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@akaDv8R as a rule, the US eShop doesn't update until noon EST, so "Jack" is an aberration.

Edit: weird, on my end, "Jack" is still situated in the "Coming Soon" section.

@JHDK HW=hardware.

@JHDK I'm sitting on:

*Zelda
*Fast RMX
*ACA Alpha Mission 2
*ACA Metal Slug
*ACA Metal Slug 3
*ACA Nam 1975
*ACA Neo Turf Masters
*ACA Shock Troopers
*Graceful Explosion Machine
*Has-Been Heroes<--fav game on HW, Zelda notwithstanding.
*Snake Pass
*New Frontier Days
*Blaster Master Zero

I'll pick up Mr.Shifty and maybe SSIV today--good times!

(My PS4Pro, 3DS, etc. are dying of neglect.)

SamSho IV, unless the "News" section of the Switch is lying.

@masterLEON amen to that!

Wait, is Rolling Thunder 2 on this?? (The image above is not from RT.) If so, hooray!

Bought it--love shooters like most of you love air--but a 9 is waaaaay over-the-top (if this is a 9, what are some of Raizing's games? 27 out of 10?).

@Xaessya nope.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE no, but it also isn't taking into consideration R&D, marketing, etc., all of which drive costs up (funny how these things are always left off when people try to pick nits), so we'll just have to accept this ballpark figure for what it is: an educated guess.

@LiberatedAnimal I can go you one (or two) better: One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird (C64) and Basketball (2600).

#oldman

@SLIGEACH_EIRE I don't like basketball, either, but I love NBA Jam, one of the greatest arcade games of all time.

(My bloody 32X wound up being little more than a Jam machine, lo those many years ago.)

@Pahvi it's not in yet, but Sumo has said they are adding it.

@uhhhhhhhh how strange: I find it unbearable to look at docked--the upscaling from whatever res it's running at is brutal on a 4k display. It's very fuzzy and low-res-looking, a problem that isn't an issue with other 720p-ish Switch games. I find it vastly better un-docked, but perhaps that's just because it look so bloody fuzzy on my set.

Delicious Tea Gaming: He will rock you?

@BenAV @Whopper744 @Slim1999 sounds like he's in AUS, guys, where it is, in fact, 90 AUD (which is roughly 70 USD).

@NEStalgia "It doesn't really add anything, and I don't think Americans that have played Zelda for 30 years (and lets face it, nobody in Britain seemed to have cared about Nintendo most of those years in numbers that count) ever imagined the princess sounding British even once."

Yeah, I would agree that I was a little surprised she speaks in a (very vaguely) British accent, considering the precedent set by Captain N and the Zelda animated series.

(Granted, 95% of the people here probably weren't alive when these shows aired.)

Anyone have any idea what the other changes were in the patch? On their Twitter feed they say it fixed rumble and other issues, but there are no patch notes.

@neufel it's probably the second-best* game in the series, behind 3--In a nutshell, it's a simpler, cleaner, more pure affair, but still worth every penny.

*That said, a minority of NeoGeo fans would tell you it's better than 3 (and a few would say X is the best). I am not one of those people, but it is still worth every penny if you're a fan of run 'n' guns.

@Moon this game shames every other Lego game released prior to--and since--its release. It takes the core elements of Lego games (collect-a-thoning[??] and puzzle-platforming) and marries it to the core elements of the newer GTAs with astounding results.

@Romeo-75 @Dakt I have Nioh on PS4 Pro, and even when set to high frame rate mode, the dynamic resolution is by no means a consistent 1080p (or 60fps, for that matter).

@CapeSmash because, if you're like me, you have a ton of coins expiring in a week or so and have nothing else to use them on =/

@Guspaz nope, Birdie King 3 is! XD

@Mando44646 well, it may not get localized...on 3DS...cough.

@FragRed you need to play it to understand cartoonish boxing??

It's almost like everyone forgets it took the PS4 well over 12-months to even begin to get anywhere with games--until then, it was lots of remasters and Bloodborne, basically (hell, the only retail game I owned for the first 18-months of its release was BB).

And it's the same reason why the Switch will take time to get rolling: third parties are going to take a wait and see to make sure it actually firmly takes off--if it does, the games will come in a torrent (just like PS4), which makes the remainder of this year critical for its success.

That said, it's probably a given that we'll see lots of Japanese games, a la 3DS on it, which, for someone like me, is really all I care about...though I understand this isn't good enough for most others.

I found all the shrines and it took me ~90-hours or so to do it, then, for about 15-seconds, I considered finding all the koroks...then I was told there are 900 of them...

