Coalescence

They knew this would happen. Collecting any money while using a popular brand you don't own guarantees legal attention. It's just a cheap cloying way to draw sympathy from people. Make a project Nintendo will absolutely shut down and rake in the attention from everyone who is perpetually chomping to dunk on the big bad company. Fun game: anytime an article like this is posted, do a search for Sonic Mania in the comments.

Is that a brute force translation? Seems like something is being lost with him saying Nintendo is in good hands and their current outlook is wrong. Charismatic devs is also an awkward phrase. Regardless, it's hard to make a case they are coasting on IP when they're stingy with mainline titles on flagship properties and generally innovate over iterate.

I'd rather Nintendo be hands off than have more of their draconian moderation of the past. Maybe if consumers on the eshop showed a modicum of diligence and a sliver of restraint on impulse buying, the scam games wouldn't sell and the motivation to make them would dry up.

And probably the first in a line of iterative design. With Nintendo finally standardizing on a form the days of video game console gimmicks are probably gone. Or at least that's what people will probably be saying for the next seven years until they do something bizarre the next time around.

Good old Yamauchi, always kept it real.

The only correct celebration for Mario's 40th will be bringing back Super Mario 35 with 5 more players.

Packaging the original soundtrack with the new and releasing it on CD will get my money every time. The price is right too.

Says more about the quantity of fun quality games coming out lately than whatever arbitrary price point is correct for a port of a wii game.

I want the little jingles/splash screens when you select a game back. I played Breath of the Wild on the Wii U first and it felt so empty starting the cart up on the Switch without the shrine jingle. Better yet, go back to the Wii. Cave Story has a sweet little animation and a unique remix of the main theme playing when you click once on it. I couldn't care less about themes and I love the barebones interface to keep it all about the games, but I want those little touches unique to each game back.

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100K for a brick with lights and no controller. Fillerup is out of his mind. Funny name though.

I was going to be annoyed but then I realized I only ever used my Japanese account on my Switch to download the Lost Sphear demo. I just buy from Amazon jp or playasia, never had much reason to buy from the Japanese eshop.

Lol acting like this will somehow damage perception of Nintendo. Disney and Nintendo didn't get to their brand sizes by playing nice but no one cares when the product is so appealing. Sounds like a reflexive action based on the renewal by the legal team who is paid to sue everyone to keep up the threat and ensure Mario continues to have near unparalleled brand power.

Sure hope the Switch 2 brings some upscaled 3DS ports. I'd throw my money so fast at 3D Land, Link Between Worlds, Samus Returns, Fire Emblem Origins, etc.

Trade stamina lol. This reads like a social experiment to see how far they can mess with people addicted to Pokemon.

Bought it and transferred my old camp. Already feels a little more enjoyable without the mobileness.

They also based Hyrule Warriors DE off the 3DS version which is why it has no weather effects unlike the Wii U version. I'm guessing it cuts out a lot of extra work and someone thought no one would really notice. Pretty minute issue but let that not stop people who wouldn't buy it anyway from saying now it isn't worth the price. I'm sure Nintendo will feel that pinch 👍

Way too far for me but I'm looking forward to the coverage. And honestly cramming in with a bunch of randoms even for something like this isn't super appealing with today's state of overall mental health.

Ubisoft isn't a person, and people are really clinging to some fairy tale that the higher ups will be pinched by this and will pay for layoffs. The golden parachutes are primed and ready.

I like to buy physical for the aesthetic, but I don't pretend for a moment it's some kind of foolproof preserved complete package. Someday people are going to be having to do all sorts of chicanery to get their old Switch carts playing again by simulating updates, when they could just use a complete digital package. And I also don't have any belief my Switch collection is going to be worth gobs of money someday. The reason the old media is valuable now is because most kids lost track or sold off their old Pokemon games. It doesn't work that way when everyone is buying and hoarding physical copies for their investments.

Always funny when the seal of quality is invoked on articles like this. The Nintendo seal of quality never meant anything other than indicating which companies jumped through Nintendo's hoops. All Nintendo did was capitalize on Atari's failures by creating consumer confidence with little more than a shiny placebo while giving them the control over cartridge production. The NES had so many terrible full priced titles which were knockoffs or just poor quality, all bearing the seal of specious quality. And there were plenty of unauthorized games which are excellent. I mean, brilliant on their part. Especially because it still comes up in this context in 2025.

I wasn't purposefully holding off on a physical buy but I'm glad I did because that's pretty sweet.

Out of those, definitely Potential Princess Sightings. It's a ton of fun, has you uncovering pockets of the world, and has a reward well worth the effort. Cyan's Nightmare is a close second though. I miss when Square games had that efficiency and effectiveness in their storytelling.

1tb would be more than enough for me. I buy a lot of games but I also have no problem archiving them when I'm finished or done with them. No reason I would ever need to have stuff like Fairune or Earth Atlantis accessible all the time. Only takes a moment to redownload something if I want to go back, not much different to me than swapping game carts.

Yeah, pretty much the same for me and I wish they would have made the difficulty options better. Like Mario Party has the star handicaps and it works great as a very basic but effective option. I thought Wonder would be a good experience with my oldest kid and it lasted all of a half hour on Christmas morning. This game is in no way friendly for multiplayer with kids. Which y'know, is funny because at her age I was playing much more difficult unfriendly NES games and trying over and over through failure. And multiplayer was having to watch as my older brother played almost all the way through Super Mario Bros before I'd get a chance to play for 60 seconds again and fail.

