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@westman98 Yeah, based on what one guy said. Specifically, a disgruntled anonymous American former employee. Nintendo was more pro-consumer during the Iwata era.

Good, drag them. An anti-consumer move if there ever was one.

The Switch doesn't need a successor, Nintendo should just keep making Switch games indefinitely. The graphics aren't going to get any better at this point. And the lesson here is that if you live by port-begging, you die by port-begging. No Mario Kart 9.

Can we get the brentalfloss version too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ruNfajgUr0

Also, bring back the eShop and Virtual Console.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvmnRLFYIIU

@BloodNinja A disturbing number of people are apparently happy to let their freedom be taken away if those in power can find some out group to scapegoat (in this case the unvaccinated déplorables).

@BloodNinja It’s not a sentiment, it’s simply a (rather astute) observation about the way the world works. See: Venezuela, Afghanistan, Nazi Germany, etc. The idea that a freer, more just world is inevitable rather than something that must be fought for and preserved is a dangerous delusion.

@BloodNinja Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction.

Some people refuse to get the vaccine because they don’t think it works. Others support permanent lockdowns because they don’t think the vaccine works. Seems to be two sides of the same coin.

Still, live E3 long outlived its useful life. Having it online would’ve made sense even in 2019.

I think if you actually read his statement, you’ll see that there’s nothing wrong with it.

@Gamer_Zeus Exactly two Zelda games have been cross-platform launch titles. They’re the exception, not the rule.

Really amazing how similar all these Gameboy RPG-esque games look (Pokémon, Dragon Quest, Zelda, even Mario Tennis).

Where did these two come down on the Nintendo Switch Pro? Curious that was left out of the article.

“ Jeff Grubb has a relatively reliable track record and while these are just his "predictions" for the upcoming Game Awards show, he accurately predicted BOTW 2 would appear at Nintendo's E3 Direct ahead of the event.”

Did he also predict that Mario would be in the Super Smash Bros. Switch game? The man’s a genius!

All that being said, I probably wouldn’t bet too much on Nintendo revealing much if anything. The last several game awards shows were a bust in that regard, even though they were hyped up before hand.

@KayFiOS Four Swords is playable with two or three players, and there's 4-way third party link cables.

1 or 2, though I haven't played Triforce Heroes yet. Four Swords is boring with one, but a lot of fun with friends. Needing two copies and a link cable wasn't a problem for any of the Pokemon games, so I don't see why it's an issue here. Four Swords Adventures does require a lot of unusual equipment (one GBA and a GBA link cable per player) but it's still fun with 1 and even better with multiple players.

Also, you have Four Swords listed twice instead of Wind Waker.

@hymbii6 Your article quotes Ibram X. Kendi (né Ibram Henry Rogers) in the fifth paragraph.

Weird that woke people whining about white straight men being favoured at job interviews tend to be the same people that oppose standardized tests and blind auditions. Both of those recruitment strategies have helped minorities, but evidently not the right kind of minorities. Treating everyone the same is apparently racist unless everyone gets the same results.

The best way to close the gender pay gap is to change your major from feminist studies to electrical engineering. Go do it! Fight the patriarchy!

Well said. A modern classic, that generation's equivalent of Super Mario Bros. Not necessarily the greatest game on the system, but something that still holds up decades later and brought millions of people into gaming.

The Switch already has more than enough overpriced ports, many times over. New games only here on out.

@dres The N64 is placed with the 32 bit consoles (Saturn and PS1), despite being 64-bit and more powerful. The Wii is also placed alongside the two HD consoles.

Not sure how the Dreamcast can be considered the same generation as the other 3 when it was already out of print by the time most of them came out.

@P-Man https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2006-08-14-nintendo-qa_x.htm

The best Xbox-Nintendo moment has to be when the Xbox people said you could buy a Wii and a 360 for the price of a PS3, and Reggie shut them down by saying it would be better to buy a Wii and a bunch of great games than one of his competitors' products. Good times lol.

"Or maybe, just maybe, Furukawa's words are designed to be as non-committal as possible"

Well, duh. It was clearly just a corporate placeholder statement, there isn't any real information to be obtained from it. Nintendo should just stick with the Switch, making new games for it instead of making a new console. Video game graphics are already about as good as they're ever going to get.

The Nintendo Switch Pro is very much real. But it's a controller, not a console.

Continuing to beat the PS5 when the latter is new, while there are nearly 100 million Switches in circulation, is impressive.

@Lyricana It's a bit of a chicken or egg thing, regarding the N64 vs. Nintendo DS sales. A game on a more successful console will obviously sell better, but people will buy more of a given console if it has a library of good games (you buy the console for the games after all). Both versions of Mario 64 were chosen as launch titles, for very good reason.

