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Why are we rewriting Genki's history of making gaming accessories as them being "a drop shipping company"? I'm really confused here. I've backed multiple Genki products on kickstarter and had no complaints, and their portable switch dock was one of the most solid additions I ever made to that console in general!

@Pillowpants except for when it was purple (SNES, Gamecube), and for when it was blue (Wii). Nintendo has really never had a consistent color. The Switch's color is red, but I wouldn't say Nintendo's is.

Seeing the DK designs right next to each other like this... That new design has really grown on me quickly. It's so much more expressive, and that's for one of the most expressive characters in Nintendo's arsenal!

@YunoboCo a TRUE fan would continue to support him even after his plastic surgery.

My personal hype level for Kirby Air Riders should bump that percentage up a couple points.

@blockfight Preordering a console doesn't make for a very exciting youtube video.

@FantasiaWHT Not wanting to invite giant political arguments on a video game site, maybe? Like be honest with yourself, the comments would have wound up needing to be locked regardless.

990 yen too high. No thanks. I'll watch some youtuber play it. Like sure, it'll "have" "games" in it, but from what they showed in the Direct it's not nearly enough to charge for.

YES!!!!!! HOLY EXPLETIVES YES!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot properly put into words how happy I am about this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here's hoping they bring back City Trial, and with multiple cities to play in!

I really doubt that any second screen capability would be tied to a button on a controller. You do that kind of thing through an on-screen menu.

@dojmin Have you seen an N64 game recently? Or ever in your entire life?

@Overzeal Yup. But given that the console never released, my guess is they were either let go from the exclusive contract, or the contract simply expired.

@Mattock1987 Correct, they're changing Pokemon Day this year to be... the same as it was the past six years (sans 2020)

@Kazman2007 That's because they're looking for a soul of their own, as the entire Funko production lacks any.

@batmanbud2 Yeah, I know folks love Horizon. Personally I've never played it. I was just so bothered in Burnout Paradise by needing to drive to the starting line of every event instead of just selecting it from a menu. Frustrated with one Crash Mode level and want to try a different one for a bit? Can't just select a different one, gotta drive around to find it. I miss menus!

@Mando44646 We hear you! Coming to MK9 - PAPER MARIO!

I straight up do not understand folks voting for an open world. Please, no. Please. That's what made Burnout, the greatest racing series in gaming history, stop being fun.

This is the first entry that skipped PS4/XB1. I have to wonder how this'll be reflected in the Switch performance. Are the PS5/XBS versions going to be held back by the fact that it's also on a Switch console that's significantly less powerful than the generation this is skipping?

@dkxcalibur RIP Brian Matusz

It's absolutely wild to me that Arms is still as expensive as it is.

@Res462 OH man I thought you meant the Switch 2 itself lol

@Res462 You don't know the price.

@VoidofLight lol

@Ralizah I don't disagree, I just think it's wild to still be all twisted over it ten years later. The OG Switch came with a charger. Every single Nintendo console ever released except the New 3DS came with the necessary components to charge/use it.

@Bunkerneath Still mad about them excluding a $10 charger all these years later, huh?

@-wc- Oh, I absolutely am. This game's a constant joy to me, partly because after Alphadream went down I thought that was the end of this series.

@-wc- lol it's much less this comment specifically and more the constant stream of negativity towards this game on every article posted about it. Like c'mon, even the name? You can't even give it that?

@N00BiSH What did this game do to you? Why do I have to see your negativity towards it on every single article about it?

To this day it shocks me that Brothership has any less than universal praise for its visuals. Are we looking at the same game?

I had enough hourglasses saved up to immediately open almost 30 packs! Got two new EX pokemon, one of which was a full art, and two other full art cards on top of that. Excited for some new life being breathed into this game, it's getting old seeing the same three decks online all the time.

@montrayjak Palworld has nothing to do with Sony beyond being released on its consoles.

