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Ah, Piers Brosnan, that English actor with the giant mouth.

@MrSensical If you have an office in an area like California, you will have lots of people working for your company that is from California, and all those people are in some form of position to pressure change in the company.

Similar things have happened in the past, with Japanese companies opening up offices in the US, and the US mentality starting to take over the whole company.

33 % off on a 4 year old game? How could I lose?

@Mips Ok, I didn't own a PS Vita, so that is probably the case. The PSP however just had a knob, and lots of people complained about it, but I thought it was great since it made the console more portable.

@NinChocolate I also liked that the PSP and Vita had knobs for sticks. Obviously they're not as good when you play, but it made them much easier to carry around.

@sleepinglion On the other hand, if Gaben beheads all the competition, he will inherit their power and Valve can win the Quickening.

So basically they pulled a Nintendo on Nintendo? Telling people they are not in competition with their competitors is a strategy Nintendo invented.

Yeah, a snapshot is the correct description, because we all want everything. Some people are angry that Banjo Kazooie isn't there, others are angry at some other game, but to quote Queen; we want it all!

@WhiteUmbrella No, the WiiU is what happens when Nintendo is being downright antagonistic towards the consumers. I thought a lot about buying a WiiU when I saw all the great games, but every time I opted not to due to the many downsides of the console. I would have bought a simplified WiiU that came with a pro controller for $250.

@Ghost_of_Hasashi It's just a storage media. How can you say Microsoft could only use it because it was used on PC? Doesn't make sense.

Yes, licencing fees for DVD would have made the GameCube a little bit more expensive, but it wouldn't have hampered the game development the way the lower storage discs did. The PS2 was less powerful than the GameCube, but the lower storage space on the game discs made the games often look worse.

@Ghost_of_Hasashi First off, the Panasonic Q flopped because of it's price, secondly, because developers weren't allowed to use the extra storage (all GameCube games had to work on the original GameCube).

If Nintendo had went with DVD as the standard in the GameCube, then the console would have been much more successful.

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Don't mind if I do!

I for one think it's cheap of Nintendo not to go with 128 gb. It's supposed to be a premium device.

Edit: so apparently I can't like my own comment ("So, erm, you can't like your own comments"). What kind of a man posts on the internet and don't even like his own comment?

Imagine going back to 2007 and telling people you've got a Game Boy that can run Crysis.

@Altina I guess we just have to agree to disagree. Have a nice day!

@Altina In my opinion it's the person who types too much that is inconsiderate. I try my best to write short posts.

@Altina I only read the first few words of your posts. Anyways, I'm not saying the next Switch needs EVERY third party game, but it wouldn't be good if it lacked the power to run any AAA meant for the PS5/Series X at lower settings.

@Altina wow, that was one long post. What I'm interested in is not having to have too many consoles. The Switch has become some sort of secondary console for many people, I would prefer if I could get by with just a Switch.

@DK-Fan What (awsome) sites do you go to if you hear so many Donkey Kong penis jokes that you end up getting sick of them?

Great, now rank them according to which Kong has the biggest schlong.

@nukatha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYrRqMHQY7o&ab_channel=akalic

@nukatha but how did they get two different tones from striking the xylophone at the same place? Are we supposed to think this is some sort of magic xylophone?

That set with a jungle green N64 and a yellow DK64 cartridge looks pretty cool.

@BAN Of course it was a rough idea, not specifics, but if Nintendo instead of dismissing Microsoft had thought "a multi billion dollar company wants to enter the console market and they talk a lot about high performance" then maybe they could have made some better decisions.

@BAN No. It may not have been as serious when they dismissed Microsoft since they had no previous relationship, but they still did dismiss what is now a serious competitor. They could at least had listened to what Microsoft had to say and figure out what kind of threat they would be to Nintendo.

Maybe that could have prevent something like Nintendo using smaller discs in the Gamecube (if they had listened more they would have realized Microsoft planned to bet on high performance and they could have realized what a mistake it would be not to use standard DVDs).

This is funny and everything, but it's also how Nintendo created their biggest rival Sony, by thinking they knew everything and didn't even needed to hear what the other guys had to say.

Nice NES glass cartridge. I now have your fingers prints and will use them while committing crime.

I don't understand why a developer like Square has to make the same game over and over. It was the same thing with the reveal of Final Fantasy 16, it was just another generic medieval inspired RPG.

