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@Rorotendo Don’t hold your breath. Microsoft has no need to, since you can already play Xbox games on almost any device, and Sony really has nowhere to fit itself into the market. That’s even more true now than it was when they abandoned the Vita. The most you’ll see is Steam Deck clones that let you do the same thing it does.

I’m sure the thing is cool, but it just looks too giant and clunky and stupid for me to want to take it anywhere.

@Not_Soos Cool. I'm literally just pointing out that you say you don't care at all but you act as though you care a lot. Not much to that part of my comment. As for the rest of it, I think it explains itself. You seemed to not understand why they would leave, and I told you why they would leave. The end.

@Ogbert Have you never had your eyes dilated for an eye exam? It's kind of standard practice these days, here in the US. As for the "rods" thing, I don't know but maybe he's talking about an ERG test? They'll put an electrode on your eye and they use devices to hold your eyelids open.

@ClamDown I would say that if Nintendo fully explained the details of the tests to the people who were going to participate and had them sign declarations stating they understood what they were going to be doing, then yeah, this is kind of standard for this type of product.

Do you think they don't do deep optical tests for sets like Oculus or VIVE? You're making a product that could conceivably blind people. You're going to need to make sure it's not going to do that or cause other harm. But it's silly to assume that anyone who submits to these tests is required to do them. There's no shortage of people willing to submit to weird stuff for money.

@Not_Soos You sure seem to care an awful lot for someone who professes to not care about this. But as others have said, Smash is enormous and the time is clearly right for Nintendo to build their own tournament, as plenty of other publishers have done with their competitive games.

EVO is not the be-all and end-all of fighting game esports. It’s entirely possible for a game as big as Smash to stand on its own without Nintendo having to directly share its revenue with their biggest rival in the entire industry.

Please, I’m the REAL Nintendo generation. Yeah we played a lot of games but my generation still played outside a ton. The kids he’s talking about are the AppStore generation, and I refuse to be conflated with them.

Then again, my brother in law is that age group and he just completed like six years with the Marines, sooo.

I know I'm probably in the minority, but I legitimately do not like this style. I look at the beautifully rendered backgrounds and all the painstaking detail that went into them, and I desperately want the characters to match that effort and fit in with that style.

I like 2D pixel sprites, but I would rather see them in 2D pixel games. I know people like the novelty of the contrast it creates to stick them in gorgeous 3D settings, but for me it just makes no sense and it feels like a waste. I would buy just about any game that has a world in this style AND characters that actually belong in that world.

@Dirty0814 "This will be the end of anyone owning a game at all digital or physical. It will literally be the norm in less than a decade."

I truly and sincerely doubt it. If I'm wrong in ten years, I'll eat my computer.

@mikegamer Is that actually how you talk in real life? Like you would call someone a "Nintendo shill" and not feel an overwhelming sense of cringe at yourself? Honest question.

@jikflet You don't have to be constantly online to play games on Switch Online. I think you just need to go online with it like once a week. In between those check-ins, you have access to everything.

@MH4 Yeah well, most the people on here these days don’t really even like Nintendo. It used to be full of Nintendo fans, but ever since the Switch took off it’s been more like overflow from PushSquare.

@Anti-Matter They’re not primitive, they’re intentionally simplified and that’s the entire point. They’re not trying to look like generic Illumination Studios characters, and that’s why they stand out.

Cool, another Zelda clone with a female Link. Very original.

Yeah I'm calling foul on Netflix. I honestly don't know if I ever used it more than once just to see how functional it was and yet it's in my top 3. And I'm seeing a ton of people online saying essentially the exact same thing. So either there's some glitch in these numbers or Netflix was booting itself in the background and we had no idea.

Nice, seems like a great addition.

$25 is basically nothing when it comes to the expensive world of video game consumerism, so it seems like a no-brainer to me.

I'm with those that doubt it's cloud. I mean, I don't know how the heck it would NOT be cloud, but as far as I know, every single game that's come to Switch in cloud form has been specifically denoted as such from the very first reveal. So, fingers crossed it's native somehow.

@CarlosM87 I expect little to no impact on the gaming industry overall from Steam Deck. It's cool, but I don't see it breaking off a significant chunk of console gamers.

Really looking forward to the new DK Game, Donkey Kong: King of the Donkeys, which is just a donkey farming simulator where you play as Donkey Kong.

This is obviously dumb but it's not like I wouldn't eat it.

@MrHonest You know you don't HAVE to give them money, right? It's a consumer transaction. They make something, you choose to buy it or not. You aren't obligated to pay them. They're not the IRS.

@ForestBlue Probably. I usually ignore people, but once I start seeing the "Nintendo defense force!!!!" line on this, a Nintendo-specific site, I become deeply annoyed by the sheer unawareness it exhibits. It's bad enough to have to contend with it on twitter and general gaming sites, but it would be nice if we could have this one place that's specifically labeled for us.