Yeah, it doesn't really look like one. And most of them would recognize a NES or N64 I think (maybe not one of those weird colourful Euro SNESes though).

Make a Smash game. Give a speech about how it will be the last one ever. Hedge and say it might not be the last, but it's too soon to tell. Get talked into making another one. Repeat ad infinitum. Profit.

@Lyricana @BulbasaurusRex

I'd say going from the black and white Game Boy to a portable machine that can play Super Mario 64 was pretty monumental, at least as someone that grew up with the Game Boy line. Before smart phones were everywhere, that was a big deal - I honestly didn't believe it at the time.

I think much of the criticism comes from people jumping on the Internet bandwagon rather than actually experiencing the game themselves, much as it is for most Zelda games (people whine about some change they've made to the formula, then when the next game comes out people say they liked the previous game and it goes through a renaissance, ad infinitum). The D-Pad controls perfectly fine if you take a few minutes to get used to it, and you can quite easily do everything you could with an N64 controller (including catching the rabbits, the first thing the developers designed in Mario 64). About the only thing you need the touchscreen for is swinging Bowser around, which can be done with the wristpad. The multiple character complaint is clearly an Internet thing, as it's mostly optional (the vast majority of stars can be collected with Mario). I think the game's strong sales figures (about the same as the N64 version) show that it's a vocal minority who don't like it.

Possibly the most flimsy Nintendo controller with the possible exception of... well, the joy-cons.

"Pokémon Su and Pokémon Mo"

Welcome back, lol.

Wow. Calling this shovelware would be an insult to shovelware.

He should be very proud. Few people put in the kind of detail that he does. Really quite bittersweet, to know that we may never see Mr. Sakurai again.

@Hurblyburbly The original model plays GameCube games. The stripped down models didn’t come out until 2011-2012, quite late into the system’s lifespan.

@Phillips455 Remember that most Wii models can play Gamecube games, so you just need to track down the disk and a Gamecube controller.

@ObeseChihuahua2 Well put.

TTYD is the Wind Waker of Mario games: an entry in a beloved series that tried something really new and exciting, perhaps never to be repeated.

Is Paper Mario 64 a joke to you?

Has to be a top-down platformer for most of the action parts, has a character that can be powered up, has one or more large interconnected areas that you can explore, return to, and unlock more as your character powers up. Most Zelda games don't qualify; there are a few top-down segments in some of the 2D ones but they're fairly minimal. Zelda 2 would count, though it could also be considered a RPG or RPG-Metroidvania hybrid.

You really have to say when the event starts and ends. You had one job...

I couldn’t tell which was which when I flipped ahead to a random part of the video.

Of course Breath of the Wild qualifies as a Zelda game. The divine beasts, Hyrule Castle, the final Master Cycle challenge, and even some of the bigger shrines certainly qualify. The dungeons can be played in many orders, but the same holds true not just for Zelda 1 but also Ocarina of Time, A Link to the Past, and A Link Between Worlds. Many items are used to explore and solve puzzles, there are just multiple ways to solve each puzzle (seen in Ocarina of Time as well, when you can use either the longshot or a fast horse to get into Gerudo Valley, there are multiple ways to light torches, there are optional items like the fire/ice arrows, etc). Bosses are weak to certain items like the mobile bomb or cyronis modules (which can be upgraded). That’s 12 for 12.

Spirit flute really sucks the big one when you’re on a moving greyhound.

@MarioBrickLayer Of course they would, because the complaining is the point.

@Meteoroid Pretty sure everyone to the right of Kamala Harris has been faced with the artist-art separation dilemma at some point or another (unless you only play Nintendo games or something). Those that have had the fortune not to run into an artist they disagree with on something important until September 2021 need to consider other perspectives.

@samuelvictor But most of the other actors all give to woke, virtue-signally causes so it evens out. At least.

Nobody thinks Zelda? They did promise to reveal more over the "coming months", and what better time than a big direct?

"Yes", "not really", and "yes". Seems I agree with the consensus view.

"The ever-plummeting cost of Micro SD cards means this wasn't a calamitous misstep on Nintendo's part, but it's frustrating that $300 for the console, plus another $60 for Breath of the Wild, plus ANOTHER $80 for a second pair of Joy-Cons if you have a Player Two, has to be supplemented with yet ANOTHER few bucks for a microSD card if you ever want to own more than two big games.

There's no other side to this argument. It's just true"

The other side of the argument is that you can buy physical version of the games, giving you a superior product (one that can be resold and takes up no memory) for the same price. Dunno why people need to be constantly reminded that these exist.

I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?