@Vriess In regards to your comment about it being sold by scalpers on Amazon.com, unless we're happy to say that Amazon themselves are the scalpers - then no, it's Amazon that are selling it for $193.99 + $51.27 shipping to the UK which will work out somewhere around the £195 mark in total. So yes, let's call Amazon a bunch of scaplers Amazon.co.uk have it for £230.48, which again considering that's Amazon itself selling it, it is ridiculous, considering the actual price in Japan (19800 Yen) works out to be about £105 + whatever the over the top shipping will be. So to all of you blaming Nintendo I'm not really sure how it's Ninty's fault for the scalpy pricing in the US and the UK when there's no way that Amazon couldn't simply bulk ship it for way less than those prices... I'm not saying that Nintendo shouldn't make the OSTs available in the west, but I guess that's why we have access to companies like PlayAsia, from whom I'm waiting for my delivery this morning. Please note, for anyone from the UK who decides to go down the PlayAsia route, just be aware that you'll probably be hit with a VAT request of 20% + courier admin fee for paying the VAT on your behalf when the package clears customs on arrival in the UK. As annoying as that additional fee is, I still managed to get the TotK OST LE and the SS OST LE for less than the UK Amazon price of the TotK OST LE.
It may have already been said, but I don't have the time to read through 245 comments to find previous references: 1. Don't give them stupid ideas! Just because Sony and MS do things, doesn't mean Nintendo have to copy them. 2. As someone pointed out (I did read the first couple of comments ) there isn't enough base storage, so any price saving gained by removing the card reader would be eaten in to, like Pac Man munching pills, by the cost of the additional storage. 3. In case it isn't obvious from the above, I really don't want Ninty to go the route of digital only. I like having the choice and knowing that if I want to sell the game once finished with, I can...
Likewise, I recently started playing again, although I'm just exploring the areas I didn't find of my first play through. I'm still amazed by the beauty of the game and the overall content. It really is my GOAT...
Not sure it will get anyone off Fortnite to be honest, unless you wean them onto the Crack-Cocaine of Nintendo games that is Splatoon first....
I think @Spoony_Tech all they did was eat, sleep and farm Pidgey's... Slowly working through the 5 million required to level up from 39. It's literally been months and only just passed 2 million...
A lot more people than it appears you'd realise @Heavyarms55 Without trying to sound precious, we still see loads of people playing, both in London and locally to where we live. So we certainly don't consider Pokemon Go to have been a fad, nor the other Trainer's that see daily... On a lighter note, does anyone from Hawaii who's still playing know whether they have Latios or Latias on their gyms at the moment? Cheers
While I am as taken with Rocket League as my offline choice of gaming crack, as I am for online gaming crack with the Splatoon series, having started playing though the Champions Ballad, I've been reminded that IMHO BOTW is not only my favourite Switch game so far, but I would go so far to say of all time...
Sounds good to me @Slaz At least those people may live near that gym. I got my first and only Ex invite, for a gym in another country, I visited once during a business trip, last year!?!?!?!
Would love it if they expanded on the premise of the advert and actually did a series of Pokemon wildlife videos, with a better voice over. If Attenborough isn't able, what about Patrick Stewart? I doubt they could sell it to the networks, but as a web series, just to generally promote the brand some more, it could be quite enjoyable, if done properly...
@thesilverbrick It's a tough one, because I don't doubt that a number of players drop out and in simply to change weapons, which is a real shame when you're winning match after match with the same group in Splatfest... Not sure there's an easy answer on this one - pre-match weapon choice would be nice, but the potential increase in delay between matches would annoy the pants out of me...
@Powerballad Matches are short and sweet and as such generally frantic. From what I'm aware, there aren't that many other online games like it, so it's not easy to compare to other online games... Having put in the hours playing the game I for one think that Ninty got it right with their rotation implementation. Although I do think that the 2 hour rotation for Splatoon 2 is a good improvement...
I also think some people bemoan about Splatoon's game play decision-making because they feel entitled to choose how they want to play the game, not thinking through that Ninty probably spent many hours trying to find the best way for as many people as possible to get the most from the game, even if it was at the expense of a few who think they know better than the professional developer's...
