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@AstroTheGamosian (disclaimer: I did not play in this Splatfest) The patch notes at the beginning of this season listed point changes, if that's what you're referring to: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/02/splatoon-3-version-7-0-0-is-now-available-here-are-the-full-patch-notes

@Jamie64326 I don’t know that until this comments section, apparently, lol.

@Andy_Witmyer By 25 seconds or so! 😂 It really doesn’t matter haha, maybe I’ll be first next time, lol.

@-wc- I personally remember it from around 12 years ago, when I used to visit NintendoLife after school, watch IGN video reviews, and when GameSpot gave Skyward Sword a 5/10. ETA: I seemed to remember it being a 5, but it was actually a 7.5.

@RuneMakes thanks. You learn something new every day!

Does it show my age if I say First!? I haven’t seen anyone do that in ages…

Um, on topic: where are the Nordic and Baltic regions and what countries are a part of them?

Additionally, THQ Nordic is greatly missed. RIP.

EDIT: Darn, I wasn’t first…

@JohnnyMind Between the things with these icons, and the Splatoon 3 catalog model, the fear of missing out is getting too heavy-handed in the world of Nintendo for me to truly feel comfortable. Sad.

@Yosher Bongos, get your bongos here!

@Anti-Matter There is precedent in Mario Odyssey: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/09/weirdness_people_just_cant_stop_talking_about_marios_nipples

@jedgamesguy My body is ready…to eat popcorn and live and breathe nostalgia!

Meanwhile, on present-day Twitter/X:
Bill Trinen translation voiceover intensifies

So, I, uhh, didn't know there was a new Endless Ocean game coming out. Is that the one from the Wii where on the surface it's a virtual fish tank, but beneath the surface actually so much more of a game? Am I thinking of something else?

Furthermore, I've never actually played Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, but I've heard so much about how it's such a good game that I've been itching to try it. Is it similar to Paper Mario on the N64 Switch Online app? I was thinking of trying that and seeing if I liked it.

@Grumblevolcano I noticed this with Side Order, and I thought I was the only one who did… I seriously thought it was an error when I, residing on the east coast of the US, was able to access it at 8 PM that Thursday. This makes sense now, though.

@Ulysses I’ve had the exact same experience with Splatoon 3.

It feels foreign for Nintendo to feature a past console in their advertising, and I guess that’s just because I’ve typically only seen advertisements from them represent the new system.

@Devann And that is?

@westman98 The Switch, in comparison to the Wii U, 3DS, and other prior consoles, is rather sterile and lacking in the ‘Nintendo charm’.

@Devann You described mobile games in a nutshell: as addictive as gambling, and so ridiculously low-budget that the end user is financing it themselves through microtransactions.

@PepperMintRex Admittedly, the fear of another situation like that is very real for me, even as just a fan of Nintendo properties.

The Switch is already lacking in charm compared to prior consoles (especially Wii U/3DS) and while I have no doubt that the most hardcore fans would stand by Nintendo through pretty much anything, other than game output alone, there’s not much left of the quirky Nintendo.

@Lanmanna After estimating the value of the amiibo I had at the time, yes, I got fleeced.

(They gave me something like 30% of what the collection was/is worth apparently - about $550 or somewhere around there for some number of figures, I don’t remember)

At the time, I didn’t know there was a market for amiibo, and admittedly I was in absolute shock when they said even that $550 number. But, I wasn’t in a place to be able to take my time and sell things one-by-one in some complicated way, so I did what I could reasonably do.

And also my ADHD wasn’t being medicated at the time, so that most likely had a lot to do with it.

@Lanmanna To be fair, I probably undershot the value and overshot the number of amiibo. This was some year and a half ago, and while I didn’t remember the exact numbers, I didn’t want to mislead anyone by giving falsely elevated numbers. I am curious what it was in the end though, so I’ll try to find that now.

@SwagaliciousJohnson I sold my entire Amiibo collection to a local game store (about 56 of them if I remember correctly) and got something like $250.

@MH4 That was my very first thought!

Here it is for fun times' sake:

https://youtu.be/PfCunkit5dE?si=2d1Bf1xg_s6Z7RlI

Gee, thanks NL…

I totally needed to be reminded that I’m older than I seemingly think I am!

Side note: I’ve been a reader and (forum) contributor to Nintendo Life for nearly 11 years?!

I think it was on a YouTube video, I saw a comment acknowledging that between parts of Mario Wonder, the game in this article (Mario vs DK), and the upcoming Paper Mario remake, Nintendo has been leaning into nostalgia a lot lately, and this particular comment made note of how that isn’t a particularly great sign for the future of Nintendo, their games, or their developers, and I tend to agree, since even the self-referential moments in past games still focused far more on moving the respectivive series forward.

I’ve never played Stardew Valley, and I don’t really know much about it… is it really only a single person who developed it?

I'm getting serious NightSky vibes from this, and so I'll be very interested to see more info.

I didn’t read most of the article (yet) but I’m really confused as to why people are so shocked that Sony Pictures would work on a Nintendo project. It’s nowhere near the same thing as Microsoft putting a first-party game on a competitor console, it’s much more similar to how Apple, as an example, uses storage chips from Samsung Semiconductor.

