Dimjimmer

"the products "may appear later down the line or disappear, locked in the vault forever"."

A Nintendo-like approach for a Nintendo accessory? And they even refer the vault? Truly on the nose.

A Castlevania DLC for Castlevania?

"100 bucks for an alarm clock"

To put this into perspective, the game was announced three months before the reveal of the Nintendo Switch. So, what will come first? This, Switch 2 reveal, or Metroid Prime 4?

Ah, so that was the catch. Fooled me for a while into thinking that Capcom gave a damn about physical Switch releases in Europe.

Astro Bot was outsold by a freaking Touhou fangame.

€800 without a disc drive and stand is insane. It's almost double the price of the standard PS5 digital model.

I hope this doesn't succeed, because all wrong messages will be absorbed by it ("Yes, console consumers are fine with being completely ripped off")

Advance Wars at home... console.

I'll wait till the digital version is released to see if it's a good enough port, and then I will get a Japanese copy. No fomo pressure, cheaper and I will get it earlier than Limited Run. Three birds in one stone.

"But I think that’s just because they’re looking through these lenses that are tainted with their experience of having played Chibi-Robo. And actually, this is its own very different sort of game."

Silly gamers. Whatever gave you the idea that Small Robot Game 2 is similar to Small Robot Game 1?

Game gets removed from the e-shop, while physical versions will be released afterwards. What kind of alternative universe have I entered?

"Credits screens are more bloated than ever"
"Still don't mention everyone that worked on the game"

Just 3 years? That's incredibly short compared to the Steam release's 9+ years. And since the other 2 Cave shoot-em-ups handled by Live Wire (Espgaluda II and DoDonPachi Resurrection) were also released in 2021, they could potentially be removed not long afterwards.

As a funny note, the Japanese physical version will be released 3 weeks after the game's removal from the e-shop. So, it won't be all doom and gloom... at least, for a while.

"Developers should hold back for the next Nintendo console".

No, they shouldn't. Between a console that has proved itself (and has a large userbase) and a console that isn't guaranteed to succeed, developers shouldn't abandon the Switch in a heartbeat just because the successor has better specs.

If the Switch can't run the game in question? Sure. But, there is no good reason to skip games that could run fine on the Switch, just because it's old news. Take a look at Playstation 4. They are still releasing games for the system, even though it's now 11-years-old and had its successor released 4 years ago.

If Nintendo wants to pretend that the Switch will no longer exist past 2025, fine, they can repeat that mistake. They shouldn't be surprised if they end up with a Switch U.

"I literally know they are not in dev hell".

He's not wrong. They are not in some circle of hell reserved for developers.

As for figuratively, well, it has already been 5 years since it was announced. At this point, it has taken more time than the original Hollow Knight to launch.

Conker's Bad Fur Day, Duke Nukem: Zero Hour, and Resident Evil 2 are the only ones I would consider. The others... not so much, when there are better versions on Switch and other platforms.

Note to self, do not ask about the price of nostalgia.
-Gex

Now that it will be adopted, will it be called Domestic?

60 FPS. Switch footage or...

Sands of Time: 2026
Pfffttttt....
Skulls and Bones 2 looking good.

After Sonic Colors, Sonic Origins and Sonic Frontiers, I hope we finally have a good port this time around.

At least, it's not exclusive to LRG.

"what everyone wants to hear"
"a partnership with Limited Run Games"

Maybe not.

From the company formerly known as Infogrames...

"Release first, patch later"
Game industry, [insert 201x year]

As long as Nintendo is following the Vault strategy, I will not be the slightest bit surprised that many of their games are still not on Switch.

I really don't like this drip-feed remake/remaster thing. I'd much prefer if Nintendo just released their older catalog in some form that we could easily access, because there are still so many Nintendo-owned games that are not available in digital form. But they will never do that, for they know they can easily sell a remaster of a 20-years-old game for full price and have others justify it, because it hasn't been available for purchase ever since then.

"£17.99 / $29.99"
Physical tax when the physical is limited. Great.

@Teksetter
Typo. Official site:
https://www.redartgames.com/content/11-blog#MACROSS-Shooting-Insight-is-coming-to-the-West-on-Nintendo-Switch-PS5-PS4

The demo, released 3 weeks before the full game's release, was actually indicative of the final product?

"60 for each"

Nah, I'm good.

Wow, I actually didn't expect them to fold without a fight.

Naive developers. If their game had contained real gambling like NBA 2K20, they wouldn't find themselves in this predicament.

If the demo hadn't convinced me to avoid the game altogether, I would be angry that the "expensive cartridge" version had the same price as the code-in-a-box version. I hope this happens to be a funny coincidence and not a new LRG scheme that forces code-in-a-box on retail, while holding the cartridge exclusive to them.

The ghost of Bleem will be watching this precedent-setting case.

Star Wars Battlefront: 3 GBs
Star Wars Battlefront II: 4.3 GBs
Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection (Switch): 25.2 GBs
Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection (Other platforms): 50+ GBs

For remasters that barely look better than the original versions, I'm baffled by the size differences.

Oh cool, now I can finally buy the Complete Edi-

"Additional Downloadable Content
Downloadable content featuring new demons will be distributed simultaneously on the release date."

Ah yes, I forgot. Atlus.

I come from the future. Nintendo will release Mother 3 in the West in January 2026 to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Then, they will remove it from stores in April 2026 because the anniversary will be over.

Looking forward to the Suikoden remaster announcement.

>>2025

It's wild how every analyst and their dog was convinced we would be getting a new Switch by 2020-2021. It's even wilder how these rumours began as far back as freaking 2018. Switch Pro has become the hardware equivalent to the Bloodborne PC port meme.

He won't get to see his last game's release.
Rest in peace.

After so many rereleases of Ys 1+2 together, it feels very weird to sell just the first one separately.

60 FPS? Not bad.

@Clyde_Radcliffe
The charm, the difficulty, the music. The demo did not convince me. Will the full game do? Maybe, but I'm not currently feeling it.

I was already not interested in the remake because I had the GBA version, and the demo only served to convince me that the GBA version was superior.

"Legally-Distinct Pocket Creatures"
Pokémon at Home.

4 million copies sold in 3 days.
https://www.gematsu.com/2024/01/palworld-early-access-sales-top-four-million-in-three-days

Not as impressive as Scarlet and Violet's 10 million copies in 3 days, but still a very strong start for a literal nobody.

Ah yes. The first™ Pokemon clone to have ever existed. Which has replaced the other first™ Pokemon clone to have ever existed, Tem-Tem.

"As people embrace that [streaming] model, they will see that these games will exist, the service will continue, and you'll be able to access them when you feel like. That's reassuring."

You mean, as reassuring as Netflix removing movies from its service and increasing its monthly cost? Or as reassuring as Ubisoft making "The Crew" permanently unplayable because they couldn't be arsed to implement an offline mode?

Nice try, Ubisoft.

Resurrected just to shut down again 2 years later, before they could even create a game. Timesplitters just can't catch a break. I also never expected GoldenEye to resurface before a Timesplitters rerelease, but here we are.