Well deserved, the last interaction with GAME is having ask for Super Mario RPG remake because they didn't bother even have it on display on the shop floor the day after it release. Mindblowing that there was basically no indicator they had new Mario game out.
Though IMO they always had it in for Nintendo as even in better days GAME seemed to like to make one side of the store Xbox and another Playstation with random spattering of stalls for Nintendo strewn about the store even during Wii/DS dominance.
In a way the death of retail game stores seem to correlate with Nintendo's games selling even better than ever, I can't help feel that the disadvantageous way GAME was presenting Nintendo's games in store were unironically hobbling Nintendo game sales.
I got lots if games from them in the late 90s, early 2000s. But despite being part of my childhood I won't be sad to see GAME gone.
@Oracles_fanboi This is silly it's only a few weeks ago Ubisift released a full price AAA game with mobile style premium currency microtransactions. (Assassin's Creed Shadows)
If you think Nintendo charging a small amount for Switch tour is some new level of greed. Wake up and look at where the industry is lol your mind is cooked.
I don't think this should be a pack-in because it's not really a game. It's more of a learning tool.
Wii Sports makes sense because it's a game, you could buy a Wii without any other launch title and have something to play.
Welcome Tour is not. I think it would give a bad 1st impression to anyone who thought its inclusion is a suitable replacement for any launch games or Switch games. I think making this tour appear to be the Wii Sports equivalent of the system would be a bigger mistake than charging for it.
This thing is a curiosity for those really interested in the hardware, but it'll probably be too boring for the majority.
@sixrings People like these features on the Switch, they don't want them stripped out of the system or Switch 2. Just because you hate innovative ideas doesn't mean everyone else does.
And the Switch sales speak for themselves. If you want a boring bland box that plays games, you're spoilt for choice so go wild and pick something else mate.
They're just so slimy and fake. It's Pokemon with guns when they want articles to advertise for them, their trailers were full of Pokemon iconography and the monsters resemble Pokemon.
Now they got the sales and a lawsuit on them and it's inconvenient for them they're distancinf it. I Hope they never shake the label. .
I hope their community manager Bucky quits acting so disingenuous. I don't think i've seen one article where he hasn't tried to be evasive, misleading or pretending to be a Pokemon fan. He should be ashamed.
I've already got it pre-ordered, I'm very excited for Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza. But it makes sense.
The Switch is still ridiculously active for an 8th year console. 12million people bought one n the last year and Mario Party Jamboree sold almost 10million, Zelda Echoes over 4million, etc.
Even without the Tariff problem in the US, 150million users aren't going to upgrade overnight, even if Switch 2 could match Switch sales it'd take years. So the Switch will probably get support longer than the 3DS and WiiU did.
But based on specs, etc. And the fact the Switch 2 is Backwards compatibility there's really no reason not too. Towards the end of the gen the Switch's games have been hitting its tech limits and running/loading slower and these same games will just play better on Switch 2's better hardware.
Like I won't replay Mario & Luigi Brothership til Switch 2 comes out. I put up with slow loading/performance because there was no other option but now there is lol. I can easily afford it, but if I couldn't I'd be saving towards it because it'd be worth it even for replaying Switch games IMO.
@Jayenkai I think Nintendo almost certainly pre-emptively increased the price expecting Tariffs and offsetting the US by raising it everywhere.
The problem is the day before the reveal Trump revealed 46% Tariffs on Vietnam where Switch 2 is produced, which is probably far beyond what Nintendo expected.
They've probably delayed pre-orders to try and get the Tariffs waived or to increase the US Switch price significantly if Nintendo have to pay them. If Nintendo have to pay 46% of the price of the system in taxes there's no way its gonna stay at $449 in America, their profit margins aren't that big.
I think Americans are gonna find out why Tariffs are worse on the country that imposes them than the country that gets targeted by them.
@Moroboshi876 That's never a guarantee. I don't think Nintendo was counting on say the WiiU selling as little as it did. They'd have been in major trouble if they didn't increase game prices and just presumed they'd get higher sales than Wii to cover dev costs.
You can't always expect game sales to go up forever so at some point prices will rise.
I don't care what anyone says 100 out 100 times I'd rather price rises than garbage like Lootboxes.
Fortnite and its Lootboxes are the biggest blight on gaming. Not a $80 Mario Kart.
It's like an insidious F2P Parasite has wormed it's way into gaming and people are pointing and screaming at a game being upfront on how they're gonna charge a bit more.
@VoidofLight Donkey Kong is $70 so not every Switch 2 game will be Mario Kart's price. The only other ones at $80 seem to be the Switch 2 edition games that get extra content/DLC alongside the update.
I think Mario Kart World will be a "special case" because it's the follow up to one of the best selling games of all time and Nintendo's 2nd best selling game (behind Wii Sports,).
And if Mario Kart World isn't a special case I think the backlash will very silently make it a special case, as Nintendo may be reluctant to make another game (presumably a Switch 2 original 3D Zelda) that price.
@Smithicus almost certainly Nostalgia for the first. I had 1 & 2 as a kid but they were bottom of the barrel compared to the 1st party Nintendo and Sony 3D platformers.
I think Croc 1 benefitted from releasing in 1997 with little competition (Mario 64 & Crash were 1996. Banjo, Spyro, Sonic Adventure and Crash 2 were 1998) and buoyed by Final Fantasy 7 massively boosting the PS1.
Croc 2s sales fell off a cliff in 1999 whic shows how lucky the first game got with its release date.
I'd really love to see a remake they do remake it, it better be 1 game.