@thesilverbrick They could, but IMHO, it would be a terrible idea. Turf War matches last 3 minutes at a time, with a delay between matches while we wait for 8 players. In its current form, that delay could feel to long. To then have to wait for people to faff about picking a weapon set (and by your logic allow them to change outfits as well) before each match equals even more delay, which would ruin the game. That would peeve off a lot of the 'crack-like-play addicted' players, not least myself..
Came across a group of 3 Bokoblins dancing around a floating campfire near the ruins just south of the Northern Icehouse. While not exact, I'd say it was hovering about 15-20ft in the air... So not really something I did to break it myself, but did find it amusing
@Hyperion In fairness, the Saturday PM was already booked out by about 10am, a couple of hours after I got my email on the 23rd Dec... So there was no guarantee of getting the Sat PM for those previously notified... Sat AM for my sins - so pleased to be going, just means a 7.30am start to the day, with a 13 YO nephew in tow :-S
Considering the immanent release of the Switch, I'm surprised by how much this makes me sad... I know that to many, admitting that you had a Wii U, yet alone liked it was like admitting that your besty is a ginger, but I love my Wii U and the quality of the games that I bought it for... Including, but not limited to MK8, Splatton, the Zelda remakes, SSB, SMW, SMM, etc...And in all honesty, I'm not sure yet as to whether I'll be playing Breath of the Wild on Wii U or Switch at this point...
@MegaMari0 I'd managed to get my pidgey cultivation down to a fine enough art to get 1 almost every 30 seconds - so approx. 60k xp, but it sounds like I might be able to eek out a bit more, depending on how much shorter the animation is...
"Decreased the evolution animation time." - Does this mean that you can evolve more 'mon during pidgey cultivating now... Annoyingly I'm currently out of lucky eggs...
He's clearly lucky enough to have access to a loop like that, but for me he's moved from playing for the fun of it, through hard-core gamer into the realms of "Gamer with an issue". If I wanted I can create a loop of 17 stops within a 5-10 minute walk (my pace and the damn GPS actually tracking me properly), but I'd never consider doing what he did (except maybe for charity).
On his comment "Games are meant to be played, and in my opinion played well." I'm in two minds - I can see why it comes across as arrogance and I do think that games should be inclusive to all, but I equally don't think you should be held back or restricted if you happen to be better at it than others, while playing within the rules and constraints of the game...
@gcunit I've only been playing since last Friday, so am technically still a newbie School-boy error's aside, I do hope the servers finally settle down and just allow us to enjoy the game
Yesterday was my best Pokemon Go day - it was stable, it didn't suddenly crash on me in the middle of finding my first and only Rhyhorn (still annoyed about that)...
I'm pleased that the Japanese can now get in on the action, but I'm already missing yesterday and the happy feeling of catching or not catching 'Mon because of my skills as a trainer and not because of stupid server issues....
Not saying it's happening, but wouldn't it be cool if you could activate the night time mode when scanning either Callie or Marie.
Shame that Splatfests are coming to an end, but as my wife will attest to, I've enjoyed spending my gaming time playing Splatoon...
Also, does anyone else think that when you click on the "Click a stage to vote" stage in the email sent this morning and you get taken to the Thank you page, that multiple votes count? It doesn't indicate that duplicate votes aren't counted
@MrWarner14 @PleaseUnderstan As much as I have been addicted to Splatoon, I'm not exactly sure I would bother putting the disc back in my Wii U once they turned the Multiplayer Servers off. Yes, @MrWarner14 you're correct that there is a single player element, but once completed (And it doesn't take long to do so - Amiibo missions inc.) there is no real reason to go back into the single player campaign... The game is all about multiplayer... I feel sorry for the Splatoon-Crack addicts that will one day have to go cold-turkey... Maybe Splatoon will be on the NX before that date...
Not been into Pokemon for over a decade and I'm not about to start again - but I do love the design of the Solgaleo and Lunala Limited Edition New Nintendo 3DS XL. It does look nice, but I'll stick with my New Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Edition...
@Ralek85 In fairness I haven't had a chance to watch through the game play from the Treehouse feeds, so I can't comment re the dips. I do agree with the last sentence @BensonUii made in the initial comment: "Unless there's framerate dips all over ruining the experience, it shouldn't matter." I know from experience that I'm willing to be more forgiving then some with frame rate dips, but equally I wouldn't put up with constant dips that were a complete distraction from the game - I just hope that that's not the case...
