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Sanik is the best Sonic.

@Vivid_viking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFnGjyPYxjM&ab_channel=MMOVerdict

@Vivid_viking Okay. But there wasn't one per level like in Odyssey.

Super Mario 64 didn't overstay it's welcome. There was one race with Koopa the Quick and that's it. Doing a 120 star run in SM64 is fun, doing all the moons in Odyssey is a massive chore.

Why is there like squiggly things instead of letters?

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It will screw over many people, speedrunners who need official releases, people who want to bring all their games on vacations (have every game on Switch), collectors, and just generally consumers who might not know that much about video games, the type that picked up a mini-nes when they saw it on the shelf and remembered that they played those games when they were kids.

@Coach_A Because the last time Luigi shot his goo in public he was arrested.

@BrettAwesome The Switch has the ability to create a local wifi network, which is how local multiplayer in handheld mode works. It's also possible that the car is controlled via bluetooth and that wifi is only used for the video feed.

For the local wifi option, the Switch has to disconnect from your home router, so that's the downside to that option. The downside to connecting these cars to your home router is probably too large to be viable. It's a kids game, and if they have to configure a toy car to connect to a router and add the password to the car it would probably be too much of a hassle.

My guess is that it works just like a Playstation 4 joypad - you connect the car via USB and now the car is automatically synced to the Switch console you plugged it into. The technology used will probably be a local wifi connection for both controlling the car and for sending the video to the Switch. This is just a guess on my part.

@LEGEND_MARIOID That's why I hope Nintendo has made it so they'll work outside. Obviously they won't work in the mud or grass, but they should at least work on asphalt.

What I mostly wonder about is how fast the cars will run, and how big the track is. I remember those slot cars from when I was a kid and they just flew by. The camera on this car is obviously not stabilized, so I'm hoping they'll run very slow and the game will be more about precise driving and picking up items.

I know you can sort of see how fast they are going in the trailer, but you can't get the full idea of what it will be like. Luckily Nintendo will be able to update the game and how the car behaves. Hopefully the car itself will be able to be updated just like the Joycons can be. That way Nintendo can fine tune it after they know more about how it works in people's homes.

So basically they spent 2 minutes to tell us that it comes with absolutely nothing?

@JimmySpades You can probably play it outside in portable mode. I can definitely imagine that some kids will do that. Hopefully the cars will work outside.

So basically it's like that browser game Nintendo had taken down? (There was a guy who made a multiplayer browser version of Super Mario Bros that worked like a battle royal).

The 8th game was basically a stand alone experience, and the first YS game I played. I heard that 9 is tied to the bigger story of the series. I just hope it doesn't require having played the 7th game to understand what's going on.

Netflix, and streaming services in general, is in the same boat as cable-tv networks was a few decades ago. There was only a handful of shows on tv, so people stopped watching after a while, and in order to motivate people to keep paying their cable bills they mass produced lots of bad content.

So the core of the problem is that you can't charge enough money for a few quality shows to cover all the costs.

Wow! A pixel-art plattformer? Where do these creative people get such unique ideas? And on the Switch too? The Switch barely had any pixel-art games or 2D plattformers. We truly do live in the future.

When Nintendo decide to sell a Switch 2, they need to sell it without accessories. I don't want to have to pay for joycons and a dock again. It should be a 100 % backwards compatible tablet that I can just transfer my save files and profile to, then put down in the same dock and use the same peripheral.

It's a lot easier to print som new blurays than these rom-cartridges the Switch uses. When Mario+Rabbit got a Gold Edition with all the DLC, it was just a digital download I think.

Some developers are planing for this limitation though, which is why Cuphead won't come physically until the DLC is ready to be included.

@boredlizard They can still keep the original Switch in production, and make some games cross compatible.

I hope they release a Switch 2 in 2021, that will be fully compatible with original Switch games, but will have it's own exclusive games. Ideally it should have an SSD like the Series X and PS5 has, so it won't have to rely on slow SD-cards.

I played it a few times back then and I never saw the appeal. Only a year later Half-Life came out on PC and that was a way more amazing FPS game.

@Deltath I meant from the perspective of the developer. If you spend a year developing a pixel graphics metroidvania when 20 others have done the same, chances are you will barely sell any copies, unless it's on sale for 90-95 % off, and then you will barely make any money from your effort.

