DarkKirby

I am generally against "cannon" declarations made outside of the source material, even if from official sources.

That said, with every incarnation of Ganondorf being a different person, they may all have different last names anyway.

Here's the solution.

Stop dripping out games on the Virtual Console and just release all of them on every console that can run them.

Lower the freaking prices of these ancient games. Realistically, you can get these games for free and run them on an emulator on either your PC or phone, making the games hard to get and pricing them way over their worth is only cutting into your own profits and upsetting to consumers who will than look to get what they want elsewhere.

As Gabe Newell from Valve famously said, "Piracy Is a Service Problem". Sorry, it's not 1990, the "my way or the highway" approach doesn't work, I don't care how legally in the right you are. Refusing to to give consumers what they want conveniently at at convenient price is just forfeiting money and hurting customer relations.

Everyone else's Direct:

Japan's Direct:

This was honestly the biggest surprise for me in the Direct.

Better than the entire U.S./Europe Directs.

Did Nintendo announce if these new standalone docks do anything to reduce the screen scratching problem some people are having?

They're okay if a bit gaudy, but I still think the controllers are overpriced.

@JaxonH

If you look at the design of most portable devices that use SD/microSD cards, even Nintendo's past portable consoles, the SD/microSD card is enclosed and protected, because it's small, expensive, and valuable (because of the data it holds).

It's incredibly unusual to have the microSD card exposed in such a way as it is on the Switch.

I still don't understand why the kickstand, loose for many and meant to be opened regularly by design, is the only thing protecting your $100+, possibly $200+ micro SD card, from being lost.

I'll be watching for the "and more".

I don't need to know any more about Splatoon 2 and Arms.

Nintendo realizes that unlike their own consoles in which they sell you wallpapers and you can't set your own, that most devices let you set whatever wallpaper you want right?

Ditch the motion controls!

@Shiryu

Well, one of the biggest issues with Mighty No. 9 was they promised Megaman, and did something else, trying to "revolutionize" the Megaman formula rather than recreate it, and failed.

The criticisms surrounding Yooka-Laylee on the other hand (by the current reviewers), seem to be that it is just like Banjo-Kazooie, but that's not good enough anymore compared to modern games.

So if you're looking for Banjo-Kazooie, Yooka-Laylee delivers, if you're looking for a game that stands up next to modern AAA games, look elsewhere (according to the current reviews).

Bayonetta 3 would not be an announcement made by Sega in the middle of April.

As others have said, it's likely a PC release of the first Bayonetta game, which Nintendo doesn't have locked down.

FE: Heroes has entered the Dark Side of Free to Play.

And it is glorious.

I'm happy with this result because I don't think you should be able to own patents you don't actually use to make anything, and only own to claim royalties with, but the result came way too late, and killed any chance of 3D technology being used with whatever Nintendo's next portable would be (which was the Switch).

Well, it looks like a 3D Sonic game with nice graphics which is fine (I'm not part of that "all 3D Sonic games are bad" group), but it's not really enough footage to really determine much.

Sonic 2006 and Sonic Unleashed looked fine enough, it wasn't until people had a chance to play them that the large amount of mechanical problems became apparent.

Have you encountered any issues with other players breaking rules in the game?

It's not actually possible to interact with other players other than fighting against their AI teams in the Arena though.

If I had to harbor a guess it's probably people modifying their game data to give themselves free resources like Orbs. They made FE: Heroes require being online to play even though the entire game is played offline except for fighting random AI teams from other players, which you can only do 3 times a day anyway.

I step forward 2 steps back.

Suggesting there might be a cloud storage system is just making up excuses when such a thing shouldn't be necessary in the first place.

What is even the purpose of tying the save data to the console? I can only imagine it's some asinine anti piracy attempt.

I don't understand how this issue didn't come up in testing, it seems to be a common problem people are having.

Although I would have to question why the screen is made of plastic instead glass to begin with.

Sometimes when my cartridges get dirty, I wipe them down with a damp towel, will this chemical wash off onto my hands then?

You are a gamer and a Nintendo fan, but let's be real here.

The much, much, much more common parent's perspective on the Nintendo Switch:

"What's the Switch? I can just give my kid my smartphone to keep him busy".

I know the Switch is priced less than top end tablets (but it's not like the Switch is top end technology itself), but for most tablets the battery can be almost 1/2 of the space the tablet itself takes up (spread long and flat along the tablet to balance the weight), so that's what I would consider a " hulking beast of a battery", unless the battery in the Switch is really thick (which can't be seen from the picture), but that would severely throw off the balance of the Switch since it's on one side of it, so I doubt that's the case.

The reason I bring this up is the Switch's 2.5 hour estimated portable battery life that is expected for most AAA games is one of the Switch's notable faults.

Also, the fact that the battery is completely shoved to the side of the device means there was even less of a reason to have it be non removable and require it be a paid maintenance service from Nintendo to have it replaced.

This is great but I'm not entirely sure I should congratulate Nintendo for doing something that they should have done a very long time ago.

