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Wasn't TriForce Heroes a non-canon spinoff? This stinker is mucking up the results.

@locky-mavo It's a 3D action RPG. We're minimum 2 years out from release, probably longer. I bet it will be on Switch 2 in 2024-2026.

@TryToBeHopeful The Gamecube had 3 Mario Party games. Trying to remember, N64 had 2 or 3 as well.

@nocdaes I wouldn't count on it.

I hope Sakurai doesn't make another Smash game for a long time. I'd be happy with a Smash Ultimate Deluxe port to the Switch 2 in 3-4 years with a few more highly requested characters. But even that might be pushing for too much. The game's already jam-packed!

I'm glad some people are enjoying themselves with this game. Me personally, I'm not convinced Other M is at all a good entry. To each their own! 🙂

Gotta love Jon!

Nah, I don't believe all of that reasoning. If Kingdom Hearts keeps being remade and ported to every other console in existence, then it can be ported to Switch, and likely profitably.

However, I think the real reason goes to the performance requirements and, as he stated, the cartridge size. The Switch can't run PS4-grade games. This is why I hope we'll see a proper port on the Switch 2.

Not to be a downer, but Nintendo should probably fix this. If you guys can make that mistake, I can imagine the families with small kids changing Switches around are making that mistake right now. It shouldn't be that easy to lose progress.

What a humble guy! Sakurai credits his whole team in his response. Gives me the warm fuzzies 😊

Everybody knows it's gonna be Knack from Knack 2 babyyyy!!

If they couldn't get the rights to Knack, then my money's on Birdo. I don't know how they'll get Morgan Freeman to reprise his role after his last masterpiece performance. But this is Smash we're talkin' about!

@HeadPirate I'm very glad you got a load of deals from streaming and DRM-protected distribution platforms. I have zero problem with that! In fact, maybe someday I'll take advantage of the same.

Why can't physical media coexist though? I own lots of books. I like the fact that I own them and can hand them off to anyone and be certain they will last without a random megacorporation intervening in my business. I don't get why you insist to frame it as, "Physical media is stone age, LOL. Streaming is the only way!"

I'm mainly concerned about game preservation. As many a defunct online game service and MMO foretells, even the best and biggest won't be around forever. And if it is, do you really want its preservation (and, ahem, pricing model) to be in the hands of a soulless corporation whose only initiative is money? It will eventually be that way for some games, since that is the goal of business: Make MORE money, which sometimes means squeezing more out of the consumer through shady means. I mean, just look at Gacha. I don't trust these companies. Look at Stadia too! "Pay for an expensive streaming service AND pay full price for games!" Ugh! 🤢

Also, your argument that it's less expensive is true for now. But it will not likely be true forever. Netflix is a perfect example. Now there are a gazillion streaming services hoarding exclusive content which put together costs more than cable did. Now it's also getting to where you can't even own the content either, meaning someday one of my future daughter's favorite childhood movies might be lost to bitrot or will be stuck behind an exorbitantly priced paywall when she gets nostalgic in 30 years.

All of this can be easily avoided too! Emulation means that so many files can be saved and stored with ease. The latest games have massive file sizes, sure, but you can still store them if you have the memory. Memory gets bigger and cheaper with time. Back in my dad's day, he was impressed at the upgrade from kilobytes to megabytes. Now we're moving from gigabytes to terabytes! Talk about progress 😆

Yes! Wario numbah one! Have a rotten day!

I adored Chibi-Robo on the GameCube. I remember the days when I was a kid and 100% completed the game.

I played Park Patrol but wasn't able to get into it as much. Then all the following stuff looked like a poor direction for the series. Except that Japan-only DS game which looked like it was more like the original game. Bummer that we never got that one.

This one looks like a Chibi-Robo type game that I could really sink my teeth into! 3D platforming sounds like the best direction a game like Chibi-Robo could take to make the gameplay itself more interesting and compelling. As long as the character stories are in it and are fun, this is looking to be a better successor than we could have hoped before!

Gotta love indie devs!

Yes, but how does he type with boxing gloves on?

I wish Crash games like Crash 4 could continue to be made for a long time. Alas, that doesn't seem to be in the cards, at least for now.

My guess is, at best, another Activision-backed studio might be developing a Crash Bash remake. If not, it's probably minor stuff that isn't worth getting all that excited over.

