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Unlike some closed minded people here, I'm keen to give streaming a try.
Once we get the holidays behind us, I think I'll give one of them a go. I haven't decided which I want to try out yet, though.

This article is worded all wrong, though. Stadia is running the game, not the Switch. Switch is just running Stadia, which runs on a plethora of devices. But even that is a stretch given Switch isn't even running it's own OS here. It's basically just an Android tablet in this case.

Must be quite something to have things you created to amount to something like this and be able to walk through worlds you created.

It looks pretty awesome, but I do hope that it is actually 'Nintendo World' and not just 'Mario World'. Like different areas that are also Zelda, Metroid, Kirby themed and such too (or plans for them).

Not that I'm going to get to go there....

@Mgalens It's an anniversary product. When the anniversary is over, the product is gone.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Nintendo hasn't said they will never release these games ever again, just this 35th anniversary package. Besides there being more anniversaries, these could also be sold separately or in a different package with different branding. Nintendo isn't going to say anything about future releases while this one is still available. It's an overreaction.

I would love to have Gamepass to come to Switch. Especially being able to stream games it otherwise couldn't run.
Nintendos history and current handling of online shows they either don't care or don't know how to implement online services properly, so someone with a history of doing it well would be preferred here, if it were coming to Switch.

I'm not sure why anyone would be against Gamepass coming at all. It'd simply be an option for those who want it. I never got the "I don't personally like it, so no one else should ever have it" attitude a lot of people seem to have about something like this.
Can't take this answer as definitive anyway. No way would something like this be revealed off the cuff in answer to an interview question. This would be the answer even if it were imminent. They never say anything until they are ready to, much like when they get asked about other things. Remember how they also weren't planning on releasing another Switch model, then announced the Lite like a week later....

Nintendo is going to be bashed for even existing here soon

Well, I thought we had gone a bit too long without a 'crap on Nintendo for doing something they are fully and legally entitled to do' bandwagon article.
Can't wait to see tomorrows, always keeps me guessing what 'fans' believe they are entitled to.

Did anyone really expect Animal Crossing to win? It could have sold 100million copies and it still wouldn't have won as it never had a chance.

You guys have some real high hopes. Ports of the Wii U ports, with no added content is the best I'd hope for.

Be nice if they'd do something for Metroids anniversary, but much like how this article ignores it, Nintendo will as well as history has shown for its previous milestone anniversaries.

Personally won't be picking it up on Switch. It takes way too much of a hit and I have other options to play it on without the huge compromise (portability isn't a factor for me for this game).

Regardless, Kudos to Panic Button for getting this to even run on Switch, and with a solid framerate to boot.

30 year old game gets a better, more thorough and in depth review than a modern high profile game does.

Why do we get more news about what Nintendos legal team is doing than we do about actual f&^#ing games?

30 years later and people are still somehow triggered by this?

What's friggin hilarious is how many people, especially on this site, are so against piracy....but have done a complete 180 and are suddenly all for piracy now because this one community thinks it's entitled.

These are all awful.
NA gets the vote only because it's less crowded.

I'm not even hyped enough to watch the trailer. I'll just be watching the reveals afterwards. No needs to waste 3 hours watching fluff, celebs and youtubers acting like morons when all I want is likely going to add up to 15min of reveal footage.

I guess #SaveSmash is a bit more catchy than #LetUsPirateYourGamesBecauseWeAreEntitledForSomeReason

First I've ever heard of this unspoken rule that it's okay to use your parents home as unlimited storage forever.

While I don't believe this story is even true, the moral of the story here is don't be a selfish douche who takes advantage of their parents. Why do people think they want your crap in their house for years and even decades after you have left?

I don't feel sorry this guy at all. I feel sorry for his mother for having a son that will publicly rake her over the coals for something that was completely his own problem.

Guess it was too much to expect a review that actually reviewed this game on its own merits.
Can you now review BotW? Cause I want to know how Assassins Creed, Far Cry and Skyrim are.
Docking points/con for borrowing heavily from BotW is a joke considering how much Nintendo borrowed from Ubisoft games in making it.

