DavidMac

Nintendo has a range of big titles for Spring, and I’m sure if they were worried about their fall line up they’d be holding back Snap for Christmas. Given that they aren’t, probably means Game Freak has a pokemon game set up for Winter.
This year we’ll probably see some ports of older 3D Zelda games. Either as a bundle or sprinkled through out the year.
As far as other games, I don’t think Nintendo is worried, they know the switch is a hit with a huge install base. So they’ll release a few new games that they’re confident in, and let the third parties make up the difference.

Can’t you already sleep in the house? I swear I remember doing it.

@Keithustus so like Mario x Braid? That’d be cool!

@hakjie11

Honestly if they bought the TV within the last few years they probably have a 4K. You really can’t get an HD one anymore.

@AJ_Lethal
I skimmed those and all they are are angry comments because the game’s art style is creepy AF.

If you designed a game with black people and drew them in a manner that they found offensive, would you think it was unreasonable for them to complain? If you made a game where gay people were depicted in an offensive manner, would you not expect complaints? Literally every group complains when people who are outside of their group depict them in a manner that devalues them.

Yet women are constantly dressed up in media as if they’re little more than sex dolls. It’s creepy AF and there’s something deeply wrong both with the guys who made this game, and with the people who want to defend it.

If you put people into your art, they’re allowed to complain about it. What these creeps don’t get is that there’s more to being female than being bouncy.

@Orpheus79V I’m, death threats kinda are a partisan thing though.

I mean, in America you don’t really have real liberals, you have extreme right wing politicians, and you have right wing politicians like Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, etc. (Technically America does have some actual left leaning politicians but they’re generally kept in token positions and both major parties strive to keep them out of power.)

Still, death threats come from a place of wanting to control, or intimidate. People who think that sort of behaviour is acceptable overwhelmingly support cruel, and hurtful approaches to politics, which means they vote right wing. (Though again, given that America is currently dying of late stage capitalism, I can see how you might have trouble knowing what someone who actually values both personal and community freedoms.)

In my experience, as someone who has been a part of organizations that received death threats, it always always from somebody on the far right of the political spectrum. Generally believing that God was against their enemies so it was okay to threaten to murder and or rape them.

This reeks of a marketing stunt. The people who make death threats are generally the ones who love scantily clad female anime girls.

I freed Fortnite by installing it.

So you’re saying I shouldn’t name my kid Voltorb?

The first demo was kinda weird. At the same time, so was Octopath’S first demo and they cleaned that up a lot.

I’ll probably buy this one soon after it launches, though I do have a big back log. Does the progress from this one transfer over?

Nintendo should just put their OSTs on Apple Music and call it a day. Enjoy lots of bonus revenue and make fans happy.

I got both of these on sale for 50 CND each. Played 11S with sprained wrists the game was so good! Haven’t had that much fun with a JRPG in years and years, reminds me of the fun I had with FF6, Mario RPG and Chrono Trigger.

Still need to get around to builders.

Mini OLED is still very expensive, Nintendo avoids using expensive parts when they can. They’ll just go with s good quality IPS display and people will faun over how mucus more rich the colours look. Especially as Apple moves to OLED for their phones, there is going to be tons of high quality LCD line capacity at factories. And really, putting micro LED in a device that could end up on a playground is just wasteful snd it would balloon the price.

Jon literally has the best voice on the internet.

I noticed Jon had done a couple Nintendo Life videos already. I’ll be happy to hear him on the Nintendo Life videos. He’s got that crazy smooth voice, I could listen to this guy read the phone book.

@KnightsTemplar the iOS version looks great. I think I’m gronna play it that way.

Nice trailer, but how much of that was actual gameplay? I'll wait to see reviews, loved Mario x Rabbids, ended up buying Star Link and just couldn't bring myself to care for it, so I'm a little hesitant on Ubisoft titles going forward.

This must have been planned for a while. After the stunt Epic pulled with Apple, I’m betting Nintendo is super leery of supporting them.

@StevenG Nintendo won’t go with a cheap OLED the failure rate would be too high. A good IPS panel is all they need, or they could wait for micro led.

Also an AI based way to hit 4K like the series S combined with an soc that can do 1080 or 1440 is a great compromise. If Nvidia can even get performance close to an a12x then the next switch will be a beast.