@Spider-Kev Come on, the dollar signs on Sony's name look ridiculous. Nintendo wants and makes money too, you know. Nintendo and Sony Interactive Entertainment are both corporations making video games to turn a profit. There's no real difference between them other than the specific products they make.

I recently got a Hypno, the final pokemon missing from my Kanto dex, to get the secret card. I'm missing three from the base set right now - Articuno, Snorlax, and Machamp EX. I've spent about $100 and am not proud of that. But I only have 31 of the full art cards. There's 60 total. No way am I striving to get every full art card.

@LXP8 For me, going back to that same dungeon every twenty minutes was so awful that I didn't even have the energy to finish the game.

@LXP8 Right, they put the good DS Zelda on instead.

I was super happy to see Pokemon Conquest way up here!

Major game changer here. People have been waiting for two years to get these items that are readily available in-game.

Last year while I was at my friend's place for Extra Life, at about two in the morning his dog decided it's time to pee all over his xbox. Thing still works though!

It's pretty nuts that when you open Settings, the literal only option is to turn rumble on or off. No audio options (I'd love to knock down voice lines by just a tick or two), no option to control Luigi with B in battle like the rest of the series, literally just rumble. It's enough to knock it from a 9 to an 8 for me.

@-wc- It's really not a competitor. It only offers Nintendo music, because of course it does. That makes it compete with spotify as a source for Nintendo music, but not as a source for music. Spotify won't even notice the loss of the miniscule percentage of people who only listen to Nintendo music.

@YunoboCo Why not? Personally I wouldn't have seen it otherwise.

@-wc- Or at the very least look at more than one website. It's got an 80 on Metacritic right now, though for whatever reason IGN's 50 isn't included next to Digital Trends'. Those two would be the only 50s though with the next score up being a 70. If anything, IGN's score is an outlier.

@shiftbarackyeaugh That's Nintendo and TPC pushing them to release more games so they can make more merch. I'm certain Game Freak wishes they had more time so they could actually finish their games, but they're under contract to deliver under specific timeframes.

@JohnnyMind I missed this article the first time around. That's ridiculous! The perfect Fire Emblem, if you ask me, was Awakening. I really miss when you could just select things from a menu between battles instead of having to run through a mostly empty hub world from activity to activity.

I continue to be shocked by people's reactions to the art style in this game. It's charming the hell out of me and I consider it the best the bros have ever looked in a video game, but in every article there's people in the comments bashing the art direction, saying things from "it looks like a fan game" to just "yikes". I truly don't get it.

Oh, well. I'll just wait for the New Frame Plus video on the game so I can listen to someone who appreciates character animation as much as (or, who am I kidding, way WAY more than) me.

@milonorth Read the article, maybe even the articles linked within it. All the info is there - it's complicated. Basically the publisher released the game before it was completed without the dev's permission and it let to a swath of legal issues.

Did someone say KIRBY AIR RIDE WITH ONLINE PLAY??

I'd explode with happiness.

I went to that store last month, was visiting NYC to see a Bomb the Music Industry and Good Luck show. Was a lot smaller than I expected, or at least it had a lot less stock on shelves than I expected. The decor was lovely, but they could have packed a hell of a lot more in there.

I left with a fuzzy Pawmi and a little pink Pikmin.

@Lizuka Just because it doesn't matter to you doesn't mean it doesn't matter at all. I'm sure there are people out there who care that their GSP is accurate.

News to me that gacha are shunned in the west, but hey, they can go right on thinking that.

@AStupidID Just put a live-action Danny Devito dressed as Wario right in there.

Looks a lot more like SMW to me than SMB3.

I cannot get enough of this art style!! These characters have never looked this good before. I still can't get over people saying this looks like a fan game. Hopefully those folks will actually watch this trailer with their eyes open.

@HammerKirby That's because Toad being powerful wouldn't make sense. He's intended to be an everyman. Meanwhile Zelda has always had access to magic so it's a bit strange that now that she's alone, she is unable to use any of it. I mean this woman was able to hold Ganon at bay. It's not going to ruin the game or anything, but I totally get that feeling that she should be able to do a bit more.