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Absurd game prices, and a nickel and dime on top of those prices for those who want physical copies that aren't truly physical and now this ridiculous paid app? Nintendo has gone off the deep end and is literally FUBAR!

I've owned every Nintendo system from the start with the NES, but the Switch 2 will be the first Nintendo console I refuse to own. I hope this ruins Nintendo and the Switch 2 becomes a complete flop and utter failure of epic proportions. What a joke!

Just pre-ordered. LRG lost my business, the normal edition was limited and sold out apparently within minutes, and no way was I paying $150 for the C.E. so now I'll get this Deluxe and it's still a much better deal. LRG has been going down the drain these last few years.

Seeing how Aspyr has released other games on Amazon after LRG I was hoping for this, so this just made my day.

Hopefully they can beat the scalpers. Scalpers are the scourge of our society and it just needs to be made illegal to scalp.

That aside, I hope everyone who wants one at launch gets one. Sadly this will be the first Nintendo console since I won't get day 1. Had all day 1 from SNES to Switch, but I'll skip this because no OLED screen. I'm done letting Nintendo nickel and dime me by double dipping.

OLED should be standard, so unless the LCD screen is actually a good one (unlikely knowing Nintendo and the Switch's LCD screen) i won't buy until an OLED model is available.

To those wanting this day 1, I wish you best of luck and hopefully Nintendo and retailers can find a way to stop scalpers.

@Expa0 Fair points, and the first paragraph ya you're right I forgot about the whole needing our permission to leave part, which was weird.

I liked the terraforming and customization aspects enough, but too each their own.

Dialogue I can agree needs to be better too. I just didn't bother talking to villagers too often and went about my own business with everything else lol.

I see it's more when you say "dropped the ball" is more your personal opinion, which is fine as everyone is entitled to their own opinions. I guess I just misunderstood the original statement. I get you now.

@Expa0 dropped the ball how? The game did amazingly well, and from someone whose played every AC game it was by far the best one and the regular updates and expansion were all good. So please exain how they apparently "dropped the ball"?

That aside and back to the article, this is one instance where I hope Nintendo sues these Devs kif we can call them that since it does appear very much ai generated) because this is an absolute blatant rip off/plagiarismof Animal Crossing.

@Reztobi I 100% agree and it's why I buy physical for any and all games that have physical releases, at least on consoles. Wish pc still had physical options ffs, but this delisting is getting ridiculous and we need to stop supporting these digital games they say we never own ye today full price for. I hate where this industry went.

Stop with the ridiculous click-bait title!

"mario and Luigi future in doubt", are you guys dumb? The future isn't in doubt, it would shift to a new developer or maybe even in-house, but it wouldn't be the end of the Mario and Luigi titles just because of this, they're not the first developer anyway with that franchise so please stop with these BS click-bait titles!

I'm starting to lose respect for Nintendo Life because this is becoming even worse of a trend and its annoying AF!

As for Sony, I hope they don't get control of any of those developers, they'll ruin the future games. I'll never buy another Sony console as it is, but I still buy their games that make it to pc. If this happens, I'll never buy anything that has Sony's grubby hands in it.

Well, glad I never bought this and guess I never will. At this point I just likely won't support Konami period if this is the kind of support, or lack of that can be expected.

@Dpishere seeing this and that you mentioned having a physical copy (somehow I never saw that a physical existed), I went and found (and bought) it now because I'm sure the price will spike on any remaining physical copies lol.

So much for stability lol. Guess someone at Nintendo got sick and tired of all the stability and wanted to shake things up a bit?

@NintendoWife yes and no but we've seen other games perform well so I don't see why this can't as well. BotW, TotK, heck even The Witcher 3 for its massive size performed better and those are a few examples with much larger open worlds. Sure graphics are different between them all but this (like LA) felt a bit lazy on the optimization side and just how the Pokemon games went they banked on the IP and got lazy.

This industry as a whole has hit that point Devs are forced to release early and can't optimize properly anymore. It needs to change, but throwing our money at them supporting this won't help. This will be the first Legend of Zelda game I pass on (unless the fix it), and I've been playing since NES days. Too each their own, but I won't support it this. They need try lowering expectations on graphics or effects, etc so that they can stabilize performance. I don't need the top highest end graphics, that's what my pc is for, but my Switch is for fun games and Nintendo's games, I can handle the game being set more reasonably within the consoles limitations.