After wasting my money on 101 I’ll never play a Platinum game... aside from Star Fix Zero which made me hate them even more.

Given that I'm still working my way through DQ11S, I'm going to wait for this to come on sale. It sounds like from the interviews that Nintendo put a bunch of weird restrictions on the game that prevented it from being as good as it could be. On the other hand, I'm seriously considering using an emulator to play Thousand Year Door since everybody keeps talking about how great it is.

The art direction on this actually looks a lot better than rent Pokemon. I didn’t see a single Fursona!

@TioRogerio somebody higher up had said that Mario Kart is just a racing game. Probably should have replied directly to them.

What I meant to say it’s not first a racing game in the same sense that GT or Forza is.

Mario Kart 8 isn't a racing game, it's a PARTY GAME. It's in the same sort of league as Smash Bros in that when people are over at your house and they see you have a Switch they want a game to play with you where other people can watch and have fun and laugh at the craziness. Mario Kart, Mario Party and Smash Bros are Nintendo's big party games.

I honestly have to wonder what the Mario Kart team is working on. I imagine they have a game that's done but they're probably waiting for whatever comes out when they do a hardware refresh. (I'm very confident that a year or maybe 2 after the launch of the PS5, Nintendo will release a 'new' Switch, though hopefully with better branding. It'll play all Switch games, and most of its games will be able to run on the previous Switch, just with reduced graphics fidelity. So the next Pokemon game will come out and work on old hardware, but also look way better on the new hardware.)

Part of me wonders if they'll call the next one Mario Kart 9, or if they'll do something like 'Super Smash Kart' or 'Super Nintendo Kart' (they're already bringing in racers from other games in Mario Kart). It would allow them to be more playful with mechanics without having to worry about whether it's still a Mario Kart game.

Anyway as far as Zelda's sales, it's sold incredibly well. It's a beloved franchise but it's never been as big of a seller as Mario Kart was.

I enjoyed Shield, though I hated the starters, and I enjoyed the X starters. Like... a Soccer Rabbit?! WTF!? Also making Rillaboom like a monkey with dreadlocks... how did nobody at Nintendo fo America say, "Maybe let's not take something associated with black people... and give it to a monkey."

Still though, I ditched my starter and used a Yamper instead, and my party sailed through the game. It was fun, but honestly not nearly as good as some other games in it's price range. (Like DQ11 or Breath of the Wild or Odyssey.)

Pokemon is one of those rare Nintendo franchises that is actually pretty poor quality. I'm not sure why a game that sells as much as Pokemon does is always so budget, I suspect maybe it's because they have to pay to create the anime? Or maybe just because Game Freak loves money and has figured out how to make it without investing in their games.

I am hoping that the fact that the Isle of Armour was basically one area, that the next Pokemon game will consist of something more like 8 Isle of Armours just stitched together. They could even pepper in some trainers who would battle you in these open areas. (Maybe even GASP have them scale toward your party's levels.)

It's a shame that they're so invested in just using the same 3D engine they had on the 3DS, because I'd LOVE to see a Pokemon game where you run through fields and locations that look more like they were developed by Monolith Soft. (Was super meh on Xenoblade 2's gameplay loop but the world looked stunning.)

Also I really wish that they'd work with Bandi or somebody and make the Pokemon act more like they're real monsters. The fact that every time Cinderace attacks he's just kicking the air and farting out a fireball is unforgiveable. Each Pokemon should have like 4-5 different attack poses to keep the game from feeling cheap.

I guess this means they expect the third party releases to carry August and September? My guess is that the pandemic really has affected their output a lot more than they’ve let on.

I suspect that Zelda was supposed to be their holiday block buster title, but I suspect that development on that could be crawling during the pandemic. I won’t be surprised if 3D world ends up being the Holiday 2020 title. I’m sure people will complain a lot, but it is a great game and it could move a ton of units as a Christmas title.

@Swifthom I played it on the Wii U with analogue sticks and it was perfectly fine. Felt super natural. Though the Joycons do have gyro so they might have an on screen pointer.

I loved 64. But the controls on Zero were so bad I can’t remember if I ever beat it. Initially I gave up early on. Came back, and it was still terrible.

