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@Blizzia Your mistake is assuming that direct currency exchanges work at the consumer level. They don't. They are fine for global trade, but the value of a dollar in relation to a euro says nothing to the average pay rates, cost of living, and general affordability in a given area. Even in the US alone, heck in even in a single state just a 100 miles apart there is a drastic difference in the 'true' value of a dollar.

Even then, none of that takes into account perceived value, which will be up to the individual to decide. Each person wants a different thing from a game console, for example I don't feel the Switch is worth that much because it doesn't have the features I would use, that obviously isn't true for you because you say it is worth every cent. Neither of us is wrong on that, but I won't be buying it till it has had probably 2 price drops.

Keep in mind that is probably a top price, if you buy in bulk, as Nintendo would, then electronic components get a bit cheaper.

@DatFunkySmell Ok then. If you think you are hurting my feelings, you aren't.

@CR33D Not even close to the same thing. One is a matter of skill, the other is a matter of sitting around and waiting after getting halfway up a cliffside. There is no way to get better at climbing in the rain other than more stamina.

As your video game predecessor, I would like to say I am not disappointed in those that don't want a hurry up and wait game mechanic. And I am not disappointed in you for wanting games to continue to get better than I had with my Atari 2600 as a child.

It would be very sad if they completely abandoned the old format. I'm not opposed to more open world style games but like Mario, why not both?

PETA is such a joke.

That is all.

@WaxxyOne I'm not saying it's a game breaker or anything. It's just something that could use improvement. Earlier I said a good way to fix the problem without taking away the feature was to make a set bonus that could circumvent it. That way, after collecting the right items, you wouldn't have to worry about it anymore.

@DatFunkySmell Oh no! I insulted some random guy on the internet, whatever shall I do?

It's a bad game mechanic Nintendo should avoid in the future to make their games better. Try doing some climbing in the game and you will understand.

@Ballzilla And my suggestion would be the same game experience without portability. It's the same scenario as the 2DS, just catering to people who don't want the portability feature. Just like the 2DS catered to people who didn't want the 3D feature.

@Ballzilla No, the 2DS was a removal of physical hardware. Effectively the device type. It's pretty much the same scenario as I am suggesting. If they could do it with the 2DS, they can do it with the Switch. It's a perfectly feasible option. We aren't talking about separate games here. The home version would play the same carts as the portable one. They play the same way on the Switch in both modes, so all it would be doing is taking away one mode. The game itself would remain unchanged.

@Ballzilla It's pretty much the same scenario actually. A feature that some people don't want and a cheaper option. How is that different from the Switch?

@DatFunkySmell Rocks... sitting on top of tall peaks... that you haven't climbed.

@Ballzilla Seemed to work well with the 2DS, for those that wanted it anyway.

@Ballzilla I'm not necessarily looking for 4k. I don't mind a weaker device, I just don't want to pay for a 4k device and get a Switch, which is what you do when you buy a Switch. I would be perfectly fine with the Switch if they made a second option, the same guts as the Switch, but in a new package without the screen and battery and no ability to go mobile. The lack of expensive components would mean it would be cheaper but it would play all the same games as the Switch. Then I wouldn't feel like I was overpaying for a console.

It's not the fact that it is weaker that is the issue, it's the combination of being weaker and too expensive at the same time. It's just a matter of value, I don't value the Switch at $300.

@Neferupitou You paid $60, same as the switch owners. You deserve as much as they do.

@Ballzilla The problem, however, is I enjoy Nintendo titles and Nintendo has abandoned the console market. There is nothing on PS4 or XBox that I would buy one for and Nintendo is no longer offering anything for the console market at all.

I want the Nintendo games, I just want them on a console, which Nintendo had decided to abandon entirely. So everyone in that market that has loyal to them has been completely abandoned.

And yes, I meant the original PS4, which is STILL more powerful than the Switch. It may be outdated, but it beats the pants of the Switch. So in terms of pricing, the Switch is excessively overpriced for what it is. You say no one in their right mind would buy a 3 year old console, but if you bought a Switch, you bought at least 6 year old technology, because that's how much power it has compared to other consoles... unless it's a handheld and not a console, as I believe.

