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No interest in this at all. Seen others play it, looks really boring and pointless. My kids haven't gotten into this either.

Apart from the CG this looked to be a budget movie, and they were expecting budget results. Sounds like it's going to do at least a few hundred million worldwide ... So hopefully they will spend more and make a better movie next time.

There is easily enough scope with Pokemon to create an entire universe out of it - the live action / CG is what made it.

I would give the movie a 7/10 ... It doesn't really hold you after it's done, but it's a great candy movie and an alternative to just watching a random animated movie.

Saw it with the kids on Friday here in Australia. Although the story is typical Pokemon / kids movie level, the movie was pretty good .. it was quite funny and some scenes were amazing. Even my wife enjoyed it, and the kids loved it.

If anything days gone sales are disappointing. Big 1st party title, 100k at launch, no impact on hardware.

Switch has outsold PS4, but more importantly look at the charts. Not just the number of switch releases, but titles that typically live on PlayStation alone.

I can't see the PS5 ever outselling the PS4, from what I've seen ... I'm not sure what Sony have planned apart from rinse and repeat.

Nintendo need to work out how to iterate the switch every 2 years, increasing the specs but keeping software as backwards compatible as possible...

So, how does this compare to XIII? Which I hated, especially the linear gameplay, the wanky characters and most of all, the combat?

I'm playing XC2 at the moment which is great ... So if it's similar I'm sold.

@Timsworld2 yes, but this is a defect .. as listed by their document. If it's a design decision, it doesn't count.

"Touchscreen does not work in handheld mode"

How the bleep did this get through quality or lotcheck?

Shakes head...

I think it looks nice, at least from the screenshots ... Better this than another random pixel art game!

If the price is right, I'll try this out ... Looks promising enough.

I play switch daily ... And never signed up. Not even for the free account.

If they add a bunch of SNES or other games however...

Only 10% of their revenue came from digital, about 5% from mobile.

Digital is growing, but it's still a long way behind.

One interesting financial stat:

Digital sales doubled last year and now make about 10% of total sales (around $1bn).

Mobile sales are around half of the total digital sales.

I don't know if that's saying digital sales are still "weak" or mobile sales are booming...

I'm super impressed that lets go has sold 11m ... That's astounding for a B grade Pokemon title.

@MisterMan thanks... So it's more of a standard RPG then. As long as some skill is still required, I'll be fine... As I tend to over level my characters...

So, how does it compare to dark souls in general? I'm getting close to finishing that. And this has me tempted. I really enjoy the combat, the difficulty and the world in dark souls ... Blighttown has got to be one of the best designed levels I have seen in any game.

Does this have the same form of reward after getting through a difficult area?

I played and finished FF-X many years ago and frankly I can remember somewhat enjoying it, but also being glad once it was over. Never played X2.

I need to play 9 and 12 .. unfortunately I made the mistake of playing 13. I do remember thinking that at least X wasn't anywhere near as bad as 13...

Looks... Seriously hardcore. I'd consider it, but it's banned here in Australia ... I'll have to get it from a different region.

Luckily it's digital...

Yoshi has tanked in Japan, but was #1 in UK ... I wouldn't be happy with 100k sales, although it's early. Bring on fire emblem!!

@GameOtaku sure, I found it eventually. But if it was digital, the issue wouldn't exist. As for your other concerns - I find it's the exact opposite. I'm sick of physical "junk" cluttering my house. I don't buy CDs, DVDs, or books. Hell, I can't even give away my bookcase full of CDs.. I'll have to throw them.

Games are no different. I would own close to 100 (approx) switch games. I already have a bookcase full of Wii games which are taking up space, and never get used. Luckily only a fraction of my Wii U collection is physical... That's taking less space. And there is DS, Gameboy, 3DS ... Heck I still have a handful of VHS tapes which haven't been thrown. And last year I sold my entire Gamecube collection.

I'm not telling you or anyone else what to do ... But for me the choice is clear. Digital only baby. I have a Netflix and Google music subscription ... And once the quality is good enough I'll be moving to a game rental system.