Still looks gorgeous to me Understand the importance of these things to some, but I'm not loosing any sleep over the likely lack of 1080p / 60 fps. Don't think a game of this quality needs it imo...
@Angelic_Lapras_King I'm not sure if there is a T-Shirt in the box, as it didn't allow me to select a size when ordering... However, in fairness I don't remember being able to select a T-Shirt size when I ordered the Super Mario Box (and I can't see any details on the order history that shows the size of the T-Shirt)...
I know it's off-topic, but who's the artist of the picture of Link on Epona? I'm assuming it's the same artist that did the previously used picture of Link in the blue tunic with the new bow and arrow from Zelda Wii U / NX... Love the style of both of these pics
Damn it Nintendo!!! I've only just weaned myself of my crack-like obsession with Splatoon and finally started playing Yoshi... Now you send Sheldon the Dealer to tempt me back... Curse you Nintendo...
@LaRaposa Not sure I get the logic. Potential sales from a 10 million user Base and a developer keeping a promise against a currently unknown user base and a loss of face with those who dropped their hard earned money for the Wii U kickstarter campaign... Seems pretty obvious to me and so they appear to be doing the decent thing. Besides, if it sells well enough on Wii U, we know that a follow-up game will most likely appear on the NX... Everyone's a winner
Two great games, which I always thought looked amazing on the Wii. Yes, I'd love to have seen 1080p 60fps remakes of both of them on the Wii U, but I'm not convinced we'd have seen improvements to blow our minds. As such, I just dream of Super Mario Universe on the NX... Bigger, better and Shinier...
Love the art style and the platforming element reminds me a bit of Child of Light (which is a good thing). Shame we're never likely to see this come to fruition...
Or maybe it'll be like Battleship where they manage to shoehorn in the style of gameplay... And yes I'm weird, despite its cheesy story and acting, as a volume at max, popcorn movie I actually like Battleship...
@Gerbwmu @Tasuki It would actually be higher because the 100 million plus units is the number of Wii's sold, not remotes. A quick Google hasn't brought up the figures, but back in 2010 there were articles that talked about 65 million Wii Remotes being sold in the US alone. Of those 65 million, 30.41 were sold with the Wii's themselves, so assume that on average every sold Wii had 1 additional remote sold, you're talking about at least 200 millions Wii remotes. So even with your conservative figure of $0.10 per unit, we're talking $20 million + in royalties...
I'm happy with this news... I'd already said that I didn't think that we'd see the NX this year. Although I am disappointed re the Zelda Wii U announcement...
Part of me is concerned about the potentially small number of games due for the Wii U this year (Yooka-Laylee is now looking like my biggest Wii U want this year). But from a slightly more selfish point of view it doesn't bother me, considering the backlog of games sitting on the shelf or in my library that I haven't even started on yet - mostly thanks to effing Splatoon... So roll on the NX reveal direct either at the end of this year or beginning of next...
@NinChocolate I could be wrong, but I thought that they settled with a patent sharing arrangement... Although I guess that would certainly feel like a loss - especially considering how vague the Philips patent design was...
Looks good to me, but hey what do I know... I spend all my gaming time playing non-realistic looking games which were created by a defunct games company who, by virtue of spending too much time creating solid fun experiences rather than cinematic carbon copies, is clearly doomed...
Really looking forward to this... Loved the N64 platformers from Rare. Not sure I can pick 1 favourite. Loved DK64, BK, BT and CBFD equally, although I think the multi-player parts of Conker probably edged it...
I suppose after 10 month's of playing I really should consider using some other than the Tentatek Splattershot... Maybe I'll explore one of Sheldon's Picks... Granted it didn't stop me finally ranking up to S...
Works just fine for me so far... Will have a proper play with it later... But it looks better than I thought it would - just not sure how many friends I can get into it?!?
Breifly had an error code 801-1700 on logging into my NNID on Android, but after a couple more attempts, it's let me in and is now downloading the data...
