Coalescence

At this point it would be unbelievably easy to mess with Silkies. You know you're too far into your fandom when even Geoff Keighly is lining up to dunk.

What's NL going to do if the game who shall not be named reaches #1? Just not publish the chart at all?

I can't believe they released Donkey Kong Bananza in the same year as Mario Kart World. They both have Donkey Kong and Pauline it's like the same game.

Lol. Reminds me of the Plagiarismo Di Plagiarismo bit from the Simpsons.

Gamers still incapable of holding more than a binary opinion of Nintendo. Luckily, the company is pretty adept at not trying to please the crowds who are absolutely unpleasable.

Good on them. Gaming competitions were 1000% inaccessible when I was a kid, like some far off dream for only the most well off and connected people. Of course it's an inroad to getting new kids hooked on the product too, but more than one thing is true at once.

So they bragged about having a head start on Switch 2 accessories, and then fumbled their designs. I don't know if there's a more pure uncut L.

People saying they thought this was only a Western thing are showing the weird myopic fantasizing of Japan is alive and well. Jerks exist in every region, race, culture, orientation, and any other grouping of humans in existence.

I'm really hoping the exclusion of Rebirth means there's a ReBirth collection coming with Contra and Castlevania, because those games are way too good to be locked away on wiiware. But it seems a good handful of games are doomed to be just that.

If they do that's cool, the Nintendo music app is a nice supplement, but I long ago took things into my own hands in using my own streaming server for Nintendo music. Not bloody likely they'll add something like Bucky O'Hare anyway.

Love this article because Metroid II is one of my favorite games of all time largely because it does such a good job of making you feel insignificant. The music helps too which is more focused on the environment than the hero, not really underscoring the mood of the journey outside of a couple pieces. It's also just neat that the sound engineer did the soundtrack, and he creatively uses sfx as beats in the music. The remake is fine, but there's really nothing like the original for that feeling of dread and determination - even Dread itself.

What, a toy company is existing to make money? Why, I never. I thought we were best buds and were going to have the best sleepovers.

@The_Nintend_Pedant Redundancy is the correct term for what happened. There's a distinct legal difference between that and a layoff. The jobs themselves are being eliminated. There's no chance for the employees to return, at least not to those exact positions as there would be on a layoff.

It's going to be really funny if we get a localized Shigesato Itoi's No. 1 Bass Fishing complete with a new accessory before Mother 3.

Silkies can't help but get ruffled so easily lol

Sweet! I loved Heretic back in the day. I've been hoping someone would port them to the vita for how much fun Wolfenstein 3D is on there. But I'll support this for sure. Now if we could just get a port of Heretic II.

It would be a big shame to shoehorn this into Odyssey or Donkey Kong Country or Donkey Kong Junior Math or whatever it is people are pointlessly getting obsessed with. Biggest mistake Nintendo ever did was make an official Zelda timeline. Most of their series are best as standalone experiences which have overlaps and little connections to others but are never bound by any overarching timeline or continuity. It's much more fun to see a new title with a fresh take on the characters and world rather than always being restricted to a set of rules which do nothing but hinder creativity and eat up space in order to ramp in new players. Media as a whole could use a lot less of this obsession with universes - which generally is used to get consumers addicted to a product line.

YouTube grifters about to get that paydirt. I just can't think of any reason why Nintendo may want to be apprised of who is going to be associated with their Disney level of branding power. It's not like some Smash players didn't behave themselves and weren't grooming kids through what appeared to be sanctioned Nintendo events. Also, lol at free advertising. The company is really hurting for brand awareness and exposure. Some speedrunners really could put Mario on the map.

And the whole "but it's for charity" thing is childish. Merely doing something for charity doesn't immediately make a person or event untouchably pure any more than being a Christian does. Ethan Ralph tried that with his whole healstream thing and big shocker, St Jude didn't want to be associated to such a group of people. Blanket allowing anyone to use a massively valuable property is incredibly shortsighted but I wouldn't expect the average gamer to see past the kneejerk outrage to understand such a concept.

Now is the time for some indie company to slap together SilkeSong and become the most hated people on the Internet.