1.Make the pre-rendered backgrounds into 3D environments of similar scale
2 Have a better looking world map
3.Replace random encounters with overworld enemies
4.Much faster battle system
5.Replace Tetra Master with a better card game
6.Less Randomness in Chocobo Hot & Cold
Otherwise keep the plot largely the same. If there's time flesh Armarant out in a sidequest.
@dkxcalibur
I remember prior to the launch of the Switch and even March-April 2017 before Deluxe came out a number of people saying "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe won't sell that well because everyone who wanted it
already bought it on WiiU", which isn't far off what Kit & Krysta are arguing why people wouldn't buy a Switch 2 for Mario Kart 9.
Realistically on Nintendo Switch the only game Nintendo could have released that could have sold better than Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is... well... Mario Kart 9. If they had the Mario Kart team make Mario Kart 9 instead of ARMS and MK8DX.
But the Switch 2 is getting that game, so while it's not guaranteed to sell better and it has a mountain to scale. I really think it is a Slam Dunk, if a WiiU port could be a juggernaught on Switch, how could a brand new Mario Kart not be the double juggernaught on Switch 2?
Even if someone bought a Switch and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for the first time today, really loved it and didn't want a Switch 2 for Mario Kart 9 just yet. They're still going to be interested in Mario Kart 9, and may want to buy it next 7~8 years even if they don't want to buy it THIS year.
@ChaosControl It's a real time battle system dude. What you're saying would be like claiming the original FF7 and the remake have the same battle system.
Like it's easy to be cynica,l but the idea that it changing from turn based to real time RPG in 1 entry wasn't big enough of a change is absurd. Were you expecting it to turn into a hack & slash?
Lol no wonder they don't work for Nintendo anymore. Ever since Mario Kart DS the series has reached a new level.
The fact about 70% of WiiU owners had Mario Kart 8 is a sign the series may have became like Grand Theft Auto or Minecraft. Constrained only by userbase.
Mario Kart 9 will sell as well as MK8 Deluxe if Switch 2 does as well as Switch. If Switch 2 sells a bit less then it won't, if Switch 2 somehow sells better it will beat it.
I think regardless of higher/lower system sales Mario Kart 9 will be Switch 2's best selling game.
"On the other hand, I have a deep-rooted desire for my work to be enjoyed by as many people as possible, and to that end, if there are good ideas in the world, I pick them up, and I don’t necessarily have to be particular about originality. I’m thinking about it. I want to make it more casually. I think it would be a good idea to create things in a way that just jumps on what is trendy (lol)."
I think there's more reason to believe Pocketpair's lack of willingness originality would go as far as plagiarism and AI generation than not. I think their decision to remove some of Nintendo's patented mechanics before a verdict points toward them lifting things straight from other games which lines up with the CEOs comments on not bothering with originality.
I mean if he just looks at what's trendy is it a surprise some of the Pals look like some very popular Pokemon?
@mikegamer Palworld looks like a mish-mash of unreal store assets and clashing characters in an entirely different art style with monsters seemingly frankensteined out of parts of Pokemon models. Yum yum!
Gamefreak make their own assets and a cohesive art style, and I think a game can look good as long as all the graphics fit together to create the developers vision for the game's world regardless of graphical fidelity. Rather than look like some slapdash disposable FOTM survival game in a game world cobbled together from generic assets packs instead of assets designed for the games world.
Like people attack Pokemon's visuals all the time. But there's inherently a greater level of care put into it from the bespoke crafted visuals.
@Metazoxan IMO it's not impossible for Nintendo to still go after Pocketpair for copyright.
In the past Nintendo sued Enterbrain over TeaRing Saga (that was going to be released as Emblem Saga on PS1) that outright had the creator say in an interview intended on continuing the story of characters from Fire Emblem.
But despite the fact Emblem Saga's creator was blatantly infringing copyrights Nintendo instead choose to sue them for patents.
Then Nintendo sued them again for copyrights.
I think it'd be wrong to think Nintendo are suing on patents because they have no better options.
They are likely suing on patents first because if they win on patents Pocketpair will have to change quite significant parts of their game or pull the game from sale. Pocketpair have already pre-emptively started removing features from the game and they haven't even lost yet lol, which they'd have no reason to do if they definitely didn't copy mechanics from Legends Arceus exactly.
@roy130390 Yeah people have their preferences. Personally I've never been interested in Assassin's Creed. But I'm.not going to pretend people don't find it worth playing or that it needs to fail and take away that experience from those who like it.
Like its annoying to see a chunk of the gaming audience transform themselves into the same kind of blind haters that wanted to bring down gaming as a whole in the past. I see no difference between the sort of crap AC Shadows is getting and priests calling Pokemon of the devil in the 90/2000s, or Fox News getting some biddy who never played the games on to claim Mass Effect has full frontal nudity and corrupting the youth.
I'd rather celebrate that more people have more ways to enjoy gaming. I can have a negative opinion and air criticism, but condemning a game that has really done nothing to deserve it and wishing it fails is dumb.
@N00BiSH I mean I think Ian Flynn the Sonic Comic writer is the official "lore keeper" lol.
Personally I think Mario has it right where there's not much continuity but they just pull whichever characters they want for a game into whatever role based on what suits the game best.
Like if they wanted to bring Pauline into the mainline Mario games and make her the Mayor of New Donk City they don't have to be constrained by what happened in Donkey Kong or the Mario vs Donkey Kong games.
I think it's just an exercise in futility to even humour the idea almost all of the games in a series are actually accounting for all of the others and a certain order of events when deciding on the story.
@TomSupreme This whole Minecraft Movie comes off as Microsoft seeing videogame movie adaptions pop off and just approving the first script to show up.
It seems like Microsoft missed the part where actual effort was put into the newer adaptations to show they weren't just a cheap cash grab and just focused on the part where the Mario Movie made a billion.
