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I don't mind the DK redesign but what's going on with the triangular Yoshi egg? OUCH

What's wrong with carting around the Wii U GameCube controller adaptor and plugging in my orange spice controller whenever I want to use a controller?

Okay I think Nintendo are actually being a bit clever with the expansion pass

Not enough value in a single thing to make you get it, but combined with drips and drabs across games, it's quite tempting

@Anti-Matter why should it? If you were a publisher and knew you could price games at $80, why would you increase the cost to manufacture the games?

My point is, the cost of the carts would be passed on to the consumer. Would you be willing to pay more for the full game on cart?

@Anti-Matter would you pay an extra $10-$20 to have the full game on cart? Because that's what publishers would do

The Japanese one tells me "this is an RPG and takes place across a large map"

Two things I'd like to say:
1. The incentive for smaller games to buy carts to fit their game is actually lower, as the user experience is less impacted by smaller downloads than larger. Why bother paying to put the full game on a cart when it's only a few GB and can be downloaded in minutes?

2. Anyone who isn't a collector or otherwise interested in gaming and tech won't bat an eyelid at this.
Store person: "just so you're aware, this game needs to be downloaded. It's a game key card."
Customer: "so I can't resell it?"
Store person: "oh no, you can still resell it, just that you need to fully download the game first"
Customer: confused look "please just give me my game"

Remember when Nintendo relied on the success of the Wii and released the Wii U?

They've sure learnt their lesson, if that lesson was to have a better console name rather than launch experience

As a single player only person, actually having the world populated with secrets excited me.

Finally something different about this Mario kart to 8, gameplay-wise

I doubt mouse mode will be absolutely required for any games

Nintendo wants to make sure most games can be played on the inevitable switch 2 lite

Look at Arms and how that had alternative control options

Hahahahaha... Could we have expected any different?

@AngelSlayer sorry, it was a reference to Nintendo crippling their consoles by mandating that developers don't make the innovative aspect mandatory. E.g. the 3d for 3ds

When will Nintendo announce that games can't rely solely on mouse mode because they don't want to prevent inevitable switch 2 lite compatibility?

What's with the ridiculous extra characters over recognisable faces?

I don't understand, from the experience of actually driving in the courses, how Mario kart world is any different from 8?

There's no new race gimmick, just padding out of the world with highways

How will the game play differently?

@Ralizah I think slightly lower for the outright switch 2 release - they want people to see the switch 2 release and think about upgrading

Edit to say, not lower overall, just less than the switch version plus upgrade individually

This is for parents and young kids who go to a game store and buy a game expecting there to be a physical cart inside

They don't like the experience of there being a long code their child might need help with, and aren't fussed if the game requires a complete download. It's all about that experience on opening the case and clicking out that physical cart

Can you imagine if Nintendo had announced "Hollow Knight Silksong will be exclusive to Nintendo switch 1 and Nintendo switch 2, available on day one"

That would have been some great crossover for both companies

Gosh I'm just not excited for this

Destructible terrain was done decades ago, and honestly it doesn't feel like a good fit for donkey Kong.

They should have had destructible terrain for Metroid and tried a donkey Kong country in 3d, strictly DK and one other ape, across tough platforming like the returns series

I'm confused at the amount of sun we see in the levels given it's supposed to be underground?

Also, Nintendo trying to unify their IP across movies, games from the 80s and now switch 2

@KociolekDoSyta thank you. So sort of like the "DOWNLOAD REQUIRED" information boxes currently on switch games

Can someone please confirm whether game key carts:

• act to unlock the digital version, tying it to your account, and additionally requiring you to have the cart inserted to play the game, or
• acts to download the entire game (ala bioshock 2 and infinite) but isn't tied to your account and can be loaned out to friends and they can also download and play the game as long as they have the cart inserted?

Just wanting to check as if it's the second we've already crossed that bridge many many times

The (additional 8 second) loading times were never really an issue in themselves, it was jumping out to a loading screen rather than just fading to black that always threw me

Baby Mario, Bowser Jr, birdo

Let's say it's the switch 1 game on a switch 2 cart - I wonder if this would work in a switch 1? Or would there be an automatic lockout?

You've said "Digital should be cheaper than digital" at one point in the article

Just cannot believe there's no new 3d Mario

Can totally understand why they're treating Mario kart as their flagship (look at sales) and imagine there'll be various extra islands as DLC, but come onnnn

Edit to say: not even Mario rendered suggesting a new platformer... So going to be a while at least

BOTW on three consecutive consoles makes me think of twilight princess on GC, Wii, Wii U.

Are there other games that have done the same?

We know it's only on one joycon and that apparently both left and right have mouse ability, so I doubt it's anything to do with locating/centring the cursor

Similarly I doubt it's something in-game due to its location quite low on the controller and that this could otherwise be something menu-related

My thoughts are that it might connect wirelessly to the dock so you don't need to physically connect it to play on the TV - this achieves the criteria of simplifying a process for families and being non-software specific

I for one welcome this change - nothing more annoying than trying to play digital games on a secondary console outside of wifi range

They'll announce silksong

They don't want it to take all the attention away from switch 2 but have promised team cherry it'll be a switch 2 launch title and also on switch 1

My thoughts

How long have we be hearing about this now? Such a long marketing campaign for a rerelease... It really seems like they're needing this to be a big success (looking at your braid remaster)

What about the awful lunar lander game?

The point is to capitalise on the day without making it a big enough day to dictate Nintendo's annoucement or release schedule

@LadyCharlie as someone with no interest in playing games online, the SNES games definitely were a selling point

Killer7 best GameCube game

@HammerGalladeBro thank you!

Could someone point me to the box art brawl that Australia won?

Are we just forgetting how the Rumble pak changed gaming controllers forever?
American version all the way

@Lizuka but it was developed by Treasure!

@James021 really? Well TIL

Didn't Nintendo say they were planning to continue supporting the GBA once the DS released? Point being, I doubt we'll get a single title for switch specifically beyond those already announced

@Yosher you're not seriously expecting the return on a remaster of shake it to outperform a donkey Kong game?

I really wonder how the Wii U would have fared if it were called the Wii 2

My review of the impossible lair was: boring levels that you have to play through twice.
And I've heard impossible lair is the better of the two!

@SirMiki haha good one

@1UP-HUSKY have you heard of strings of ones and zeroes being sold as "Bitcoin"

@B3RTAY show me statements from current Nintendo staff

Can you please amend the title to reflect that there's no current reports of Nintendo being upset and it is indeed ex employee speculation?

Everyone saying Mario Wonder or Metroid Dread, where do those games stand not in context of other games in their own series? I found both to be quite boring, despite the occasional moments of "oh, that's slightly different from previous entries, but worse"