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@NaviAndMii Nintendolife has always been like that. I mean what do you expect? And i like this kind of structuring because i there is a comment section for each announcement.

So much new content!

Totally justifies a 60 dollar price tag!

@Cobalt I think you should look up the definition of subjective and objective

@Razer The joke was pretty funny but saying this is some leftovers is very inaccurate. I know a lot of hardcore mh players myself included that couldn't really get into mh world but are looking flrward to this one. but yeah this talking from the hardcore point of view. I mean just because one game was good doesn't mean the other can't be

@zool But do they actually take away new game slots? I'm pretty sure ports are done by other studios than those developing software. Don't quote me on that though.

And i don't think that the lack of new games is on nintendo, i'm pretty sure that they use all the capacities they have to make new games. I don't expect them pumping out masterpieces after the stellar last year.

And i still don't get how people can complain that there is nothing to play. There are tons of awesome games on the eshop that i still need to try and i game everyday.

@zool It's almost like there were no new fantastic games for the switch... oh wait there are! I had a huge library on my wii u and only bought one game again for the switch (because the wii u disc had malfunctions). I still game regularly and had no problems finding new good games to play. My backlog is getting bigger and bigger in fact. So i see no reason why wii u ports should be a bad thing. And if someon decises to douple or triple-dip, that's on them and not nintendo.

@Spiders I don't see what's supposed to be the other disgusting business practices. I mean things like DLC's are limited so you can only spend a certain amount of money so there's no risk of people overspending. I think a good solution to this problem would to either sell a complete version without microtransactions or limit the maximum amount that can be spent per month or overall.

@Spiders Can't speak for everyone but the problem for me is that these games mostly survive because of "whales", people that can't control their spending. So there's basically one person paying the game for multiple other people. I mean i've never bought anything from a F2P game but that still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

@Alex90 What makes you think these sites are sjw? please elaborate

@Moroboshi876 Sorry that i sounded harsh wasn't meant to be like that. I wasn't reffering to you with my original post i think most of your criticisms in your first posts were valid. My problem are people trashing the game just because they didn't like certain aspects (e.g. extremes). And the other thing is that how disappointed in a game you are depends on what ypur expectation were and that's on you so you shouldn't blame it on the developers.

And i don't know about the internet connevtion, i think it's really weird. Maybe reguonal differences?

@Moroboshi876 The reviews deemed it excellent? I mean nintendolife gave it a 8/10 and if you know nintendolife that sure doesn't mean the game is excellent. The metacritic score ils also around 75 i think so yeah half a point off of your score. I suggest looking at multiple sources.
And again i think this is on you. no one said it was gonna be the best tennis game ever.

So by what i've read from you, you're searching for a singleplayer experience and if that's the case i understand you're disappointed. But that's not what mario tennis is, i mean if i had no friends to play i would never have bought this game. the way i see it is the awesome mechanics and multiplayer are the main dish and the single player story being a fun little extra, like splatoon.

I think i got like two disconnects since i've bought the game so yeah it probably is you.

TL;DR: Don't follow the hype

Why do people always have to jump to extremes? Either the game is excellent or their disappointed. I mean yeah these supposed glitches (maybe it's intentional who knows) and the lack of some options (match length and retry option) is dumb but do we have to drag down the whole game because of that?
I mean the core mechanics are awesome, pretty much everyone agrees on that and multiplayer is solid. I thought the singelplayer was pretty good i just don't get the people expecting more than a 5 hours campaign on a multiplayer focused game.
So yeah sure the game has some glarring issues but that doesn't make it a 'mess' or 'inacceptable'. And if you really think so maybe you should have kept your expectations realistic especially regarding storymode. I mean it has a story mode, lots of characters, varying courts and a solid online multiplayer. What more do you want?

Stop with this "well xY did get a 8 but this one only a 7 so this site is clearly biased and their review scores are stupid". If you don't agree with their scores look for another reviewer that better suits your tastes but stop pretending like your opinion of the game is better and more accurate than anyone elses.

@geordie People think jim sterling is way more influential than he actually is.

PS: i really enjoy watching him

@Jaffacakes01 Where do you get that from? I mean it's written in the article that you can disable the lock if you know what you're doing. Hackers were able to hack the switch in almost a year (not sure exactly) and this was done in a day. So really don't know why these anti piracy measures are supposed to be better.