But oh well, the web is trashy like that. Every space eventually attracts the attention of people that want to turn it into a landfill.

@BloodNinja I’m not defending a corporation, I’m defending common sense. You used to be kind of normal. What happened?

@BloodNinja It's a Nintendo site! Seriously, why is it so hard for some people to understand how this works?? Would you go on a site called Chocolate Life and talk crap about chocolate and then act all indignant when people start defending chocolate? That would make you a troll. It's obvious.

What you're doing is the internet equivalent of lighting a building on fire and then rolling your eyes as the fire department shows up. "Oh look, it's the anti-fire brigade, yet again. FIGURES."

@BloodNinja Why would we put it next to Wii U sales? It wasn't made next to Wii U. That was five years ago, and it's a brief period flanked by two 100-million-selling home consoles, bolstered by overlap of extremely hot dedicated handhelds, all wrapped up with record smashing software sales.

And that's to say nothing about their side initiatives like Pokemon GO, their parks in Universal, and their move back into film. They're an uncommonly healthy business in an industry where studios fail left and right, the most cash-rich company in Japan, and one of the most successful gaming companies ever. I think they've earned the right to comment on their own path to success.

Also, if Nintendo is your "least favorite company," then it makes zero sense for you to be spending your valuable time on a Nintendo fan site.

@narqendo For a PS5? Pass.

@Sora181 Not true, there were over 13 million of us that wanted Wii U. That's like the entire Los Angeles metro area!

And yet I would still rather have a Wii U. Saying that unironically as I haven't felt compelled to find a PS5 yet and I still fire up my Wii U somewhat regularly.

Can't think of anything more generic sounding than the Rock in a Call of Duty movie.

@Tasuki Nintendo already owns Retro. And there is a humongous difference between Nintendo buying a studio worth a couple hundred million dollars and one of the largest companies in the industry buying up several of the other largest companies in the industry. The term "monopoly" isn't just a loosely-defined pejorative, it's a specific term with known dimensions, and it definitely isn't out of reach in this conversation.

@JasmineDragon Well you're not the only one saying that, so surely some people mean it.

@Poco_Lypso Okay.

Why are we assuming she's pant-less and not just wearing leggings? She could just as easily be wearing white leggings as nothing at all, which frankly would make more sense.

@JasmineDragon This isn't gender bending, it's just a gender swap. Or more accurately, it's Link mistakenly portrayed as a female. It's not like a trans or drag queen Link or something.

@Chimaj You seem super fun. Really glad the world is so full of people like you these days.

To prove the short-sightedness of your hot take, look no further than the Legend of Zelda cartoon from the 80's, which portrays the direct inverse of this supposedly sexualized female Link: a stereotypical dim-witted male chauvinist who cares only about eating meat, seeking violent encounters, and sexually pursuing Zelda. So yeah, it exists. But it's best to just lighten up and stop looking for hills to die on over cartoon depictions of video game characters. Life is too short to deprive yourself and everyone around you of the ability to enjoy light-hearted things that infract upon your personal sense of justice.

So the newest form of the console wars is just the acquisition wars, then. How painfully boring.

This guy is obviously very talented, and this is indeed beautiful, but it doesn't look or feel like a Zelda game, let alone any specific Zelda game. It just looks/feels like an Unreal game.

Truly amazing. I would buy this.

@Poco_Lypso Yeah! Let's get everyone to stop buying Ubisoft games. Then Ubisoft will go out of business and all of the poor/mistreated Ubisoft employees will lose their jobs and go on unemployment! That'll teach em for being mistreated.

@blindsquarel This person thinks literally every article is the article for waging war for their ideals. That's what ideologues do.

@CharlieGirl Oh okay, so let's not support the thousands of developers and artists who worked on these games because their bosses are a**holes. Great policy, thumbs up.

This is hilarious. Some people just can't help themselves. They just HAVE to become a meme.

@patbacknitro18 There are still probably people who believe that. As someone who grew up Mormon, I can think of at least a few people that might still feel that Pokemon is from the devil.

I thought the world would outgrow this paranoia, but bizarrely you still see people freaking out over "video game addiction" and the unsavory influences of video games to this very day. Never mind the brain-numbing effects most people suffer from flipping through social media and vegging in front of the tv for hours every day, or the rage they willingly foster by fighting strangers on twitter etc on the regular.

@Greatluigi Yeah, I’ve been there at least 20 times now. You just have to shrug and take the plunge.

@Yorumi Yup. Polygon aren’t so much games journalists as they are social activists. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some kernel of truth here, because frankly game development in general is a harsh endeavor and most studios suffer from that to some degree, but I’m sure it’s not being fairly represented by outlets like polygon, kotaku etc.

Looks great. Day one buy. Nice to have a game to look forward to again.

@Crono1973 (I own Banjo on N64, Xbox 360, and Game Pass… the point is that I want it on Switch)