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Respectable numbers, especially the number of years people want to stay there.

@Broosh and I don't think they had their sh** together coming into this year pre-Covid as well.

@Desrever i think it's possible the Mario one is real and the user had discovered it and made a fake Fzero account to (in the ideal situation) tweet out alongside the Mario reveal..their very special piece of video art.

Maybe the best reveal of the day. The tweet translating to "I did it." alongside the video had me in stitches.

@N8tiveT3ch it's great. It might not be everyone's cup of tea though. It's an rpg, but the systems were totally different from what I was used to. It's super pretty on Switch btw, one of the best looking games...some environmental stuff is basic and stiff, but it all comes together in a really pretty way with beautiful colors and lighting. I'd recommend reading up on the crafting and stuff to see if it is appealing or not.

@PikaPhantom I agree with what you are saying. However, them saying "updates on our partners", I for one assumed something like a Doom release date update and a Bravely Default 2 release date at the very least,...and at the very most an update on NMH 3 with something indie probably tossed in. Instead we got Cadence of Hyrule and WWE mobile game. The SMT stuff was cool, but didn't show gameplay for V (other companies would get slammed for that this late in the game) and was for stuff sometime next year.

Hate how the poll options are always named. Definitely should be a "I didn't expect much and still was somehow disappointed."

@BenAV It's a NOT FREE to play free to play, right now.

@RustedHero lol yes

@brunojenso Alphadream died last year.

This exists mostly for Bravely Default 2. Then we get an update on Doom Eternal. Maybe an update on NMH and something indie like Silksong. No Shin Megami Tensei or Bayo 3. They reallllly should have saved themselves some backash and just called this a "Nintendo Partners Showcase." Not used the word Direct at all.

Prinny is not an RPG. Take 2 seconds to think with your actual brain before you do these articles. Seriously there's a lot of people here who blindly follow your opinions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7xuru15-jg

@Rika_Yoshitake you don't always have to finish a game to know if it's bad

It will come to Switch. Crash Trilogy sold on Switch like it was a 1st party game.

@sanderev I'm down with that. But that's not what I'm saying or seeing lately. Kirby Star Allies sort of kicked off what I'm talking about.

@Quimbolas YS VIII is such a good follow up to pick. The Future Connected Story is like 8 hours at the briskest tho, I'd just run thru it quick first or you'll prob never play it. I ended up playing YS VIII (on hard mode) for like 90 hrs.

Wii era all over again. ANYTIME this company starts doing well. How about this Nintendo, just put difficulty modes in your game from the start.

@PipeGuy64Bit most all the enemies in that game look the same tho

@PipeGuy64Bit I think his hands are tied and he's being polite to the overlords while also trying to let us know what's going on due to the reaction this got.

Why even make these games then, in this genre? It doesn't work, this sort of game is supposed to be story driven, that mandate kills such a thing. Focus the time wasted on games like this on something more interesting that doesn't have those shackles. Or just make more passable and generic NSMB games that have an interesting art style. Nintendo sabotaging itself again.

@KoopaTheQuick Took forever to find this all:

Kimishima said this in a joint 2018 financial Q&A with Kurusawa while Kurusawa was getting acclimated:
"After Mr. Yamauchi’s presidency, there was a change in the environment surrounding Nintendo, where no longer could any single person decide matters on their own. That was the start of the collective leadership system that I, too, have carried on. In my view, Mr. Furukawa’s role as president is to bring the best out of the excellent people responsible for software development, hardware development, sales, and marketing. He must steer Nintendo as a whole, and push for the points that must not change. The executive board resolved to choose Mr. Furukawa as the right person for that role." One on hand, nothing too juicy. Keep in mind Iwata wasn't president until Yamauchi stepped down in 2002. When Kimishima took over after Iwata passed away he said he planned to "to change our directorial structure to speed up decision-making and execution on a variety of projects that members of the management team were considering at the time." You can see where this is going.

Furukawa then said this in that same financial meeting, that he planned to refocus development "under a next-generation collective leadership system." He followed it up by saying, ""Mr. Kimishima has shown through his own actions what it means to manage a company collectively rather than relying on the efforts of a single person, and I understand my role as one of continuing on the same course," Furukawa said. I remember more being reiterated elsewhere ut am having trouble finding it since all the Furukawa stuff now is showing up for 2019 and 2020 "IS THERE GONNA BE NEW HARDWARE" kind of articles.