Now when this happens it has become customary for the developers to claim there is something wrong with the market, or that consumers aren't doing their part in "supporting" the struggling indie developers. This is a completely wrong way of thinking of it, besides, that kind of thinking doesn't even lead anywhere, because at the most you can convince 1 % of your consumers to buy a game at full price because "it's the right thing to do".

I've even heard that some people buy two copies of a game for full price just to support the developer. If that game sells 7 459 234 copies, then maybe at the most 14 of those sales are from people who bought two copies to "support the developer". What matters in the real world is how commercially viable a product is, nothing else.

@shazbot Yes, they are free to try, and it's great that so many people are trying, but when it doesn't work out they can't start talking about how hard life is as an indie developer, or how the consumers aren't "supportive" enough. It's a right to attempt to make it in game development, but it's not a right to make it.

@diegoarthur I meant overall too many people want into the gaming industry. You have to remember that the gaming industry is almost a winner takes all business. If you make a must have game then you can sell to a tremendous amount of consumers, but if you make a cheaper and less good copy of that must have game, then you can only sell to a fraction of the people.

Two examples of this is Xeodrifter and Brawlout. Axiom Verge is a much better metroidvania, so they end up having to sell Xeodrifter at 90 % off, and Super Smash Bros Ultimate is way better than Brawlout.

The harsh reality is that not enough people will pay for those lesser games, which means the developers won't make enough money to warrant the work they put in. If you are third, or even forth one out, you will always be struggling financially, and it probably wasn't a wise decision to make an indie game.

There's countless of people who read a success story about some indie game and think "that's what I want to do", then they struggle for 10 years making games that no one will buy at full price, and eventually they start to float the idea that they've somehow been wronged. That it's the sales that are the problem, and if only more consumers were "supportive" they wouldn't have to struggle.

So the core of the problem is that too many people want that sweet, sweet indie success, but there's only room for a few winners at the top, and then some niche game. There isn't room for yet another pixel graphics JRPG with some minor twist to the concept.

@shazbot Yes, too many of them has pixelart or that cheaper cartoon graphics. Even the new Earthworm Jim 4, which is supposed to be a system seller for the ill-fated Amico, has that cheap cartoon graphics.

Also, there's way too many Japanese games with some anime characters on the cover and extensive use of the color teal. You can't even figure out what those games are about by clicking in the eshop, you have to go to youtube to figure out if it's hack n slash, a point and click or a turn based jrpg. Sometimes it's even those awful visual novels.

@JimmySpades Nobody is obligated to do anything. What I'm saying is that if they want me to buy their game at full price, they have to make it so good I just got to have it right away. Nobody is entitled to the content of my wallet.

The unhealthyness of the market comes from too many people wanting to become indie devs. If you've decided to go into the indie market and your ideas are similar to the other 400 indie games on the market right now, then perhaps get another job. You're not entitled to having your indie game development be successful, in fact most fail.

@JimmySpades Support? It's a commercial product and I am a customer. I always try to wait for a sale when buying digital games. If they don't get a sale from me they need to do better next time.

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There's too many games like this on the eshop and they tend to just get lost among other games.

@mazzel The rumor stated that Nintendo is planning to release a more powerful "Switch 2" and not require third party developers to make their games compatible with the original Switch. At the same time Nintendo themselves would make all their first party games compatible with both the original Switch and the Switch 2.

That way games like Far Cry 6 can come to the Switch 2, but at the same time the original Switch won't be obsolete.

@mazzel If it's fully backwards compatible, and Nintendo release all their first party games to be compatible with the original Switch it won't necessarily split the user base. I'm hoping a Switch 2 comes 2021, but it needs to come at least 2022, otherwise Nintendo will be too far behind in hardware power (which matters if you want to run the newest AAA-games).

@mazzel The Switch significantly closer than the Vita ever was to give all AAA-games portability. The Vita had YS-8 and some of the Persona games, while the Switch has Doom 2016, Skyrim, plus several Assassin's Creed games.

However, there's still a significant gap that needs to be reduced. You can't get Red Dead Redemption 2, Far Cry 5, Metal Gear Solid 5, and much more. I'm hoping that a Switch 2 comes 2021 and it will narrow this gap to the point where you can start to expect the latest AAA-game to also come to Nintendo.

@mazzel I mean technically that is true, but the PSP and PS Vita put full sized games on a handheld. Not the latest AAA-games, but then again neither does the Switch.

