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@FirstEmperor I'm not here trying to be right or wrong. Just shooting the breeze, dipstick.

@gcunit Kotaku is a good website if you are looking to be offended by something.

@FirstEmperor For reasons I stated above - I am not positive it didn't. I don't know how Japan's retail works - if it is anything like NPD reporting here in the States - where they only count the physicals - I imagine the real numbers (digi + physical) are vastly under-represented in this list. Japan loves Street Fighter. Japan is Street Fighter.

@Darthmoogle I went to famitsu to see if they included digitals (still not sure) and read this in their article:
" The XSX version has been released with software bundled with the main unit, and has contributed greatly to hardware sales."

I guess that explains it. People liked the bundle.

It just looks like a regular turn based rpg with pixel graphics.

@Bunkerneath The Zelda OLED would have sold more if it came with a Ford Focus.

That isn't what they were selling though. They were selling the Zelda OLED in a box. You can buy it or not.

Such a slow week. "Somewhere in suburbia is an unspoiled patch of greenery, a little slice of paradise...And starting today, it's your very own golf course!"

That line is really depressing. Take a slice of paradise and ruining it with a golf course. Manufactured nature. Bleech.

After purchasing Street Fighter 6 this week I think I know what's going on with this game. I searched all over my greater city area - of 7 million people - for the physical. It is almost impossible to find. I spoke to a retail (big box) employee and he said they only got ONE copy on release day. I found it but it honestly took a while and I had to drive pretty far to grab it.

I think Capcom wants the box displayed there as an ad - but they don't want to sell the box - they want you to buy the digital.

@Saturn64 I'd just move on then. It takes all of 30 seconds to realize the hero in this isn't the Prince. It says so right in the trailer. A bunch of heroes set out to SAVE THE PRINCE OF PERSIA.

and as for the music - yeah it sucks. It is promo music for a gd ad. The game itself might have twinkly middle eastern music for all we know.

self inflicted outrage is unbearable.

I had this on the 360 and put only a few hours into it before I put it down. Not a good game. Some of these games really don't need remakes. It is a mirror into what the industry is becoming. Stale, uninspired and only about making a quick buck.

I know suda is an indie legend but he made some real stinkers. This and that Lollipop Chainsaw one come to mind.

Star Ocean 4 was so bad it turned me off to JRPGs for about a decade. I believe it was the game that soured me to SE in general.

I enjoyed the multi-layered pun.

It worked very well for Castlevania, Cyberpunk and Cuphead so sure why not? Hrm...maybe you have to start with a 'C' in order to be good.

@lemjor I thought that might be the case. I am guessing it is a more well-to-do suburb then eh?

That is probably what they are doing here. Staying out of the **** areas. I would.

As it turns out - I spent more time checking Nintendo's page to find one of these things than I actually do using the controller. It took me over year - sometimes checking the page multiple times a day- to find one.

Once I did - it largely sits there like a trophy no one acknowledges. My kid was organizing our game space just last night to make room for our brand new Series X and she asked if she could put the giant controller away. My response: "It took me a year to get that thing, No." i think she was right and I am dumb.

@Sambuc I think MS games going outside of their ecosystem is just about done. One the activision deal goes through they will keep those after a few years of appeasing the courts as well.

@Moistnado Nintendo is reading the story about you buying Zelda and wondering where they could have possibly gone wrong.

@SteamEngenius Nintendo used to do heavy discounts as well when they were getting destroyed by the competition. The losers have to heavily discount to move product - the winners don't have to budge on price.

"perhaps this is the time for Nintendo to embrace live events again"

You have an article about Nintendo doing an actual live event in Seattle this summer that you posted today.

I'm going to get a lot on this one. Finally grabbing Deadly Premonition 2, Xenoblade and the second No More Heroes - maybe some smaller titles to even out a 100 bucks.

@nocdaes It is one of the reasons sure. My reason was that the demo had me pressing 'A' most of time to scroll through reams and reams of some of the most boring dialogue ever written. Then I read people say it gets worse as the game goes on.

@Vivianeat No one is wound up. It is a fun game to bag on because it is going to be so terrible.

I'm getting this one no matter what due to it being so difficult to find physically.

Combat looks fun.

@Fiskern the foam is instead their Splatoon/Fortnite mashup.

This is what SE does now. They sit in a boardroom and spitball how they can capitalize on the ideas of much better and endlessly more talented developers. "What is most popular right now?" "How about if we just made Splatoon and Fortnite...BUT TOGETHER."

But instead of copying well - using the old adage 'the sincerest form of flattery" - the end product is subpar. Not even subpar standards really.

This one will be SE's multiplayer version of Balan Wonderworld.

