Dr_Lugae

I recall Iwata said the same thing.

Tbh makes sense since their aim is to make games as many people as possible can enjoy. Not specifically to win some sort of award.

I think anyone who's paid attention to the game awards that a lot of "games as art" end up feeling engineered to dominate award shows rather than be something that can be played with over and over.

@EarthboundBenjy You want the cake? You can't handle the cake!

He just got harassed by a group of idiots who thought because he was a studio head and Hellena Taylor was a VA and threw the accusation that she was in the right and Kamiya is wrong.

People are too quick to go on moral crusades for clout, pick the side they want to in 3 seconds based on hearsay or prejudice and then argue it out for days.

If they used half the time they spent arguing about it actually considering the situation they probably wouldn't have been trying to run the wrong person off the Internet and trying to destroy a game's reputation for no reason.

It's the consequence of Microsoft (and arguably Sony) just trying to buy up the gaming industry rather than building up self-sustaining studios.

It's fine as long as MS is throwing money about but the moment they close their wallet it all just comes crumbling down.

@wiiware So if you went to a restaurant and the chicken was a little too dry.

You'd be fine rating the restaurant 0/5 even if you liked everything else and the service was good?

If you want to tell them what you thought then put that in the text. Rating something lower than you actually believe isn't making a point, its just being an inconsiderate jerk.

It makes Fistbump from Sonic Forces sound like Open your Heart from Sonic Adventure.(It's bad )

@SalvorHardin Yeah, the DLC slots being half the cast and being voiceless. The DLC tracks like Spongebob looking low quality. The Crowds being 2d animated sprites and seemingly just random animals created from the Sonic Forces character creator.

I feel if they're going to charge £60 or $70 premium for a game they should be delivering a premium experience across the board, they can't get away with the usual Sonic Team roughness/corner cutting when they're asking more than ever for the games.

Makes sense, the Cyber Sleuth games hit its 1m, 2m and 2.5m milestones only after being ported to Switch despite having been out for 5 years before.

I think not having a Switch 2 release would have just risked undoing the growth the series had.

Nintendo make both key cards and regular carts an option.

They can't control whether a third party chooses them other than making them an option, and if they weren't an option it's very possible the 3rd parties would just do the code in a box nonsense instead.

Preferably regular cart sales outselling key cards should make third parties think twice about key cards if they're only using Key Cards to cheap out.

Have my doubts lol. A lot of Sonic's resurgence was on the movie. But presumably SEGA under his watch gave the nod to the ugly Sonic version.

I speculate their biggest problem, outside of Atlus, SEGA often it doesn't seem like they actually care whether they have a good or a bad product. Which while they can release good games, they very often sabotage built up goodwill.

@markusmachado Yeah I think you can tell the difference in philosophy where Mario Kart 8 takes N64 Royal Raceway and blocks off the path to Peach's castle.

While Mario Kart 8 is fun it's very laser focused on one kind of fun and IMO I think the Waluigi Wild Wigglers, the guys in MKW who were before the patch were content in forcing 3-lap races.

I think Mario Kart World does well to think outside the box that Mario Kart leading up to 8 put itself in and it ultimately creates more ways to have fun with the game and far more variation.

@wiiware I think people like @Bonapetit_nintendo revelling in it and hoping DK Bananza gets review bombed too is evidence why review bombing can't be taken in good faith.

People who like the games are fans too you know. Giving it an 0/10 for the sake of making a point means you have zero respect for the people who do like the game and you think you deserve to be listened to above other fans which is unfair. And worse you don't need to even own the game to review bomb metacritic, so there could be people who never even played the game attempting to pressure Nintendo into changing it.

If the update is such a bad thing the game would just naturally settle at a low score and the average feedback would result in changes for future updates or games. Note that Mario Kart 8 got rebalanced without a wave of review bombing.

Really give the game what you sincerely think it's worth. Put the reasons you feel that way, and if the random choice of tracks actually being random is a problem for the majority it would naturally become the overwhelming piece of feedback.

@KoopaTheGamer I think with the update its may be a solid 50%. Beforehand I think random was always 3-lap unless it randomly selected one of the adjoining tracks to the previous race in which case it wasn't 3 laps.

Random previously may have had about 90% chance of 3 laps beforehand. Given there was typically 3 adjoining tracks out of the games ~30 tracks.

@Crimson_Ridley if 5 or 6 people like it for every one person who doesn't then you kind if only have to go thise extremes because you're trying to make the opinion seem more significant or widely held than it actually is.

If your review bombing isn't actually reflective of the overall opinion of the game then any change made towards it would be favouring a vocal minority at the expense of the majority. Its just selfishness.

@johnedwin Some more than others. I think the main problem is that since the mid 2010s the metacritic user score become a method of platform/fanbase warring.