I might grab this one on Steam, it looks like a lot of fun.

@Nintendoforlife That really wouldn't make sense at this point. The people who bought the Wii U version are unlikely to turn around and buy a Switch now just because of framerate issues. It's likely unintentional, but they definitely screwed it up.

@Ballzilla No, I must not agree, and I don't. Being able to use it as a hybrid is worth exactly $0 and multiplayer out of the box is nice, but not worth that much and I'd really just have 2 pro controllers rather than those joycons, so I'm going to be spending more, not less. Also the PS4 comes bundled with games. So if you are trying to compare the two, the switch at a minimum is $340 and that is assuming you DON'T get Zelda, getting only 1-2 Switch. If you opt for Zelda and not 1-2 Switch it's $360. That makes the PS4 $100 cheaper for a much more powerful system.

Ultimately, it's too expensive for what is in the box. If I bought a Switch, it would be permanently docked, never to be removed. It would include at least one pro controller but probably two, and the joycons would go in the trash. So the joycons, the screen, the battery, those are all completely worthless.

The Wii U version got worse performance. Especially in Eldin. It wasn't this bad prior to the patch.

@DatFunkySmell Not being condescending, just letting you know if you haven't gone after all the Koroks, you haven't climbed everything. There are a lot of places that the story doesn't take you to.

The rain itself is not a bad mechanic, the sit around and wait is a bad mechanic.

Hopefully this will get that Nintendo Kerbal Space Program project back on track (though I'd still rather see it on Wii U)

@DatFunkySmell I'm on my second runthrough, this time alone I have 750 Korok seeds. I did Necluda before getting the Zora armor (in fact I just got it a few hours ago). I've gone after every hidden chest that my Shiekah Sensor + detected (Minor spoiler, you can detect chests with Shiekah Sensor+... and it makes the game a heck of a lot easier on rupees). I'm pretty sure you haven't climbed everything, certainly not as much as I have.

@DatFunkySmell Sit around and wait is a bad game mechanic... period. Always has been, always will be. Many have tried it, and it always is terrible. If you think it can always be circumvented, you haven't done a lot of climbing.

@DatFunkySmell Yeah but if it's a particularly steep/long climb you will need to eat a stamina filler several times where not raining you wouldn't have to eat at all. So in those cases it's simpler just to wait on the rain... which is a bad game mechanic. So your solution to the bad game mechanic is worse than the bad game mechanic.

There is simply not enough information about Scorpio to make that determination. Anyone making these kinds of projections now are pulling them out of their ass.

@Ballzilla I have to disagree with that, the cost is expensive for what you get out of the box. It's more expensive than a PS4 but weaker in power. It depends on your usage though. Sure it can go mobile, but it's too way expensive if you don't want to go mobile and have no need for that.

@FullbringIchigo Brand new, but less powerful. Don't compare by age, compare by capability. As I said, the people that view it as too expensive want a console, not a handheld. The problem is, Nintendo chose to replace their console line with this rather than their handheld line. So that leaves a group of people with nothing (current) from Nintendo... at all.

Based on the video, it doesn't seem like a huge loss. Never played the first one, but that doesn't look great.

@Nintendo_Ninja The rain puts out campfires.

While it may be cool and realistic that Link can't climb in the rain, it's a poor gameplay mechanic. All it does is force you to sit around and wait. That's never good in a game. It could be easily mitigated too. The climber set bonus should have been "surefooted" allowing you to climb in the rain anyway. The stamina bonus is cool, but surpassing the rain would have been better.

The puddle thing is certainly cool, I hadn't noticed that.

@BornInNorway81 Look, you can't have guides without spoilers. It's not possible. If you have a problem with that, don't come here.. or any Nintendo fansite. I didn't come here for weeks after buying BotW.

A simple picture of a dragon isn't really a spoiler. You can find them quite easily and early in the game.