This review doesn't even touch on so many things or features. Where is the mention of the cross-progression between other versions? What a huge feature and this reviewer doesn't even mention it?
This is a terrible review and does the game a huge disservice.

I guess at least the reviewer is self-aware and knows they're lazy.

I'd recommend people check out virtually any other review on this game for any real information on it. Nintendoeverything has a good one. They do point out the similarities to BotW and AC, but then they move on and talk about the game on its own merits, which is what a real review is supposed to do.

The only one that doesn't make sense is Mario35.
NSO is pretty much a joke and one of the better offerings from it are Tetris99 and Mario35. Sure, the anniversary is done so all this stuff is being removed, but you'd think they'd want to keep one of the few redeeming features of their lackluster service.

As for the rest....well Wii U was dead when it was their main console, so no surprise about shutting that down.
Marios anniversary is over, so remove the anniversary edition All-Stars (which people need to be reminded that doesn't mean they aren't still going to sell them individually or in a new collection). Plus, it's not scarce whatsoever and people still have months to get it.
Game and Watch...well anyone who thought that would be available for more than a few months was already kidding themselves.

This whole thing is ridiculous and the same old story. Someone does something they know is going to be an issue and then cry foul when they get called on it.

Yeah, Nintendo should just condone the piracy of their software and forget about the repercussions that could have with anyone else wanting to pirate their stuff.

I never saw the first one. I may yet see it, but really the big turn off for me from the trailers was that it was set on modern day Earth and Sonic seemingly pulled here. I would have been pumped if it was set in the locales of the Sonic games and even been fully animated instead of live actors.
I just never get into it when these types of characters are dragged into modern day Earth. I'm really dating myself here, but like the Master of the Universe movie was a huge disappointment being set on Earth as it was. That movie alone probably instilled the strong dislike of that trope in me.

A lot of people acting like the first one is some long lost gem that no one got or will get to play. It's readily available on multiple devices, one of which is a Nintendo one.

NA and Japan are both decent.

What's up with the European colour choice? Is it a horror version? Was there a bloodbath on Dinosaur Island? That much red doesn't work at all.

Isn't this pretty common? I mean, it's a whole collecting thing in some fields to get stuff in different packaging like this (even called tri-logo), so this can't be that uncommon.

I dunno....this reads too much like a fanboy wet dream. And the usage of both Biohazard and Resident Evil is weird as well.
Not really buying into this as being completely legit, though some are bound to be true by sheer chance.

This is a weird article. The GPD isn't even a console, it's a portable PC. Anyone hoping for the performance of this machine in a Switch Pro for the Switch price point is kidding themselves, so why even make the comparison?
I wish I could get a bleeding edge PC better than PS5/XBX for the price of a console, doesn't mean it's gonna happen.

@Heavyarms55 lol, what? So, every Windows based PC, laptop and tablet is just a piracy machine? Cause that's what this actually is....a portable Windows based PC.

I did enjoy the Wii U and glad I got the black one. Ours is still hooked up, but going back to it now isn't great. It's slow and clunky, the Gamepad isn't great to hold.
Somehow the Wii U had better online features than it's otherwise better successor. Wii U had more features in this regard and they were free. Don't know how we went to paying for a worse service.

The poor Wii U was so unknown. I have all the Nintendo consoles from NES thru Switch hooked up still to my main TV. So of course all of them being in plain view, they're something people comment on when they come over. But the Wii U is the one they ask what it even is because no one recognizes it.

The key to DLC seems to be who's doing it. Nintendo has done this exact same thing and it seemed to be fine. Ubisoft does it and people lose their minds.

Switch actually benefits from this, subjectively. If they want the "best" version of a game on their platform, that's what they'll always have with a dual Switch release. XBox gets the prettier, more high end version (and likely with better online), while Switch gets the "inferior" version. Enable cross play and they're golden.
I wonder how they'll determine "best" when it comes to PC releases, though as that version would at the very least be on par with Xbox, though potentially be a lot prettier. I guess they could forgo Steam releases and/or force Gamepass so the games are still within their ecosystem.

This honestly just sounds like they're not pulling existing stuff from any platform, but going forward their stuff will be on everything except Playstation.