The hybrid idea has been done before, with the Neo Geo X and the PSP Go, though the Switch does it far better. My point is that while the Switch offer this great benefit of portability, it's still not exempt from competition. And this isn't even a critique against Nintendo, because if anything they have been competing well with Sony and Microsoft, because they've put out way more good exclusives.

This is pretty much my point, that Nintendo could take the number 2 spot, or even the number 1 spot, if they deliver enough good games next generation.

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Nintendo can't claim not to be in competition with the others anymore. They are very much in direct completion with both Sony and Microsoft, while also having the benefit of being handheld, something the others don't have.

The Switch isn't a blue ocean success the same way the Wii was. It's still core gamers and some casual gamers who buy the console, same consumer base as the Playstation has.

@Yosher That, plus the changes of demographics. We had one PS2 for the whole family, and each game cost at least $50, which is $75 in todays money. Now I bought as many Switch games in 2 years as my family's complete PS2 collection.

So it's both that games are cheaper, and that the players are older so they have more money to buy more games.

@nintendope64 Sony and Microsoft also have many flaws. Sony does marketing very well, but if you look at the launch of their consoles there are a lot weird games that end up forgotten because they weren't that great. Microsoft has outright given up on having launch games and every game that comes to the Series X will also come to the 2013 console Xbox One.

I seriously doubt a Switch 2 will outsell the Playstation 5, but it's entirely possible it will outsell the Xbox Series X. They need to up their hardware game though, and a Switch 2 will need a fast SSD just like the other two new consoles.

What's more interesting is that Microsofts most successful console, the 360, had only sold 40 million units in the first 3 years, so the Switch is on it's way to beat Microsoft. That means they could possibly be the number 2 in a 3 horse race, which isn't bad at all.

(I know they are already technically number 2, given how poorly the Xbox One has sold, but with the new generation Microsoft seem to have fixed most of the issues with the Xbox brand).

At first when I read the title of the article I was worried, but then I saw the ass and wasn't worried anymore.

Has there been any word on N64 games? There was a rumor way back that the Switch would get N64 in September, but September is almost here and nothing has been said about it. Tbh it sucks that there are no legit ways of getting N64 games since Nintendo never released an N64 mini.

@danemord I often thought that when I was playing Far Cry 3. When I was standing on a big height I was thinking "I can use my glider just like in BotW" and when I was going around finding relics I was thinking "this is just like korok seed collecting - not very fun".

This game also seem to be the opposite of what you are claiming. It's not the same game as BotW with a different skin, it's a completely different game with the skin (artstyle) of BotW.

@danemord Breath of the Wild copied a ton of stuff from Far Cry 3. Unlocking towers to see more of the map, collecting relics/korok seeds that are just scattered in the overworld, the wingsuit that you can deploy from elevated positions.

The gaming industri is so big and old at this point that almost all good ideas have already been done, and at that point you need to accept some imitation.

@Coach_A No, I play older games all the time. Recently I bought Far Cry 3 for $3. My point is that we should also be given newer games, not just older games for a high price.

Wow, maybe next we can get games from the 2010s.

I'm picturing Mega Man going to the doctor in Europe and the doctor is asking him "what wrong?" to which he replies "my arm is a bowling pin!".

@Monkeido Every time I get a chance to!

@TeslaChippie Yes, there are some things that seemingly are contradictions. The Wii was incredibly successful among people who don't usually play video games. However, among people who do play video games there is a mainstream audience and a niche audience.

So the mainstream gaming audience would not like Metroid if it had anything but the normal controls of the left stick is for moving and right stick is for looking. My point is that even though the Wii was very successful, it alienated lots of people by forcing motion controls onto games like Zelda and Donkey Kong.

Finally, Metroid has no chance of appealing to the true mainstream; the people who don't usually play video games, so any attempt at making an intuitive motion interface with the intent of appealing to those people will not work.

SKU means Stock Keeping Unit. It's always a good idea to explain abbreviations when writing an article.

Nintendo needs to get with the program and have full voice acting, which is the industry standard at this point.

I can't believe how smart fans have become. All mine does it 3 settings of blowing air.

This reminds me of Redbull on Playstation Home. It's a brilliant idea to market a company in an online game world.

@Joeynator3000 They are just busy making sure Jar Jar Binks is perfect for the release since most people will buy this game just for him.