Definitely waiting on that android auto. Until then it's still going to be plexamp with ripped Nintendo soundtracks on the home server.

I played all my game boys at extreme heat. I remember being a dumb kid and leaving my old brick out in the full sun, coming back to find the screen completely cooked and dark, and after bringing it inside for a while it cooled down and played just fine again. I had my og GBA in my pocket all day at a high school theme park trip in 100ish degree sunlight, and it played like a champ the whole bus ride home.

Obviously one piece of tech is vastly more complex than the other, but I definitely miss the days of indestructible Nintendo portables. I get nervous just letting the kids play with a Switch in the car.

The short length and lack of voices and text is massively appealing for me. I can't stand a lack of brevity or lousy voice overs in video games. And one thing just about all media can't help but screw up anymore is letting emotional moments breathe. We all know this world needs more near-silence and it's great to see someone was brave enough to go for it. Definitely going to support this one. Though I'm sure people will balk with their silly time and money equations over what is no more than the cost of a crappy meal at McDonald's.

Since there's no way for sony to track dvd player sales vs gaming device sales this will never be an apples to apples comparison. Not to mention Sony shot their credibility on this by magically finding more sales. Their data clearly isn't reliable. But our world loves itself some fact based on garbage in garbage out data analysis.

And the wii sports comparison is just as much garbage. People buying that just for wii sports were still buying a gaming device for video gaming.

It would be code in a box if not game key card but people want to live in a fantasy land where the last years didn't happen and companies weren't already pivoting away from the carts regardless of whether Nintendo came up with this halfway mark which at least offers a means to resell the game. Pricing parity is also a thing, suck it up or get your Switch 2 from the other companies making them.

Having a character who likes like worthless Edward from FFIV, sharing a name with that jerkhole from Secret of Mana, and having what looks like an annoying won't shut up fairy partner would have killed my interest had the increasingly generic 2DHD style not already done the job.

Squeenix definitely has their cash cow for the current day. No fault if someone can't get enough of this, but I've long had my fill. It's like when Mega Man 9 came out and it was a big breath of fresh air. Then they kept going and reminded why the series went stale in the first place.

Kind of weird how people really go out of their way to dump on this game.

Disappointed by the cavalier attitudes. You simply can't imagine the suffering people have been through waiting for this game. To have a game announced, and being made to wait for it, stricken with an inability to purchase the game until it releases, is one of the worst struggles to impose on a person. Justice for the Silkies.

Sounds like a horrible slog. Even the mechanics sound way too involved for a game that was pitched as relaxing. I would have bitten for a game that was little more than like a modern Virtual Springfield, wandering the familiar locales and picking up trinkets. That would have been a proper Shire simulator.

But on the whole it seems clear the way to go with LOTR games is mostly before the Jackson movies. The movies are the best but ever since then the games became big business by association. Shadow of Mordor was an okay Boromir in Amon Hen simulator I guess and the GBA games had a decent Diablo flair but the games were better when no one cared about the property.

Good memory of me trying to find the big deal, even being 2018, after the hype was normalized. Not a bad game. The shmup mechanic is cool, and it has some great moments in the soundtrack. But the total lack of brevity & efficiency in the writing (which is funny because that's one of Earthbound's greatest strengths), characters that just shout their motivations over and over, and a morality system that tips its hat immediately as something that will judge you for killing at the end made it a game I never wanted to play again.

Most of all, finding out that the game that supposedly allows you to choose your own path requires you to play specific paths in order to see the true ending. Bag that. I watched it on YouTube and was glad I didn't waste the time and didn't spend a playthrough being guilted for killing everyone on a path only being played because the game requires it for the full experience.

Reeks of doing something obviously stupid to draw attention, because people love feeling smarter than the guy on the Internet. Looks like it worked.

Finally a set at a non crazy price. Which probably means these will go fast.

Yeah it won't sell well forever, Nintendo is still doomed. Sure. Only crazy rich gamers are buying it now that's the only demographic who bought a Switch 2 so far. It's always those little caveats. That $5 hike will surely sink the pro controller.

The product speaks for itself. It might not have a great dpad but Nintendo has been putting out the best pro controller option for their systems since the Wii. People can lie to themselves about the cheaper alternatives like people did with the N64 knockoffs, but you get the quality you pay for.

