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Sony just announced their new online service games for next month (yes, they give games every month) and have absolutely humiliated Nintendo's pathetic offerings. New releases vs 30 year old games. How can Nintendo continue to be so bad at this.

@CodyDogg You can only truly hate the things you truly loved. I was done with Nintendo after the WiiU, but got suckered into buying a Switch after seeing so many positive comments here. Biggest console mistake of my life. I have a few hundred dollars of venting to do before I'm done.

@Wexter I have a PS4 and I can assure you the Switch is not "just behind" the PS4. It might be a bit ahead of the PS3, but I've not seen anything on it that comes close to Uncharted or Last of Us or the Tomb Raider game, so it's hard to be sure.

@larryisanassman I believe you are 100% correct.

@DannyBoi Occam's Razor. They have nothing to talk about.

They released an underpowered console that is two generations behind and third parties are not interested in developing for it. All we're going to see is the occasional port, indy game, and whatever bone Nintendo decides to throw out when they're not to busy counting all the money they're making off selling replacement joy cons.

It's the WiiU, Wii, Gamecube, N64 all over again.

@GrailUK I think the whole amiibo thing is a no win scenario. The amiibo does nothing of value and the buyer feels they wasted their money. The amiibo does something useful and people that don't want / can't find the amiibo get upset that Nintendo is gating content. The simplest solution (in my opinion) is for Nintendo to make a line figurines (that don't do anything other than catch dust) and sell them. People will buy them and no one will feel like they are missing any game content.

@GrailUK Not sure which of my comments you are referring to, but I couldn't care less about the amiibo or Skyward Sword (the second worst Zelda game). My complaint is the fanboy level journalism at Nintendolife which twists itself into pretzels justifying everything Nintendo does regardless of how awful and anti-consumer it might be.

Suggesting this amiibo is dlc is total nonsense. DLC is downloadable content, not physical items. The amiibo is a physical key to unlock gated content that is included on the cartridge. Capcom tried something similar years ago when they put unreleased fighters on the disc to be unlocked later with money. They were eviscerated by gamers and gaming media at the time, and they deserved it.

Nintendolife is giving this behavior a pass because that's what they always do. Nintendo can never be wrong and must always be defended. It's shoddy journalism and a weird cult-like attitude that I don't see on either of the sister sites.

@Richardwebb There is no news about Nintendo. No new games. No new announcements. It's all rumors, random, and soapbox articles because there is nothing to actually report.

@GrailUK People complaining that Nintendo is being greedy and anti-consumer need to "grow up?"

This is why Nintendo continues to be one of the laziest companies around, because people defend their horrible behavior.

@TheFrenchiestFry This "editorial" is one of the grossest examples journalistic malpractice I've ever seen. Nintendolife has often been an embarrassing mix of fanboyism and rubbish fluff pieces, but this article is a sickening, cynical attempt to convince us that the emperor does, in fact, have clothes.

"That said, porting a Wii game to HD will have certainly been much more work than the numerous Wii U ports; some of those Wii U re-releases have definitely been cheekily priced, but transitioning an SD-era Wii title will have required some work and effort".

Absolute nonsense. Other games have been upgraded from SD to HD and not been sold at the "new" game price point. Crash trilogy comes immediately to mind. Three games that were essentially remade and sold at a bargain price.

The big problem at Nintendolife is that it often feels like the site is shilling for Nintendo, making excuses for their horrible business decisions, and not fulfilling the function of game journalism. Journalists should be holding gaming companies accountable for their shortcomings, not acting as their PR outlets.

@RhiannonRune

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=age+of+calamity+framerate

@Dirty0814 Complaining that a game can't meet the basic criteria for playability is whining? I'll never understand why some people spend so much time white kniting for a company that doesn't even know they exist.

"As for presentation, we’re gifted with a weird mix of art styles that absolutely shouldn’t go together. Somehow though – possibly due to the ‘generic’ look of the Miis themselves – it all sort of works..."

No, it really doesn't. I'm not a graphics snob, but this game is truly ugly.

@IronMan30 Thank you for showing that you can string a bunch of words together and never come close to a sensible argument. I don't think my response was passive aggressive at all. I believe a constant refrain around here is that Nintendo doesn't publish enough games and they don't have nearly enough third party support to cover their dry spells. As a matter of fact, I think this has been a constant refrain all the way back to the N64. The fact that Nintendo is just strip mining their back catalog these days shows that they have entered a new era of laziness that makes a bunch of us old timers wonder why we liked the company in the first place.

Before you pull out the classic "if you don't like it, leave" logical fallacy, I'll point out that that isn't a defense.

And yes, porting an old game takes effort, but it doesn't stop it from being an old game.

Was hoping this was an announcement for the Switch so I could dust the thing off, but... of course not.

@Ryu_Niiyama

Ahh... The Anecdotal evidence logical fallacy argument. I didn't have a problem, so the problem doesn't exist. Yet, contrary to your claim, my personal experience (which is shared by hundreds of people that wrote many complaints at the time) was that the controls were terrible and buggy. Apparently, Nintendo agreed since they've adopted button controls for the re-release.

Btw, what flavor are Nintendo's boots?