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Re: Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Soundtrack Now Available, But Only In Japan
@Vriess In regards to your comment about it being sold by scalpers on Amazon.com, unless we're happy to say that Amazon themselves are the scalpers - then no, it's Amazon that are selling it for $193.99 + $51.27 shipping to the UK which will work out somewhere around the £195 mark in total. So yes, let's call Amazon a bunch of scaplers Amazon.co.uk have it for £230.48, which again considering that's Amazon itself selling it, it is ridiculous, considering the actual price in Japan (19800 Yen) works out to be about £105 + whatever the over the top shipping will be. So to all of you blaming Nintendo I'm not really sure how it's Ninty's fault for the scalpy pricing in the US and the UK when there's no way that Amazon couldn't simply bulk ship it for way less than those prices... I'm not saying that Nintendo shouldn't make the OSTs available in the west, but I guess that's why we have access to companies like PlayAsia, from whom I'm waiting for my delivery this morning. Please note, for anyone from the UK who decides to go down the PlayAsia route, just be aware that you'll probably be hit with a VAT request of 20% + courier admin fee for paying the VAT on your behalf when the package clears customs on arrival in the UK. As annoying as that additional fee is, I still managed to get the TotK OST LE and the SS OST LE for less than the UK Amazon price of the TotK OST LE.
Re: Poll: Should Nintendo Release A Digital-Only Switch?
It may have already been said, but I don't have the time to read through 245 comments to find previous references:
1. Don't give them stupid ideas! Just because Sony and MS do things, doesn't mean Nintendo have to copy them.
2. As someone pointed out (I did read the first couple of comments ) there isn't enough base storage, so any price saving gained by removing the card reader would be eaten in to, like Pac Man munching pills, by the cost of the additional storage. 3. In case it isn't obvious from the above, I really don't want Ninty to go the route of digital only. I like having the choice and knowing that if I want to sell the game once finished with, I can...
Re: Random: Addicted To Fortnite? Try Playing Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, Says Psychologist
Likewise, I recently started playing again, although I'm just exploring the areas I didn't find of my first play through. I'm still amazed by the beauty of the game and the overall content. It really is my GOAT...
Not sure it will get anyone off Fortnite to be honest, unless you wean them onto the Crack-Cocaine of Nintendo games that is Splatoon first....
Re: Niantic Does Not Intend To Increase The Level Cap In Pokémon Go
I think @Spoony_Tech all they did was eat, sleep and farm Pidgey's... Slowly working through the 5 million required to level up from 39. It's literally been months and only just passed 2 million...
Re: Legendary Beasts Latias And Latios Are Raid Battle-Ready In Pokémon GO
A lot more people than it appears you'd realise @Heavyarms55
Without trying to sound precious, we still see loads of people playing, both in London and locally to where we live. So we certainly don't consider Pokemon Go to have been a fad, nor the other Trainer's that see daily...
On a lighter note, does anyone from Hawaii who's still playing know whether they have Latios or Latias on their gyms at the moment?
Cheers
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo Life's Favourite Games From Switch's First Year
While I am as taken with Rocket League as my offline choice of gaming crack, as I am for online gaming crack with the Splatoon series, having started playing though the Champions Ballad, I've been reminded that IMHO BOTW is not only my favourite Switch game so far, but I would go so far to say of all time...
Re: Pokémon GO Could Be Getting New Story Quests
Sounds good to me
@Slaz At least those people may live near that gym. I got my first and only Ex invite, for a gym in another country, I visited once during a business trip, last year!?!?!?!
Re: Pokémon GO's Gen III Trailer Is Narrated By Stephen Fry, Because Why Not
Would love it if they expanded on the premise of the advert and actually did a series of Pokemon wildlife videos, with a better voice over. If Attenborough isn't able, what about Patrick Stewart?
I doubt they could sell it to the networks, but as a web series, just to generally promote the brand some more, it could be quite enjoyable, if done properly...
Re: The Maps Offered In Splatoon 2 Will Rotate More Frequently
@thesilverbrick It's a tough one, because I don't doubt that a number of players drop out and in simply to change weapons, which is a real shame when you're winning match after match with the same group in Splatfest... Not sure there's an easy answer on this one - pre-match weapon choice would be nice, but the potential increase in delay between matches would annoy the pants out of me...
Re: The Maps Offered In Splatoon 2 Will Rotate More Frequently
@Powerballad Matches are short and sweet and as such generally frantic. From what I'm aware, there aren't that many other online games like it, so it's not easy to compare to other online games... Having put in the hours playing the game I for one think that Ninty got it right with their rotation implementation. Although I do think that the 2 hour rotation for Splatoon 2 is a good improvement...