As much as I want this game, this was what I was waiting for to see if it was like LA or improved, but being worse is a hard pass for me.

Their is no reason for this poor performance so I'm not supporting this lazy incompetent garbage.

Love the GC themed one, but I have a Steam Deck OLED that emulates what I need just fine, so for me it's cool but not a purchase I can justify.

While I think $500 would be steep, if it came with 2TB storage at minimum and an OLED screen I'd pay it, otherwise no. Heck even at $400 if no oled screen and at least 1TB storage I likely wouldn't buy it and will wait for an OLED model.

I'm happy still with my OLED Switch and OLED Steam Deck. I love Nintendo but 1tb and oled at launch are minimum to get me onboard without waiting a few years for an updated model since we know Nintendo is notorious for making several model revisions over a consoles lifespan.

Backwards compatability would sweeten the deal too lol.

@Shiryu Just sounds like it's just more trouble than it's worth imo. Thanks for the link though.

Come on Bandai Dumbco, release physical in North America! No physical here = no buy because I guess the Maverick dlc isn't included on the EU cart but if I recall, even though not region locked if I import EU copy I won't be able to get the Maverick DLC without a European Nintendo account.

I'm so sick of North America getting the shaft when it comes to so many physical games.

ROFL seriously Nintendo?!? Releasing this 7. 5 years after the Switch came out, and in Japan only? This would have been smart years ago, not at the END of the Switch's life cycle.

I love Nintendo, I really so, but they tend to do a lot of stupid things that make no sense.

I had this on pc since release but I love supporting this kind of work with such ports to the Switch and just may have to double dip and get this and replay it.

This price is absurd and should be priced at $40 just like Metroid Prime Remaster was. Nintendo can go eff themselves. I wont pay these prices for remake/remasters.

I have 1 and 2 physical copies (just regular though) so I'll be grabbing this (regular as well) just to complete the physical collection.

This one looks fun. Started to get so sick of the flooding of metroidvanias and a lot sucked, but this one looks really nice from the art style to gameplay. Will definitely check this one out after having ignored this genre for the last year or 2.

All I'm concerned about is whether or not this will scratch/scuff up the back of my console like the original did. If so, then no improvements make a difference if it still scuffs the Switch's backplate.

As much as I want this, no physical means I won't buy it.

@BlackenedHalo lol I agree

No physical = no buy

If this runs well I will 100% double dip on this game. I love this game and when teams put the time and effort with good quality ports to Switch I have to support it.

Got on Amazon and returned it same day. Scratched the back of my Zelda TotK Switch, as well as that right analog stick really is very uncomfortable and positioned really badly.

I wanted to love this, but it really isn't worth it.

These collectors edition prices are getting absurd. I remember something like this would have been $150 CAD but now $220 USD so likely $250 CAD minimum. Absolutely absurd and ridiculously overpriced considering base game is $30 USD or $50 for Deluxe so do they really think that extra junk is worth $170?

They can keep it, not getting my business, not on the physical c.e. anyway.

Still working on this on PC. Glad to see the Switch version get a 9 out of 10. This game is a gem and I can't believe how long it took me to get into it.

NL reviews are the only ones I trust and I may grab this on Switch just to have a physical copy once that is released next year and show support for devs who do these wonderful Switch ports.

I also got it on sale on PC so devs that deserve support wilp get my support.

@StephenYap3 same, guess next year I'll wait and not auto renew

Rofl not at that price I won't even bother trying to snag one. I'm happy with my normal physical copy for 1/3 of the price lol.

What a joke! Konami won't be getting my money and I've already cancelled my pre-order. This is just another lazy hald-a**ed (and overpriced) money grab of a port.

I already pre-ordered the Prehistoric Edition, but now this news make me even more excited to receive it! Amazing news as I loved not only the SNES game but also the Genesis games and still own a near mint Jurassic Park 1 on the Genesis. This will be great to have playable on my Switch complete!

@Slim_in_Blue oh absolutely, I won't speak for the majority or claim I know what the majority thinks. Just wanted to chime in and mention I'm one of those adult fans that wasn't happy, and that nostalgia wasn't enough to make the game fun, and just to add a number out there lol.

If others can get past the bugs and performance than good on them and glad some can find enjoyment in these games. I just couldn't do it, and with so many other great and better functioning games around I decided I'll play something else that won't frustrate me, but I can't in good conscience support pokemon again and support this kind of lazy development and lack of QA.