This is definitely true for Square Enix, they sacrificed Final Fantasy's popularity in Japan chasing the western cinematic action game audience and the Game of Thrones audience for FF16.
Except it didn't work so now it's just straight up less popular worldwide and with no way to reverse it because there's 6-7 years between mainline entries.
FF used to sell 3million just in Japan. Now they sell 3million worldwide.
Strange how everyone who tries and rips Nintendo off for money call themselves "fans".
Really Pocketpair are giant leeches, their last game Craftopia is just as blatant. See their goblins there are just model edits of BOTW's Bokoblins and Moblins.
Pocketpair just rely on gullible fools immediately siding with the 'underdog' against the big company for support. Anyone who's actually looked into Pocketpair's history would know they don't operate in good faith.
Tbh if there was proof The Pokemon Company were tampering with their own boxes it'd be worth buying a box, simply because there'd inevitably be a class-action lawsuit with a big payout given the cardgane itself is a multi-billion industry.
@tdub154420 I looked it up, Giles Goddard was involved in the original one on SNES. Though not anything after.
But he wasn't the only one like he said in the video, or even the only programmer. So he's lying in the video for some reason.
Before I read the article.I presumed it was Dylan Cuthbert's Q-Games because he was involved Starfox 1 & 2, Star Fox Command and directed Star Fox 64 3D.
The trailer sucked and the developers are awfully arrogant for a game description that sounds like it's doing absolutely nothing new and may be 100% on rails with no all-range mode equivalent lol.
@larryisaman As much as I like Nintendo I think them fully owning Pokemon might not have been that great.
Under Nintendo, like most of their franchises most actions with Pokemon would prioritise selling Nintendo consoles. It'd have probably helped if they could just have just got whatever Pokemon game they wanted on a console like WiiU instead of a handful of spin-offs, but obviously unless they did a 3DS/WiiU cross platform game any Pokemon on WiiU would have been trading Pokemon's success to try and save a console.
Whereas The Pokemon Company take actions to boost Pokemon as an IP (With exception to releasing it on platforms competing with Nintendo). I think Nintendo would be hesitant to make quite as many mobile games with Pokemon or have pushed the card game as far as TPC.
I think Nintendo's multi-media strategy with Mario is a lot weaker than Pokemon. Until recently Mario's largely been all licensed toys/products outside the games rather than extra branches of the franchise like the card games, multiple manga, anime and movies are for Pokemon.
@Pillowpants To be fair law works slow but the tech world moves fast.
Victories like this increasingly and rightly put the onus on website owners to have responsibility for what they are hosting online. Where in the past you just had website owners just disregarding the content they hosted without consequence and just straight up profiting off piracy.
@8bitKirby The success of Pokemon flies in the face of the idea every game needs to be a graphical showpiece that demonstrates the raw power of the system. So it angers people when Gamefreak don't waste their time intricately designing every building you run past and will forget about lol in favour of a simpler visual style.
Even on the Gameboy Pokemon was behind the curve visually. It's hard to believe it's been 30 years of Pokemon and people still don't get its not remotely meant to be a graphical spectacle, or that it not looking as good as the best looking games on its system is something new.
It's interesting but it feels like a lot of redundant games with only the likes of Monster Capsule Dungeon Dice Monsters providing the variety. With 04/05 providing the real game.
Then the rest are just the same simplified format games.
@97alexk They have patented that and throwing an object to catch a monster isn't broad. Shin Megami Tensai does negotiations to convince Demons, Digimon has you collect data to create a copy, Monster Rancher had you summon them from discs, Fossil Fighters have you dig up fossils, etc.
Palworld's is literally the least creative because it's the same as Pokemon, there's no creativity in copying someone else's mechanic exactly. Nintendo's patent in this case promotes innovation as it means developers have to get creative and do something new and different to implement a similar mechanic. The patent is narrow, most monster collecting series have persisted without falling afoul of it, and the only one that hasn't is the one that decided to use it exactly.
Team Xecuter made hundres of millions. Nintendo even got awarded $2million from resellers so it should speak for how much the they made.
Pocketpair haven't found a loophole, they just tried to bypass the creative process. that's why they're getting sued. Pocketpair should lose the lawsuit otherwise it might as well be a big flashing sign that plagiarism is OK.
How successful Pokemon is has no bearing on what is fair and legal competition.
@97alexk You can't really patent a generic game mechanic. No one can patent the mechanic catching of a monster. They can patent like Nintendo have, throwing an object to catch a monster. Which is fair, the Pokeball is such an iconic method and unlike any game that came before.
If the patent doesn't prevent catching monsters as a mechanic then I don't see why it shouldn't be allowed. If anything it encourages innovation as each monster collecting game has to come up with its own unique method of capture.
Gary Bowsers life was ruined by himself. He was involved in and installing ransomware in people's Switches were if they didn't pay Team xecuter they'd brick the Switch. He owes 14million because he done collosal amounts of damage and the team made millions, and even after being warned by Nintendo they continued.
There's nothing scummy about it, if they sued him for say $100k then he'd probably be still be jailbraking systems today, because why wouldn't he? If he's part of a multi-million illegal piracy business why would he stop unless he was made to pay back more than he made?
Nintendo are deserving of critique, but I think people expecting Nintendo to be limp wristed when people and companies are ripping them off is unwarranted.
@97alexk Pokemon already has competition. Competition stealing from the original is not legitimate competition.
The likes of Digimon, Yo-Kai Watch, Tem Tem, Monster Rancher deserve support. Palworld does not,
Considering Palworld has already started removing mechanics after the lawsuit started but before even any decision had been made, I don't see how anyone can sincerely think Nintendo wasnt justified and should lose this when Pocketpair is either pre-empting a loss or trying to hide their infringement.
