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If Nintendo ever went out of the console manufacturing business, they could make a pretty penny offering their services at compressing file sizes

Considering game share is a thing, I would hope the wireless would be better for it

@Solomon_Rambling considering how much gatcha games charge for individual characters, it almost sounds kinda but not entirely reasonable!

I say, is it an actual 10x improvement or a Bethesda 10x improvement?

Logically, it should cost less to buy it digitally, because they don’t have to physically make the cartridges, the packaging, the cost to ship it to stores etc. To be honest, it should ALWAYS have been cheaper to go digital.
However, if they are inflating the base price unnaturally, that still not on. I usually went physical with my switch one games because it was simply cheaper that way. Now I might reconsider.

I had wondered what these talented fellers had been up to

Well, you might damage your joy cons trying to fit them into the switch 2 to charge them…

I mean, why even make it in the first place if you want people to pay for it?

“Allo’ monsieur, welcom’ to your very expensive hotel room, would you like a novella featuring a detailed explaination for how your plumbing works? For a fee of course. It has cartoons in it!”

“Eh, no thanks, I spent a lot of money on this hotel room, I’d rather save my money on a book I actually want to read, thanks.”

“Sacre bleu! Why does no one want to pay for our plumbing book? We spent money making it!”

$90? I thought it was 80, where did the extra 10 come from?

Fantastic news, new pricing structure is terrifying

Just goes to show, obviously there is a market for this kind of thing.
I know I’m buying it, my sister will most likely be too

Hmm, if the miitopia customisation returns, I hope the ears are optional. Might ruin some of the designs I wanna make

@HammerGalladeBro I hadn’t even noticed until you mentioned it

What a bizarre thing to announce so far out

Makes sense, it’s a way of giving us new Pokémon without needing to give us NEW Pokémon. I think the general fan base will be happy about that

Oh, well, that’s typical Nintendo weirdness for you. I can’t see any reason for doing part of a soundtrack other than padding the release schedule… which is admittedly a bit worrying. Makes me worry some of the less mainstream titles might be forgotten about…
Stuff like Paper Mario, Princess Peach Showtime, stuff like that, they got loads of stuff to choose from, so why are they already resorting to padding?

@Clyde_Radcliffe uh, gross…

But you’re forgetting cream is part of a duo, her pet Chao is called Cheese, thus: Cream and Cheese

@Slobbert having played the game, can’t really say it entered Perry territory. Or if it did, I didn’t notice

I played it, was certainly enjoyable, but it did have a number of problems when I played it. Like, some blatantly obvious problems. They have fixed the game breaking one (namely the fact that the shop, who they even introduced a character for, was completely in accessible)

But it is good, it’s definitely more DKC than Crash bandicoot (although I feel crash is the closest thing to a 3D DKC anyway), and it does have David Wise, maybe not at his A game but still some great tunes (I particularly love the theme for “pump and dump”)

Glad to hear the directors cut is free, I’d be pretty miffed if they made me pay for it again,

I mean, it’s not like the switch 2 actually launches on April 2… right?

All I know is that their second hand games are barely any cheaper than their brand new ones. At least, if they’re bigger ticket ones.

Like, the biggest update ever for the game, or the biggest update in the history of gaming?

I mean, if they nowadays made Pokémon baseball, I’d be interested

Expect nothing at all. Then you can’t be disappointed!

Ah yes, because Ubisoft totally had a much better year than Nintendo last year

I can’t recall if I’ve ever bought a hot cake… actually, I’m not 100% sure if I know what a hot cake is

I’m assuming a license has expired? I wonder how many people played this particular title… perhaps not enough for the higher ups to deem it worthwhile of renewing the license?

Still, not a good precedent.

I mean, unless someone figures out how to stop time from progressing, it’s literally impossible for Pokémon not to turn 100 years old.

I personally loved sparks of hope more than the original.

Another thing against the steam deck… it’s not available in as many countries as the switch is.
I know the steam deck wasn’t available in say, Australia at launch. I still don’t know if it’s here yet or not

Well, even now they don’t always have a release every month, but even then it’s like just one month they miss usually in the first half of the year.
I think it is possible, but they will need to rely on some smaller titles and works from studio partners to keep up that consistency.

The switch 2 may have a good number of “big” releases to start with, as many of Nintendos main teams haven’t released much for a while, but once that wave is over they’ll need to rely on the smaller stuff. Stuff that people love but rarely make headlines outside of Nintendo fan circles

Good, that means they’ll be sold out immediately after they’re released instead of some time before!

Any chance of adding an 18 plus rating to the games that actually have people gambling with their actual money to try and get a rare character?

Not a surprise, but it would have been odd if they hadn’t announced it

Colour me unsurprised.

But the forcing to take holiday leave is scummy if true

What are the chances this releases right before Mario kart, like how the last one launched right before Crash team racing, hurting its performance?

Define “comprehensive”

That makes a change, a lot of squares products tend to sell below their expectations. Usually because they set their expectations way too high

Bracing for the inevitable blow to the old wallet

Well, somebodies dream just came true

Huzzah, a good ending.

That’s the trouble with these lawsuits, you gotta be careful, it could backfire in your face. Happened to McDonald’s when they went after a restaurant in… Ireland? Wales? Can’t quite remember. Something to do with the term big Mack. And when Macdonalds lost, Burger King took full advantage at mocking them, to rather amusing effect.

On the other hand, Sega and Archie comics didn’t take a frivolous lawsuit seriously, and it cost them the use of certain characters and had to reboot their entire comic line.

Law suits are a powerful weapon, but it can be a double edged sword

This is so pathetic Nintendo might actually not even bother going after it…

Definitely adding this one to my playlist!

It’s my boyyyyyyyyyy!

Well, that doesn’t cause any confusion whatsoever

@nocdaes on the bright side, they didn’t increase the switch price, which considering the inflation we’ve had since the switch launched, that’s the closest thing to the price being dropped without the price being dropped

It’s a start, but I’m kinda hoping for something a bit more radical… a campaign mode would be just the ticket

It’s kinda ridiculous, I’ve gotten multiple cards of the the highest rarities, but I’m missing several 4 diamond rares. As in, common-ish cards. It’s kinda driving me mad

Why do the shareholders always do this?