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My god. Somebody, somewhere, got conned. Like, really hard.

@Yorumi Have you priced computers lately? Or electronics of any kind? I think you’re completely delusional. Like I said very clearly, the only time you see significant price drops is when old models get replaced and have overlap with the new models, or have been on the market for several years and the well of new customers is drying up. This is especially true of video game consoles. And it’s even more true now, with major factors like component supply shortages, insane shipping constraints, and rapid inflation wreaking havoc on the industry’s ability to sell products at all, let alone make the obscene profits you seem to imagine them as making.

And yet again I’m left wondering why people like you even come here. With such a bizarre straw-man-esque paranoia of Nintendo and their fans, I genuinely don’t understand why you think there’s anything to be gained from you regularly visiting a site that literally is nothing more than a Nintendo fan site.

@MarcelM You literally asked if your opinion was bad and I told you it was bad. That’s about the extent of how “mean” or disrespectful I’ve been to you. I think perhaps you’re just a little too sensitive. If you want me to be nicer to you, maybe try learning more about this topic and retuning your “perception.” Let me get you started: Markets dictate prices. The instant Nintendo products stop driving sales, they either vanish or come down in price. Those of us that have been following the company for longer than two years know this all too well.

We had to deal with the horrid flop that was the Wii U. We saw how it eroded Nintendo’s “comfort” and how they attempted to correct by slashing prices. It didn’t work. Their only real solution was doing exactly what you say they should be doing now: doubling down on their core talents and creating a product that appeals so well to gamers that it’s smashed countless sales records and given Nintendo numerous top-selling games.

That product is only four years old. It’s in it’s prime. And yet here we are suddenly flooded with people like you who think Nintendo are being complacent because they aren’t going to reflexively clone the latest in a string of non-starters from Valve, of all companies, a weak PC tablet that desperately wants to be perceived as a Switch Pro more than anything. So no, I don’t need to water down my responses just because you tell me to. Your argument is one of ignorance and near-sightedness. If you don’t like this exchange, stop responding to me. But I’m tired of having to parse through mountains of “Nintendoomed” bullcrap on my Nintendo fan site.

@Yorumi Uhhh okay? That was 30 years ago. And it was in no way comparable to the scenario you’re trying to tie it to.

It was also a completely different era with an electronics industry that was many, many magnitudes smaller than the one we have today. We’ve learned since then that electronics/tech products like video game consoles very rarely come down in price. Instead they just get obsoleted out of the market and replaced before that ever happens. Almost the only time you see meaningful price drops is when a device is either selling poorly or has overlap with its replacement.

But sure, let’s keep up this weird paranoid narrative going that Nintendo are the only ones in the entire tech industry who don’t just give their products away.

@MarcelM Why do I need to soothe your feelings? Especially if I find what you’re saying to be absurd and bordering on offensive?

@MarcelM I’m not. I just don’t believe in letting feelings trump facts.

@MarcelM Oh I’m sure you’re just head over heels for Nintendo lol. They’re a for-profit company. To say that they’re any more greedy than any other for-profit company is supremely ignorant. They make products and they sell them for money. I’d bet my entire life savings that their profit margins are about identical to those of any other huge corporation, especially those operating in the tech/gaming space.

@MarcelM Yes. It is bad of you. Why would you want Nintendo to fail simply because they refuse to betray and abandon the 90 million people who have already bought the current model of Switch just four years after launching it? Dumb, dumb statement.

Seriously, what’s with this site getting infiltrated by PS5 bots and the PC Master Race lately? What a colossal nuisance the comments are becoming here.

It’s definitely stupid. But I’m also of the mind that it’s intensely stupid that people pays tens, sometimes even hundreds, of millions of dollars on individual paintings, even for works by artists that most people have never even heard of, but few people acknowledge the absurdity of that.

@Thatsalie I think the best thing you could do for yourself at this point is ask yourself why you think this is a good way to spend your time, realize that it’s not, and then seek out a better way to spend your time. Which will inevitably lead you to someplace that is not here. So, goodbye to future you. Best of luck wherever you end up (probably back at PushSquare or something)!