This is the funniest thing i have heard for a while lol

@McGruber If you think the switch is a half-assed machine, why did you buy one?

@dystome Crippling the second hand market? are you actually serious?
The only thing they're stopping here is illegal copies of a game. This doesn't effect normal second hand games at all. This just means that retailers will have to check if the online services work before selling games. And i think there's a lot less illegal ones than normal. So please think about the topic and the consequences before commenting conspiracies.
And this goes to Nintendolife as well. I would really like some more Nintendo criticism of you from time to time, but you should really first think about what that actually means before posting stuff like this. And if this was just because of that sweet clickbait than well, even worse.

"Impossible to know if pre-owned games are safe"? How about checking if the online services work? And if you tell now that you can't check if the online services work if you buy it second hand, well you also can't check if the cartridge actually works.

I only recently saw the scope of my problem with videogames. It was around last march when breath of the wild released and i spent a few weeks only gaming and doing nothing else. Really had a lot of problems then but it was a wake up call for me. I still game a lot but i also work a lot now. I had to realise that for the 10 years i have been a gamer, gaming has seriously kept me from being productive and making the best of myself. However, i do think that partially because of games i am now really happy and enjoying life.
Extra credits also has a very good video on the topic on youtube.
So with all things in life, too much is never good. If you can strike a blanance between gaming and other things then game on. If you think other parts of your life suffer because of your gaming habits, then please reconsider your priorities. Trust me, it really changed my life for the better!
Have a nice day and happy gaming

Incoming "Virtual console games have been realeased on 20 other consoles but not on this specific one so i'm entitled to get them for free"

@zool Yeah i would too rather have a completely new game than DLC. But i guess that if it wasn't for DLC the donkey kong expansion maybe wouldn't have been made at all. And then you got to ask yourself if a DLC pack significantly hinders development of a new gam or not. But that's just playing a game of "what if" and we will never know for sure. But even then then i think from what we've seen the DK DLC will have pretty good value for its prize. And if it doesn't i'll have to agree with you.

@zool I'm not saying DLC is good value. I understand where you're coming from but the thing i don't understand is how people are relieved if a developer confirms that there will be no DLC. It's optional so if you don't like it don't buy it.

@Tarolusa Yeah but still. Wasn't echoes without the DLC a fully fledged game with similiar amount of content as the last ones? If yes (haven't played the game so i don't know) you payed full price for a full game, and you can download additional content for more money but you get a full base game for 60 bucks. If no, then sure that is a problem.

I really don't get the whole sentiment here of DLC being such a bad thing. If you like a game a lot and want more of it why shouldn't you have the possibility to get more? And the whole "DLC is content locked from the main game and sold seperately" thing doesn't really work with nintendo games. I mean was there a single game from nintendo that felt unfinished and was later added DLC? And people do realise that a development team has a lot of time between finishing the game and it actually releasing, so announcing DLC before launch isn't necesseraly content hold back. Feel free to reply if you disagree with my points.

@Yorumi I can't speak for everyone but for me the frequent updates in splatoon 1 and 2 were what made me come back over and over. So at least for me the drip feed method worked pretty well and it was the reason i bought arms. But i see why people could have a problem with it.

Thanks a lot for not spoiling the characters in the title! Had to click the article though to write this comment 😅 but nevermind

@Dang69 I don't think so actually. If you look at some sites heavily investing in clickbait you'll see that they are being as vague as possible to lure people in. if they would just outright say what the big announcement is a lot of people would just move on and not click on the article.

Dear Nintendolife, if you yourself admits that leaks can have a negative impact on a games perception why do you keep making these sopilery headlines? Why don't you just write some vague description with a 'leak' or 'spoiler' tag?

@Baldspur I think the reason they broke their philosophy of showing only games that come out soon is because they really neede a good launch for the Switch. So i think that's why they teased things to reassure fans that they are investing a lot of ressources in the switch

Well i don't know they said the presentation will focus on 2018 and smash, and it did exactly that. Sure the presentation was pretty lackluster but that was to be expected after last years fantstic e3 from nintendo. They used all their staff last year to guarantee a successfull launch so a drought in 2018 had to be expected. i mean yeah nintedo is a huge company but even they don't have unlimited ressources as you might expect.
I feel happy for microsoft, sony, bethesda and ubisoft that they had such a great presentation even if i don't play on any other plattform besides nintendo's. I would feel bad for complaining now about nintendo after having the best gaming year of my life so yeah. Hope to see nintendo back with full force next year.