@Tourtus Oh man, that would be the absolute best. It's never even occurred to me because of how console-centric they are. They have been releasing new games on smartphones, but I don't think that translates to porting evergreen titles on PC. Someday, hopefully!

But that someday likely isn't anytime soon, sadly. They recently had a massive hit with NES and SNES Classic Minis, and they are also able to sell 10-year-old Wii games at a full-price mark-up with QoL improvements and moderate graphical updates. I wish it made the most business sense for them to put their retro games on PC, but that sounds like a 10-20 year plan, if that, not a 3-5 year possibility. Might as well not get my hopes up.

Ni No Kuni might be a better alternative, I'm guessing. Literally Ghibli but with actual good game design.

@TechEagle @SalvorHardin It's not that simple. Software directly influences hardware demand. More and better software means more people who want the hardware. Both need to be prioritized. It's just a tough situation all-around.

After Ultimate, it's difficult to imagine anymore iterations on the base formula of Smash Bros. I'd prefer an Ultimate port with a handful of character additions next time rather than building an entire game from the ground up. Ultimate is just perfect basically.

Either that or a totally different spin on the base gameplay. That would probably upset fans, and maybe me as well. But it would be fun to watch the gameplay evolve around a much more limited cast of characters, like 10-20. I see no problem with it if we have Ultimate as the "traditional" style.

@Juicy_MV True, although that doesn't address my point. It's not that Nintendo has no legal right or precedent to take down fan projects. Absolutely, it is. However, many people say it is required for Nintendo to take these projects down or else they risk losing control and ownership of their IP. If that is true, then Sega is either brazenly careless about that risk or the legal ramifications for allowing fan projects to proceed are not as bad as people think. Sega doesn't seem to be hurting from their decision to be so open. Meanwhile Nintendo is incurring tons of bad publicity by taking projects down.

Which company is making the better move?

Not sure. I tend to fall of the side of the consumer rather than the company, however.

Sega's open approach to fan games really makes Nintendo look bad. And it makes the "legal necessity" of it appear all the more moot.

This game looks like so much fun! I'm not surprised to hear it succeeded so well.

Demand will never ever stop, Mr. Sakurai-san! I hope he sets better boundaries and takes care of himself in the future. Goodness, I love this guy's passion but am also concerned about him.

That's cool! Maybe I'll play it someday, after all the other open world ARPG games I haven't played yet, like the Elder Scrolls games, most of the Soulslikes, etc.

Jon is such a valuable addition to NintendoLife! I loved NL's uniquely great, wholesome content before he joined, and I loved Jon's content before as well. Now with their powers combined, they get to make all sorts of lovely Nintendo-related content together! Perfect synergy here!

The Dark Souls of scrapped Zelda content.

I'm with Kojima! We don't have to accept the death of physical media. Where there is market demand, we wield some power to continue the tradition.

That's too gosh darn bad. Breaks my heart a bit. Here's hoping this can all be rectified when Japan gets the Olympics again in 2048.

I'm happy this exists 😁 I missed out on TWEWY the first time around. The Switch remake of the original sits unplayed on my shelf. Once I get back to work I'd like to scoop this one up. It's taking that classic early 2000s teen angst from the non-Disney parts of Kingdom Hearts and turning it up to eleven! Awesome!

People are underestimating the improvements to Skyward Sword HD. Sure, there are some things Nintendo probably should have done better. Late game fetch quests should probably have been simplified a la Wind Waker HD. Maybe a little flash could have been added to the visual upgrades to dazzle more, yet the style of SS is so particular that I bet such an effort might mess with the purity of the style. Despite these, it seems to me they've changed enough about the actual gameplay that it's the most improved experience of all the remakes. I'm no SS apologist, it's my least favorite 3D Zelda by far. But the amount of QoL updates raises the quality of the game from "tedious & preferred to skip" to a fun ride.

If this was a physical bundle deal, I'd be down!

Pumped!!!! I always wanted this since the beginning!!

This really should be a trilogy cart with FF IX included. If Witcher 3 with ALL DLC can fit it all without a download... C'mon Square. Quit holding out on us.

Perhaps a worldwide release with all 3 on a cart with no download will come. Till then, this is a great step in the right direction!!

I'm hoping it's been Square Enix's plan to release all 3 FF PS1 games physically, only on a "trilogy" cartridge! That would make the most business sense, since the 3 titles separately are not full retail price. All together they will add up to about that magic $60!