Like the right thing to do is opposing plagiarism. But people seem not to want do it because that means no palworld.
Reminds me of Yuzu where the emulator developers were sharing pirated ROMs and charging for access for a build that could play Tears of The Kingdom early. Very obviously wrong, but people were crawling out of the woodwork to defend Yuzu (or more specifically their personal use of the emulator).
@Medic_alert Probably easier to sue the bootleggers alongside Amazon, than it would be to sue Amazon itself lol.
Even if Amazon were liable, it'd be impossible for Nintendo to successfully do it. Especially considering Bezos probably now has special protection given he was in the front row at the president's inauguration alongside the other tech oligarchs.
@G_and_Thomas IMO the quality seal made more sense when in the NES era companies had a yearly limit of games they could publish only increases by having high rated games (if I remember correctly).
I think Nintendo should re-institute a limit on games published per year, with exceptions for bigger publishers like Square, Microsoft, Capcom, SEGA, etc.
These bad games work on pure volume of releases so if lesser known publishers and indies could only publish 2 games a year on Switch they'd be forced to focus on quality over quantity. All the best indie devs usually spend several years on one game so a limit of 2 per year wouldn't be a barrier to good games. And it'd make smaller publishers more selective over what they release
I'd be interesting to have a village that starts abandoned hub that updates as you progress through a Mansion and save villagers from paintings or befriend ghosts.
Though the fact you could just can come and go from the Mansion as you please could make it feel less spooky than a Mansion Luigi is trapped in.
Since the Switch 2 isn't going to instantly reach Switch sales and the Switch will be on decline.
I could see Nintendo releasing a few mobile games primarily help their business while the Switch 2 userbase is building.
Like how Fire Emblem Heroes released in 2017 was more succesful than a potential Fire Emblem Switch game would have been at launch and almost certainly contributed to making Three Houses become the best selling Fire Emblem when it came in 2019.
Should probably be embarrassing for them that DQ3 and FF7Rebirth have such similar sales.
FF7Rebirth was almost certainly supposed to be Squares "big game" and had vastly more resources planted into developing and marketing.
But there's no way that DQ3 hasn't ran rings round it in profits due to lower budget yet still achieving similar sales while being a premium priced game.
@Edu23XWiiU tbh I'm completely expecting if/when Switch reaches 161m Nintendolife will put out an article half-heartedly celebrating it and downplaying it lol.
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Re: Mario Kart World Players Are Already Uncovering Hidden Vehicles
Pretty exciting. It'd be cool if Mario Kart World is one of those games were you find something new or different every time you play.
Re: UK Retailer GAME Is Selling Off Goods And Fixtures As Head Office Shuts Down
Well deserved, the last interaction with GAME is having ask for Super Mario RPG remake because they didn't bother even have it on display on the shop floor the day after it release. Mindblowing that there was basically no indicator they had new Mario game out.
Though IMO they always had it in for Nintendo as even in better days GAME seemed to like to make one side of the store Xbox and another Playstation with random spattering of stalls for Nintendo strewn about the store even during Wii/DS dominance.
In a way the death of retail game stores seem to correlate with Nintendo's games selling even better than ever, I can't help feel that the disadvantageous way GAME was presenting Nintendo's games in store were unironically hobbling Nintendo game sales.
I got lots if games from them in the late 90s, early 2000s. But despite being part of my childhood I won't be sad to see GAME gone.
Re: Reggie Fils-Aimé Weighs In On 'Switch 2 Welcome Tour' Controversy (Sort Of)
@Oracles_fanboi This is silly it's only a few weeks ago Ubisift released a full price AAA game with mobile style premium currency microtransactions. (Assassin's Creed Shadows)
If you think Nintendo charging a small amount for Switch tour is some new level of greed. Wake up and look at where the industry is lol your mind is cooked.
Re: Reggie Fils-Aimé Weighs In On 'Switch 2 Welcome Tour' Controversy (Sort Of)
I don't think this should be a pack-in because it's not really a game. It's more of a learning tool.
Wii Sports makes sense because it's a game, you could buy a Wii without any other launch title and have something to play.
Welcome Tour is not. I think it would give a bad 1st impression to anyone who thought its inclusion is a suitable replacement for any launch games or Switch games. I think making this tour appear to be the Wii Sports equivalent of the system would be a bigger mistake than charging for it.
This thing is a curiosity for those really interested in the hardware, but it'll probably be too boring for the majority.
Re: Talking Point: How Does Switch 2's Launch Price Compare To Past Nintendo Systems?
@sixrings People like these features on the Switch, they don't want them stripped out of the system or Switch 2. Just because you hate innovative ideas doesn't mean everyone else does.
And the Switch sales speak for themselves. If you want a boring bland box that plays games, you're spoilt for choice so go wild and pick something else mate.
Re: Surprise, Palworld Dev Isn't Fond Of The 'Pokémon With Guns' Description
They're just so slimy and fake. It's Pokemon with guns when they want articles to advertise for them, their trailers were full of Pokemon iconography and the monsters resemble Pokemon.
Now they got the sales and a lawsuit on them and it's inconvenient for them they're distancinf it. I Hope they never shake the label. .
I hope their community manager Bucky quits acting so disingenuous. I don't think i've seen one article where he hasn't tried to be evasive, misleading or pretending to be a Pokemon fan. He should be ashamed.
Re: Nintendo's Bowser Comments On AI And Its Uses
The concept of AI generating a game is repulsive to me.
Like if the AI is doing the creative processes like that then the company making the game becomes meaningless.
Re: Nintendo Understands Switch Owners May Not Be "Ready To Jump To Switch 2"
I've already got it pre-ordered, I'm very excited for Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza. But it makes sense.