Miyamoto's role changed a lot in what he was focusing on:

General Manager of Nintendo EAD (1984–2015)
Senior Managing Director at Nintendo (2002–2015)
Representative Director at Nintendo (2002-present)
Fellow at Nintendo (2015-present)

He's sort of more a Stan Lee with more actual duties, but he's overseeing a lot of stuff that extends out past...flipping the "tea table over" and overseeing games. In 2018 (and you can google some of these articles) there was a lot of talk around this, that Nintendo creatively was going to have more synergy between creatives, than one dude coming in a making people restart stuff willy nilly. You can doubt this, say I'm stretching, but the only credit Miyamoto gets in Paper Mario today is a "special thanks." So in this instance, if this game reflects Miyamoto's influence as you said, it's just a hold over from what he told the creative team years ago.

@doctorhino or they want you to click on the Amazon affiliate link and buy the game. They get a kickback for that.

@Moon Lego was part of this, but Lego isn't waiting and acting like a real company during the current crisis. Might seem harsh to say, but it seems like Nintendo has been being more stubborn lately than anything else. After watching the Devolver digital Direct, I was like "good god, there's no reason Nintendo can't throw a Direct together and show some stuff and just not have solid dates for things." A quote from an IGN dude recently said that years into the 3DS lifecycle, Nintendo was still bolting 3DSs to the developers desks at the office, and pointed to that as a tiny example of the problems they may be having in their company culture right now during COVID. I hope they prove me wrong and make me look like an idiot.

It's impossible they didn't have some kind of plans. Curious to see how stubborn Nintendo is and if they'll hold off until the park gets opened next year for SYNERGY.

@KoopaTheQuick his role is different now, and I think Furakawa has tried to reorg things a bit so it isn't a few people in the company pulling that kind of behavior. Remember that quote from him when he became president? If you don't I'll try to find it. However, I think its possible they still develop by that comment from the oh great on high Miyamoto-sama.

@RupeeClock I think this battle system could have been dope, but they didn't commit to it. The boss battles show just how much more could have been done with this. They were nervous to abandon all RPG tropes to something more tactics based (which the ring system hints at). They also get nervous putting challenge in any of their games lately, so they backed off on making either the puzzle elements more diverse, or the RPG elements were challenging (grinding, diverse array of skills and partners). This is Nintendo trying to make it so much for everyone that it's bland, while at the same time trying to do something sort of new.

@sanderev Some people complained about weapon breaking. Some people thought parts of Mario O. were a bit easy. I think most people were down with Splatoon 2 being a 1.5 so the experience could continue fromt he WiiU so soon, but the critical voices were there not super loud on those games. Doesn't even compare to this game or all the discourse (to a lesser extent than PM) around people playing in late game in AC NH.

@YANDMAN I mean story and lore wise, even design wise there's nothing super unique here. I actually love the game, not throwing shade, and believe that BotW cribbed some ideas from it. There's things in it, enemies even and their behaviors that are so BotW-like.

I'd be down if this game committed more to that new battle system...but the game feels like it wants to be an RPG, wants to be a tactics-like puzzle "fighter", wants to be just an adventure game...doesn't commit. I find the new battle system really compelling, love the idea, love tactic style RPGs asking me to consider placement when playing. Here...I think it'd almost be better if regular enemy encounters you squashed with a hammer, but scripted battles took place on a mini map, like Fire Emblem and had this ring idea more integrated. Maybe it isn't even always a ring. But this is typical Nintendo lately. Amazing ideas that are so limply executed the games get old fast.

@KoopaTheQuick You got a source for that statement? I don't doubt it. But he wasn't a producer or supervisor or anything on this one. Just got a thanks.

@sanderev Look at 2017. Fans weren't complaining about those games as described and some were vastly different (Zelda) some were the same (Splatoon 2) and some were different that what came before but not vastly different (Odyssey). There's more examples from that year. Almost seems like something has changed since then?

@kingbk didn't even think about that...single guy here with a cat and no roommates (don't even let my girlfriend visit rn). The most interest my cat ever has in the tv, is watching Byleth move back and forth on a black loading screen.

Is there really that much ownable in DD that warrants a series? Played quite a bit of it on Switch (solid game) but haven't really caught a lot that seems unique to it.

