Cathousemaster

My kids might like this ... I can see my youngest liking the button mashing.

It's definitely not for me, and I don't see how this gets an 8 in any world .

This is classic Xbox audience fare.

Nintendo should have been notified before release, and this should have never happened. Copyright infringement is a very serious issue, especially to Nintendo. I'm not surprised at all people got fired.

Typical American attitude vs Japanese cultural behaviour.

I'll believe this when I start seeing widespread reports of drifting issues in the wild. My kids are getting a switch lite around Xmas. Given they are much softer on the controls than I am, I think drift will be the least of their issues...

Thank God. I was so disappointed to see let's go still require saving from an obscure menu. My kids lost more than enough progress.

These days it's inexcusable - all games should auto save and never lose progress.

I'm definitely keen on this, but from what I've read this is not a 9 by any accounts. Maybe a very generous 8, probably a fairer 7 (or 7.5). No Minimap, poor audio, lack of quest log, some confusing quests ... And I'm not a fan of the art style. Also read about issues with the controls during some of the wall jumping areas. Biggest issue though is reports of crashes ... I have no tolerance for crashes in modern console games.

Doesn't matter to me - but have a massive backlog and I haven't played dead cells - it's better than this.

Final concern - I'm fine with the subject matter, but I'll have to keep this away from my kids. And definitely my wife.

@maruse when I was in Japan a year ago, I was amazed how few switches I saw. Especially on the Metro near Tokyo, everyone was on their phones. And it was eerily silent in the train. Gotta love Japan

@Discostew I don't believe this is true. If it was the programmers would have to remove 1% of the asset size to make it work, which would be trivial. The publisher choose an 8GB cart based on price, irrespective of the size of the game.

I love rogue likes so I'll try this once my backlog is lighter. So probably in a couple of years...

Can't wait for this. Seriously thinking about getting it physical, otherwise it's going to use too much card space .... Will see.

Backlog still awaits though, this might have to wait...

I played turok 1 to death and completed it. I remember playing it on a huge TV and projector, which made it unbearable for everyone else watching it...

Turok 2 got off to a good start, but then I stopped playing it for some reason. I have a vague memory of inst-death from getting too close to the edge of a swamp...

This required the RAM hardware expansion for the N64, right? Or does my memory fail me?

Can they make this any more blatantly British? I can't wait for the future "ocka" down under Pokemon edition...

Why is Xbox tracked at all? Is lifetime sales, combined, really under a single week of switch sales?? Has it really done that badly??

TWEWY, elite beat agents, Dragon quest (s), FF tactics, NSMB, Rhythm Heaven, LoZ:PH, Bowser's inside story, ...

I bought a DS and clubhouse games for my grandmother...

If someone wants to sponsor me a new switch , I'll head to the local JB's, find one and do some analysis on it...

@Frontiersmann Nintendo published titles only. I'd love to see figures across all publishers, but that is unlikely or even impossible.

It's a nice headline, but it's completely wrong.

Nintendo makes money selling games to retailers - wholesale shipments.

These shipments are ordered weeks if not months in advance. So it's hardly 3 days of sales.

This represents the first shipment of MM2 at retailers ... Not 3 days of sales to consumers. No doubt it sold well, but not this well.

@Matroska you have to dig into those figures. Sales for PlayStation and network and down. Operating income for the same is down 15%. They also lost a bit on Forex.

They had a good quarter because imaging (camera) is up, and music is up. Sony is still a huge company, and PlayStation is just a fraction of it.

Nintendo made a lot on Forex last year for this qrt. That's why it's a poor comparison for this qrt. Got to pay the piper sometime...

This is still a good result, for the quietest qrt of the year, with only a single major release.

The operating profit is actually down 10% which reflects the investments in the new SKU and software products.

There is very little Nintendo can do about the currency losses - given the current insanity in the US, Brexit in the UK, and instability in other parts of Europe - this is a very decent result.

They are nicely setup to have a massive 3rd qrt and lead into a boom period in Xmas.

@sanderev I can't say I agree, but it might come down to how you define DRM. This is available as a physical release I believe, so multiple people who use the cartridge will register. You can also play offline, and there is no link between the email address and Nintendo or the game.

That's not DRM in my books - it has nothing to do with the digital access or rights for the game. It's just a way to build a marketing list.

That's actually very impressive.

Isn't Youngblood a multiplatform release? Or did the other platforms launch earlier? How does fire emblem on the switch outsell a shooter on the PS4, xbone, PC & switch?

I have never seen Nintendo do so well on the UK charts, and I have been following them for 20 years...

This ARTICLE is just plain wrong. Thanks Nintendolife for spreading fear and lowering sales with clickbait articles.

Fix the facts in this article ... or just delete it. This is NOT DRM, it is still playable OFFLINE, etc. The games require a one-off registration, and it sounds like even that will be patched.

<sigh>

@PixelDough assuming this is true, then the article is wrong and this is a total non issue IMO.

I have no issue signing up to them once - basically giving them my email address I presume.

If Doom can then be played offline, it's totally fine.

Call me when Blood is available, preferably with online multiplayer. Although Doom2 is pretty good, pity it can't be played offline (grumble, insanity, grumble...).

Given how much I have played Fire emblem games in the past (finished awakening on lunatic mode, which was really hard) I was always going to get this.