@Thatsalie I am calm. I just find you to be profoundly ignorant and annoying. Also you’re on a Nintendo fan site. You do know that, right?

@Thatsalie Because stick drift isn’t exclusive to Nintendo products? Also this article isn’t from Nintendo Life, they’re referencing IGN. Did you even bother reading a single word of this thing or did you just read the headline and jump straight to the comments?

@Snatcher lol what? Yeah no, I don’t think this thing is going to drive Nintendo out of the handheld market. Especially considering the fact that the handheld market is their entire market now. They don’t have anything else.

@Dm9982 I wouldn’t count on getting the fabled “Pro” anytime soon. Certainly not within 6-9 months. The only way I see the Switch internals getting an overhaul even in the next 2-3 years is if the current models’ sales fall off a cliff or the worldwide shortage of new chips and other components miraculously evaporates, or both.

The current system is selling as strong as ever and the supply chain is humming at full speed. I doubt Nintendo want to dip their toe in PS5/Series X type shortages with a whole new system right now. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

Lol yeah I don’t know, guess it depends how it hits. This one seems to have had most of the damage relegated to the joycon. Nintendo has a pretty good record with their stuff being physically resilient, probably going back to the days of needing to account for most of their customers being kids. Switch seems more fragile than their earlier systems, but it can occasionally take a beating.

@YoungLink64 Talking about the dock specifically. But I also didn’t say it wouldn’t crack, just that it would still work.

But since you seem to be talking about the system itself, there’s actually videos of people dropping it from way higher than a sitting position and it still working afterwards. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y8QCFNAgPDo

@Franklin I’m considering it.

@Franklin Fragile? I mean yeah it's flimsy, but somehow I feel like I could drop it off a freeway overpass in rush hour and it would still work.

To be honest, I’ve played Switch in almost this exact same setting. But it wasn’t right after getting home, it was while I was waiting for my wife to get ready so we could leave and it was taking forever and I was too lazy to go elsewhere in the house.

@DarthNocturnal It’s a sword that doesn’t break. That’s pretty valuable to me.

Cool. Like just about every other Nintendo rumor I’ve heard this last decade, it probably won’t happen. Love to be wrong but I won’t hold my breath.

@Dezzy That’s because we’re in the days of thought-crime. There are plenty of non-progressives in the industry, they’re just terrified to admit it because they know it means the end of their peace and probably the end of their careers.

I want to play a Star Fox where the animals are super realistic. Like just a fox on all fours with clothes on. And they don’t even talk. They steer with their mouths or something. And it’s a disaster.

@mereel You’re not supposed to say you like games on this site. Everyone knows that.

What the hell. Why’d you guys remove my comment? I wasn’t being sarcastic. I was 100% serious. As a non-binary person this is kind of hurtful.

@Pirate1 If you’ve ever played a Zelda game that didn’t have BotW-style instant travel, that’s how this game is. I always felt like it had enough bird statues to make travel fairly painless.

“The Legend of Zelda: A Hand in Time”
seems like a good one to me.

@Ludovsky Agree with all that. I think it looks great. I personally loved Skyward Sword (I think a lot of the hate is from bandwagoners and people who never even played it and are condemning it based on what they've heard about it) and I think it's awesome that they're working some elements from that game into this one. From a gameplay perspective, it makes for an interesting way to traverse a world that we've already thoroughly explored, and for another thing it ties the oldest point in the timeline to the final point in the timeline, and from a lore perspective I think that's rad as F.

I really get the feeling that the person in the sky is Zelda. It looks like her hair and her body, and the clothes are definitely more feminine looking. Nintendo knows that a ton of people were clamoring for a playable Zelda before BotW came out. Of course BotW Link is a little androgynous looking, so it could all be Link, but I think there's enough hints that it's Zelda to make that theory plausible.

I also love the thought of having some kind of connection to Link Between Worlds. I feel like we don't get enough cross-referencing between the 3D games and the 2D ones, so it would be cool to get some kind of firm nod to that version of the Zelda universe.