Look at Xenoblades Chronicles 2 were the world is cities built on giant animals, very creative. Look at Fallout 1 and 2 with it's post-apocalyptic setting. Look at Bioshock with it's underwater city. Square should make their next game more unique.

@Omars_Comin_Yo the article is about a typo, and the typo was in a sentence about getting marketed new games on your console.

@FroZtedFlakerZz It says "Nintendo Switch News on your device"

Is anyone else sick of things like this? I turn on my Switch because I want to relax with a game, not to have other games marketed at me. If I wanted to know what games are cooming out, I'll look it up on the internet.

@TheFullAndy You didn't? Shigeru Miyamito sent me a personal letter where he thanked me for buying Nintendos all these years and there was a package with a brand new Switch Plus (the pro model of Switch not yet released).

Remember when 911 wasn't what you called to get militarized police pumped up to go kill someone? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

@StevenG Often they didn't even work with new generations of consoles from the same company. Only Sony did that. If it was about locking people in into one companies products, then the Snes mouse would work on the N64. Sometimes you even had situations were some peripherals only worked with some variants of the same console. I am much more incline to think it was out of laziness they did it this way.

@SwitchForce Is that really such a big deal? I don't think I've ever used my Switch in table top mode with the pro controller.

@RudyC3 Yeah, I don't understand why there wasn't more collaboration between competing consoles so they could use the same arcade sticks and racing wheels. Nobody wants to buy one of those for each console.

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Even if it does work, you won't be able to use all of the functions such as trackpad, speaker and adaptive triggers. Hopefully they'll make those things backwards compatible with the PS4.

If they make a sequel, it should allow you to keep captures so you can use them in different areas, sort of how Kirby works where you can enter a whole new level with a power up.

@earthinheritor Exactly. I've paid $620 for my physical Switch collection (I counted), but I wouldn't even get a fraction of that money if I sold the collection. Maybe I'd get $200 if some of the games became impossible to buy. If people just removed their rose tinted glasses, they would see that gaming on Switch is just much more expensive than the other consoles.

Wow! Nintendo is giving 33 % off on an 8 year old game? Truly amazing. On a completely unrelated note, I bought the 2012 game Far Cry 3 on PS4 for $3.

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Why did Nintendo Life stop listing the sales. That was what I was looking most at.

@popey1980 Yeah, it's just a lousy ripoff of Colossal Cave Adventure, just like Zelda.

@Eel I don't play any mobile or tablet games (unless you count the Switch as a tablet), but I still think it's a problem that all apps are forced to give 30 % to Apple or Google. Since basically everyone has an iPhone or Android smartphone, it's like those two companies is some sort of world government who takes out a tax on everyone.

The difference is that you can have multiple game consoles. You can't really walk around with an Android and an iPhone in your pocket and buy your apps wherever is cheapest.

Playing Super Mario 64 on the Switch made me realize how flawed that game was. It's unique selling point in 1996/97 was that no other game was "real" 3D. Crash Bandicoot had 3 dimensions but you couldn't really go anywhere except straight ahead.

@Courageous True. This is the same reason for why film studios generally don't read scripts sent to them.

@RenanKJ The problem with streaming is the same as a previous problem, the problem with cable tv. People paid for a few cable channels, which had a handful of good shows a year, then they felt cheated, so in order to retain costumers the cable companies pushed for more channels that would produce a large stream of shows so there would always be something on cable, and people would pay their cable bills. Then of course quality dropped a lot, but cable was getting more expensive for the costumers since they had to cover the costs of all these bad shows being produced.

@SwitchForce Also, Google made a fatal mistake in cloud gaming when they sold physical boxes with dongles and joypads. The whole point of cloud gaming was that it would be easy to just start, and if I still have to order a Google Stadia pack to get delivered to me in the mail then I might as well buy a whole console.

@Vil8000 That's what I meant. They never outright banned things like the NES, but it would have been to expensive since it had that import tax, which the Megadrive avoided by manufacturing it in Brazil.

@Heavyarms55 Basically Brazil law requires the whole console to be manufactured in Brazil. This is why for example the Sega Megadrive was a huge success in Brazil.. This is of course absurd, and I assume something has in fact change since I doubt Brazil has it's own chip fabricator.

I can't wait to play with scat.