If they prove themselves and future releases have great reviews and fewer issues/better performance then I'll reconsider since I really do love the series in general.

@Slim_in_Blue nah I'm that adult fan who played from the start and I couldn't play these games, the issues are just too much so I gave up and shelves the games hoping patches would fix some of it, but seems that's not the case. Nostalgia isn't enough to make me play these trash games. I'm forever done with pokemon at this point.

If they want to release annually then they need 2 full dev teams that can spend 2 years per title.

This current setup of less than 12 full months development time doesn't work.

But too little too late for me, I'll never buy another pokemon game after the mess that was Scarlet and Violet. I've been playing since Red/Blue and Yellow... Goodbye Pokemon!

Tried but pre-orders were snagged up instantly in Canada by scalpers so I'm done buying amiibos. Nintendo can go F*** themselves!

They always release numbers that even without scalpers wouldn't supply the demand so I make my own amiibo nfc tags and that's it. Nintendonis so against piracy yet they won't make sufficient supply for the demand on these and game C.E.'s, etc so for amiibos I just make my own now until Nintendo stops being idiotic.

Can't find them in Canada. Effing scalpers took all of these as soon as they showed up. I'm sick of Nintendo making these in such small numbers, so I'll make my own tags if they cant supply enough product for demand then they (and the scalpers) leave me no choice and can go eff themselves.

@Yosher all of LRG'S editions have been getting absurdly overpriced for the last year and a half or so I've noticed slowly climbing up in price. It's gotten ridiculous.

ROFL, ya ok Nintendo that's gonna entice me to upgrade to 1.2.0 for a broadsword and mushrooms lol.

What a bunch of door knobs, I get a stupid amount of these as is from scanning amiibos, so I don't care about 1 more of each jist for upgrading to 1.2.0 lol. Give something good and actually useful, otherwise just stop!

Too little too late. Glad to hear theyve been working on this but that fact some of the mentioned issues still exist (vehicles materializing is still too close, and SA performance) is still not a good look and should not be issues on such old games, even on the Switch.

@PessitheMystic yes but also, not many cared for the Wii U; unlike the Switch, so...

Ya well Jim Ryan is an idiot. I love Mario and Zelda and COD. I didn't buy a PS5 because of scalpers hogging all stock but now after the childishness of Sony (and Jim Ryan especially), I'll never buy a Sony console again. I'll happily stick with my PC and Switch.

That said, I wouldn't buy COD on Switch because I have a gaming PC and prefer to play FPS games with mouse & keyboard. That doesn't mean other players feel the same, and I'm sure plenty would buy and play COD on the Switch.

Although, I think I just may buy it on Switch to add to the sales just to spite this idiot and his generalizations and ignorant comments. Jim Ryan knows nothing of gaming/gamers and is just an idiot. He's a cry baby who bullies and plays dirty to get exclusives but now that MS has exclusives from Zenimax it's somehow wrong and trying to acquire Activision is just him being a sore loser that he didn't think of it first.

Maybe now I'll actually pickup this game to play with my son. Glad they made this change, but as many others have said, this should have been the way it was from the start.

I hope other companies catch on and stop with this mtx bs in every single effing game these days.

Can't wait for this game! I grew up playing Castle of Illusion on my Genesis and pre-ordered this as soon as I heard about it. This sounds promising and can't wait!

@Bret
Haha I did the same and got up in Impa's balloon and was told to jump and use my glider lol. After that I went to get the glider lol.

Sony is just jealous lol. I don't take anything out of Sony's mouth seriously anymore. Their pety and childish ways are just sad.

I'm glad I don't own a PS5, and I will never buy another Sony console. I will always buy every Nintendo console though and maybe to spite Sony I should go buy the Xbox lol.

Nintendo and PC are all I need at this point.

I refuse to support these shady and predatory microtransaction models found in this game. Most games I refuse to support these unless the game itself is free, otherwise not in a full priced game.

Games that may be full priced but only offer cosmetic and/or other items such as expansion style dlc that are not predatory then I may support if I enjoy the game, but 2K has earned a spot on my list of never support companies, just below EA and Ubisoft.

$25 to rent is absurd and must be some sort of joke!

@zgillet Good to know, thanks for that tip.