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@Scarmucci You can just ignore it.

@Zeebor15 There's still quite a lot to go.

@fenlix I guess they should have specified. It was nominated for best indie game and best debut indie game.

@Dee123 Not a single Dragon Quest game came close to selling as much as Pokémon Scarlet/Violet's 8.3 million copies, Red/Green's 8.24 million copies or Gold/Silver's 7.3 million copies. Even Sword/Shield at over 6 million copies is higher than any Dragon Quest game in Japan.

The best selling Dragon Quest remake ever is Dragon Quest V on the PS2 that sold 1.71 million copies.
With Pokémon on the other hand the best selling remake, Heartgold/Soulsilver sold 3.97 million copies. And the lowest selling one is Let's Go at 2.2 million copies. BD/SP sold 3.87 million, OR/AS sold 3.47 million, FR/LG sold 3.18 million. All of them significantly more than any Dragon Quest remake ever managed to reach.

Only Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Animal Crossing: New Horizons have sold more than Scarlet/Violet in Japan.

@Olliemar28 Romancing Saga 2 is the Switch version, not the PS5 version in the charts here.

@Jack_Goetz I still have that thing, although it is a bit to small for my thumb so I used it with my index finger, but it's a bit awkward.

@batmanbud2 What are you implying with Splatoon 3? I think it's easily the best of the trilogy.

@Spider-Kev Then just edit your comment or something.

@Spider-Kev You could've written all of this in one comment instead of spamming dude.

They should add the Pokémon Pinball games.

@Dee123 Gamefreak didn't say anything.

@YunoboCo Mario Party games sell millions in Japan while Mario & Luigi never even came close.

@WheresWaveRace 78k seems quite high to me considering the PS4 Pro sold 65k at launch at a price of 45k yen and the PS5 Pro goes for a ridiculous 120k yen, which makes it by far the most expensive console ever in Japan.

Little mistake you made: Switch sold 64.012 units combined this week, not 63.964.

@johnedwin Who cares. It has plenty of perfect and near perfect scores from various sites on metacritic. That on it's own does not make any specific site's scoring garbage.

@johnedwin Because Splatoon 3 is garbage?

@arkanjo29 Are you saying I'm spreading misinformation? Which part of what I said was factually wrong? Please tell me, because I don't know.
You clearly don't know though since you also didn't even understand that all of this is not about copyright, but about patents.

@Glasso So you won't acknowledge that you were spreading misinformation?

@Glasso No, just no. Inform yourself better. It sold 15 million copies as of February and had 25 million players thanks to Gamepass.

@arkanjo29 Copyright? This is about patents, not copyright. Do you not know what a patent is? They are not the same thing. Why are you making claims if you don't know what this is about?

@Glasso Palworld has not been "more successful" than Pokémon. You're arguing in bad faith, as it's blatantly obvious to everyone who just throws a quick glance at it how unoriginal it is.

Additionally you seem to clearly have forgotten Yokai Watch, which for years was actually more successful than Pokémon in Japan. Yokai Watch 2 blew Sun/Moon out of the water in sales in Japan. And yet Nintendo fully supported them and published all of Level 5's games outside of Japan.

Other Pokémon inspired games like Temtem, Digimon and Nexomon have also been successful. Just not as successful as Palworld.

Palworld is much cheaper than Pokémon games. A large number of it's sales came from China, where the pricing is even lower. That helped the game reach it's 15 million copies sold in a month.
But that's still not as successful as Pokémon as Scarlet/Violet sold at a much higher price and only one platform 20.61 million copies in it's first six weeks.

@Lofoten Exactly lol. Pocketpair specifically aim to copy and steal ideas.

@RudyC3 Dude, relax. They are just asking to label certain parts with a spoiler warning and only stream the ending when the game has been out for a month. That's not some mega unreasonable stuff that'll prevent everyone from streaming the game.

Pocket Pair is an extremely scummy company. But this lawsuit if they loose it won't affect them much at all if the sum Nintendo wants is that low.

Regardless, I find it incredibly weird that patents like that can be sued over just because they're tied to an earlier patent, despite having been filed after Palworld released. I guess it depends on what the parent patent says.

@LavenderShroud Yeah the second Series X listing doesn't exist on Famitsu. Nintendolife added that.

@PharoneTheGnome This is Jamboree's third week and EoW's sixth week. Not that big of a difference.

EoW is well ahead of Link's Awakening launch aligned and has a bigger digital share. It's Japanese sales are way up. WW it shipped 2.58 million in five days. That is by no means a number that would lead to them giving up on 2D Zelda. Especially not after Link's Awakening remake became the best selling 2D Zelda game ever.

