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H*nkers h*nkers h*nkers

That's it. Every Pokemon I send off for mystery trade from now on gets named Honkers.

£8 for Ni No Kuni is probably the best price for anything since Portal was free.

Every little nag like this is a reminder of how needlessly crappy Nintendo is being with this time-limited release. And every reminder makes it easier to show Nintendo a middle finger and resist buying.

RIKKI DO GOOOOOOOOD!!!

Yeah, Nintendo can take this time-limited release ***** and stick it up their arses. I can live without this. No thanks.

Sure, Bus! I'll do whatever you say! I AM BRITISH.

What? You mean to tell me that scarcity isn't the key to higher sales?? Who knew?

Racism. Disinformation. I guess emulating the behaviour of the people in charge counts as rebellion now?

Slow moving stock day.

Further evidence Nintendo joy-cons aren't worth half what they charge for them.

Why is it that Dr Who is the only context in which grown ups still use the word "woke" to moan about things? Grow up please, lads.

Still overpriced.

How can you not vote for a primary yellow sky?

@variableman I hope Furakawa-san doesn't get joy-con drift on his own Switch. Thoughts and prayers.

Those joy-cons are just low quality. They're flimsy: not up to the requirements of long repeated rough play.

I just wish they didn't charge so bloody much for replacement ones. They're basically a consumable; you should be able to replace them for a tenner or so. They're just flimsy bits of crap.

Switch release delays can be a blessing for those of us who use Switch as our primary console: A rubbish game like this comes out, folks on other platforms warn us about it, and we save our money!

£48 can buy a lot of real physical clothes for my actual body.

Yeah hi this article is still interesting.

Seriously though, more exclusives can only be bad news for everyone. I don't understand people who don't see that.

No more Skyrim ports??? 🤤

@MichaelHarvey Not sure how you know this?

@Kalmaro What about it? Why is everyone getting their hipsters in a ruck over Cuties?

@HobbesPrime whynotboth.gif

Ubisoft and Monster Energy are welcome to each other. What a pack of jerks all round.

More stability MOARR!!

@nessisonett Nah bigger companies than Ubisoft manage not to harbour employee abuse for years on end. Ubi's leadership have been a special kind of negligent.

Ehh, if they can resist the impulse to load it with microtransactions I'll consider it.

Ubisoft abuse their employees. Complaints and allegations have not stopped flowing forth and the top brass are still protecting each other instead of supporting harassed staff. I'd love to play PoP but they're not getting a penny from me so I'll find something else to play.

The only thing worse that the Steam store is the Nintendo store.

Yes, people like us have our own ways of discovering good games, and we'll always use them. But that ignores the plight of the majority of players whose gaming hobby is restricted just to the gaming device — people who don't daily check the news for interesting releases, and who don't have an awareness of quality Indie devs.

And that ignores the plight of the quality Indie devs who need to make their work discoverable amongst the dreck without the huge marketing budgets that AAA publishers have.

And that ultimately hurts Nintendo, because if people can't find good games that aren't the handful of good high-budget games, they'll see the Switch as just another source of cheap junky games.

What has always made Nintendo stand out in the marketplace is its focus on "kaizen" quality. That's getting seriously diluted now and they urgently need to do something about it.

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@0L1V14 Don't you have anything else you want to do? In your position I'd get a Xenoblade game instead if you haven't done all of those.

@sixrings Whenever I bump a game down to Easy to save time, I'm going to imagine you hopping about getting really cross about it and turning purple. I think I'll cheese past the Lost Sphear Waste Toad now just for the fun of it.

@sixrings Why can't @scully1888 do what they want to do with their spare time?

Now here's a quandry: I pre ordered Eternal from Amazon, so shouldn't I already have Doom 64?

The Eternal wait continues.

@alpacatears Good. Because you can be sure he's suing his editor right now.

@TDCinFL The writing looks like complete rubbish. I bet that book is a slog to get through. Who wants to read a whole paragraph of made-up ingredients for red dye? Clearly not even John Boyne. Nor his editor.

Ridiculous. 2020 has been a jackpot year for Nintendo. The third year of a console release and they still can't make enough consoles for the demand. Animal Crossing is the defining pop culture icon of the lockdown. Sony and MS are winding up their console generations so the only games people care about are Nintendo ones. Whatever you think, Nintendo are laughing.

@MonsterMatt Creativity is less valuable to AAA publishers than popularity. They want to make all the money, so they make things that they know people will buy. The creativity has long since been relegated to the Indie world.

@NEStalgia Oh absolutely, the millennials really got screwed. Any Boomer or Xer who can't see that seriously lacks the ability to look outside of themselves.

I wonder if that screwedness is what's keeping the high end games industry going? As a late Xer, it was possible for me to get a deposit together for a house in a nice city just before the economy tanked permanently in 08. I only did it by cutting out spending on games and other luxuries pretty much completely. For folks without the prospect of owning real estate, why not blow $60 on a game when you have it to spare?

But now that the millennials' screwedness has reached new depths of crappiness, will the AAA games industry be next one to be "destroyed by millennials"? It might take a few years — and maybe there'd be some justice in it.

@Timmytron @MisterKorman All we can do is comment about it under articles like this so that the issue gets a tiny percentage of the coverage it deserved. Ubisoft does not deserve to expect "business as usual" after this.

@Roibeard64 You say the alternative is microtransactions and loot boxes, as if you believe that the $10 price hike will take those things away.

Take heed: this is what happens with freemium mobile games. DON'T EVER GIVE THEM MONEY it will be wasted.

@NEStalgia you might be onto something there! Yes, here in the UK wealth is a strong indicator of whether you play video games.

Consoles and games are expensive and we don't have an Obama-legacy economy - we were still in post-recession from 2008 when Coronavirus hit.

And yes, rich Brits can be pretty unbearable. Sorry. We have institutional classism.

Most "AAA" games are so loaded with so-called "microtransactions" (of up to hundreds of dollars!! What's "micro" about that?) they feel like free-to-play games. Those games aren't worth $60. They're not worth $10. They can charge whatever they like for those games; I'm not paying.

I'm done with Ubisoft. Their games are boring and they abuse employees.

@Nurfhurder It's been at least a decade since I bought an Activision game, so I can't do any more on that front. A lot of us can't harm them any more with our wallets, so all we've got is our mouths.