing the whole time.
And the "i didn't want to spoil it" argument doesn't hold any water either considering the header picture for the article shows the game.
Re: All Those amiibo On Your Shelf? You Can't Use Them In Super Mario Maker 2
I don't buy the idea that it was taken out to make multiplayer less confusing. It's not like that would be the first time Mario Maker has let you make bad game design decisions. You can make a level that's just a bunch of doors and all but one of them drop you in lava; that's not an argument for taking out doors.
Aside from the characters, Mystery Mushrooms also did something that can't mechanically be done with any other elements in SMM: being Super but only one block tall. You can get close to that functionality with a shelmet, though you have to take some extra steps to make sure it actually gets worn and not used as a shell.
Re: Snake's Voice Actor Says New Codecs Have Not Been Recorded For Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Doc Lewis should be the new codec
Re: Rumour: A Hidden VR Settings Menu Appears To Have Been Found On Switch
@Bunkerneath The screen actually does have its own motion detectors; I don't know of any games that use it but you can see it in the Labo Garage.
The resolution's obviously too low for it to compete with other VR headsets, but it'd be perfect for a Labo kit.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry Considers "Nintendo Switch Pro" With NVIDIA Tegra X2 Processor
Assuming they keep the same form factor, they could sell just the tablet part of the Switch Pro on its own for like $150 and let you use your existing dock and joycons.
Re: Soccer Brawl Is Your Next Neo Geo Game For Switch
wait, what's the difference between a cyborg and a "bionically-enhanced human"?
Re: TT Games Listens and Gives LEGO Worlds on Switch a Nice New App Icon
Games should have multiple icon options, like reversible cover art. One that's just the regular physical boxart (or what would be the physical boxart if it were physical) and one that's more abstract or artsy or whatever. I'd love to have that original icon on my home screen, and have Zelda use the reverse boxart, etc.
Re: Super Mario Odyssey amiibo Packaging Reveals Three New Kingdoms
peach is presiding over mario and bowser's wedding
Re: Fast RMX Is Getting A Free REMIX Update Next Month
"worst rubberbanding ever" seems a little extreme considering i'm not very good at racing games and i do okay in this.
Re: Sonic Mania Runs Brilliantly on Switch, With One Tiny Drawback
I had the Mirage Saloon Act 1 boss not spawn once. Fortunately there's also a bug where if you spin dash you can fall off the plane sometimes, so I didn't have to wait for the level to time out to start over.
Re: Review: Miitopia (3DS)
Complaining about having to press A while holding B seems like a bit of a stretch since that's how you play Super Mario Bros on the 3DS. But anyway, I actually really want this.
Re: First Impressions: Running Scared from Sonic Forces
i still don't even understand why half the internet thinks adding a character creator is some kind of unspeakable sin
also yeah, probably should've given this preview writeup to someone who actually likes the idea of a 3d sonic game?
Re: Video: Physical Contact: SPEED Could Herald A Brave New Era of Switch Shovelware
I mean, the trailer's horrible, but what's wrong with $5 for what looks like a serviceable enough implementation of a card game? Vroom in the Night Sky is shovelware; this game makes sense.
Re: Pop On Some Headphones for This Sonic Forces Park Avenue Track
@Ras Sonic Boom is a good song; people who hate it aren't worth your time.
Re: Gallery: Check Out Five Control Schemes for ARMS
The Change Target buttons in thumbs-up mode and single-joycon mode seem... ill-advised. Why not use ZL and SL instead of having to use your middle finger stretched around the joycon (with the wrist strap on, it's a little too big for that) or using the pad of your hand to press in the side of the controller (which you're probably going to press in on accident anyway)?
I'm actually really intrigued, though.
Re: Review: NBA Playgrounds (Switch eShop)
"You can play in many of the Switch’s available configurations with the only exception being single Joy-Con play,"
Wait, what? Wasn't single-joycon explicitly confirmed like two days ago? Or am I reading this sentence wrong?
Re: Preview: Going Hands On With the New Nintendo 2DS XL
On top of all the times I've had 3DS cards pop out in my pocket and the way it makes for a smoother nicer looking exterior, I recently realized card slot covers also make a lot of sense now that more people are buying digital games — a lot of people might not ever even own any 3DS or Switch cartridges, so it makes sense to have a way to keep dust out of there.
Re: Gallery: Here's What Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's Retail Packaging Looks Like, Inside And Out
Good, no reversible cover, now I don't have to feel bad about buying it digital. Though the regular cover is really pretty.