What she doesn't even have the right hair color? What a load.

Just re-upping my argument that Teleroboxer should be #2. I was still doing a playthrough once a year or so until a few months ago when my childhood VB finally lost its ribbon cable glue. I'm guessing it didn't rank as high because most people have played it on an emulator. It really doesn't hit right without the dual d-pads and headset; probably the only game in the library I can say that about.

I'd also put Tetris a little higher. It benefits from the dual dpads as well but more so because of the puzzle mode which never gets a mention, where you're recreating 3D objects.

Context matters, you can't just throw two sets of numbers up and make any worthwhile conclusion. May as well be comparing the next Animal Crossing game and pointing out it isn't selling as quickly as New Horizons.

I'm so relieved the expert weighed in with that expert evaluation that these are different systems. Truly bleeding edge bar none analysis here. I look forward to his deep dive on stacking the iPhone against the Playdate.

@RendoFonzarelli the game case equivalent of buying expensive jeans with a distressed look. To each their own but yeah definitely wouldn't buy this and especially not at that crazy price.

I've been getting back into Tour lately, so I appreciate this a lot. The combo building is such a catchy way to play MK and I love the wide array of character costumes and carts. It's admittedly not as fun without the gacha (which I usually don't enjoy in games) but still a blast. Glad they're keeping this going.

Finest maker of status symbol cases.

@Ellie-Moo the weekly challenges in the nso app. Opening a particular classic game, backing up data, opening a game with online functions, sometimes downloading a trial. It's usually good for a couple hundred points. If you haven't done it yet there's a few hundred to get easily by playing a little bit of Fire emblem Heroes and Super Mario Run.
https://my.nintendo.com/missions

Cool, looking forward to seeing what happens. After stuff like Ledger's Joker, Jackie Chan in Karate Kid 2010, and the Star Wars prequels I completely stopped caring about casting in as much as judging how good or bad it may be solely based on the actor. There are way more reasons why execution can go right or wrong and a good bit of that is totally out of the control of the actor. Especially with this movie, where the direction, the writing, the effects, and pretty much everything else is up in the air. All I can say now is they look the part, BOTW-style Zelda.

And let's be real. Regardless of casting, this won't be the Zelda a lot of people are expecting. Every Zelda game suffers that, and the movie absolutely will too. Shame the actors will undoubtedly take some heat for it.

Nicely written! There's always going to be the veruca salt types who want it all right away right now, but you made the case well here for Nintendo's metered approach. It's the same with NSO, frankly. I can load up any emulator on any hardware to get all the games. Having a curated collection with a slow roll eliminates the decision fatigue in a time where it is prevalent on just about any platform.

Not big on their dpads at all. If that's improved I may finally bite. Otherwise the only 8bitdo in my house will continue to be the pretty okay PCE 2.4G.

lol modern squeenix. And this is the company people want to trust in remaking FFIX and Chrono Trigger.

I'll still take the firehose over the sparse Wii shop days. Which still had plenty of crap (though hilariously named) like Big Kahuna Party. Gotta take the good with the bad.

@Pak-Man The seal of quality was little but a marketing tactic to conceal their controlling the means of cart production. The NES library was loaded with garbage proudly bearing the seal.

The great game key card boycott is going swimmingly, I hear it's on track to someday approach the dent made in the sales of the game who shall not be named.

@dew12333 exactly! Selling cards in random packs is artificial scarcity and we deserve access to all of them. Someday those card printers will be offline.

@WiltonRoots lol. That bingo card is on a speed run.

Article: the FBI seizes website hosting illegal activity.

The comments: big bad Nintendo at it again

Lol, gamers.

People voting with their wallet on these game key cards are going to find out it's as useless as voting third party in the US. The needle is immovable when the vast, vast majority doesn't care.

Me, for example. I don't care. More publishers were moving towards code in a box which is way worse than a game key card. This at least slows their roll on one-time use codes on a piece of paper for full price or offering zero non-digital options for big titles. Which is also probably inevitable and it's not like one can just buy Ys from the other long running company also producing Ys games to support their cart making.