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@KBuckley27 Oops, it's already there.

@HardcoreDaBoss Personally, I won't settle for anything less than a Switch that can run 4K60 in portable mode, burns my hands and lasts thirty minutes on a single charge.

More consistent resolution and/or higher framerates docked would be quite nice, but a portable system has to make trade-offs that regular consoles don't.

I don't think Mario Kart 8's success means anywhere near that many would pick up a Mario Kart 9. Its sales go up whenever hardware sales go up - it may be The game to get with your Switch, with nearly a 50% attach rate, but I'm not sure how many of those people are a)still using their Switches, b)still buying games instead of being content with everything they picked up then, and c)interested in buying another Mario Kart in particular.

I was hoping they'd finally make it more stable!

Geno. Partnered with Waluigi. Totally confirmed.

@ralphdibny She had to stop partway through on the hardest difficulty - the linked article said "The fight that eventually does her in is the same fight she’d made it to at seven hours and 18 minutes when the game was set to its easiest difficulty."

@Grumblevolcano Mario Maker 2 multiplayer was absolutely terrible at launch, even when I moved somewhere with much faster internet, but I've found it's run way better after the playing with friends update.

The worst case for the Switch Pro is a Wii U repeat, not a New 3DS repeat. I doubt a Switch Pro would outpower an XB1 or PS4 (and if it did, RIP battery life), so sending it out right around the time the XBSX and PS5 are getting hyped up might be a bad look.
Let them play their cards first, let mobile technology advance a bit more, and THEN release a Switch follow-up.

"Assuming Nintendo hasn't hacked its own copy of the game (which it hasn't)"

But they probably aren't using the retail version. There's no guarantee anything in a development version will make it to a release.

@SwitchForce what article are you even reading? This is about the problems during development - obviously they got it working before release!

But, yeah, guess the firsthand developer account is just an upset troll only pretending the game needed to be optimized more for the Switch because...?

@personauser93 I wouldn't expect Final Fantasies here at all given Squeenix's been reselling their old games themselves. I do wish Square would port over more of their SNES back catalogue myself.

I can only hope the lack of EarthBound and Beginnings is a sign that they're definitely going to release a M🌍THER Trilogy Collection soon and not them just forgetting about them like the rest of the SNES games they rereleased before but didn't put here.

For anyone trying to understand that title: first they made Under Night In-Birth, which, okay, kind of dumb. Then they made the Exe:Late version, which really wasn't a horrible subtitle on its own. Then the Exe:Late[st] version, which made sense from there.
But then they made an even later version, and tried to get too clever with it. Late[r] wasn't enough, apparently they just had to clear the [st] first instead of making a pronounceable title.

@PBandSmelly There's also Reggie, who easily comes off as a racist caricature, but he has an incredibly small part and they could easily rework him to be less of a problem.

@glaemay Death Stranding's a game people either love [while acknowledging its problems] or hate. Either they're cool with the core premise of finding your way around to deliver stuff, and make it to where that gets easier and the game picks up several hours in, or it's just not for them.

Whoa, I love that aesthetic. It's totally impractical, but damn if I don't want one

Can it take down Garfield Kart though?

@Gs69 I mean, the PS1 classic was also so bad that the SNES mini could run PS1 games better than it. Yeah, many games from that era haven't aged well, but I think a N64 mini would probably be more up to standard.

@SalvorHardin This isn't the first video game-related thing Kenny's done. If I remember correctly, I think he knows Toby Fox IRL?

@Orangezap89 At least exercise is probably the best online challenge.

@ShadJV Maybe so, but there's never been a better time to release it. RPGs are finally catching on more. People know who Lucas is after a decade in Smash (and Ness has been in Smash for two decades.) EarthBound's cult following has only grown thanks to that, decent hits like Undertale citing it as inspiration, and a handful of re-releases lately. [I still don't get why they haven't put EB and Beginnings on the Online apps yet. They probably just forgot, but I'd like to think they're saving them for a trilogy collection/remake like Square did with Mana, which will probably never happen, but oh well.] And with the eShop, they could release it pretty cheaply, and only do a small physical release if it turns out there is an audience.

@Lizuka Look, Amiibo's low production is absolutely BS, but I think generally there's no grand conspiracy - Nintendo probably genuinely just keeps not realizing how high demand is for most of their products.

"Ken cosplaying as Pokémon Trainer" was one of the first English takes I saw

Hopefully we get a Typing of the Dead remake too

@locky-mavo This starts this week, with qualifiers running through October. Allowing later DLC characters would mean it wouldn't be fair if Terry comes out during then. People at one qualifier wouldn't have had enough time to practice against him. People at a later one might realize he's actually not that amazing. And during the finals, that could cause problems. Who knows if there'd actually be real problems, of course - but this way, even the Smash community can't find a way to complain about it.