@RupeeClock Yeah just like the review bombing campaign of BOTW despite the fact it became the most important, well-liked and influential games of the last generation.

Personally stuff like this makes it impossible to accept the sincerity of review bombing as it comes off as manufactured outrage. Its like those influencers who said they wouldn't buy the Switch 2 becauseof the price, and then bought it at launch, it doesn't feel like a real opinion.

I recall the same thing happened with BOTW at the Switch's launch to the point it was like 6/10 userscore on metacritic. Until reviews were being removed.

Its kind of pathetic that whenever Nintendo have a big success it drives a bunch of spiteful haters to come out of the woodwork try to do or say anything they can to make their games look bad.

@SuperRetroArt Yeah, the world doesn't revolve around you.

Neither does Mario Kart World lol

@TheBoilerman Ouya

You should have just made the article 'Nintendo President Apologises for Switch 2' to get all the haters minds racing lol.

@Quarbit Yeah the worst thing that could happen to a game is no one caring about it.

I don't think this is much different than the Ocarina of Time fans criticising BOTW Shrines and Divine Beasts for not being typical dungeons.

I think the Sony Days of play sale was what had the PS5 above Switch.

I unironically think in Japan the Switch 2 may have reduced demand for both Switch and PS5. The killer blow would be if the Switch 2 gets all 3 entries of FF7Remake.

@Bigmanfan Care to describe what makes them more luck based? Because personally I find it easier to gain positions with lucky item pulls during the tracks not Intermissions.

The least effective use of something like a star or any of the mushrooms in Mario Kart is on a straight. Because they're best for cutting corners. The items would unironically have less impact during the Intermissions than the tracks.

IMO people have forever complained about losing due to items/luck in Mario Kart for decades , you're just projecting your losses onto the Intermissions and acting like the tracks are less luck based.

@Bigmanfan It's been a few weeks no game meta forms that quick. Also they have turns, jumps, ramps, rails,etc.

The fact you think they're straight lines shows that you hadn't given them a proper chance lol and just refused to engage with the mechanics while you did have to play it.

I can sort of understand the change. There isn't anything wrong with the intermission tracks but they're new and different. There'll always be those who try and resist any change and pressure other people into the same.

So giving people a way to guarantee avoiding them w/ random just plays into people stigmatising them rather than engaging with them and giving them a real chance.

Even Bananza is getting this with people trying to conceive harebrained reasons for K.Rool to be the villain because they can't accept a change from Rare.

Or BOTW for not having the typical Zeoda structures.

This sort of seems like the kind of statistic that in practice is imperceptible and can only be measured with a tool.

@FishyS I thought it was going to be $50 lol.

That's an incredibly stupid design decision. Without something like the blue shell or lightning. The person who gets into first essentially gets to do a time trial while everyone else drags each other back.

Without a blue shell 3rd to last place who are more likely to get a red shell than 2nd place will do more to help extend 1st places lead by hitting each other.

If 2nd place is a more vulnerable position than 1st then it's not a fun game for anyone except whoever gets into 1st place early on.

@MirrorFate2 I think it's just the case people should stop treating the tourney/competitive scene as if it is part of the fanbase.

Some jerkwads crashing out with Mario Kart or Smash Bros as a backdrop to their personal vices or the community that enabled them to get that far isn't really a fanbase is it?

@Coalescence Yeah these people have no concept of professional conduct lol.

Hell the fact an event where they get drunk and play Mario Kart was some livestreamed money making tournament is a joke too.

Mang0 should have been banned years ago and Ludwg Aghren shouldn't be running a bath let alone a tournament.

It shouldn't be in a sponsor to police behaviour. I'd bet if Cloud9 didn't drop him, Mang0 would just be swanning over his next tournament unabated by event runners, just because he's good at the game.

It's no Wonder Nintendo keep a wide berth from "community" tournament scenes because it's ran by a bunch of prats who think they're untouchable and living in an eternal frat party.

@GrailUK Well there is Kirby Air Riders coming soon too lol.

@DTFaux Yeah there's no surprise or specialness in a cross-over if you're expecting it lol.

It makes sense for Mario Kart 8 being the exception and not the rule.

@AstroTheGamosian Yeah I'm fairly dubious of AI. Like if you use AI to generate dialogue for an NPC in my eyes there's zero point in speaking with that NPC.

Like why would I bother reading something that nobody bothered writing?

@SirLink Prove it, its unironically better business for Nintendo for someone to have access online and to the e-shop than not.

There's literally no reason for them to keep a system banned unless you are actively using the MIG card or any method that allows piracy

I'd be pretty sure Nintendo would unban these if you explain the situation and send it to them.

Like you're only going to have a permanently banned Switch 2 if you're the person using the MIG card on it.