I also think some people bemoan about Splatoon's game play decision-making because they feel entitled to choose how they want to play the game, not thinking through that Ninty probably spent many hours trying to find the best way for as many people as possible to get the most from the game, even if it was at the expense of a few who think they know better than the professional developer's...
Re: The Maps Offered In Splatoon 2 Will Rotate More Frequently
@thesilverbrick They could, but IMHO, it would be a terrible idea. Turf War matches last 3 minutes at a time, with a delay between matches while we wait for 8 players. In its current form, that delay could feel to long. To then have to wait for people to faff about picking a weapon set (and by your logic allow them to change outfits as well) before each match equals even more delay, which would ruin the game. That would peeve off a lot of the 'crack-like-play addicted' players, not least myself..
Re: Video: Here's How To Totally Break The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
Came across a group of 3 Bokoblins dancing around a floating campfire near the ruins just south of the Northern Icehouse. While not exact, I'd say it was hovering about 15-20ft in the air... So not really something I did to break it myself, but did find it amusing
Re: Nintendo UK Has Begun Contacting Switch Hands-On Event Winners
@Hyperion In fairness, the Saturday PM was already booked out by about 10am, a couple of hours after I got my email on the 23rd Dec... So there was no guarantee of getting the Sat PM for those previously notified... Sat AM for my sins - so pleased to be going, just means a 7.30am start to the day, with a 13 YO nephew in tow :-S
Re: Yooka-Laylee Rattles Away From Wii U Release
Well that's Pants!!!
Re: Rumour: Last Wii U Consoles Roll Off The Production Line This Week
Considering the immanent release of the Switch, I'm surprised by how much this makes me sad... I know that to many, admitting that you had a Wii U, yet alone liked it was like admitting that your besty is a ginger, but I love my Wii U and the quality of the games that I bought it for... Including, but not limited to MK8, Splatton, the Zelda remakes, SSB, SMW, SMM, etc...And in all honesty, I'm not sure yet as to whether I'll be playing Breath of the Wild on Wii U or Switch at this point...
Re: Latest Pokémon GO Update Brings Catch Bonus, Updated Gym Training And Other Fixes
@MegaMari0 I'd managed to get my pidgey cultivation down to a fine enough art to get 1 almost every 30 seconds - so approx. 60k xp, but it sounds like I might be able to eek out a bit more, depending on how much shorter the animation is...
Re: Latest Pokémon GO Update Brings Catch Bonus, Updated Gym Training And Other Fixes
"Decreased the evolution animation time." - Does this mean that you can evolve more 'mon during pidgey cultivating now... Annoyingly I'm currently out of lucky eggs...
Re: Weirdness: "Lapras Panic" Grips Tokyo After Rare Pokémon GO Sighting
Not fair - just looked on a certain pokemon map website and it's showing 2 lapras next to each other near Derby, UK!!! WTFluff!!!
Re: Weirdness: "Lapras Panic" Grips Tokyo After Rare Pokémon GO Sighting
My wife caught her second one (hatched the first) and then phoned me let me know!?!?! >:[
Re: Pokémon GO Player Aims For Million XP In 24 Hours, Unwittingly Triggers Anti-Cheat Mechanism
He's clearly lucky enough to have access to a loop like that, but for me he's moved from playing for the fun of it, through hard-core gamer into the realms of "Gamer with an issue". If I wanted I can create a loop of 17 stops within a 5-10 minute walk (my pace and the damn GPS actually tracking me properly), but I'd never consider doing what he did (except maybe for charity).
On his comment "Games are meant to be played, and in my opinion played well." I'm in two minds - I can see why it comes across as arrogance and I do think that games should be inclusive to all, but I equally don't think you should be held back or restricted if you happen to be better at it than others, while playing within the rules and constraints of the game...
Re: Pokémon GO Finally Arrives In Japan
@gcunit I've only been playing since last Friday, so am technically still a newbie School-boy error's aside, I do hope the servers finally settle down and just allow us to enjoy the game
Re: Pokémon GO Finally Arrives In Japan
Yesterday was my best Pokemon Go day - it was stable, it didn't suddenly crash on me in the middle of finding my first and only Rhyhorn (still annoyed about that)...
I'm pleased that the Japanese can now get in on the action, but I'm already missing yesterday and the happy feeling of catching or not catching 'Mon because of my skills as a trainer and not because of stupid server issues....