I don't want to sound like that typical Fortnite hater but please don't start spamming us with unneccessary articles like these. Yeah some people may find it interesting but aren't there fortnite forums for samll things like these? I really like your articles and how you keep your articles diverse. But for the love of god don't become like Ign, really liked that site but sine every second article is now about fortnite i can't watch it anymore. And for clarification i'm really not a Fortnite hater i actually quite like it but yeah. Hope you get my point.

@SpaceboyScreams Nintendo doesn't owe us those things. I could also say that i want games for free but nintendo doesn't offer them so i am allowed to hack the system. I know that's an extreme example but just because you want it doesn't mean you're entitled to get it. And i mean if you want a console with cloud saves just buy another one, it's not like nintendo promised something and didn't deliver. you knew well what the switch can and can't when you bought it. Still think it's [removed] from nintendo that they don't offer cloud saves but yeah no reason to hack the switch

@FTPinkRabbit I get that people want to do that. But just because you can't do it doesn't mean you're entitled to get it for free. Yes you bought the game, but you bought it for a specific console and you got it for that console. If you want to play it again, boot up your old console. As simple as that. Not saying this is a good decision from nintendo

@Crono1973 why a strawman? i didn't say anything about what i think of this decision. Just pointing out the people that think this entitles them to get everything for free

Ugh now everyone thinks they're entitled to download games for free because reasons

@H_Hunter Haven't you heard of that one japanese game?

@ThanosReXXX All right! Unforunately i don't have a functioning wii or gamecube. But if a new one realeses as rumoured i'll sure give it a try 😉
Thanks a lot!

@ThanosReXXX I really couldn't care less about how accuratr the physics and the surroundings are. As long as the gameplay is good.
But thanks a lot for the response!
it's just one of the only nintendo games i couldn't really get into. But judging from the comments on this thread i will have to give this game a second chance.

Is this game so good? I mean i had it for the n64 but i thought it was pretty boring

@NightBeast Life sure must be easy when you can write off anything that doesn't suit your political view as propaganda

@Menchi187 aw come on it's always the same from those switch haters.
I mean yeah sure it is underpowered for a home console but it's not for a handheld console. But yeah next you're gonna tell me that the switch is in fact a homeconscole first and a hybrid second for whatever made up reason because you just can't admit that the switch is a great console and millions of people love it.

And of course the old gimmicks argument. Everything that is innovative and tries to do something different is a gimmick. How can you even say labo is a gimmick? Just because you don't like it? You do realize that this thing is made for kids huh?

The only point with some truth to it is the poor third party support. I'll give you that. But you do realize that all consoles do have shovelware and mobile ports?

@Menchi187 I like how you call out nintendo fans that make baseless claims and then you proceed to make a baseless claim by saying that the switch is a wii2.

ok wait a moment, i have a better suggestion why nintendo wants to hold the announcement back. what if we get in the next direct one of those smash announcements with the new challenger being spyro and then the games being announced? How epic would that be?

@nwebster11 Why do you feel the need to comment this on a post specifically catering to smash bros fans?

Even if it is a version 4.5, what's so bad about this? I mean if you go by the logic that splatoon 2 is just splatoon 1.5, wouldn't that mean that every new entry or a new franchise which doesn't change up the gameplay mechanics is a .5 version? Why stop there? isn't melee just an enhanced port of smash 64? new maps, new characters, new modes, new visuals. Isn't that exactly the same with splatoon 2 apart from that the leap in visuals isn't as big?
I really don't get where people are drawing the line here. If the new smash has new characters, new stages, new modes and better visuals it's a new game. And if you don't think so well then all of the entries after smash 64 are ports too

A discount 1-2 switch? wow that's harsh. wasn't 1-2 switch a discount party game itself?

Really? People are now disappointed over this? They were explicitly stating that this would be an anouncement for a new interactive way to play for the kids. Yet a lot of people were expecting smash i mean come on

I thought the sales of samus returns were pretty disappointing so a new 2D metroid game would be rather unlikely

@Ardisan isn't it kinda selfish that sony paid capcom to not release mh world for the switch?

What?! People realy thought this dlc would make the 4 champions playable? Do you even realize how much work it takes to make 4 characters, all the animations and new gameplay? I mean be realistic with your expectations