The controls really ruin the experience. 64 had great controls. I could see Zero being fun if they fixed the controls. But I don’t think Nintendo is willing to admit their mistake.

I hope it does well. They seem to be going for a hand crafted look like Yoshi, but it feels harsh and under saturated. Plus whoever picked the fonts has prioritized wimsy over readability. (Truly lots of text heavy games have font problems.

I wish them well. But I hold my breathe.

@HobbitGamer I’m currently out of a job, but I’m not worried about it because I don’t live in a country that pretends we don’t have enough resources to temporarily take on some debt while we weather a once in a century problem so that we can come out stronger in the end.

Americans think that the mangled, brutal and cruel way you do your economic system is the only option. If you weren’t all obsessed with making your rich richer and your poor poorer, you’d all be doing a lot better. Currently your government is wasting trillions of dollars bailing out corporations who don’t know what to do with the excess money other than giving it back to their shareholders. Meanwhile the working class who will be taxed with paying off the artificial debt that your government took out, are the ones being left to starve.

@RickD Given that Sweden is 7th for most deaths per capita, I think it's pretty insane to say that they had a good strategy. Months in hospitals now have a much better idea of how to treat patients and lower the mortality rate.

Also, screw the economy. All the economy is is the rate at which people are buying and selling things from each other. THAT'S IT! It's complicated, but it's different from something like the great depression where nobody had money to spend and blah blah blah.

Whether or not the rich have a steady stream of income going in and out of their books ultimately doesn't matter. It only matters so much as they bribe politicians to do stupid things like reopening too early. If all the world leaders would have shut down air travel and ground travel in and out of China when this started, none of this would have happened. But they didn't want to do that, "because the economy". Meanwhile the economy would have been much better off if they had.

Once the virus got out of China, if they would have shut everything down for two months and limited travel to truckers, and people who had been cleared of having the virus by testing. They could have massively limited the spread, and there would be hundreds of thousands of people still alive.

If you think that wouldn't have worked, look at China. They quarantined Wuhan, when it got out of Wuhan, they locked everything down. Now they're only letting people into the country in a controlled manner. I don't like the Chinese government, I'm fully aware that they lie. But at least they don't lie to themselves. They understood what needed to be done to save their civilization and they did it. So why can't Western countries pull that off until a vaccine is available?

Answer, our rich people have too much control.

@RickD Groan.

The lock downs could have worked if people would have actually followed them and if politicians hadn't kept trying to open too soon. In my Province we got it down to having only four cases for a bit, but they keep letting people in from other Provinces and we're up to around 30 active cases now. We shut down in early March and honestly our population wasn't even that responsible. But if you don't try to pressure people back to work right away, and if you keep the bars closed the virus would straight up die out.

But all these politicians act as if the world will end if the rich people don't have workers throwing themselves into the breach to 'combat' a virus that they only make stronger by not staying home.

I mean as soon as I heard it was about third parties I assumed it would be underwhelming. I was hoping maybe some Bravely Default 2 news or something. But really this was like the stuff that gets tacked in the middle of a Direct normally.

I know some people are worried about them having no big game for the holiday, but absolute worst case, if the pandemic really slowed down production, then they could just release 3D World, Twilight Princess HD, and Wind Waker HD.

There will be a ton of people who haven’t played those who would buy them.

I think Nintendo likes the strategy they took with the new Paper Mario game. They want to keep the hype cycle short. Announce, give a little time for anticipation, and then release. Keeps people’s expectations from getting too high.

This is apparently going to be about third parties. Maybe something on Bravely Default 2? Other than that, announce more ports?

Pretty sure Switch sales were huge so I can’t imagine they’d stay off it.

Ugh, thank goodness Miyamoto isn’t allowed to set limits on what Smash can be. He’s brilliant sometimes, but I feel like he needs to be kept away from genres that he doesn’t get. Like RPGs.

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@DavidMac they released a number of those and they sold so badly that the company that made them went bankrupt.

They only made one Super Mario RPG. They then made Paper Mario for the N64, and Thousand Year Door for the Game Cube. None of those games had poor sales.

The Mario and Luigi games were made by a studio named Alpha Dream and they recently went under.

I’m not sure if you’re just being obtuse, or if you’re so stupid you can’t even remember what you last said.

