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Bought the digital version of Ender Lilies on a whim...It hit the right cords so I ended up looking to play-asia for a physical copy of both that and Ender Magnolia. Just counting down the days until they arrive at my doorstep.

I have a Steamdeck with around 400 games, I find I use it very rarely. I do play my switch at least 3 times a week though including some family time games.

I'm pretty sure one of the big reasons for the decline in physical sales is that stores don't have the physical product to sell anymore. I've gone to a Best Buy and seen a total of like 8 Xbox games on the shelves, I've gone to Target and saw 5 of the same. This goes for PS as well, although it's slightly larger. Over the last few years I've switched to almost exclusively buying physical switch games, but even that's getting harder to do. This leaves Amazon usually and now more than ever Play-Asia. So it's ironic they talk about declining sales when they don't sell the product on the shelves. Once physical is gone I'm no longer a collector and will most likely be a handful of games type of gamer.

Company of heroes

Gave it a four. If they had announced and shown it before the internet did it for them I would have given it a six. If they would have shown at least three games for twenty to thirty seconds each I probably would have did a seven.

@ozwally Thanks for the good news. I'm still waiting on a my order. It was set to be shipped by Jan 1st and then it moved to Jan 18th, so we'll see if they actually ship out or not.

.Got the physical edition on preorder a couple weeks back.

@ozwally I’m 90% sure it will. DLC is usually the thing you can have issues with.

These pre-orders didn't just go live as I pre-ordered around a week ago. Placed two orders Ender Lilies SNK sel. 1&2 and wizardry and an order with SNK Sel. Vol 3&4 with Freedom Wars Remastered. As stated above on both orders I got the 3 for $100 deal which is why I actually added in Wizardry to qualify on the first order. Can't go wrong with SNK games.

Have the physical on pre-order for about a week now with Ender Lilies and the first two NeoGeo Selections. I'm sure I'll be picking this up for the US in digital as well.

Physical release date?

Sadly mine is across the country, now with a big "shipment delayed" from Best Buy. All of yesterday it had the "arriving today", even though when you went in you could see it was actually set to arrive on 11/26.... I love modern day conveniences like having items shipped to you instead of just walking into a store on launch day. Took a nice 4 day week-end with thoughts of enjoying this game.

@msvt It is supposed to, yes.

@bransby Same here, I would be interested in seeing what they offer for the reason of simplicity. As I've gotten older I enjoy ease of use over fidgety complicated systems more. Don't even care if it's the most powerful as long as it's easy to use and fun. I just want to play the games, nothing more. I'm currently down to two systems I actively support: Nintendo (physical) and Xbox (Gamepass). If MS can give me a quality portable system for Gamepass I'd be all in. My steamdeck is fine, but it's more a holdover from decades of PC gaming.

After all this time, it looks like we finally may meet face to fact this week-end. I hope I'm not disappointed, after all, I've heard some things recently.

@hel105 Thanks for the heads up, I've gone and checked it out on LRG and will get ordering this and Val. Chronicles 4, although that one seems expensive for what it is. Thanks again.

@Gatorclops
I highly doubt it's "more likely" as the current meme trending is "aint no party like a Diddy party"... considering it's probably the most popular meme right now, I'd be hard pressed to believe they are referencing a 25 year old song that is totally irrelevant in 2024. Even if it were, it's in bad taste at this moment in time given the current trending meme and its disgusting meaning.

@HotGoomba Remember this the next time you see someone's comment removed here for a difference in opinion to what some feel is acceptable or not.

Wow, I'm not sure I will ever look at a Nintendolife censor on comments the same again after reading this articles title. Looks like someone needs to do a little soul searching at the good ole NL.

$20 hits my threshold of how much I'll pay for renting a game. Not sure this one has enough meat on the bones for that price.

@EarthboundBenjy Totally understand what you're saying, but for whatever odd reason it doesn't bother me and I don't really feel it. I'm very familiar with the games as I'm old and grew up on them as well as having them on the Genesis still today. Totally get using it for Phantasy Star 4, I think I solved it the first week it came out and loved every minute of it. One of my top 5 games on the Genesis.

Wow, that video was a banger. :/

I love compilations, have about 95% of what's listed above. I have to say because I know it takes a lot of heat, the Sega Genesis collection has always played good for me? I hear people and believe they are getting horrible lag, but honestly I don't? With that said, it's basically the list above that has made the Switch my number one console of all time. I love being able to relieve all the classics in both handheld and docked on one machine. It's a match made in heaven.

If only Switch had voice chat... I'd start my match with Justin with a very fast vocal Parry, Parry, Parry, Parry, Parry.... Just kidding I watch most of his videos, I love that he has so much fun while being so frustrated.