It's kind of like how Nintendo "revealed" they weren't region locking anymore.

Local multiplayer isn't dead, it's inconvenient for a very large majority of people. Many multiplayer games still have it, there are entire communities built around fighting games.

Having local multiplayer is almost never an excuse for not having online multiplayer, or a poor online multiplayer.

Surprising? No.

Inevitable? Not necessarily.

You have to pay extra for an increased difficulty level? That's pretty comical.

Nice Wii U commercials!

Does it need these things?

No.

Should it have these things because it's convenient and every other gaming system offers them, and having them makes the Switch a better value?

Yes.

When's Gardevoir?

The PS4 can barely run FFXV as it is, this is the least surprising no port confirmation possible.

The point is there really isn't a reason there shouldn't be a web browser.

Saying the reason is it's a "dedicated gaming device" is nonsense when Microsoft and Sony's gaming devices have it. It's just there for convenience.

Amiibo's by themselves is fine.

Getting DLC from Amiibos is fine.

Having DLC that isn't worth the price of the Amiibos exclusive to Amiibos and often require repeated scanning of the Amiibo to use the DLC to make sure you aren't "sharing" them is Ponyta manure.

Based on what? Compared to who?

"Western Developers" isn't a single group that's all the same.

So I take by its seemingly intentional omission, no online for Battle Mode?

It seems strange to simply not mention online, but mention local multiplayer.

Almost nobody cares about the heavily motion control based games, what a shocker.

*Sarcasm

What you want to call it isn't important. You're just arguing semantics at that point.

It doesn't look fun, and it certainly doesn't look like it's worth $50.00.

@IceClimbers

"Drinking" game indeed.

The concept that you have to pay in the first place for holiday sales is comical.

@nab1

I have, the battery in things like tablets are often almost as big as the tablet itself, but in the past Nintendo has kept the battery secure and prevented the battery from falling out with a screwed on back plate, I don't see why that couldn't have been done again.

Given, while still not ideal, I would trade a removable battery for water and shock proofing, but I don't think the Switch will have either.

Is it the top 3 of each gender that gets in the game or just the 2 in first place?

Not the kind of specs people wanted to know about.

There is some good news, it says there is a combination headphone/microphone jack, so you are still going to be able to have voice chat through the game while also hearing the in game audio, even if voice chat still doesn't work without the nonsensical paid smartphone app system.

Unless the Switch is waterproof and shockproof (to a degree), which some smartphones still accomplish with a removable battery, I don't see a real reason why the Switch doesn't have a removable battery.

I hope this wasn't an intentional decision so they can charge for maintenance, like Apple does.

The excuse that it would fundamentally change the game is frankly nonsense, at the very least they could have had the Switch's Rumble be directional since a Switch Controller has Rumble from 2 separate Joy Cons, but this is even more of a reason to just play BotW on the Wii U and not buy a Switch at launch.

While it's between Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Pokken in 1st and 2nd place, MvC3 is currently running away with it. It looks like for Pokken to win there would need to be a strong organized effort to vote for it.

Pokken being announced for the Switch might help also, since any game on the Wii U is doomed to have a restricted player base.

Doesn't Kerbal Space Program cause lag even on good PCs if your "spaceship" is elaborate enough?

I don't know if the stationary statues bumping into each other to show "battling" is supposed to be charming but it just looks lazy to me.

It's hardware capabilities compared to the competition combined with how it's being marketed as usable as a portable makes it a handheld. If the Switch succeeds, expect Nintendo to phase out the 3DS to encourage more Switch sales. If the rumored Pokemon Stars is only on the Switch as is expected, that process has already begun.

But it's being marketed as "home console" to justify the AAA home console price they're applying to many of the Switch games.

It's strange how Nintendo takes away options as a series becomes more popular.

When they thought Fire Emblem was a failure they had less censorship and dual audio.

When they discovered Awakening was actually a massive success they started making much more aggressive localization decisions to the series and took away dual audio.

Either they think if a series is popular, it'll sell regardless of if they (Nintendo) spend the small amount of money for extra options, or they think more options will confuse the poor casual who can't handle them.

A lot of these suggestions don't seem to be limited to the new HD Rumble, just Rumble in general.

From what I've heard from people who have tried it at the demo events, all they think HD Rumble is is the controller has 3 points of Rumble separated along it rather that 1. That sounds pretty situational, especially with more traditional games where the Joy Cons will be attached to something, like the Switch itself.

One suggestion I heard was was interesting, was for more traditional games, when you are taking damage on one side of your body in a first person game or something, only that side of the Joy Con would shake since each of the Joy Cons that form one controller are technically 2 separate sources of rumble.

Another one I heard was when playing a game like Mario Kart, if you go off road, the only one side of your controller would shake if only 1/2 of your kart's wheels was off road, so you could feel of you were straying off of the main road.

Call me fantasy driven but it always irked my how Nintendo refused to allow fictional colors and clothing for Miis.

If I want to be a red eyed Mii with horns and wearing medieval armor I should be able to.