Stayed for the inevitable "update" - 'Nier Replicant not coming to Switch as it turns out this was a mistake from a site known for making similar mistakes many times over in the past.'

Good ol' RumourLife, where even very untrustworthy sources get headline articles.

"Sonic's 30th anniversary is coming up next year, so how could Sega potentially keep this long-running series feeling fresh?"
I find this an odd statement. Mario is pushing 40 and is doing almost the same thing he's always done. 2D Mario is the same thing through all his games. Mario Odyssey is essentially a prettier Mario64 with updates. Nintendo adds things here and there, but the essentials that makes it Mario is always underlying.
Sega just needs to stop messing with what makes Sonic, Sonic. The best Sonic game to come along in many years was Sonic Mania - which had many of the common essentials of Sonics golden years. Start with what works and then add new stuff from there.

Both. They both have their appeal and audience. I hate for them to pigeon-hole Zelda into one or the other. Better they keep switching it up.

@Jokerwolf Cool! I'm over in NS

I swear someone could draw stick figures, draw little hats on them with M and L logos, scotch tape that picture to a Switch and this site would be all over it: "Has Nintendo leaked new Paper Mario Stick Figure Edition?!?!?!?!"

This one went from rumour to obvious photoshop pretty quick. Maybe don't be so quick to pull the trigger on the rumours.

Well this is a nifty looking game I had never heard of before. Gonna add this to my wishlist of upcoming games.
It's nice to see developers admit they were initially wrong about skipping the Switch platform and how well their preorder sales are doing. Other devs may see that and reconsider games they weren't going to bring to Switch.

@Jokerwolf I presume you are in the Atlantic bubble as well?

While the Xbox won't be sitting next to my Switch (nor will the PS5), I would love to have Gampass/xCloud on my Switch.

Even though PC gaming seemingly outnumbers consoles, it's still not an option?
PC and Switch for me. Neither of the new consoles have appeal to me. I'm not a big fan of Sonys first party and I can get most Xbox stuff on PC.
PC should have been an option, not only as a gaming device, but because Xbox has sort of expanded there. This winter, the big change for me is I will be joining the Xbox ecosystem by adding Gamepass/xCloud.

So many people against something that they don't have to get themselves.
This may work for some people as an added bonus to their Switch. The people literally saying others should go without, simply because they themselves don't like it, need to relax, grow up and just let others enjoy things.

@westman98 While agree with you about Stadia and Luna, they were never the ones to do it. Google and Amazon are both outsiders to the industry trying to break into it with a new technology. They were always destined to fail.
I think what happens with xCloud is going to impact the streaming world more than anything. Microsoft is already well established in the industry, knows how to do online properly and has been laying the groundwork for an ecosystem for a long time. Plus, they are also able to integrate it into their existing service, making it not the only option, but as an additional feature. I think people are a lot more likely to add xCloud to their existing Gamepass or get Gamepass because it offers both, rather than jump on board with industry newbies like Google and Amazon.
Personally, I've never owned an Xbox, but Microsoft has definitely piqued my interest in what they've done and I'm going to give it a go this winter....because they are offering both.

As for the Switch, given Nintendos history with how they handle online applications, I think they should avoid it themselves and partner up instead to allow something like xCloud to run on it (with required NSO, of course).

3DS is the best portable ever made by anybody, including the Switch. I love that little system.
And apparently I'm in the minority, but I love the 3D effect and wish it had carried over as an option on Switch.

I'm not interested in single purchase streaming games.
I am interested in streaming services. In a service things will get added and removed all the time, like Netflix does with moves and shows. And that'd be fine. If one game goes, there's always another taking its place.

I really don't get the hate. "You're paying for something you don't own forever". Okay....this same thing applies to movies at the theater, Netflix, Spotify, concerts, sporting events, conventions, and a plethora of other things. It's the experience that matters to many, not the acquisition of something for life.