Re: Feature: 30 Games We Might Get On The SNES Mini Classic Edition
I feel like "there can only be one DKC and one Kirby, but there's gonna be five Square-Enix RPGs" is a bit unrealistic.
Re: Review: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch)
30fps in 4-player? LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE.
jk, this game owns
Re: Random: Nintendo Officially States Ganondorf's Last Name
@AlexOlney Most Links probably aren't of a social status where they'd have a formal last name; if there's any need to distinguish them, it'd be "Link of the Kokiri" or "Link of Skyloft" or whatever.
Actually, is "Dragmire" even a last name, or is it maybe a title given to the male Gerudo?
Re: Citigroup Analysts Predict Nintendo Will Release a Mini-Switch in 2019
Fits with what Iwata said in 2014:
http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/3/5374252/nintendo-next-console-handheld-integrated-development-platform-satoru-iwata
Re: Nintendo Has Discontinued The NES Classic Edition in North America
It does suck not getting something I want, but it makes sense. This was never supposed to be a new product line; this was something they threw together really quickly just so they could have something to sell in a Christmas season where their old console was completely dead and their new console wasn't ready yet. They started manufacturing it at one of the lowest points the company's been at in a while; if they made too many and lightning hadn't struck the way it did, they'd have two dead consoles collecting dust on shelves. The general public's reaction could have easily been "meh, that's neat, but I'm not paying $60 for the same 30-year-old games Nintendo's always pushing; why can't they make something new?" Sega's had plug-n-play Genesises (Geneses?) for years now, with more games and expandable memory, and most people don't care about those. In hindsight it seems obvious that they should have made 100 million of them, but this wasn't a sure thing. And with people complaining that they can't meet manufacturing demand on the actual new console they released a month ago, should they really be devoting manufacturing resources right now to what's ultimately a gimmicky toy? If the Switch fails, making more plug-n-play classic systems is definitely something they can fall back on, but right now the priority should be on maintaining the momentum of their actual product.
Re: Nintendo Download: 16th March (North America)
In the Coming Soon section of the NA eShop, Puyo Puyo Tetris is listed at $40. Wasn't the digital version supposed to be $30?
Re: There's an Option in FAST RMX that Makes the Whole Game Sharper
@JaxonH I like how they made a track that's basically Fire Field from GX but they set it in Iceland to throw us off their trail.
Re: Video: Punishing Drop Test Reveals The Nintendo Switch Is Tougher Than It Looks
@gareth-uk "I'd say the fact that they recorded themselves trashing it is evidence that there's at least £300/$300 that they DIDN'T give to charity."
so why are you wasting your time commenting on a website when you could be volunteering at a soup kitchen? that's two minutes that you DIDN'T give to charity
Re: Nintendo Switch Battery Test Reveals Some Surprising Results
Yeah, no. The DS and DS Lite lasted 20-30 hours when they were new. If the point of the test was to compare it to an old used system that you don't do anything to fix up, then I guess, but even then that's unfair because the Game Boys in the test got to use brand-new AAs manufactured this year. If you're gonna replace those corroded AAs you got from Circuit City 20 years ago, you should also replace the decade-old, easily consumer-replaceable batteries in the other systems.
Re: Gallery: Let's Compare The Nintendo Switch To Other Handhelds
The artsy pictures are cool, but it would be nice to just have a straight-on picture of the 3DSXL resting on top of the tablet so we can actually directly compare the size. An angled picture of an open 3DS with a Switch somewhere back and to the side of it doesn't really tell me anything.
Re: Talking Point: The Nintendo Switch Could Revive Local Multiplayer
On the one hand, this is literally exactly what we said about the Wii U.
On the other hand, I can pull this out at any time and snap the controllers off and play Mario Kart, Snipperclips, Tetris, and presumably SNES games with anyone anywhere, so there's that. It's the only console other than the Famicom to always come with two controllers, and it's a handheld that's as portable as the 3DSXL. It could work this time.
Re: Feature: Nintendo Switch Countdown - The Origins and Simple Magic of Snipperclips
I haven't touched a Switch yet, but I made a cardboard one a while ago that I think I got the dimensions pretty much right on, and if anything, the right joycon's offset stick feels like it's going to be slightly more comfortable than the left one (though the joycons are so small that it doesn't make much of a difference — if you have a Game Boy Micro, hold it with your left thumb on the d-pad and your right thumb touching the screen above the Start button, then try it with your right thumb on the buttons and your left thumb on the screen above Select.).
