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@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.

Goomba tweeted later that he doesn’t have any sources and was just commenting on rumors he has heard/read.

@Darkqwerty You're basing this on Animal Crossing? One of thousands of games on Switch, which has only been out for a year? Yeah, this is a non-issue. I doubt that even 10% of the people that bought that game felt the need to buy a second Switch to play it, but even if they did, that still equates to individuals who own a system for themselves. That's not the same as one collector who buys five systems just for himself and they all just sit on a shelf untouched. These are legitimate sales.

I would actually wager that Nintendo's systems get shared significantly more than rival systems, given the fact that Nintendo products are clearly much more widely adopted by families, while their competitors' core demographics skew much more heavily toward young single men. If Nintendo's audience demo followed that same tracking, they would probably have sold a lot more Switch units by now, not fewer.

Also, how is a PlayStation any more shareable than a Switch? I sincerely doubt there's a measurable number of people sitting around playing the PS5 together. It's an extremely single-player leaning system. How many local-multiplayer games are there on a PS4/5 anyway, like six? lol

@Darkqwerty Lol what? Nintendo aren’t the only ones that do system variants and revisions. The other two do it all the time. I’d be willing to bet that double-dippers make up a tiny portion of the overall sales. The boost is probably negligible.

I also don’t get the assertion that a household can’t share a single Switch. Why not exactly? How is it different from any other device?

Yeah, the fact that it’s an investors call means nothing. They’re not under oath. It’s not a direct report on earnings. They’re promoting their business, essentially. And the way this is worded, as bizarre as it is, is literally just a reference to reports that a big name is interested in the thing this business promotes. They might as well be referencing articles such as this one.

Just my take. If I’m wrong, we’ll know eventually. But to me this is less concrete and more oatmeal.

I’m honestly a little disturbed by it.

“We don’t really talk about timelines, but we decided to bring it to Switch when we realized we wanted to actually sell copies of the game and everyone knows Nintendo fans are the only ones who play games like this in the year 2021.“

@Kang81 Thank you. Yeah, FTD is unique in how long it can take. It could have been going on even longer ago than that, but the very early stages usually go unrecognized. Especially since most people have never even heard of the disease.

As someone who’s dad has been slowly slipping away from frontotemporal dementia for the last ~20 years, this game just seems like too much for me personally. But I’m glad if it can help educate even one person, because a lot of people just have no exposure to these diseases outside of the stereotypical portrayals in movies and tv.

I don't miss Blockbuster, but I definitely miss rental stores in general. It's just that Blockbuster sucked. And honestly their own ineptitude and customer treatment had a lot to do with them going under.

@NEStalgia The system itself is good. It has good games, even if some of them were ported to Switch. Some of them were actually better on Wii U. Most of them sell for cheaper on Wii U, these days. Backwards compatibility is definitely a good thing. An actual virtual console that includes DS and N64 games. A lot of third-party and indie games that never made it to Switch. If you can find it at a place like Game Stop, they sell it for like half the price of a Switch.

And it’s also just an interesting/unique touchstone in Nintendo’s platform history, which should interest anyone claiming to be a Nintendo enthusiast or general video game collector.

@NEStalgia I’m a Wii U owner and a Switch owner and I would definitely recommend a Wii U to whatever hypothetical person is wondering if they should buy a Wii U at this point. Depending on the price. And I don’t feel burned. It was my choice to waste my money rebuying literally every Wii U game that got ported to Switch. No one made me do it.

The "no" segment are all the new Nintendo fans who got on board with the Switch.

@nessisonett Because that’s where the stand that’s holding the thing up is and he’s moving the statue by holding onto the stand.

I really can’t believe anyone actually cares how other people play solo games. Worry about how you stack up against your own purity standards, but I’m not required to legitimize them.

@nessisonett Who’s going to read that and be like “you know what, I WAS going to be bigoted, but now I’m not”? Honest/good-faith question. Like are there genuine bigots out there who have their hearts changed by obligatory moral/political statements that most people already live by anyway?

I wish there were an altogether different category for heathens who choose to play with a keyboard. It repulses me.

@jikflet Same here. I think some people are just really terrible at taking care of their possessions and are in denial that it’s actually their fault.

Nice. Maybe in another 20 years they’ll add the ability to turn off the music and make it so my guy doesn’t yell like a chipmunk every time I catch a fish or a bug or find something cool or dig something up or get a present etc etc. Then I would REALLY celebrate.

How does anyone fear missing out when the thing was very widely available for half a year?

@Strictlystyles There’s like millions of video games in existence so that’s not saying much.

@Strictlystyles Wow, you must really like the guy if you feel like you need to light $60 on fire for him.

What you say? This is best game of century!

Wait, @ThomasBW84 is back? This makes me so freaking happy! (Didn’t visit this site for a couple days so I missed the announcement.)

@everynowandben I would say that the vast majority of hearts in most/all Zelda games do not come from simply finding containers. Most of them come from things like beating dudgeons/shrines and completing quests. Even if I’m off on the balance, there’s no denying the fact that a meaningful portion of Link’s growth is tied to him performing specific actions (especially if you include the various tools he obtains over time), which in turn helps him better perform other actions down the line.

How is that any different from gaining experience points by completing missions and quests? You did a thing and your character’s ability was enhanced in some way as a result. The only difference is that in Zelda it’s represented in a practical form that you can easily interpret into useful information, whereas in other more-obvious RPG’s the reward is a data point.

Literally the only thing that separates Zelda from what most people consider to be RPG’s is numbers. Zelda has everything a typical “RPG” has if we’re going by the basic dictionary definition, but it’s all represented as icons (health is represented as hearts rather than as numbers above the character’s head) and tangible attachments to the character (attack power is manifested in a physical sword that often becomes stronger over time, and in whatever other weapons and items that are gained along the way).

The other things people think are required to make it an RPG, like turn-based combat and narrative choices, aren’t actually required to make it an RPG. That said, if the modern concept of an RPG means numbers, turn-based combat, and selectable narratives, then no, Zelda does not meet that definition.

@TheJGG I’m confused as to why people didn’t think this game was possible on Switch. There are plenty of games on the system that are significantly more demanding than this one.

@sixrings lol the bigger they get? This is a hilarious comment.

I recently deleted all of my clips and screens because I never look at them and they were taking up like 20GB.

@Bydlak Tentatively agree, but this is just the first level, so I expect it gets more interesting later on.

Wait, that’s not how you pronounce azure.

Lol isn’t Switch selling better than it ever has? Doesn’t seem like people care that it’s not pushing out ultra high-end graphics, mostly seems like they’re just having fun with the thing.

@Nymos Yes. That explains why they’re literally the richest company in Japan. Bad business decisions.

@Snatcher Yawn. They do things that make business sense for them. Firing the one and only guy that’s ever voiced Mario in the games (and who happens to be a living legend in the industry, unlike the multiple people who have voiced Sonic) for no reason makes no sense and isn’t something they’ve set any precedence for, so your comment is completely baseless/erroneous.

@ALinkttPresent lol my thoughts exactly.

@Snatcher Based on....?

“(never mind the book’s frothing imperialist overtones and xenophobic strokes)”

Great article, but we really don’t need this. It’s a 300 year old book. Anyone surprised/offended by the fact that it doesn’t cater to modern pc ideologues is profoundly ignorant and probably too sensitive.

@ThanosReXXX Utter insanity. I think people just want to feel important and they think destroying people’s livelihoods is the way to do it.