As for "kill switch" theories... That ain't keeping me up at night. By the time I won't be able to download and play my switch games, the system will be way obsolete and I'll be onto something else ... Or in the dirt

There really should be a way to transfer a digital title from one account to another... The same way you can gift someone a game, except that you lose it after gifting it.

There ain't any excuse why this feature doesn't exist...

@GameOtaku last night I deleted (archived) 10 titles. I also purchased 5 more titles - including Xenoblade which is quite large. I have 2 kids play the same switch as me, and the little one alone plays 5+ games in a session ... None of which I play. I am playing dark souls at the moment, but couldn't a couple of days ago as the cartridge was lost when one of the kids swapped in Mario Odyssey. I have a handful of retail titles, and I wish that number was 0.

@JR150 digital download codes have been on sale for years now? Just sell these. Agree that the box is a waste, and it's also false marketing.

This is what Microsoft tried to do with the original XBone, and everyone shot it down.

@GameOtaku you don't get it obviously. I don't resell my games. But i do hate losing cartridges, wasting space in my house and having to swap cartridges everytime I want to play a different game. You better get used to the digital world, for gaming, movies and music... As there is no going back.

Unless it's super cheap (cheaper than eshop), I don't buy retail. So no issue for me either way.

Hopefully they will mark down the price based on this

Actually, now I think about this... This makes no sense. Nintendo will get their 30% cut of all digital sales. And the retailer will put their mark-up on this.

Unless this is pushing up the price of the eshop to match.

Digital "patch" I understand, as it's still a retail title. But surely this doesn't count as a retail title... Unless Nintendo have a special pricing tier for these. Publisher still needs to buy the box and inserts.

Weird.

Depth and playtime over graphics for me. Under 10hrs is a big no no, unless it gets a good sale price.

Would have spent at least 100hrs on dark souls and loving it...

@Jawessome you have been playing it hard core for 6 years, and still not finished it? Wow.

I finished at least a couple of endings of gungeon but I find it far too random and too slow. I'll definitely try this out.

Sounds perfect for me. Once I finally finish off dark souls...

@Nintendo_Thumb ok, I didn't know that about the switch screen. It's a strange use case - maybe they saw this coming. Supporting head tracking would make a big difference to this.

Re: 3ds / pixels... That's not how things work. The resolution has minimal impact on fps .. its geometry and GPU. Rendering 2 Zelda scenes at half the resolution each will still take close to twice as long.

This is all for a bit of fun though, and it looks like it's working... As it got people here excited. If Nintendo can double labo sales by adding a quick patch to Zelda and Mario, then that's a win.

There is a reason this hasn't been announced for Mario kart... As it doesn't work well enough to release. Yet anyway.

Still playing dark souls for the first time, and can't wait to replay it completely once I'm done.

The title got my attention, and that was about it.

I'm now thinking a real, 3d, dark souls vs Zelda cross would be the best thing ever.

If Nintendo are bringing out a powered up switch, it would nicely align with this... Surprised they aren't delaying this for the HW

@Pod so, two different 3d renders per frame - one for each half of the screen. And this running in handheld mode which has less GPU power. BoTW runs at 30fps? So I'll be surprised if this runs at more than 20fps consistently.

This isn't VR. This is switch 3D. Unless they say a second set of controllers are needed for the head tracking.

And the resolution, at best will be 640x720 ... But probably lower effectively, given the images can't really touch each other given how the lens work. Might be closer to 500x500 viewable... Will see

Virtual boy 2, here we come! Can't wait to see how disappointed people will be. Nintendo must really hate VR

For both games you need to hold the controller in your hand... And the screen doesn't have any motion sensors... Which means no head tracking.

This is Nintendo's version of Google's daydream... But not as good.

Will the games appear too be in 3D?

I was getting star control flashes, but I guess not... Can we just get a remake of Star control 2 for the switch??

From an engineering perspective...

No batteries or charging in the controllers
No connect or disconnect hardware
Have to lose some of the motion and Rumble hardware
Simplifies the main unit slightly, also no connect or disconnect
Might allow for a redesign and distribution of components
No kickstand or dock

Or in other words... "Let's take a 2ds shell and put the switch processor in it"

It's going to come down to the price. Given it can't be used for 2 player games, labo, docked, Mario party, ... There needs to be enough value in making hardware like this

@KIRO great, thanks!