The top of my general hype list is pretty much a tie between Zelda and Puyo Tetris, but Snipperclips is definitely the one I'm most looking forward to playing in the stockroom at work with my manager. And I'm still not over how great it is that the Switch is the only console ever other than the Famicom that will always come with at least two controllers.
Re: Review: Picross e7 (3DS eShop)
The pink square thing is kinda useless since there's only one. If there were two different colors of them, you could try out different marking scenarios and solve by contradiction. But it's still picross, so I still bought it.
(Why are the bonus puzzles still only tied to the first three games, though?)
Re: Nintendo Hopes the Switch Can Be A Bridge Between Home Console and Portable
"We're hoping that Nintendo Switch will be a system that will be the constant in your gaming life. Whereas previously, you would play certain things on your home system and certain things on your handheld. Our hope is that Nintendo Switch can be the system that bridges both of those and becomes the constant system that you're always using."
but it's totally not a 3ds successor you guys; the 3ds is gonna be around forever just like the gba
Re: Tatsumi Kimishima Expects Nintendo Switch To Sell "About As Well" As The Wii
Not at $300, and not if there's a separate handheld. But if they make an affordable model that's more handheld-focused, and they get Pokémon on it, and it also sells well as a home console with a cool gimmick... maybe.
PS2 sold 150 million because it was a cheap DVD player (PS3 was an expensive Blu-ray player and Blu-ray ended up being much less revolutionary than streaming anyway, so it didn't happen again). DS sold 150 million because it expanded the handheld market in a way that was only possible because we didn't have iPhones yet (notice how every attempt on 3DS to replicate the success of Touch Generations — Nintendogs, Brain Age, CrossworDS (and then the ones they didn't even try to make on 3DS: America's Test Kitchen, Personal Trainer Walking, 100 Classic Books) — ended up bombing because while it made sense in 2005 to spend $120 on a DS and $20 on a sudoku collection because the alternative at the time was to carry around a big book of sudokus, it didn't make sense in 2011 to spend $250 plus $40 on the same thing when the smartphone you already have in your pocket anyway does a good enough job of it for free). Wii sold 100 million because it was a cool new fad that we'd never seen before and then it got Mario Kart and Netflix and price cuts and bundles to carry it beyond that.
(Note here that I'm talking just about sales, which are pretty removed from what we "hardcore" ""gamer"" types would consider actual quality of the games. The Wii, DS, and PS2 all had some of the best games of all time, but so did the Gamecube and the Wii U, and the Switch will have its share too; it's anyone's guess whether a masterpiece game ends up being a Super Mario World or a Yoshi's Woolly World in terms of system-selling)
Does the Switch have a cool enough gimmick to make it a necessary purchase to 100 million people? Maybe. But it's definitely not guaranteed. Personally if I were the president of Nintendo, I'd be sticking to vaguer language than that. But I'm not the president of Nintendo.
Re: Tatsumi Kimishima Talks About a Potential 3DS Successor
You could still have detachable joycons on a Switch Mini — scale the tablet down to the size of a smartphone / non-XL 3DS and other than Home and Capture, which could be moved onto the tablet, the buttons and sticks (which should probably be circle pads here) could be the same sizes and positions. And HDMI out shouldn't be a problem; just keep it at 720p. A Switch Mini should still keep the features that give it the name Switch; otherwise we've either got a Switch SKU that doesn't have the one very well-known and easily-understood feature it's supposed to have, or we've got two consoles with completely different names that are actually mostly the same thing (and then what name do you put on the cartridges?).
Re: The Jackbox Party Pack 3 Announced For Nintendo Switch
It's not completely portable, as I assume this is going to need an internet connection to work, but yeah, this is pretty cool.
Re: Kimishima on the Role of the 3DS After the Switch Launch
To the people saying the Switch can't be a 3DS replacement because it's too big: detach the joycons and it is literally the size of a 3DSXL and two Game Boy Micros. You can find room for that. And in a year, if there's still a market for pocket-sized dedicated game consoles, they can make a Switch that's the size of a smartphone that only plays in 720p. Their goal for the past five years or so has been a single development platform. They're not going to kill off a successful console right away, or give any signals that they're doing it soon, but they don't actually intend on keeping two consoles with completely different architectures in the long term.
Re: Talking Point: Is the Nintendo Switch a Handheld or Console? Does it Matter?
Right now, it needs to outdo the Wii U, so it's a home console that's also portable. If it works, in a year or two they'll make one with the bottoms shaved off of the joycons and the tablet part scaled down to the size of a phone and that'll be a handheld console that also has an HDMI out port. If there's still a market for dedicated handheld consoles by then.