But as Bandit says in Pass the Parcel, this isn't the 80s!

Yeahh I love this game so much and I intend to get it. But I'm also going to wait and make sure there's no snafus.

Putting out a good game that people actually want to play would be a nice change of pace and would probably help that share price. Nintendo knows about courting the masses and making fun the first priority, and that's why they can tear it up with a slightly polished Wii game. And Nintendo still nabbed recognition from GLAAD.

Grant Kirkhope is a worldly treasure and his unflinching commentary is always appreciated.

People like to buy fun games to have fun and not make every potential purchase about taking a stand, who would have thought it.

Also it says a lot about the supposedly superior triple AAAAAA games who can't stack up against a decade-old Wii title and a bunch of rehashes and continued unchanging properties.

Yeah I'd be wary of splash damage, that is not a wagon to hitch to right now if ever.

Maybe something like this will change the hearts of people who insist Nintendo is entirely evil and only cares about money. But that's unlikely. GLAAD is kind of a spotty organization anyway.

Increasingly seeming like a one hit wonder dev. Interestingly same for Lena Raine who just keeps making the same soundtrack over and over. Celeste and its music was killer, but that might have been it for everyone involved.

I'm betting this part of the groundwork of their larger pivot, and the Switch 2 won't get a Sega NSO app, and the existing app will be sunsetted. Not that I'll lose too much sleep over that and I doubt I'd pony up for a sega only subscription when I have a Mega SG, Vita, 3DS, and Analogue Pocket to cover all my retro Sega needs. But that'll suck for the splintering of a good value right now.

"also a former member of the hugely popular boy band SMAP" protecting the Kool aid of the company knows no nationality. Makes me wonder if Nintendo of America had pulled ads from NBC when the Matt Lauer stuff couldn't be swept under anymore.

Feel like the only person on the planet who finds both Hollow Knight and Undertale alright. Not bad, not terrible, not mind blowingly good, not life changing amazing. Stands on the shoulders of giants from before and does okay with it. Good for a single playthrough maybe a replay many years later. If there's a sequel I might check it out.

Not sure if it counts as a side quest since you technically have to do it to progress the main story, but escorting the lost ghost to his house in Link's Awakening is the best little detour in a game ever for me, and they did it right in the remake by not changing a thing. If not that, then the newspaper scoops in Tears of the Kingdom. It's a fun set of romps chasing rumors, gives the world a nice lived in feeling after the sparseness of BOTW, and has an outstanding set of rewards.

Though Xenoblade X will soon be a contender for the unspoken amazing side quest which is way better than the actually finishing the silly story: exploring the world once you acquire the flight module for your skells.

This from the guy who said he wants to make the Schindler's list of games. Mario is a console-moving IP. I love Banjo but there's only a select few properties capable of approaching Mario and it's not the series which has effectively been dormant for over a decade and is currently rotting on the shelf. Not to mention the games firmly sit in 3D Mario's shadow. There would be a long road ahead with some real talent to even get this series back to a strong 3D Mario-like.

But yeah, rosy up those glasses a little more.

Must be a tough pill to swallow for people here constantly asserting Nintendo is so evil and jumping all over every tiny hint of someone not having a completely perfect experience working for them.

Good lord. As someone with analyst in their job title it's so sad to see people like this giving us all a bad rep as idiots who get paid to make painfully obvious observations.

Good reminder I need to load those GCN games up on the Wii U. And definitely not sweating Shadow of Mordor not being on Switch. I was so excited to get that on the xbone and couldn't have been more let down. Overrated Boromir death simulator.

So dooooomed.

Admittedly I haven't watched it. Just generally don't care for trailers. I'm buying one though.

Yeah also going to throw in that the TG16 version of 1&2 are the tops. I played the hell out of that on the Wii VC, and again recently on the Analogue Duo. Surprised it hasn't gotten a Switch port but it would probably be some lackluster LRG affair anyway. VIII is getting a bit overpraised lately, it's a great game but definitely shows signs of being a Vita port.

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They gave credit. It just wasn't up to the standards of the Internet's righteously indignant who always need to feel like kings of whom they deem weak. That team didn't work on this version. And if this version was lousy they'd be mad for their names being on it without consent.

Cue people who have no idea how the stock market works putting a magnifying glass on this and correlating it to their personal feelings about the trailer.

If it has the weight and chunkiness of the old PC racer wheels I might go for that. Another featherweight accessory like the Wii steering wheel is a hard no though. Kind of funny though, I realize having the Switch since launch the only accessories I've gotten are a case, screen protector, and recently a split grip pro.

The DKC look is stale, let the guy have a refresh. I'm all for multiple versions of DK existing concurrently. I wish more characters had that going on with different looks across different games if only to switch it up.

Hope it's true. Game is never going to live up to the hype now, but mostly it'll be nice when every direct isn't swarmed with stomping and hollering about silksong.

Nah he's right. It's not about the thing specifically, it's the spirit of what they do which is spoiling fun for people in the name of chasing an extremely fleeting fame & grasping at a clout no one will care about a moment later. People like that are a drain on the world.

If there was ever a time to just iterate on a good design, this is it. The competition indicates the concept is gold for the current market. The one thing Nintendo has that no can compete with is their IP. Mario Kart and whatever else they have up their sleeve along with a massive backwards compatible catalogue will move units now, not some gimmick. At the end of the day no one really cared much about the 3D. The 3DS started moving when Mario showed up.

"it's claimed", by the attention grubbers speaking for a company they don't work for anymore. Everyone sure wants a piece of this pie.