@BornInNorway81

The tap is on the left:

http://rsc2.saatscommerce.com/img55b59f1713a5e_l.jpg

Turbografx version:

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/321681093677-0-1/s-l1000.jpg

This is fairly impressive, insofar as it's relatively transparent.

As an example from another platform, the dynamic res scaling on Nioh, on a PS4 Pro of all things, is painfully obvious when it degrades to keep it at 60fps@1080p.

@sillygostly it's the end of March for Nintendo.

@geordie uh, this isn't by Nintendo...

@gatorboi352 yes, supply and demand (read: econ 101) is now a tinfoil hat conspiracy...ye gods...you better loosen yours before it cuts off what little blood flow is still getting to your brain.

(Note: I'm not saying it's this, but suggesting someone charging what the market will bear rates as tinfoil hattery versus cost of goods is laughably deranged.)

Slightly more concrete, then, than Konami's rather boilerplate reply (with no promise of actual fixes coming, i.e. Bomberman R).

@PlywoodStick nah, I've done this a thousand times on a variety of projects* with no issues--low intensity and just take it slow and steady.

(Soldering, well, of course, that's much, much too hot to apply to plastic.)

*Including removing the 'lens' cover on a 3DS w/ no ill effects.

Mine isn't actually that tight, but there is, I would imagine, a fairly easy fix: grab a heat gun and simply put some pressure on the plastic.

Barring that, it might even be possible to simply shove a shim in there and, given a day or so, the force might be sufficient to bend it just enough so that it isn't nearly as snug.

(Yes, I know, this is something that shouldn't have happened, but it's a painfully easy DIY fix.)

@Honelith yep, no issues here, either, but I did get a DOA PS4 at launch, and so did a bunch of people.

(This doesn't excuse it if it's a hardware problem, for Nintendo, but a little perspective would be nice.)

Sing it w/ me, to the tune of row, row, row your boat:

"Rushed, rushed, rushed for launch..."

@Wyk126 I'm on a gray unit, and no issues thus far, including all manner of contortions to try and induce it.

(The Switch itself is surrounded by a running PS4Pro, a notebook computer, and a Smart TV--in other words, a WiFi and Bluetooth minefield--but it doesn't seem to matter.)

@MadAdam81 good to know. I'm something of a bomber god (have spent over 1000-hours, in my life, playing various Bomberman games, primarily Super Bomberman 2 which was something of a college sport in my day) but between this and the frame rate, this game screams unfinished.

@mateq I will concur that I also had the single worst customer service experience of my life w/ Ninendo, bar none. It was really disheartening and eye-opening at the same time--their goal seemed to be not so much to remedy the situation, but to put sufficient roadblocks in my path to make me give up.

Once i got the Better Business Bureau involved, however, they finally cried "uncle", albeit months later.

People need to stop freaking out until the price is revealed and the details are 100% carved in stone.

@FrankJaeger I empathize, but the problem is that there is a very fine line between "tinkering" and "theft", and it almost inevitably leads to the latter, as the vast majority are not interested in the tinkering end (like you and me) but are very much interested in the theft end--understanding that POV isn't really that mystifying, is it?

(You do, however, make a good point that if NL is going to cover these things, playing coy about using ROMs is a little sketchy.)

Gotcha Force 2 (in some fever dream parallel universe in which I hope to soon reside).

@NinChocolate "you can accomplish a great if you don't care who gets the credit."

@Spoony_Tech if I had to guess, to avoid irritating their retail partners who are trying to clear stock (who they need to carry the Switch).

@Urameshi uh...the console version is right there in the video--it's merely queued up to the 3DS rev.

@iGen this bull**** about Americans grows wearisome beyond measure, and it's a pretty common thing to see around NL, sadly, and is never slapped down by the folks running the site.

So, in lieu of that, take your simple-minded, parochial, bigotry and shove it up your ****.

(Because we know Americans have a monopoly on a sense of entitlement, etc., right?)

@alasdair91 at least you guys see 50% off offers--NA has never seen discounts that deep.

@MarioPhD I have 810

@holygeez03 it is not, nor has it ever been, a failure to anticipate demand. Nintendo is a hyper-conservative co.* and will almost always attempt to just meet demand--sometimes they miss, and sometimes they don't, just like any other co.--it's just that most of the people on this site pay no attention to any industry other than gaming, so they don't see this playing out in countless different sectors where 'very smart' corps badly underestimate (or overestimate, as the case may be) demand.

*It's one of the key reasons they've been in business for well over a century.

Wave Race Blue Storm and 1080 Avalanche, please!

@ottospooky not if they are generous with import CD-ROM titles, no--I actually prefer the PC-Engine CD to the SNES/SuFami.

Great game--and with remedied loading times, even better!