Said it before - a cheaper mobile switch doesn't stack up. I don't think there is enough cost saving in making the device with built in controllers... You also effectively lose docked mode.

The opposite makes sense though - "console-only" switch. No screen, dock and unit in one. Ship with a pro controller.

"Console only", "Switch" & "SwitchDX" sound like a plausible lineup to me.

Sigh. Have we really run out of games news, in any form? Next thing, writing dodgy articles about memes no-one knows will become a meme itself

Looks pretty decent, for my kids at least. But most importantly .... Does it support USB or Bluetooth keyboards? I know it has a touchscreen, but development would be 100x better with an actual keyboard...

Samus in Doom Eternal.

Mario in Kingdom Hearts

Zelda X Dark Souls

Pokemon X Xenoblade. Pokemon x Hollow Knight.

Bowser X Boxing

It's so easy to put a couple of words together

For their next trick... What about a Metroid branded Hollow Knight 2D game from Cherry?

:?

<head explodes>

Played CotN ... But never really loved it. But this looks like it actually has a world, not just random levels ... Which makes it a new Zelda 2D adventure game....whoa??

Still time to be disappointed, but this looks amazing so far.

Every man and their dog will be doing cloud gaming. It won't be like Netflix where there is one clear winner... Which probably means their won't be any winners

No issue with this... For the 5% (1%?) Of the world that can support this.

I like the WiFi controller idea... Platform agnostic.

Very, very over rated. The world is interesting, the slashing mechanism fun ... And that's about it. The game itself is average, and I found it to be extremely annoying and frustrating after a while. The respawn points seem random, and I'm totally over looking for "secrets" by rubbing against walls. I had a real issue with the timing on the controls, which to many deaths.

I did push ahead and finish it, but once I was done ... I was done. No interest in playing further and finding pointless collectables and guns... 6/10 from me.

Switch "Lite" - there are only two possibilities for a much cheaper console:

1/ Sell the console/screen with no controllers or dock. They could probably halve the cost like this. This would appeal to existing owners who have a spare set of controllers already...

2/ Drop the screen. A console-only configuration could be super cheap (even more so without controllers) - possibly down to $50. Console-only with a wireless controller ... maybe $100 (USD).

That would be a game changer.

Look at this from a hardware perspective.

Removing the card slot from the machine would save virtually no money (maybe a couple of $$), and would free up very little space.

The counter is you'll need MORE internal space (at least double?) - which would cost (probably) more than the cost of the components saved.

So from a manufacturing perspective ... its a zero-sum game. This definitely would not lead to a price reduction of $50 or $100.

The counter is Nintendo makes more off digital sales (flat 30% from 3rd-parties, 100% from 1st-parties) - so this would be factored in.

For the other consoles its a different story - remove the BluRay drive and you save a lot of money, space and size.

Just give me Blood (original), with multiplayer, on the switch. Best game ever.

I thought it looked great. Really don't know what people are whining about given they intentionally didn't show too much new ... In terms of features. It clearly has some open areas.

Unlike Zelda, Pokemon games are narrative driven. If they went true open world, it would clearly not be a kids game - people would get very, very lost.

I'm finding the same with Zelda ... As much as I'm enjoying it, I find it hard to get motivated to pick up and play again. Too much rinse and repeat. Not enough narrative or direction.

@MongolRaider lol, wouldn't that be something. A sequel to ET

I'm actually expecting Goldeneye.. that would make the switch explode. Related to all the news about getting Xbox Live on the switch... Whatever that means.

Not my sort of game, has Xbox written all over it ... But I'm happy for those keen for it if it happens.

Much rather a viewtiful Joe 2..?

@Scottwood101 they are integrated into the main game. I had encountered large portions of the DLC by the time I got near the end.

The crazy thing about Hollow Knight... I played it so much, but still couldn't completely finish it. Never completed the radiance nor the God Slayer (?). Lacked patience. Played steel soul mode and got reasonable far... I'm not hardcore (or good) enough to finish that... Not even close. Clocked over 120+ hrs.