@Gwynbleidd You misread what I said. Native or nothing is fine for you. I don't care either way if you stream or not.
It's the native or nothing - meaning they shouldn't even offer it to anyone else.
Do I want to pay for individual games streaming? No. Would I as a service, a la Netflix? Yes, yes I would. A great many customers are also just consumers, meaning they consume the game, then move on. They don't care if they can play it 20 years from now. A huge majority of the games I have bought over the years I have never touched again. It's not as important to many people as some think. It's like going to a movie theater, you pay, you get an experience, you move on. You don't get to keep the movie, you don't get to watch it later unless you for it again.
Media as a service thrives because this is the majority sentiment about it. If the majority of people cared about having physical copies of everything for their lifetime, these services wouldn't be dominating their respective forms, be it movies, TV, music and soon games. I don't believe I've ever seen this kind of resistance to a delivery system before. Is there also this kind of resistance to Netflix, Spotify and such? I don't own any of those movies or music, either.
I get theres people in each that love to collect vinyls, VHS, Blu-rays and also games, but just because that's their ideal doesn't mean no other delivery system should exist for other people.
It's incredibly selfish when people say "I don't like the way that's being delivered, so it shouldn't even be offered to you".
There's no way this game was going to run on Switch otherwise. If John Doe can and wants to stream it, he shouldn't have that option because someone else doesn't like it? That's a terrible mentality to have going through life.

Most of those cons don't apply to me, at all. The company shutting down...well, nothing I can do about that, but if it's after I beat the game, I couldn't care less. And maybe someone didn't pay $300 for a console to stream games.....maybe they bought it for every other reason to buy it and are now like "Wow, now I can also do this other thing with it to play this game I couldn't have otherwise."

@Gwynbleidd People are free to dislike and not buy into streaming games all they want. It's the next step of pushing their personal preference on everyone else, saying it should never exist or no one should ever use it that gets me. If one is free to dislike it, then others are free to embrace it.
In this case it isn't a matter of them deciding 'what's best for you'. This is a case of the game won't run on Switch natively (comparisons to Witcher 3 are moot and already spelled out above) and so they offered it literally the only way they could.
For some people, given a choice between this or nothing, they seem to think nothing was the better option, regardless of others who may use it.

@TheFrenchiestFry I have the opposite stance. Games probably shouldn't be revealed at all that early.

So many people have absolutely no idea about how games actually work and why they can't be ported to Switch.

And I really don't get the "I don't personally like it, so it should never exist and to hell with anyone else who may prefer to use this over buying another system" comments.
How selfish and narrow-viewed can you possibly be?

One of the very few youtubers I regularly watch (both his AVGN persona and normal James). Normal James has a lot of the same movie interests as I do, so I like those reviews and when talks about that stuff. AVGN is just so over the top that I like it. Mike Matei I can only stand for so long, but I do like when he gets James to play new games or obscure ROM hacks.
I have and finished the first game on 3DS, but I'll definitely get this. The games are supposed to be hard and stupid and cheap since they're based on that type of stuff AVGN reviews and makes fun of.

What I gather from quite a few people here is "it doesn't work or suit me personally, so it shouldn't be offered at all to those who can".
Personally, I won't go this route on Switch as I can just grab these on Steam. But, if it works for people who don't want another console/PC and they have the internet to do it with, then fantastic. More options for more games for more people.

A lot of people here are going to need to find a new hobby soon.
I was all physical at the start of this generation, but it's either move with it or miss out on just enjoying myself.
Buying games that stream isn't a sustainable model, this is just opening the door to games as a service on Switch and it's coming.
Be it xCloud, Stadia, Luna, whatever, one of them will come.

I don't really get why anyone would be opposed to it. If you don't like it, don't get it. But it's a choice for those who only have a Switch and no way in hell is Switch running these games natively (without major sacrifice, if even then). Even an upgraded Switch 2 won't be close to PS5/XBX. Brings games to people who may not otherwise be able to....not a bad thing, considering a lot of gamers are consumers - they consume a game, then are done with it. This could work for them.

I love how I can climb just about everything, tackle enemies in different ways, use towers to unlock the map, find a bunch of hidden things, use different weapons.
BotW or Assassins Creed? It's almost.....almost as if BotW didn't invent the open world genre, nor most of the mechanics it uses (including its art style).

Such a knee-jerk reaction from some to completely write a game off for doing what Ubisoft was already doing long before BotW.
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to it. I'll be skipping the Switch version though and picking it up on PC.