The Switch is still ridiculously active for an 8th year console. 12million people bought one n the last year and Mario Party Jamboree sold almost 10million, Zelda Echoes over 4million, etc.
Even without the Tariff problem in the US, 150million users aren't going to upgrade overnight, even if Switch 2 could match Switch sales it'd take years. So the Switch will probably get support longer than the 3DS and WiiU did.
But based on specs, etc. And the fact the Switch 2 is Backwards compatibility there's really no reason not too. Towards the end of the gen the Switch's games have been hitting its tech limits and running/loading slower and these same games will just play better on Switch 2's better hardware.
Like I won't replay Mario & Luigi Brothership til Switch 2 comes out. I put up with slow loading/performance because there was no other option but now there is lol. I can easily afford it, but if I couldn't I'd be saving towards it because it'd be worth it even for replaying Switch games IMO.
Re: Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Orders In The US Amidst New Trump Tariffs
@Jayenkai I think Nintendo almost certainly pre-emptively increased the price expecting Tariffs and offsetting the US by raising it everywhere.
The problem is the day before the reveal Trump revealed 46% Tariffs on Vietnam where Switch 2 is produced, which is probably far beyond what Nintendo expected.
They've probably delayed pre-orders to try and get the Tariffs waived or to increase the US Switch price significantly if Nintendo have to pay them. If Nintendo have to pay 46% of the price of the system in taxes there's no way its gonna stay at $449 in America, their profit margins aren't that big.
I think Americans are gonna find out why Tariffs are worse on the country that imposes them than the country that gets targeted by them.
Re: "Don't Let Nintendo Ruin The Entire Industry" - Is $80 For Mario Kart World A Bridge Too Far?
@Moroboshi876 That's never a guarantee. I don't think Nintendo was counting on say the WiiU selling as little as it did. They'd have been in major trouble if they didn't increase game prices and just presumed they'd get higher sales than Wii to cover dev costs.
You can't always expect game sales to go up forever so at some point prices will rise.
Re: "Don't Let Nintendo Ruin The Entire Industry" - Is $80 For Mario Kart World A Bridge Too Far?
I don't care what anyone says 100 out 100 times I'd rather price rises than garbage like Lootboxes.
Fortnite and its Lootboxes are the biggest blight on gaming. Not a $80 Mario Kart.
It's like an insidious F2P Parasite has wormed it's way into gaming and people are pointing and screaming at a game being upfront on how they're gonna charge a bit more.
Re: "DROP THE PRICE!!!" Scream Nintendo Fans During Nintendo's Treehouse Live Broadcast
@VoidofLight Donkey Kong is $70 so not every Switch 2 game will be Mario Kart's price. The only other ones at $80 seem to be the Switch 2 edition games that get extra content/DLC alongside the update.
I think Mario Kart World will be a "special case" because it's the follow up to one of the best selling games of all time and Nintendo's 2nd best selling game (behind Wii Sports,).
And if Mario Kart World isn't a special case I think the backlash will very silently make it a special case, as Nintendo may be reluctant to make another game (presumably a Switch 2 original 3D Zelda) that price.
Re: Review: Croc: Legend Of The Gobbos (Switch) - A Solid, If Unspectacular Retro Adventure
@Smithicus almost certainly Nostalgia for the first. I had 1 & 2 as a kid but they were bottom of the barrel compared to the 1st party Nintendo and Sony 3D platformers.
I think Croc 1 benefitted from releasing in 1997 with little competition (Mario 64 & Crash were 1996. Banjo, Spyro, Sonic Adventure and Crash 2 were 1998) and buoyed by Final Fantasy 7 massively boosting the PS1.
Croc 2s sales fell off a cliff in 1999 whic shows how lucky the first game got with its release date.
Re: Final Fantasy 9 Remake Hopes Rise As Square Enix Teases Anniversary Projects
I'd really love to see a remake they do remake it, it better be 1 game.
1.Make the pre-rendered backgrounds into 3D environments of similar scale
2 Have a better looking world map
3.Replace random encounters with overworld enemies
4.Much faster battle system
5.Replace Tetra Master with a better card game
6.Less Randomness in Chocobo Hot & Cold
Otherwise keep the plot largely the same. If there's time flesh Armarant out in a sidequest.
Re: PSA: You Can Now Download Nintendo's New Mobile App
I'd imagine this is Nintendo's attempt to deliver news without reliance on a cesspool like Twitter.
Re: Ex-Nintendo Duo Unsure Mario Kart 9 Will Be An Instant "Slam Dunk" For Switch 2
@dkxcalibur
I remember prior to the launch of the Switch and even March-April 2017 before Deluxe came out a number of people saying "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe won't sell that well because everyone who wanted it
already bought it on WiiU", which isn't far off what Kit & Krysta are arguing why people wouldn't buy a Switch 2 for Mario Kart 9.
Realistically on Nintendo Switch the only game Nintendo could have released that could have sold better than Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is... well... Mario Kart 9. If they had the Mario Kart team make Mario Kart 9 instead of ARMS and MK8DX.
But the Switch 2 is getting that game, so while it's not guaranteed to sell better and it has a mountain to scale. I really think it is a Slam Dunk, if a WiiU port could be a juggernaught on Switch, how could a brand new Mario Kart not be the double juggernaught on Switch 2?
Even if someone bought a Switch and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for the first time today, really loved it and didn't want a Switch 2 for Mario Kart 9 just yet. They're still going to be interested in Mario Kart 9, and may want to buy it next 7~8 years even if they don't want to buy it THIS year.
Re: New Pokémon Legends Z-A Trailer Dives Into Even More Upcoming Features
@ChaosControl It's a real time battle system dude. What you're saying would be like claiming the original FF7 and the remake have the same battle system.