Seems to be the trend. The best indie game makers especially release digital then wait to release physical until all the content is ready to put on the cart complete. I prefer that to "partial digital release" like what happened to poor Mega Man.

And I almost exclusively buy physical too! I refuse to give into the "digital only" stuff, because I want to actually own my games.

Huh. Super Show Bowser looks like King K. Rool.

@dres Wowie, this was an aggressive message. Especially since you assume that I live in the States and insult the country.

The point was that there are countries that do not have this infrastructure, and that includes countries not in the U.S. that also play games. Nintendo is Japan-centric and they have this in place. Maybe some European or other countries also have incredible wi-fi and data.

But hey, even in Japan, I bet you there are some areas with dead spots. What do you do if you live deep in the mountains and have cruddy wi-fi/data? This is just a reality right now. Maybe this will change 10-20 years from now.

@Manah Nintendo is very Japan-centric. I guess data and wi-fi are already in place everywhere over there. You're right though, the rest of the world is nowhere close to this. There will be dead spots in the best case scenario. Bad console plan.

@TeslaChippie The point is not reusing animations. The point is Game Freak lying about developing new animations.

Hopefully that doesn't mean the single player has been brought down to the quality of the multiplayer, but rather the reverse. Multiplayer brought up to the quality of the singleplayer. And that that singleplayer campaign is as good or better than DOOM 2016. Bethesda has been on an odd EA-ish streak lately.

Bahahahaha!! Beautiful but not my hobby, way too much for me. I would hope that people who are really into figurine/statue collecting would find the price appropriate.

I would love this, but I could also buy a Genesis and all the classic 2D Sonics for that price. Probably all the Dreamcast and Saturn consoles and Sonics too.

Great move by Nintendo.

New Nintendo 3DS XL is around $200, so pricing the Switch Lite any cheaper would be a bad marketing move.

However, once 3DS line is through, I bet this will drop $50 in price, alongside the normal Switch. Then you get closer to the inexpensive handheld vision for Switch Lite, where everyone owns one due to the cheaper price.

Tetris 99 was never meant to be fancy. I feel they handled this physical edition perfectly!

I might be done 100% completing Breath of the Wild by 2021, so good timing I guess?

Was thinking it might be a 2020 release, but oh well. We need to enjoy our games. Live in Contentment vs. Living in Hype Land.

I would like to play/replay a lot of Zelda games leading up to that release, which will take a ton of time. I also have a backlog the size of a barge for all sorts of other games. Time to get to feasting on these games!

@YourGoodFriendly All right GameXplain 😜

@kepsux Sorry about that. I will edit my comment.

Most talk about the NSMB games as "samey" and they'd be right. They are good games, though! The first two NSMB games were innovative takes. The last 2 were more of the same, only a bit more refined.

What 2D Mario needs is a new art style and brand new worlds to explore, a la Odyssey. The level editor is great, but no replacement for the main games.

I really love NintendoLife. I'm sorry though, I really do NOT like that title.

Imagine for a moment that 2D Mario is your favorite game series. Then being told that no more games will be made for the series since a level editor for the past games exists.

If Nintendo did this for 3D Mario or Zelda, giving us no new games, just level editors, we would all be understandably upset.

I like the level editor, but there is plenty of room for innovation that a level editor cannot do.

The New Super Mario Bros. series became a pretty samey take on 2D Mario. Yet they still sold gangbusters for the first few titles. Imagine the same level of innovation and care given to a truly fresh 2D Mario, similar to Ori or Cuphead or Hollow Knight. 2D Mario would have loads of wonderful new titles for everyone to enjoy. I want a 2D Mario that expands the universe of Mario similar to what Odyssey did.

There was a restock. Now I've got my case ordered alongside Orzly screen protectors! Thanks NintendoLife!

Darnski. I was eyeing that $6 Swich case. Was just about to buy it, but it's now out of stock...

I could not believe it. I walked into Walmart after work at 6 pm. The nice lady in the electronics section said they probably didn't have any. Then we looked and 2 were sitting right in front of me.

Thank whichever article it was that alerted me to Walmart's 3-day restock at 2 pm. I walked out of that store fist-bumping the air.

I WANT THIS!!!

If this comes to Switch, it will become an even more amazing system in my eyes.

Awesome!! Here's hoping it gets a physical release. I'd love me a cartridge and box with that cover art!