@jobvd cool, then maybe don’t mistake Square with Alpha Dream the company that actually went bankrupt.

@jobvd oh young one, Google Mario RPG. It was made by Square.

I don’t get why Nintendo is so against a traditional RPG with fun Mario elements. What I’d really love is a sequel to Mario RPG.

All these people acting like we get as few titles as the Wii U clearly didn’t own a Wii U! Sometimes Nintendo would barely get one game I’d want out a quarter, let alone a year! Now it’s a constant stream!

Nintendo should have Bamco or Monolith help Gamefreak.

Xenoblade 2 looked fantastic on Switch, and it’s not like they have more models in Pokémon running around. I didn’t love the gameplay loop, but Xenoblade games look fantastic. Whereas S&S look like a PS2 game a lot of the time.

Oh also FYI the whole 'digital only' thing is such a stupid name for a console that doesn't rely on physical media. All video games are digital. We aren't playing any analogue games. The last analogue media were tapes! So digital edition and stuff like that is stupid.

For Sony what they mean is it doesn't have an optical drive, and optical drives are expensive. For Nintendo it would mean not including a cartridge reader, cart readers are cheap! It would make no sense for Nintendo to only allow games to be had by download.

That said, wasting flash memory on carts when they could just as easily download to internal storage or an installed memory card is going to become progressively sillier. The next version of the Switch will probably include another cartridge reader, but after that I suspect we'll be moving to an internet based distribution system for games.

The switch doesn't have an optical drive which in the new consoles are expensive. A Blu Ray drive retail is like close to 100, even if the BOM cost is only like 50 that's still about an 8th of the price of the PS4 at launch. Plus digital only means fewer used games which everyone in the industry other than GameStop likes.

I have a Mac and I have a Switch (also iOS devices) if they want me to play, they're gonna have to make it available on a device I own. Going Sony and Windows means you get a whole lot of customers who aren't me.

This is my first time playing an Animal Crossing game and it's destroyed my sleep schedule. I tried to hold off time travelling (and really the game kinda was more fun before I started time travelling not that i do it that much.) I've logged a bunch of hours in, mostly resource grinding.

My major complaints are that I wish I didn't just have to get flowers and fruit I don't have from friends, I wish they showed up on mystery islands. I got roses and mums from some of my friends, but I still don't have a friend who has Lilys.

I just had the KK concert, but I'll be honest my interest is waning a bit. I kinda wanna start kicking out certain villagers that I don't like. I do wish that there was more to do when you visit someone's island than look around. Like play some sort of mini games, interact with things a bit more. Even if there were just balls that you could kick around and play a really basic form of soccer or something.

It feels like you set up a lot of the items but you don't really interact with them. Like there's a punching bag and pull up bar that you can buy but your character can't interact with them.

Overall I've had a lot of surprising fun, some of which happened from the chaos when friends visited my island. (I had one who planted Pear trees all over and I was digging them up and replanting them for days.)

Really fun game to some extent. Though I honestly don't know if I'll buy another game in the series.

@LinktotheFuture that's what I'm thinking. Like they know we want it, why won't they just do it?! They know every level people make for a month would have those suits.

My guess is that this didn't sell as well as they were hoping relative to the Wii U version. (I think it sold better, but the Wii U version was a massive hit for the system whereas Smash, Splatoon, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart etc have all been huge hits on the Switch whereas Mario Maker 2 just kinda got forgotten about.)

I think they could fix Mario Maker 2 by allowing you to draw on an iPad while the Switch is docked, but obviously they don't want to try that.

I feel like if they'd have done the world builder initially it would have driven a lot of people to get new interest in the series. I'm really hoping that world builder drives a lot of creative content that ends up on YouTube and drives sales of the game. Then hopefully Nintendo's higher ups will want to invest in it more.

Also where the hell is the ice flower and the hammer bros suit!? HOW DO YOU LEAVE OUT THE HAMMER BROS SUIT!?

Just have a Christian Whitehead do a new Mania or a S3&K

It's weird how much this hits me. Like... thousands have died already, but this is the first person who's died who's 'work' I cared about. It's not rational at all, like I really should care about everyone dying in NYC and all over the place. But the news tends to focus on other things and so mostly I'm just annoyed by all of this. But this is sad.