Like it's easy to be cynica,l but the idea that it changing from turn based to real time RPG in 1 entry wasn't big enough of a change is absurd. Were you expecting it to turn into a hack & slash?
Re: New Pokémon Legends Z-A Trailer Dives Into Even More Upcoming Features
I like the focus on trainer battles. It's kind of like a Yugioh Battle City kind of story which is vast change from Legends Arceus.
Since its only set a short time after X/Y I wonder if the player characters from that game are in this one.
Re: Ex-Nintendo Duo Unsure Mario Kart 9 Will Be An Instant "Slam Dunk" For Switch 2
Lol no wonder they don't work for Nintendo anymore. Ever since Mario Kart DS the series has reached a new level.
The fact about 70% of WiiU owners had Mario Kart 8 is a sign the series may have became like Grand Theft Auto or Minecraft. Constrained only by userbase.
Mario Kart 9 will sell as well as MK8 Deluxe if Switch 2 does as well as Switch. If Switch 2 sells a bit less then it won't, if Switch 2 somehow sells better it will beat it.
I think regardless of higher/lower system sales Mario Kart 9 will be Switch 2's best selling game.
Re: Nintendo Direct Confirmed For Tomorrow, 27th March 2025
Seems absurd but I suppose its good for Nintendo to have lots of Switch games to sell while the Switch 2 is building an audience.
Re: Forget The Lawsuit, Pocketpair Says Palworld On Switch 2 Is "100% Worth Considering"
@Real_Obsi Yeah they have all the hallmarks of being guilty. The CEO of Pocketpair even says he doesn't care about being original.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/palworld/pocketpair-hollow-knight
"On the other hand, I have a deep-rooted desire for my work to be enjoyed by as many people as possible, and to that end, if there are good ideas in the world, I pick them up, and I don’t necessarily have to be particular about originality. I’m thinking about it. I want to make it more casually. I think it would be a good idea to create things in a way that just jumps on what is trendy (lol)."
I think there's more reason to believe Pocketpair's lack of willingness originality would go as far as plagiarism and AI generation than not. I think their decision to remove some of Nintendo's patented mechanics before a verdict points toward them lifting things straight from other games which lines up with the CEOs comments on not bothering with originality.
I mean if he just looks at what's trendy is it a surprise some of the Pals look like some very popular Pokemon?
@mikegamer Palworld looks like a mish-mash of unreal store assets and clashing characters in an entirely different art style with monsters seemingly frankensteined out of parts of Pokemon models. Yum yum!
Gamefreak make their own assets and a cohesive art style, and I think a game can look good as long as all the graphics fit together to create the developers vision for the game's world regardless of graphical fidelity. Rather than look like some slapdash disposable FOTM survival game in a game world cobbled together from generic assets packs instead of assets designed for the games world.
Like people attack Pokemon's visuals all the time. But there's inherently a greater level of care put into it from the bespoke crafted visuals.
Re: Forget The Lawsuit, Pocketpair Says Palworld On Switch 2 Is "100% Worth Considering"
@Metazoxan IMO it's not impossible for Nintendo to still go after Pocketpair for copyright.
In the past Nintendo sued Enterbrain over TeaRing Saga (that was going to be released as Emblem Saga on PS1) that outright had the creator say in an interview intended on continuing the story of characters from Fire Emblem.
But despite the fact Emblem Saga's creator was blatantly infringing copyrights Nintendo instead choose to sue them for patents.
Then Nintendo sued them again for copyrights.
I think it'd be wrong to think Nintendo are suing on patents because they have no better options.
They are likely suing on patents first because if they win on patents Pocketpair will have to change quite significant parts of their game or pull the game from sale. Pocketpair have already pre-emptively started removing features from the game and they haven't even lost yet lol, which they'd have no reason to do if they definitely didn't copy mechanics from Legends Arceus exactly.
Re: UK Charts: A Strong Xenoblade Debut Can't Escape Assassin's Creed's Shadow
@roy130390 Yeah people have their preferences. Personally I've never been interested in Assassin's Creed. But I'm.not going to pretend people don't find it worth playing or that it needs to fail and take away that experience from those who like it.
Like its annoying to see a chunk of the gaming audience transform themselves into the same kind of blind haters that wanted to bring down gaming as a whole in the past. I see no difference between the sort of crap AC Shadows is getting and priests calling Pokemon of the devil in the 90/2000s, or Fox News getting some biddy who never played the games on to claim Mass Effect has full frontal nudity and corrupting the youth.
I'd rather celebrate that more people have more ways to enjoy gaming. I can have a negative opinion and air criticism, but condemning a game that has really done nothing to deserve it and wishing it fails is dumb.
Re: Forget The Lawsuit, Pocketpair Says Palworld On Switch 2 Is "100% Worth Considering"
@swoose Yeah it's pretty clear it's just a load of marketing spiel for Palworld by Pocketpair mentioning Nintendo at all.
They know Nintendo aren't going to let a company they're suing for infringement launch the offending game on their system.
Re: Random: Sega Surprises Sonic The Hedgehog Fans With Official Timeline
@N00BiSH I mean I think Ian Flynn the Sonic Comic writer is the official "lore keeper" lol.
Personally I think Mario has it right where there's not much continuity but they just pull whichever characters they want for a game into whatever role based on what suits the game best.
Like if they wanted to bring Pauline into the mainline Mario games and make her the Mayor of New Donk City they don't have to be constrained by what happened in Donkey Kong or the Mario vs Donkey Kong games.
I think it's just an exercise in futility to even humour the idea almost all of the games in a series are actually accounting for all of the others and a certain order of events when deciding on the story.