@Yoshilapin You seem really fun, reasonable, and smart.

Looks incredible. Glad the overwhelming majority of people seem to share that opinion. It’s not exactly what I was “expecting” but our guesses and expectations are irrelevant to whether it will be good or not. And I have no doubt it will be good.

People need to learn to appreciate things for what they are and not condemn them for failing to line up with their personal wishlist/speculations that they based on almost nothing. We have two brief trailers to go on, so it’s dumb to pass judgment on it at this point.

I consider this guy’s existence proof that we live in a computer simulation, and that it’s gotten infected with a virus or something.

@SonOfVon No one would ever play that game, everyone knows real gamers only play games about mens.

@Moistnado Very good satire.

Imagine if you were starving to death and somehow you came across this story. Humanity is kind of a waste.

@TMNHertl I think it’s less about it being subjective and more about you lacking information and perspective.

I want a new Wario Land game more than I want another WarioWare game. But I’d take both.

@TMNHertl Lol how does talking about a bad movie from 30 years ago turn into an indictment of capitalism?? It was a completely different era for video games, for movies, and for Nintendo. A lot of this was just feeling around in the dark. People just didn’t know what they were doing.

But to accuse Nintendo of not having respect for themselves or their brand is absurd. They’re about as far from shameless as you can get within the confines of a for-profit company that doesn’t have the luxury of printing funny-money to survive.

@nessisonett Lol netcode. It’s like the boogeyman of the online gaming world.

@DrDaisy That’s probably for the best. I wouldn’t want you to suffer over something as serious and devastating as this.

@ATaco Jesus, get a grip. It’s not anti anything to make a product and sell it for a premium. You have zero obligation to buy it. I defend it because I’m not a child and I believe in the free market. It’s not my problem that you don’t, or my fault if you can’t afford to buy a piece of plastic that you don’t need and can absolutely live without.

People need to stop acting like video game pricing is life and death. It’s offensive to my core as a human. There are real problems in the world and this isn’t even remotely close to being one of them, except maybe to 12 year olds with zero perspective.

@DrDaisy First-world problems.

@ATaco I love how any time someone defends something Nintendo does it’s “uuggghhh fanboys always defending, have fun with the Nintendo checks you bootlicking shill!!!” As if your opinion is somehow inherently more valid than mine because it’s a negative one? Hate to break it to you but it’s not. Clearly your parents failed you.

Also, this is a Nintendo site so maybe don’t come here if people defending Nintendo is this stressful for you.

@Chris55 I really like it but if the majority of your exposure to Zelda is BotW then beware that it’s a very different experience from that. It’s pretty linear and there’s not much exploration but the music and dungeons are fantastic. It’s also much more story-driven.

@DrDaisy It’s a minor feature that didn’t exist in the original game and that you didn’t know existed in the remaster until the amiibo was announced. You’re not having anything taken away from you. I think you’ll be okay.

@TheFox “So there's the question why should the port add new paywalls that didn't previously exist.”

Because it’s a new feature that didn’t previously exist. They’re not locking people out of content that was in the original game.

@Olmectron Yup. Most of the people complaining probably never played Skyward Sword anyway.

These comments are depressing. Wish we had some smarter people reading this site.

@Ulysses I’ve been playing games since like 1987 and I’d say the 2.5D style has been around for at least as long as hand-drawn art styles have, and has probably been more prevalent during that time. Sometimes hand-drawn looks good, but sometimes it looks cheap and runs the risk of looking like a flash game from the year 2000.

As for games in the DKC universe, they’ve never not been in 2.5D (except for DK64 which was full 3D) and they’ve mostly been amazing games. For them to switch to a flat hand-drawn look would be a massive departure, but ultimately it has little impact on whether or not the game is actually good. With platformers, gameplay matters most.

@Ulysses "2.5D needs to die."

Uh, no. It really, really doesn't. If you were a fan of this series you're commenting on, you would know why.