@Grim @Browny

I’ve taken to the idea that Splatoon, for better or worse, is a perfect candidate for a first free-to-play “live service” game from Nintendo. Yes, that involves the baggage that comes with the term, but there’s also some upsides, and the timing seems to line up too well. I’ll explain…

1. The seasonality of updates, with catalogs, weapon kits, and quality of life improvements, already falls under the “live service” banner, albeit one where the only costs are the price of the base game and the time investment a player chooses to put into each season.

2. With this in mind, Nintendo could choose to remove the barrier to entry that is the cost of the base game, and perhaps use a model like Halo Infinite’s, where the multiplayer is free-to-play, but the single-player campaign is a typical purchase for actual money from the store. Nintendo has seemingly been inching this way even with Splatoon 3, with the aforementioned seasonality of content, the additional single player DLC, the near-monthly Splatfests, certain other aspects such as Sheldon tickets to purchase weapons, and even PvE in the form of Salmon Run.

3. The move to this model for the series could help with the balance between drip-feeding content around seasons, and getting burnt out on content by just a few months in. That’s not to say the latter situation isn’t even more likely with a F2P/Live Service model, but it could also just be my own tendency to become overwhelmed by the finite nature of it, as that’s the biggest reason I don’t even attempt to progress the catalogs anymore myself.

4. Nintendo promised two free years of Splatoon 3 content updates, and the end of that promised two years leaves enough time in the year for Nintendo to announce their next console (my money’s on Super Nintendo Switch) and potentially the next entry in the Splatoon series. Of course, since we’d all love to see backwards compatibility with the first Switch generation, they could also announce the new console earlier in the year, potentially lining up with a new season in Splatoon 3, or even renewing the promise of seasonal updates beyond two years, which could still line up with a new console.

5. It’s a real stretch, but earlier in the year next year is when Nintendo will be shutting down online for Wii U, and of course the Wii U was the console that Splatoon originated on, so Nintendo could go full-circle and release the next Splatoon as just that, which would work from the perspective of repurposing the original name as a name for a F2P “live service” project, and as a path forward from the trilogy to something more in-line with what the series is known for (multiplayer).

All of that being said, I’m not entirely sure Nintendo is that forward-thinking just yet…

@Not_Soos Halo’s Forge mode but for 3D Mario!

@AndroidiOS Yes! I had a launch-day model that I had sold my Wii U and New 3DS XL to be able to pre-order (I’ve since upgraded to the OLED Switch), and I had gotten the Lite because of the awesome design, as well as it seeming more “at-home” with Pokémon Sword than the regular Switch model.

Honestly, it’d be the perfect Nintendo Switch for me if they had allowed the Lite to do HDMI-out.

Also, it felt more “at-home” to play Animal Crossing New Horizons on the Switch Lite.

@AndroidiOS Unfortunately I sold it back in January of 2021, after having bought it in November of 2019. Not only that, but I was for some reason desperate enough to get rid of it that I took a 32% loss when I did sell it.

I did a lot of things that made no sense around that time...

@AndroidiOS I had that model of the Switch Lite too! I played a lot of Pokémon on it!

I see what you both mean. It looks like a blown up background in an early DS game.

I was playing a bit of the first few levels, and in the second half of the first world on the map I swear I saw the tiniest bit of frame skipping during the transition between areas of the map.

@Jigglypuff439 Didn’t you mean ‘Aaaaaay!’? 😜

@HotGoomba The Week of the Mishap is upon us! Uncle Phil isn’t looking so innocent now… 😂

> Techland will reportedly "retain full ownership of our IPs, maintain creative freedom, and continue to operate the way we believe is right".

The fact that they felt the need to make this statement shows that maybe, just maybe, most of these Tencent partnerships really don’t benefit anyone but Tencent.

Here are my hopes for the final wave of the pass, at least in terms of possible retro courses:

GCN Mushroom City
3DS Wario Shipyard
GBA Lakeside Park
DS Airship Fortress
Wii Daisy Circuit
Wii Toad’s Factory
GCN Wario Colosseum
3DS Rosalina’s Ice World

Did Bowser actually say “Joy-Cons” instead of “Joy-Con controllers”? I think that’s the first time we’ve seen a corporate Nintendo employee refer to the controllers in a less-formal fashion.

@Strictlystyles They're the sole reason tarantula spawns were so insane before last week's update.

Does the vaulting pole break at all?

As others have said, there's a glaring typo on the front page.

Where it should say Valve it currently says Value.

@EpicGamenator Fortnite is free-to-start.

@Octane What I'm understanding is that you're equating PS+ and XBOX LIVE Gold to Amazon Prime, where you pay a certain yearly fee (the cost of one retail game in the case of PS+, $99 in the case of Prime) to access a multitude of services when all you want is (online play in the case of PS+, "free" 2-day shipping in the case of Prime).

Are you all at Nintendo Life suggesting Switch will be home to Splatoon 3?

-first

@MH4 @Mathias_Wolfbrok Yeah, what reasons?

@rjejr It's definitely for real.

Remember when these articles used to contain little tidbits for each game, not just press release stuff?

@Danpal65 ah, maybe it requires a 64 bit chip then.

@Danpal65 it must require iOS 11 then.

@DarkRula Yeah I had a lot of fun in that game driving around, crashing into things.

@DarkRula Like the Need for Speed game that was on the Wii U?