Re: Random: Hang On, Sony Vet Ken Kutaragi Has A 'SNES PlayStation' Sitting In His Cupboard
Sony on the console, Sony on the disk reader, Sony on the SNES game pad.
Sony offering Nintendo this deal is like The Wicked Queen handing Snow White the poisoned Apple lol.
Re: Opinion: We'll Never Get A Final Boss As Good As Pokémon Legends: Arceus Again
IMO the Scarlet/Violet final story boss managed to top it.
Re: Minecraft Movie Tries To Capture Some 'Peaches' Magic With New Jack Black Track
@TomSupreme This whole Minecraft Movie comes off as Microsoft seeing videogame movie adaptions pop off and just approving the first script to show up.
It seems like Microsoft missed the part where actual effort was put into the newer adaptations to show they weren't just a cheap cash grab and just focused on the part where the Mario Movie made a billion.
Re: Sakurai Says Japanese Developers Should Avoid Trying To Appeal To Western Tastes
@Ironcore How about stop trying to make every topic about the same thing? It's pathetic.
Re: Sakurai Says Japanese Developers Should Avoid Trying To Appeal To Western Tastes
This is definitely true for Square Enix, they sacrificed Final Fantasy's popularity in Japan chasing the western cinematic action game audience and the Game of Thrones audience for FF16.
Except it didn't work so now it's just straight up less popular worldwide and with no way to reverse it because there's 6-7 years between mainline entries.
FF used to sell 3million just in Japan. Now they sell 3million worldwide.
Re: Pocketpair Recalls "Depressing Day" Nintendo Announced Its Palworld Lawsuit
Strange how everyone who tries and rips Nintendo off for money call themselves "fans".
Really Pocketpair are giant leeches, their last game Craftopia is just as blatant. See their goblins there are just model edits of BOTW's Bokoblins and Moblins.
Pocketpair just rely on gullible fools immediately siding with the 'underdog' against the big company for support. Anyone who's actually looked into Pocketpair's history would know they don't operate in good faith.
Re: UK Charts: WWE And Monster Hunter Hold Strong In Quite Week For Nintendo
EAFC on Switch matching PS5 is surprising for how much EA shafts Nintendo.
Re: Pokémon Center Singapore Sticks Its Middle Finger Up To TCG Scalpers
@Spider-Kev IMO the card/box odds would prove it.
Tbh if there was proof The Pokemon Company were tampering with their own boxes it'd be worth buying a box, simply because there'd inevitably be a class-action lawsuit with a big payout given the cardgane itself is a multi-billion industry.
Re: Star Fox Veteran's New Game Is Channelling Serious Lylat Energy
@tdub154420 I looked it up, Giles Goddard was involved in the original one on SNES. Though not anything after.
But he wasn't the only one like he said in the video, or even the only programmer. So he's lying in the video for some reason.
Before I read the article.I presumed it was Dylan Cuthbert's Q-Games because he was involved Starfox 1 & 2, Star Fox Command and directed Star Fox 64 3D.
Re: Star Fox Veteran's New Game Is Channelling Serious Lylat Energy
The trailer sucked and the developers are awfully arrogant for a game description that sounds like it's doing absolutely nothing new and may be 100% on rails with no all-range mode equivalent lol.
Re: Nintendo & Pokémon Company Had An "Adversarial Relationship", Say Former NOA Staffers
@larryisaman As much as I like Nintendo I think them fully owning Pokemon might not have been that great.
Under Nintendo, like most of their franchises most actions with Pokemon would prioritise selling Nintendo consoles. It'd have probably helped if they could just have just got whatever Pokemon game they wanted on a console like WiiU instead of a handful of spin-offs, but obviously unless they did a 3DS/WiiU cross platform game any Pokemon on WiiU would have been trading Pokemon's success to try and save a console.
Whereas The Pokemon Company take actions to boost Pokemon as an IP (With exception to releasing it on platforms competing with Nintendo). I think Nintendo would be hesitant to make quite as many mobile games with Pokemon or have pushed the card game as far as TPC.
I think Nintendo's multi-media strategy with Mario is a lot weaker than Pokemon. Until recently Mario's largely been all licensed toys/products outside the games rather than extra branches of the franchise like the card games, multiple manga, anime and movies are for Pokemon.
Re: Random: Pokémon-Shaped Cheeto Auction Proves The World Has Gone Mad
I've got some shaped like Weedle, Caterpie and Orthworm.
Re: Nintendo's Lawsuit Win Against Major French Sharehoster Is Now Final
@Pillowpants To be fair law works slow but the tech world moves fast.
Victories like this increasingly and rightly put the onus on website owners to have responsibility for what they are hosting online. Where in the past you just had website owners just disregarding the content they hosted without consequence and just straight up profiting off piracy.
Re: Opinion: Pokémon Legends: Z-A Looks Cool, But It's Lacking Arceus' Unique Style
@8bitKirby The success of Pokemon flies in the face of the idea every game needs to be a graphical showpiece that demonstrates the raw power of the system. So it angers people when Gamefreak don't waste their time intricately designing every building you run past and will forget about lol in favour of a simpler visual style.
Even on the Gameboy Pokemon was behind the curve visually. It's hard to believe it's been 30 years of Pokemon and people still don't get its not remotely meant to be a graphical spectacle, or that it not looking as good as the best looking games on its system is something new.
I think it looks good.
Re: Review: Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Switch) - A Comprehensive Round-Up With A Few Real Winners
It's interesting but it feels like a lot of redundant games with only the likes of Monster Capsule Dungeon Dice Monsters providing the variety. With 04/05 providing the real game.
Then the rest are just the same simplified format games.