If there's any problem here, it's just how long that tournament period is; it's pretty common for even low level tournaments to not allow new characters for a week or two so everyone else can get used to them.

Mario Kart with a wheel is still the best Mario Kart.

@earthinheritor The most extreme, toxic, other console/PC fanboys are never gonna take Nintendo seriously anyway. Anyone who is very familar with Nintendo knows they do unexpected dumb stuff like this whenever they feel like, so this isn't going to affect their opinions much. So this changes opinions for about zero people.

@nintendolie People leave or get busy working on other things, and might need to be replaced; bigger projects need more people to finish in a reasonable time. Staffing up at the start of a new game is pretty common.
Unless you're assuming they fired the Zelda team after BotW.

@Doktor-Mandrake and Smash characters, which includes Sony-originating characters like Cloud and now, eventually, Joker; and multiplatform characters like Sonic and Snake.

I'll be interested to see how this one develops, assuming they do work on it further. Just a bit of graphical polish and a better defined art style would probably do wonders. And I'm guessing the gameplay will see some tuning up as well.

I loved the main gameplay, but a lot of the puzzles felt like useless padding, and what story there was couldn't keep my hooked by itself.

I got about halfway through the main game, I think, and then got stuck playing SMM2. Sometime I'll have to go back - the last boss I got stuck on was amazing.

@Francema I mean, they already missed Aladdin, and I think it was probably better to not fan the flames given how many people didn't want the live-action Lion King movie.

Racing games would make more sense in portrait if they were specifically designed for taking long straightaways quickly. Like... early F-Zero.

Mario Kart's whole thing has always been having more turns so it still seemed fast when it had to be way slower, so I'll agree in theory it wouldn't work that great, but there's definitely some uses for portrait.

@imgrowinglegs Probably because FF VII's been re-released all the time, and FF IX has been re-released before, but VIII is the one game they've hardly touched since release.

I see that one troll that kept insisting this game was doing terribly in every other comment section is nowhere to be found.

@Heavyarms55 Being free-to-play is the only reason Fortnite has the huge audience of kids that PUBG doesn't. If it was a paid game, it absolutely wouldn't have taken off as much. Most people would probably just play PUBG instead of this new clone Epic was asking them to pay for.

@Bunkerneath There's tons of unofficial uploads/lyric videos on YouTube that get generally ignored. Sometimes the copyright holder monetizes them. Nintendo could absolutely do that instead, and easily make a little money while still letting people easily listen to and share their music.

Otherwise, they could make up for it by pulling a Square Enix and putting most of their music on Spotify. (And finally localizing the third game in one of their smaller series while they're at it.)

@SetupDisk Oh, there's plenty of Nintendo ads on YouTube. A good supply in movie theaters, too. I'll occasionally see YT ads for PlayStation games, but it's pretty obvious at this point that Sony and especially Microsoft are mostly done with this generation.

@ALinkttPresent @stevenw45 It's the maximum possible score that can display on the counter, as it has nine digits and the ones digit is never used - everything gives tens or hundreds of points.

Ceave's earlier attempt only got to a "measly" 788,086,500, before someone else found this new trick.

@ZeldaToThePast It's Gooigi green!

@ALinkttPresent That's never stopped anybody, nor should it. Generic cereal and non-Lego building blocks get trademarked all the time.

If they're going to keep releasing NES games, all I want is EarthBound Beginnings.

"it will be next to impossible for anyone else to buy it now, unless they can find that rare physical copy that apparently exists."
As will eventually happen to all games only released physically, unless you're willing to pay hundreds for a game.
Unfortunately, neither digital nor physical do enough for preserving games for others to play. Even with the new trend of re-releases, obscure games and games by defunct developers are going to be left behind. And licensed titles never get included in Mini consoles or collections, for the same reason this is getting taken down.

@KBuckley27 Smash has gotten even more time!

... Which is fine by me.

@Snakesglowcaps Super Smash Bros. and F-Zero X both ran at 60 FPS on the N64. While there's plenty of types of games I personally don't mind a stable 30 FPS for, it's not like this is something new.

@graysoncharles If Mario Kart and Tropical Freeze can both reach 1080p and 60 FPS on the Switch, there's a lot of games that don't have much excuse. Obviously, some games do demand more graphically, and not everyone can afford to do the intense optimization those titles already had to have to run on the Wii U, but I'd like to see more teams make that effort.

@mrmememan WeSki with the balance board was pretty fun as a kid.

@Anti-Matter You can add dogs into Wii Fit, even.

Where are these magical Wal-Marts you speak of? I dropped $60 on Tropical Freeze!

Color Splash's writing is one of its best parts. He'll be missed.

I see you left out the #RemasterThousandYearDoor from that tweet, though.