@GinMiguel Yeah, IMO I'd have preferred if the new roster characters were stuff were classic badniks like Motobug, the Hardboiled Heavies from Mania, Trip from Superstars etc.

Not silent spongebob in some cobbled together pre-alpha looking track.

@SalvorHardin Yeah it's pretty much the sellout era of Sonic. Buoyed by the movie success SEGA are just cross promoting Sonic with everything regardless of whether it makes sense or not.

The fact that zero of the 8 season pass characters revealed (or atleast 10 if you count TMNT and Avatar) so far in a Sonic racing game are Sonic characters shows lack of faith in their own IP.

Also no VA for any of the DLC characters is a crock. Having to pay $30 for characters and they aren't even voiced is highway robbery.

@StewdaMegaManNerd Mario Kart World's massive soundtrack probably takes up a good chunk of space.

@larryisaman Sorry but the reason Nintendo own the music is because at the time Grant Kirkhope would had to agreed to let Nintendo own it. Once the project is over it becomes Nintendo's music for future use, not his.

There's cases where composers like Uematsu own his FF work and Square have to credit him for it'd use.

You should be asking Grant why he agreed to let Nintendo own the music if he was just planning on whining about not being credited for its future use. Typically Companies will pay composers less if they aren't getting ownership of their pieces and more if they do.

@larryisaman They do credit people properly unless you're suggesting Grant wasn't credited for Donkey Kong 64.

@Zyph Hell even if you're dumping your own game you're still creating a copy of the game that can be played independently of the original.

Nothing stops someone buying a game, dumping it on one of these and then returning the game and just playing the "backup".

Nobody using this device is using it innocently, they know what they're doing and they know why they're getting banned from Nintendo's online.

@Shepdawg1 They may be accounting some of the Mario Movie lore. like Mario can't have met Donkey Kong until after he went to the Mushroom Kingdom. But that doesn't mean new canon Pauline couldn't have met DK as a child given she lives in the same city.

But the game looks very exciting, does make me think that 3D Mario might be something entirely new on Switch 2. Given Bananza looks like it's effectively an Odyssey sequel/prequel. Which I don't think they'd do if the next 3D Mario was going to build on it.

@NolandC tbf no game is perfect and if they've got nearly 3.5million people playing, that many players are bound to stumble across obscure bugs that even hundreds of testers may not have found.

Especially when its a bug that only happens sometimes in certain circumstances like a lot on this list are. A bug that doesn't always happen is hard to recreate and tough to tell if its been permanently fixed or whether it just coincidentally not been triggered during testing after the fix.

There's something seriously wrong with Square. It kinda makes sense they didn't back up the source code for the early FF games when they didn't know if it'd be an enduring success.

But when it became a multimillion seller in the 90s I don't get why they still didn't bother saving the source code.

Looks like a lot of Switch games are making it into the charts or getting boosted. Probably the benefit of the Switch 2 running the games better.

People like to downplay it but Switch 2 launching with Mario Kart World is like if a system launched with Grand Theft Auto 6 as an exclusive.

I think how much the Switch has buoyed Nintendo's biggest series to new heights, almost all of their IP are operating with far higher standing with Switch 2 than at the start of the Switch gen.

@TrogdorTheBurninator It doesnt remain to be seen. Based on Nintendo's projections of 7million software sales from bundles and 15million Switch 2s, only 45% of systems they're going to be selling will be MK bundles.

So the sorts of figures 80-95% attach rates (95% in France) means there's lots of physical copies of Mario Kart World selling.

@Crecca Yeah because the GC, WiiU and Virtual Boy didn't happen.

Maybe get over yourself and accept they've once again just made a good console people want to own?

@Pak-Man It'll just get them to goal post move. "It'll flop" will turn into "It'll fall off" which will turn into "it will only do as well as 3DS/GBA" will turn into "it won't beat the Switch so its a failure". And if it manages to beat the Switch it'll be "it hasn't outsold Wii and DS put together ".

These people always just blunder ahead ignoring what they said before. The Switch 2 would have to sell a quarter of a billion and break all records year after year before they'll run out of ways to pretend it isn't a success.

@UltimateOtaku91 Re: Mario Kart World pricing you can't really say they were guaranteed 20million sales or a billion revenue.

If the Switch 2 struggled like the WiiU then Mario Kart World would literally have zero chance of selling 20m, and would likely sell less than 10m. Businesses are going to price things so that they succeed in the lowest boundary of sales expectations, not the middle or upper. Pricing a game like they expect 20m sales as a given would just lead to catastrophic consequences if they failed to reach it.

Nintendo would have to be either barking mad or ridiculously overconfident to price Mario Kart World the same as what Mario Kart 8 was on WiiU, given the gigantic difference in scope.