My biggest criticism with previous FE games was they turned into a "tank build". You built a super strong Knight, stuck them at the front of the battle, and enemies would swarm them like flies. Every enemy would attack, dish 0 damage, and then die on the counter. This then made the tank stronger. You also used them to physically block the path and just manipulate the ai. In the end you wanted to stop the tank from countering at all...

This continued through most of the game, and allowed you to gradually level up your other characters until magic or super strong enemies started. In awakening, you ended up with a magic tank which made things worse.

I'm not going to miss the sword / axe / Lance system ... Although it helped prevent the tank issue to some degree.

I'm playing xeno at the moment, and only 70hrs in ... So I'm going to hold off on this until I'm done with that. Which could be 6 months at this rate ... .

Certainly no lack of games to play....

Companies revise components and silently upgrade revisions all the time. Don't be shocked.

Are people complaining about better battery life?

Even the lite has slightly better battery life. The selling point of the lite is purely the cheaper price, and possibly the simpler form factor. If you have the money a real switch is always a better product.

Joycons have batteries which are recharged from the main battery, the power management for the full switch is quite different from the lite.

Wait, there are still wired controllers? How does this help? Sigh.

Enjoying this, passed 40 levels and a few PvP games. I don't see any reason to spend money on this, but I never do for mobile games anyway.

But I'll keep playing this for now anyway, its my current go-to mobile title.

Watch the steam video. Getting eternal darkness vibes. The nudity is irrelevant - this is a horror game.

This will explode Xmas sales. Millions will be sold as Xmas presents for the kids.

My kids will get one, but I'll stick with my original switch I think. Love playing on TV.

Battery life should be better on this.

@Tantani yup I totally agree with everything you said . Maybe a monster hunter or GTA would have a chance as well. And definitely a new Mario kart if one is in the works.

Although I'll be keen to try it out - the art style comes second to gameplay - my first reaction was "oh look, programmer art". Looked like something I would put together...

Lol. Has anyone mentioned that the game is not finished yet? Especially the E3 demo and trailer, which had to be completed earlier for the show.

Everyone keep up the outrage, and they will release updated videos closer to release...

For some reason I was expecting closer to 500,000 ... But I guess that was unreasonable. Nintendo may only have shipped 200,000 for launch week in Japan ... Helping those digital sales.

@8itmap_k1d spent a lot of time on the previous game, but had to give up when it kept hard crashing the wiiu. It really should have not gotten through lotcheck...

As long as there are no switch freezing bugs in this one, I'll definitely give it a go

@roadrunner343 I'm confused now:
"The overworld, too, is randomly generated from a seed that's different in every save file."
So it's random, but stays the same across deaths? So you need to complete it, and start a new game to get a new overworld?
That sounds much less rogue like and much more Zelda like...

I recently grabbed and finished Minit, and although it's short it was definitely worth the price ... And it's quite a different game. Didn't get everything and took me about 5hrs to finish ... But the second run through on hard is already looking much, much harder.

I'm going to skip, at least for now. I struggled to get into Necrodancer - the core mechanism quite annoyed me. And I have lots to play.

If this was either a large, non-roguelike (i.e like Zelda normally) or a really challenging, long rogue (like gungeon) I would consider it more...

Give me a gungeon X Zelda crossover instead

It looks fantastic. And given I've never played the PS4 version, I won't be imagining it against higher resolution textures when I play it.

Imagine if this comes out on the PS5 ... The PS4 version will immediately be unplayable __00__

In Japan, they already work far too hard. This is a delay of 1Q hardly that significant ... And it gives animal crossing some clean air to work in.

Re: work life balance ... This is Nintendo. This is not some external team bound by some dodgy contract, rather people that work there for life.

When its the same people that develop and publish the game, this is the expected outcome.

This was exactly my point from a week ago. The game matters. It doesn't matter for a game like this if it doesn't look as good as another platform. We get to play the GAME.

Never played this and can't wait. Finished Dark Souls, on XC2 now, and Witcher will probably be next.

I'm no smash player, but I'm living in hope that the original BK can now return to Nintendo.

Can you imagine if they never got rid of Rare to start with?

Looking great. Can't wait for this one.

I loved Spyro on the PlayStation and have memories playing it with younger kids. My boys should enjoy this!

Citizens of Earth was the buggiest console game I've ever played. Had to stop playing, it just kept hanging the console. Should never have gotten through Nintendo lotcheck.

Watched the video and this is a pointless comparison. Because it won't be the PC version - they can change the core code, change the way loading works, change the underlying rendering engine, change the assets and so on.

Based on what I saw this is totally achievable. Witcher is about the story and the game over the graphics. And it might still lead into the higher spec'd switch hardware.

Looks promising, but I want to see more around the gameplay and hope some changes have been made ... The kids will love this and I'm sure we'll pick it up though.

But I hope they aren't going to restrict catching some Pokemon to group battles, and then restrict that with Nintendo online .. free local is fine.

Thanks for the comments. Although this sounds promising, somehow I totally missed "Iconoclasts” ... Which sounds even better.

Why are people surprised? Didn't the same thing happen to the last sonic game?

Does it support cheating? Sandpaper, lollies, all the good stuff?

If not, it's not cricket ... And it's certainly not the ashes