Finding less temptation to purchase these kinds of releases now that I mostly stay indoors at my apartment. Meaning, I could buy this for $20 on a Ps4 or $5 on Steam. Anyone else finding that's changing their buying habits with Switch releases?

@TG16_IS_BAE I have a PDP Afterglow Switch pro style controller with back paddles but they feel super cheap and awful. The texture of the controller is awful feeling smooth plastic and the shape is just off enough, with the odd ZL and ZR triggers that it feels awkward to grip the whole thing. I got the wired one so I could use the headphone jack in it, but the jack only outputs super low audio to your headphones making it unusable. Can't remember a time I've had such problems as I've had with Switch licensed and 1st party controllers. Need a paddle or macro button controller for Fortnite, the game plays at such a disadvantage if you have to take your thumbs off the sticks when building.

"Paddle" buttons on the back are a big selling point for me. The smaller size of this has me worried it won't be comfortable though. Anyone have a good recommend for Switch controllers with back buttons/paddles?

@nessisonett he totally gives off a Travolta-esque "Moose is in the hooouse...MOOSE is iiiin the hoooouse" kind of vibe.

@retro_player_77 they are referring to the fact it's getting such a spotlight as a new game - no other news to speak of besides legos

When you make these posts, please include what the content was.

@rockodoodle Seems to be the case from my FB friends that are their new Switch accounts to FB.

@playstation_king same

@Rika_Yoshitake yeah well lately it's people like you who are more annoying - complaining before anyone is actually complaining - the "voice of reason" complainer.

In addition to what ive said above and ganes just not running well on the system...Im going to be thinking hard about whether or not Im getting their next system or jumping over to a Series X or Ps5. Nintendo makes my fav games...when they actually come out. But the system has gotten boring for me in addition to all the maddening hardware and peripheral issues.

Experienced desynching issues with my first 2 joycon set so never had them long enough to drift. Of the next 2 sets bought, 1 experienced drift a year after purchasing them, while the other lasted 6 months. Sent both in for repair and one set started drifting again after 4 months. Unfortunately that set of joycon I had given, with my old Switch (the older battery version) to my girlfriend and her kid. Due to quarentine I had to buy and send them another set because we dont visit. Really mad about all of this. Ive blown so much money on the Switch. Also, their sticks on the Pro controller...while they dont drift they wear out pretty fast depending on the kinds of games you play. Ive gone thru 3 of them because of Fortnite.

@TG16_IS_BAE yeah they could have, there's a CPU bottlenecking issue here that ruins everything. Apparently it was going to be even weaker, but Capcom of all people talked them into at least the specs they have now. This is a system that is only a bit more powerful than consoles that launched in 2005. We can talk all day about "graphics not mattering" but games on this system just dont run well. Fortnite is broken on here. Newer ports run or look like total garbage. ALl of this isn't an issue when Nintendo is pumping out 1st party stuff, but when they aren't we just aren't able to get but 3rd support and when we do it's really old really overpriced collections with most of the content only available as a download, with games that don't run off the card or broken playing games like Outerworlds. Switch pulled me back into gaming with it's amazzzzzing 1st year...but after the past few, I'd be pretty hesitant to pick up their next console unless it's an upgraded version of the Switch than runs everything I've sunk money into, much better.

They kind of blew it with this game imo. Good for an Apple Arcade audience, but they should have made some difficulty tweaks among other things to this version. Pretty flat, boringly easy. Also they need need need to start giving more attention to their backgrounds and environments. They look pretty generic at this point. Nothing to get excited about here.

@Yorumi I don't know if they are biased against everything else...they gave the awful Outer Worlds port and Mutant Year Zero, 8 out of 10's...maybe it's because they don't have a need for an Amazon affiliate link here?

@wazlon Or at least a Game Boy Online app so I can play it again.

Got this collection for 12 bucks last year new on the PS4 and was pretty bored by Borderlands 2. Hard to put my finger on it...it was really easy and kind of felt "vacant" in it's layout. I play a lot of Fortnite so my noodle might be a bit too cooked to appreciate this. But man oh man was that robot annoying.

It's funny tho, these "late", "old" or very "old" rereleases on Switch that don't contain much on the actual Switch card...they are so expensive comparatively speaking to PS4 releases as they stand now, that by the price difference you could just straightup get a PS4 Pro and prob save money in the long run.