Re: Random: Sony XDev Europe Pokes Fun At Pokémon GO For Being Late To The AR Party
2016 - Yep - But's there's too many news stories and links for Pokemon Go this week, for me to copy and paste
Re: Random: Sony XDev Europe Pokes Fun At Pokémon GO For Being Late To The AR Party
2009 - http://www.videogamer.com/psp/invizimals/news/invizimals_can_be_as_successful_as_pokemon.html
2015 - https://mrluvvaluvva.wordpress.com/2015/09/12/can-pokemon-go-succeed-where-invizimals-failed/
Need I say more???
Re: Splatoon's Last Splatfest is Next Month
@TheMultiYoshi Well spotted my little Green Dino
I better re-click for the one that I actually really really want then...
Re: Splatoon's Last Splatfest is Next Month
Not saying it's happening, but wouldn't it be cool if you could activate the night time mode when scanning either Callie or Marie.
Shame that Splatfests are coming to an end, but as my wife will attest to, I've enjoyed spending my gaming time playing Splatoon...
Also, does anyone else think that when you click on the "Click a stage to vote" stage in the email sent this morning and you get taken to the Thank you page, that multiple votes count? It doesn't indicate that duplicate votes aren't counted
Re: Devil's Third Online Servers To Close At The End Of The Year
@MrWarner14 @PleaseUnderstan As much as I have been addicted to Splatoon, I'm not exactly sure I would bother putting the disc back in my Wii U once they turned the Multiplayer Servers off. Yes, @MrWarner14 you're correct that there is a single player element, but once completed (And it doesn't take long to do so - Amiibo missions inc.) there is no real reason to go back into the single player campaign... The game is all about multiplayer... I feel sorry for the Splatoon-Crack addicts that will one day have to go cold-turkey... Maybe Splatoon will be on the NX before that date...
Re: Pokémon Sun and Moon 'Fan Editions' and Limited Edition New Nintendo 3DS XL Confirmed for Europe
Not been into Pokemon for over a decade and I'm not about to start again - but I do love the design of the Solgaleo and Lunala Limited Edition New Nintendo 3DS XL. It does look nice, but I'll stick with my New Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Edition...
Re: Digital Foundry Assesses the Technology and Framerate in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
@Ralek85 In fairness I haven't had a chance to watch through the game play from the Treehouse feeds, so I can't comment re the dips. I do agree with the last sentence @BensonUii made in the initial comment: "Unless there's framerate dips all over ruining the experience, it shouldn't matter." I know from experience that I'm willing to be more forgiving then some with frame rate dips, but equally I wouldn't put up with constant dips that were a complete distraction from the game - I just hope that that's not the case...
Re: Digital Foundry Assesses the Technology and Framerate in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Still looks gorgeous to me
Understand the importance of these things to some, but I'm not loosing any sleep over the likely lack of 1080p / 60 fps. Don't think a game of this quality needs it imo...
Re: What Treasures Await Inside The Legend of Zelda Edition Nintendo Mystery Box?
@Angelic_Lapras_King I'm not sure if there is a T-Shirt in the box, as it didn't allow me to select a size when ordering... However, in fairness I don't remember being able to select a T-Shirt size when I ordered the Super Mario Box (and I can't see any details on the order history that shows the size of the T-Shirt)...
Re: Nintendo Announces E3 eShop Discount Plans and Miitomo x The Legend of Zelda Promotion
I know it's off-topic, but who's the artist of the picture of Link on Epona? I'm assuming it's the same artist that did the previously used picture of Link in the blue tunic with the new bow and arrow from Zelda Wii U / NX... Love the style of both of these pics
Re: Gallery: Check Out All the New Weapons Coming to Splatoon with Sheldon's Picks Vol. 2
Damn it Nintendo!!! I've only just weaned myself of my crack-like obsession with Splatoon and finally started playing Yoshi... Now you send Sheldon the Dealer to tempt me back... Curse you Nintendo...
Re: Interview: Playtonic On Yooka-Laylee Progress And Its New 2017 Release Window
@LaRaposa Not sure I get the logic. Potential sales from a 10 million user Base and a developer keeping a promise against a currently unknown user base and a loss of face with those who dropped their hard earned money for the Wii U kickstarter campaign... Seems pretty obvious to me and so they appear to be doing the decent thing. Besides, if it sells well enough on Wii U, we know that a follow-up game will most likely appear on the NX... Everyone's a winner
Re: Video: Learn More About Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2
Two great games, which I always thought looked amazing on the Wii. Yes, I'd love to have seen 1080p 60fps remakes of both of them on the Wii U, but I'm not convinced we'd have seen improvements to blow our minds. As such, I just dream of Super Mario Universe on the NX... Bigger, better and Shinier...