Not seeing a physical listed, gotta wait for a physical version before I can worry about updates.

EA's love of Nintendo and their consoles shines brightly with their stellar support of their systems over the years. EA's commitment to Nintendo is exemplified in...Ok..umm....ugh.. I just can't do it... Sorry, it's just....ok..I'm lying.

First it's wonderful to see the crazy price of the PS3 adjusted for inflation as it's the system that got me over Sony. I remember the interview where it was basically said "yeah, we know we don't have any games at all, but we can sell your kid an expensive system even if it means mowing more lawns all summer, and they are going to love it because Sony". Second, man am I loving retro games more all the time.

Unfortunate that volume 1 was such a "meh" at best. Would have been nice to have a larger collection of Metal Gear done right. At this point even if they release a knock out compilation it's always going to have a crap 1-3 sitting next to it.

Yes, it really does need this feature. I have shelves of games begging to be played at better frame rates. Heck I might even go back and finish Monster Hunter Stories 2.

@Dman10
Completely different game collections. The SNK Anniversary Collection was games made pre NEOGEO.

Being someone who has been waiting for SNK compilations for a long long time... I think I'm gonna pass on these, they look to be about the worst selection of games they could possibly come up with.

Definitely on my watch list.

Yet another way humanity on a whole kinda sucks. I'm all for locking up the cards in a case and then walked to front of the stores like games and electronics are currently. Buying online, I just wouldn't do it.

I'm sure it's just that I'm old, but I remember installing this game and after going through what I remember as a ton of menu's I simply uninstalled it. Can't remember exactly why, but it just seemed like there was way too much going on for an arcade racing game.

@hammerGalladeBro
Totally agree, but... that's what it was. I get about 950 down so my internet is crazy surpassing whatever was the issue.

Still no email either ..... Oh well.

Sounds great, I followed the link and put the book in my cart, got back: "There was a delay with your digital downloads. You will receive an email shortly with your download links
You will also receive an email with download links for your digital purchases."

No email so far.

No U.S. physical edition and I'm going to have to pass unless it's on sale for $9.99 or less. I already have it on Steam and Xbox, so getting it would only be for the switch collection.

I have the DS Legend of Starfy, always thought it was a pretty fun game. Looks like I'll be signing back up for NSO if they keep up releases like this.

Again, a bit pricey for what you get. Sadly, I'll probably support their bad behavior by buying it.

True story, when I was young in the 70's and 80's we bought games and played them almost always from beginning to end with very little issue. Did they have bugs, sure some did, but you almost always could find an easy enough way around them. I miss games where when you buy it, that's what it is.

For better or for worse, I sure miss those days.

Road Rash, Street Fighter, Sam. Sho, Way of the Warrior, Gex, Need for Speed, Immercenary, Return Fire, Wing Commander HotT and Shockwave ... can we just get a nice 3DO compilation to bring back the feels. I know they are all from diff. publishers and I know that Way of the Warrior was really bad, I still played it, and I'm proud of it.

Two years and counting.

I'm just glad it's not the mainline Marvel characters as if it were I'd have no interest. After over 40 years of collecting and 10's of thousands of dollars, I've completely given up on Marvel and DC. As it's not mainline super heroes, I'm now excited to see what they do.

I'm just going to say I really liked Cavill in the Witcher, even if the seasons went downhill pretty quickly. Just as with other roles in other movies and shows, he really made it his own, enough that I think anyone coming in after him is going to feel like a bit of a poser. I could be wrong and we'll see, but I do have to admit I'm not excited to find out.

@diowine While I don't really like to pre-order, I have learned to after many many games I have have tried to get are sold out at launch or near launch in my area. I now pre-order simply for peace of mind that I'm not going to be out driving around several towns or watching online for something to come back into stock. If you PO on Amazon they don't charge your card until it ships, just an FYI.
Hope that helps.

Physical or it didn't happen.

@Ryu_Niiyama
I was going to post pretty much the same thing... but since you already have I'll just give you a nice little upvote.

@Bored_Cosmic_Horror If I remember correctly there are now issues with Cavil and WH40K. I think it was in disagreement to the lore not being respected.

Mark of the Wolves is one of my all time favorite fighting games. This one, I'm on the fence about as I don't really like all the special effects making so much screen noise you can't actually see the fighters and their moves. It just looks like they are punching each other with cans of confetti. I know I'm in the minority (or I think I am), but I just think fighting games are overdoing it with the laser light shows these days.

While I own a physical copy of the original game. I had to snatch it up physically again about 4 months back when I saw the Dead Cells Return to Castlevania Edition (includes 5 DLC's) clearanced out at Best Buy for $12.00.