Re: Nintendo's Palworld Lawsuit Might Go International As New Patents Land U.S. Approval
@97alexk They have patented that and throwing an object to catch a monster isn't broad. Shin Megami Tensai does negotiations to convince Demons, Digimon has you collect data to create a copy, Monster Rancher had you summon them from discs, Fossil Fighters have you dig up fossils, etc.
Palworld's is literally the least creative because it's the same as Pokemon, there's no creativity in copying someone else's mechanic exactly. Nintendo's patent in this case promotes innovation as it means developers have to get creative and do something new and different to implement a similar mechanic. The patent is narrow, most monster collecting series have persisted without falling afoul of it, and the only one that hasn't is the one that decided to use it exactly.
Team Xecuter made hundres of millions. Nintendo even got awarded $2million from resellers so it should speak for how much the they made.
Pocketpair haven't found a loophole, they just tried to bypass the creative process. that's why they're getting sued. Pocketpair should lose the lawsuit otherwise it might as well be a big flashing sign that plagiarism is OK.
How successful Pokemon is has no bearing on what is fair and legal competition.
Re: Nintendo's Palworld Lawsuit Might Go International As New Patents Land U.S. Approval
@97alexk You can't really patent a generic game mechanic. No one can patent the mechanic catching of a monster. They can patent like Nintendo have, throwing an object to catch a monster. Which is fair, the Pokeball is such an iconic method and unlike any game that came before.
If the patent doesn't prevent catching monsters as a mechanic then I don't see why it shouldn't be allowed. If anything it encourages innovation as each monster collecting game has to come up with its own unique method of capture.
Gary Bowsers life was ruined by himself. He was involved in and installing ransomware in people's Switches were if they didn't pay Team xecuter they'd brick the Switch. He owes 14million because he done collosal amounts of damage and the team made millions, and even after being warned by Nintendo they continued.
There's nothing scummy about it, if they sued him for say $100k then he'd probably be still be jailbraking systems today, because why wouldn't he? If he's part of a multi-million illegal piracy business why would he stop unless he was made to pay back more than he made?
Nintendo are deserving of critique, but I think people expecting Nintendo to be limp wristed when people and companies are ripping them off is unwarranted.
Re: Nintendo's Palworld Lawsuit Might Go International As New Patents Land U.S. Approval
@97alexk Pokemon already has competition. Competition stealing from the original is not legitimate competition.
The likes of Digimon, Yo-Kai Watch, Tem Tem, Monster Rancher deserve support. Palworld does not,
Considering Palworld has already started removing mechanics after the lawsuit started but before even any decision had been made, I don't see how anyone can sincerely think Nintendo wasnt justified and should lose this when Pocketpair is either pre-empting a loss or trying to hide their infringement.
Like the right thing to do is opposing plagiarism. But people seem not to want do it because that means no palworld.
Reminds me of Yuzu where the emulator developers were sharing pirated ROMs and charging for access for a build that could play Tears of The Kingdom early. Very obviously wrong, but people were crawling out of the woodwork to defend Yuzu (or more specifically their personal use of the emulator).
Re: Can You Name These Zelda: Majora's Mask Masks?
22/24 messed up the Blast Mask and Troupe Leader Mask.
Re: Nintendo And Amazon File For $7 Million Default Judgement In Fake amiibo Suit
@Medic_alert Probably easier to sue the bootleggers alongside Amazon, than it would be to sue Amazon itself lol.
Even if Amazon were liable, it'd be impossible for Nintendo to successfully do it. Especially considering Bezos probably now has special protection given he was in the front row at the president's inauguration alongside the other tech oligarchs.
Re: Sony Does What Nintendon't By Removing A Bunch Of 'eSlop' Titles
@G_and_Thomas IMO the quality seal made more sense when in the NES era companies had a yearly limit of games they could publish only increases by having high rated games (if I remember correctly).
I think Nintendo should re-institute a limit on games published per year, with exceptions for bigger publishers like Square, Microsoft, Capcom, SEGA, etc.
These bad games work on pure volume of releases so if lesser known publishers and indies could only publish 2 games a year on Switch they'd be forced to focus on quality over quantity. All the best indie devs usually spend several years on one game so a limit of 2 per year wouldn't be a barrier to good games. And it'd make smaller publishers more selective over what they release
Re: Talking Point: Where Should 'Luigi's Mansion 4' Take Place?
I'd like the village idea people mentioned.
I'd be interesting to have a village that starts abandoned hub that updates as you progress through a Mansion and save villagers from paintings or befriend ghosts.
Though the fact you could just can come and go from the Mansion as you please could make it feel less spooky than a Mansion Luigi is trapped in.
Re: Nintendo Is Developing New Mobile Game Apps, Unsurprisingly
Since the Switch 2 isn't going to instantly reach Switch sales and the Switch will be on decline.
I could see Nintendo releasing a few mobile games primarily help their business while the Switch 2 userbase is building.
Like how Fire Emblem Heroes released in 2017 was more succesful than a potential Fire Emblem Switch game would have been at launch and almost certainly contributed to making Three Houses become the best selling Fire Emblem when it came in 2019.
Re: Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake Sold Above Expectations, Says Square Enix
Should probably be embarrassing for them that DQ3 and FF7Rebirth have such similar sales.
FF7Rebirth was almost certainly supposed to be Squares "big game" and had vastly more resources planted into developing and marketing.
But there's no way that DQ3 hasn't ran rings round it in profits due to lower budget yet still achieving similar sales while being a premium priced game.
Re: Nintendo Switch Hardware Sales Pass 150 Million, With PS2's Record Still A Way Off
@Edu23XWiiU tbh I'm completely expecting if/when Switch reaches 161m Nintendolife will put out an article half-heartedly celebrating it and downplaying it lol.