They'd do better if they saved the cash and shut down production now.

@Serpenterror too busy making over the top masterpieces like
Kunitsu Gami Path of the Goddess

@rushiosan I can think of One and Half Billion reasons they will keep it just about the same.

@Bret I was insinuating that Disney was more of a machine like corporate behemoth. Nintendo likely hopes to be that one day - but they aren't yet. If Mario had failed that would have been the end of it. Disney fails they have 10 in their back pocket ready to go.

Hogwarts never truly got it's evergreen legs until it released on the PS4. That shows people aren't upgrading hardware. When the game shows up on the Switch it will further cement the game as a true blockbuster.

@BabyYoda71 you don't see a reason I used Guardians? You don't see the relation between Chris Pratt taking to social to talk about Mario and not Guardians as my reason for mentioning Guardians foremost?

Maybe low art - like 1960s sad clown art. But there has never been a game that isn't derivative of another better form of art. I can think of only one game out of the 1000s created over time that combines emotion, storytelling purely through art - Shadow of the Colossus. It is the only one that comes to mind. The Secret World and other Funcom games try and succeed now and then - in small doses.

There are plenty of games that reach young adult status but nothing beyond that. Even the oft explored science fiction in gaming doesn't have any particularly good story crafting. Just common, save the world against this threat or explore and find this mean monster tripe.

Some cool visuals for sure. But the kind you find at at comic con booth.

I can't see it getting beyond that really.

I like the fact people care more about Mario than Guardians of the Galaxy or other corporate Disney projects.

Imho, the NA version is one of the more iconic arts from the entire SNES era. The box just kind of sucks you in.

Daily updates on a game that most people really don't care about anymore. At least make their marketing team work for it.

If a game starts multi-platform it will always suffer on the Switch. The only reason they are porting any games is because of it's massive base. If you can trick .3% of it's base - you have a hit. Anything more? Gravyboats.

The trailer music was so cringe - and it's Ubisoft. But I'll keep an open mind.

@johnvboy Nintendo doesn't understand the market any more than Sony or MS do. You think they are geniuses and Microsoft is dumb? okay.

I'm not backing anything I love Nintendo and want them to knock it out of the park on the next console. I have no faith they will be able to. I don't have faith in any company to know what consumers are going to do 100%. Gaming specifically is a big gamble all of the time.

I am not excited for it but I am not gnashing my teeth either. If it looks fun I'll buy it.

This is what the end of a console's life looks like. Shovelware.

1-2 Switch!

The Alpha and Omega

@johnvboy It makes perfect sense to me. How is it not?

The Wii: Massive hit owned by millions of casuals.
Wii 2: Massive failure casuals didn't want or need it.

Switch: same exact scenario.

The only question is what Nintendo does. I will be watching with curiosity.

@johnvboy I don't know why I got so many responses. I thought what I said was pretty basic. I wasn't speaking in absolutes.

The Wii U was a dud. The Gamecube was a dud. If the next console is a Switch 2 it will be a dud. Because all of the casuals, the ones that allow you to sell 100M+ units, will be happy with their Switch 1 for another decade.

That is all.

I already have 6 of the things - but I really love these colors.

I like playing dumb party games with my kids. Moreso if it's for $30.

everyone asking why - because this probably cost a few 100,000 to cobble together. They didn't dedicate a team of 400 and spend 5 years making this.

@GrailUK this is charted and dangerous territory imo. Nintendo is notorious for following huge hits with duds. I know they are aware of this so I think they are being above-average cautious on their next console. A simple upgrade won't cut it. It never has.

Capcom owns the rest of the summer for me. The only games I'm excited for the switch are Pikmin 4 and possibly We <3 Katamari.

Street Fighter will break this up a bit next week.

@Mario_maniac it will take you an hour to delete games to find the space. And then 2 more to find and download the games you want back. Not worth. This game is made for the other consoles - not for switch.

Some games are just built for a particular system. EO is an example at the top of that list.

With the constant redos by companies I bet they are keeping that in mind when considering innovation. Keep it simple to cash in later.

@gaga64 I assume that is the money he made, or thereabouts, on the trading scheme. 170M JPY to dollars is a lot - but not unknowable wealth. About 1.2M USD. I think USD and the Euro are about on par now.

@Ulysses there have been some upstarts trying to make a move at MH's throne. My bet is they go super high res on the next game and skip Nintendo. Unless Nintendo goes reasonably higher during the next console round.

It would be funny, and delight me, if Nintendo announced an exclusive AI partnership with Nvidia and rolled out the first true killer app for VR. Release rollout with VR Mario. The first major 3rd party was you as a 1st person Hunter.