@IronMan30

Me, a person that can see straight through a strawman argument, When will Nintendo release a new game instead of rereleasing old games?

@Ryu_Niiyama Whining? You mean accurately pointing out that the motion controls barely worked, constantly needed to be re-calibrated, or often misinterpreted player input? Or are you referring to the fact that a lot of people didn't want to flail there arms around like an idiot when a button press could have accomplished the same thing?

@DrDaisy Well, when Nintendo doesn't publish that many games and they produce a console that third parties aren't interested in, Nintendolife has to get creative with filling the site with articles.

Playstation Plus - Battlefield 5, Stranded Deep, and Wreckfest. With more free games coming next month.

Nintendo - Here's some forgettable games from 30 years ago and maybe we'll give you some more in six months. If you're lucky.

Nintendo really should just go third party. They're beyond pathetic at this point.

They should add Samus. She could become the ball.

I think we have to have a discussion over what "juicy" means.

What's the point of these articles. We all Nintendo should do these things. We all know that they could do these things. But, we all know they won't do these things because... reasons.

Imagine if Nintendo spent as much time making games as they do suing their fans. We'd be in the middle of a lush rain forest and not the Mojave desert we find ourselves in now.

@Grumblevolcano How can you look at the wealth of games available on the PS4 and PS5 and not see a Golden Age? Stable framerates are finally a thing and developers are able to release their vision without having to comprise. Seems like a Golden Age to me.

Kind of funny seeing Nintendolife talking about the Evercade after they slammed it so hard when it came out.

It truly is a Golden Age of gaming, but it's hard to think Nintendo is part of it. Between ancient game design, an unhealthy reliance on releasing old games instead of developing new ones, an inability to get with the times with technology and internet infrastructure, Nintendo is increasingly looking like a relic of the past. An arrogant company that doesn't hear what people want, but gives them what they think they need. Certainly this approach has worked for Apple, but history is littered with the corpses of companies that thought they knew better than their customers.

@locky-mavo Since Nintendo isn't doing anything and the release schedule is as dry as the Mojave desert, they have to grasp at any straw to fill the front page.

Imagine there were actually games to talk about. Nintendolife wouldn't have to dig up every random story that is tangentially related to Nintendo.

Between Returnal, Resident Evil 8, and Mass Effect Legacy, my Switch will continue gathering dust for the foreseeable future.

I remember when Nintendo consoles were the last place you would expect to find pervy Japanese games. Now, it's the first place. How times have changed.

Hopefully, Nintendo made more than 10 of these.

@DrDaisy Because gambling.

I bought a Switch at the beginning of the pandemic and it has been gathering dust for the last six months. All the games that I've hear about are re-released of things I've already played or (Mario Golf) things I couldn't care less about. If you are new to Nintendo, I guess the Switch is okay, but if you owned a WiiU or a Wii, there isn't much to recommend it.

@MaxiPareja They said next gen, do they mean actual next gen (a.k.a. more powerful than a PS5) or do they mean two gens ago (a.k.a. more powerful than the switch, but less powerful than a PS4) or do they mean something in-between which would still not be next gen, but more powerful than the Switch?

Will it truly be "next gen" or will it still be sub-PS4/Xbox One specs?

I think we all know the answer to this question.

This game runs like hot garbage on a PS4. I find it highly unlikely that it runs anywhere near acceptable on a Switch.

Knowing Nintendo... whatever requires the least amount of work.

Imagine if Nintendo actually released games. Their profits would be even more amazing.

@wuntyme8 120 fps on PS5 and 30 fps on Switch. That's a massive downgrade. I'm sure it will also drop off of 30 fps because the Switch is allergic to stable framerates.

Sounds like a mental disorder.

If only Nintendo ramped up production on games. I will never understand how a console with nothing to play has become so popular.

@sanderev If Nintendo had any games, Nintendolife wouldn't have to work so hard to come up with topics for articles.

Abzu is the perfect argument for digital distribution. It isn't long enough or deep enough to warrant a physical release. Can be finished in a few hours and, when it's done, it's done.

@gb_nes_gamer They need to innovate? The Super Mario series, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Mario Party, and Pokemon have been in creative ruts for decades and yet they still sell.

If the Switch had actual games, NintendoLife wouldn't have to resort to publishing these vapid, sunstance free articles just to fill space everyday.

@westman98 @westman98 Parody is not actionable. See People vs Larry Flynt. Also see Mad Magazine and Robot Chicken. Both of which are sold for cash, both have depicted Nintendo characters in less than "family friendly" ways, and neither have been sued by Nintendo.

Copyright doesn't cover parody or satire.

Yeah, copyright doesn't cover that sort of thing.

This is, by far, the most pretentious piece of horse manure that has ever been posted on Nintendo Life and that's saying something.

Seven paragraphs of meandering nonsense before getting to anything resembling a point. It comes across like a pseudo intellect discovered a new word and decided to use it as much as possible tobtry and convince everyone that they were making an intelligent point.

It's Skyward Slog, the second worst Zelda game of all time, no lofty vocabulary could possibly shine that turd.

Read the article twice and still can't find the 11 exciting titles. Clickbait title?