@LiberatedAnimal Yes, I saw that prank. I didn't believe it. The in-guardian artwork was uncharacteristically awful, which was a dead giveaway.

But does anyone know what they really do? I know what the horns and scales are for.

@Menchi187 Flying over the bridge is bad, he flies under the Floria bridge. Likewise, Dinraal flies under the Tabantha bridge.

I'm sure you can target them in all locations, but the ones listed are certainly the easiest access.

@Angelic_Lapras_King Me. Saw Farosh flying over Lake Hylia just after my first trip off the Plateau.

@Menchi187

Farosh: Why Lake Hylia, Floria Falls he flies right under the bridge, much easier to target there.

Dinrall: As long as you need scales, he's pretty easy to hit there in the Drenan Highlands, but it's hard to get above him there if you need his horn. It's easier to jump off the Tabantha bridge and take advantage of the wind he creates and the slow motion bow shot.

The locations in the article are the best places, in all 3 cases.

Does anyone know what the claw and fang are used for? I didn't even know they could drop those.

I think Netflix won April Fools day this year.

It's too early to tell but I don't think the signs are good for it being a success.

Sadly, polls like this are useless on NintendoLife. The majority of people here can't think objectively about it, they are wearing Nintendo colored glasses and everything is great.

It made the framerate around Death Mountain a lot worse.

@electrolite77 ARMS isn't a serious game, it's about as serious as 1-2 Switch. Spaltoon 2 might as well be a port of the Wii U version. Mario Odyssey is the next new game that has the potential to make a difference.

The first time I encountered a Lynel... wasn't in Breath of the Wild

@PlywoodStick I'm not talking about Zelda, I'm talking about the Switch. I know they didn't have less stock than the Wii U. It should be selling better.

@Deanster101 Sadly the next new title from Nintendo won't come till Christmas. At least as far as they have announced.

@westman98 It's still not a traditional Zelda title and should sell much better in Japan than previous entries. It simply doesn't speak well to the Switch that it's not sold better already.

@westman98 Yes, but this game isn't really Zelda (it is but isn't). Other games more like BotW sell much better in Japan. Skyrim, for example, sold incredibly well for a western game in Japan.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE There haven't been any in the U.S. either. We had the Superbowl commercial, but those are very short due to cost. Beyond that, nothing I've seen at all.

I don't see this as very prommising. It may not be Christmas but it has BotW and that should be huge. This doesn't bode well.

@liljmoore Zelda's accent is the worst part of it. The other voices in the game are passable in English, but the British accent doesn't fit the feel of the character. When you think of British queens and princesses, you think of pomp and circumstance, something Zelda has never been and in this case is probably least except for Tetra. It just doesn't work.

They didn't put a voice to Link because they were afraid of damaging preconceptions... that little voice you hear in your head when you read text. But Zelda is just as important a character, the game is named after her after all, and I think putting a voice to her was a bad idea too. I certainly never in my wildest dreams imagined Zelda with a voice like that.

@Pod It's interesting you say that, I was afraid I might have been biased because I wasn't British.

@craigmoss19 She is Canadian actually.

@cowntsikin Exactly, they wanted the gameplay experience to be the same between the platforms. That's what I said for the last 4 posts.

Again, you aren't paying attention. If you are just going to keep saying the same thing, stop tagging me please.

My only problem with the cooking is that it is too limited. 1 Apple/Hylian Shroom/Palm Fruit/etc. + Anything with the name "Hearty" in it for healing... you just keep making the same thing over and over again. Replace Hearty with Endura for stamina, and with clothing, there is no need for other stuff really.

I understand this is the first time they have attempted it, but hopefully they will improve on the system in future titles.

@cowntsikin They did have a not-so-hidden agenda. To make the gameplay experience the same between the two platforms. Are you not paying attention? They didn't add HD Rumble either, if they wanted the Switch version superior they could have added that.

@AlexOlney He's a coral snake. Red and yellow, kill a fellow. (Milk Snakes and King Snakes Red and Yellow are separated by black)