Mario Party has two multi-million selling games on Switch in Japan and is at it's all time popularity peak. Jamboree is massively up over the previous two entries in it's first three weeks.

@DonutPie What makes you think EoW is selling disappointingly?

@somnambulance To be expected. Mario Party has been selling massively on Switch, significantly more than 2D Zelda ever did. Especially in Japan.

@-wc- These games are classics from the 2000s. A new game in the series is in development.

@Banjo-
"A greater amount of the decreased number of total subscribers (a higher percentage) is paying for the expansion option."

Ok? So what's your point? That's still not what Nintendo or anyone said, even it is the case. It doesn't mean anything. NSO subscribers went down from 38 million last year to 34 million this year. And the number of people who chose the expansion pack went up from what it was last year.

I made this comment because the first commenter here clearly thinks that the expansion pack subscriber count went down, which it didn't.

@Banjo- They didn't say anything about any percentages anywhere. This article doesn't either.

Nintendo's exact wording is this:
"Although we did observe a year-over-year decrease in membership, partly
due to fewer new releases in the past year focusing on online play, many
people continue to enjoy Nintendo Switch Online.
Additionally, the number of people opting for the higher-tier Nintendo
Switch Online + Expansion Pack has been steadily increasing since the
service began in 2021."

They say the number increased, not the share of total subscribers.

@-wc- GSC Game World is the name of the developer. STALKER: Clear Sky is the name of the game.

@Banjo- Ubisoft is terribly managed. It's one of the largest gaming companies in terms of dev count but fails to utilize them properly.

@Banjo- They bought Next Level Games because the owner was retiring and wanted to sell. Had Nintendo declined he would've sold to someone else and Nintendo would've lost a partner. Appart from that you are heavily exaggerating.

"In terms of staff." You're not making sense. They have thousands of developers. Of the games released this year most were developed by partners or outsourced, but that's mainly due to them working on Switch 2 games right now.

@-wc- I can't believe that you seriously don't understand why anyone would want BC.

@Wario_Waha It will not be at around 160 million units in March next year, which is when the current fiscal year ends. It'd need to ship 14 million more units in six months for that which is obviously not happening if you have been paying attention at all. It'll need until the end of 2025 to reach that. 160 million would already be above the PS2.

@SabreLevant Interesting that several hundred games is "a select few" to you. Also you get free game trials and vouchers to get first party games at a discount, which makes the yearly subscription free if you use it even once.

@Lizuka You seem to have misunderstood what Nintendo said or not read beyond the headline. Expansion pack subs have increased steadily. They haven't dropped. There's no need to come up with reasons for why it might have dropped if it didn't happen.
NSO subscribers as a whole have decreased slightly, the base tier.

@Moshugan Nintendo right now has a gross profit margin of 60.8% (up from 59.3% last year) and an operating profit margin of 23.2% (down from 35.2% last year).

@LavenderShroud "Piranha Plants on Parade", it's included.

Day one, no question. My most hyped upcoming release.

@Anti-Matter The storage space a game takes up has nothing to do with it's framerate performance. Also there are two PS5 models there. You completely ignore the other one.

@Mana_Knight For Japan there are no top 40 lists after two weeks. Famitsu publishes the top 30 for this same week tomorrow.

@Nanoline52 When you go on a rant like this you at least make sure that what you say is actually factually correct.
Pokémon Scarlet/Violet music is on there and two Zelda games so far.
Also Nintendo does own Pokémon, nobody even says that.

Of course the selection is to small even if it just launched, but at least don't spout nonsense.

@batmanbud2 It is on there. 213 Star Allies tracks are there btw.

@shoeses It's not a boob slider for a 13 year old but for the main character you customize yourself.

@Vyacheslav333 You're probably saying this as some kind of principle thing, but not buying the game because you now can't have a 13 year old wear a bunny suit and because they removed the boob slider, is quite frankly ridiculous.
It's very clear why these things were changed and they don't change anything about the actual game itself.

@Ravenmaster What does any of this have to do with what you said in your previous comment?

"As long as Nintendo continues to sit on its library and do nothing with it, holding some of their games hostage instead of releasing them on their own platform, emulators will always pop up to set them free."

That has nothing to do with Switch games not running in 4K with HDR and whatever. The Switch games are fully available right now not "held hostage" on an older platform.

@Ravenmaster What are you on about? Are you even paying any attention at all??? This is a Switch emulator. Not a Gamecube or Wii or whatever emulator.

@Olliemar28 Thanks for fixing it.