Re: Lynn and the Spirits of Inao Has Been Cancelled
Love the art style and the platforming element reminds me a bit of Child of Light (which is a good thing). Shame we're never likely to see this come to fruition...
Re: A Tetris Movie is in the Making
Or maybe it'll be like Battleship where they manage to shoehorn in the style of gameplay... And yes I'm weird, despite its cheesy story and acting, as a volume at max, popcorn movie I actually like Battleship...
Re: A Tetris Movie is in the Making
Maybe it'll be a rehash of Terrahawks but with Tetris pieces, instead of the Cubes...
Re: Nintendo Defeats Yet Another Patent Claim Against the Wii Remote
@Gerbwmu @Tasuki It would actually be higher because the 100 million plus units is the number of Wii's sold, not remotes. A quick Google hasn't brought up the figures, but back in 2010 there were articles that talked about 65 million Wii Remotes being sold in the US alone. Of those 65 million, 30.41 were sold with the Wii's themselves, so assume that on average every sold Wii had 1 additional remote sold, you're talking about at least 200 millions Wii remotes. So even with your conservative figure of $0.10 per unit, we're talking $20 million + in royalties...
Re: Miitomo Has Hit 10 Million Users Worldwide
@Snader Beacuse you're a diva
Re: Miitomo Has Hit 10 Million Users Worldwide
Is that every Wii U owner then?
Re: Nintendo NX Will Be Launched Globally in March 2017
I'm happy with this news... I'd already said that I didn't think that we'd see the NX this year. Although I am disappointed re the Zelda Wii U announcement...
Part of me is concerned about the potentially small number of games due for the Wii U this year (Yooka-Laylee is now looking like my biggest Wii U want this year). But from a slightly more selfish point of view it doesn't bother me, considering the backlog of games sitting on the shelf or in my library that I haven't even started on yet - mostly thanks to effing Splatoon... So roll on the NX reveal direct either at the end of this year or beginning of next...
Re: Nintendo Reportedly Secures Victory over Tomita Technologies in 3DS Patent Row
@NinChocolate I could be wrong, but I thought that they settled with a patent sharing arrangement... Although I guess that would certainly feel like a loss - especially considering how vague the Philips patent design was...
Re: Team Patrick Triumphs in the SpongeBob SquarePants Splatoon Splatfest
I was just so bad - I hardly helped Team SpongeBob... I know I spend most of my time in Ranked mode, but even still I was just naff...
Re: Video: Let the Hype Build With the Star Fox Zero Launch Trailer
Looks good to me, but hey what do I know... I spend all my gaming time playing non-realistic looking games which were created by a defunct games company who, by virtue of spending too much time creating solid fun experiences rather than cinematic carbon copies, is clearly doomed...
Cheers @Vandy for making me laugh
Re: Another Former Rare Staffer Joins the Yooka-Laylee Project
Really looking forward to this... Loved the N64 platformers from Rare. Not sure I can pick 1 favourite. Loved DK64, BK, BT and CBFD equally, although I think the multi-player parts of Conker probably edged it...
Re: Splatoon Update to 2.7.0 Will Bring Us The First Volume of Sheldon's Picks Next Week
I suppose after 10 month's of playing I really should consider using some other than the Tentatek Splattershot... Maybe I'll explore one of Sheldon's Picks... Granted it didn't stop me finally ranking up to S...
Re: Hurrah, Miitomo Is Now Available In The West
Works just fine for me so far... Will have a proper play with it later... But it looks better than I thought it would - just not sure how many friends I can get into it?!?
Re: Hurrah, Miitomo Is Now Available In The West
Breifly had an error code 801-1700 on logging into my NNID on Android, but after a couple more attempts, it's let me in and is now downloading the data...
Re: Were It Not For Rare's Tim Stamper, Wave Race Would Have Featured Boats
With that subheading (Water difference that would have made) I thought I was reading the Sun for moment...Or shudder the thought, the Mirror...