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@Dirty_Croc it's actually about to hit the highest... Ever. Dropped a bit (like 3% on the last few days) but it's on the rise again

Just by a few yens

@Dirty_Croc interesting take considering Nintendo stocks are the highest they've ever been and so has been profits.

I gotta say, Sophie Turner kicks ass

This is SLIGHTLY misleading, because, yes Saudi Arabia has been reducing their stakes in Nintendo, is probably related to their investment fund Savvy Games Group which is probably the entity that now owns that reduced %.

So they are (probably) at the same % stake, just with another name

I feel this is true, but let's look at something simple, like rendering a scene, that alone should be a WAY faster compared to 2012-2013. Between how much stronger tech/PCs are and the potential use of AI to HELP in development, we can safely say that developing PS4/PS4Pro quality of games in 2024 to be significantly faster than 2012. Will it take more time? yes, of course, but it would still take a lot less.

At least from a tech point of view in terms of rendering speed, knowledge of engines, and engines being way more friendly too.

Yuzu got super greedy, citra or other emulators never had this issue. They had it coming.

You don't go vs Nintendo profits lol

Xenoblade as an IP has pretty good future, but they have to make a change in terms of gameplay. The combat, while amazing, is a way too convoluted for it to be achieve the masses sadly.

You tell someone how to play Xenoblade 2 and you might as aswell do a thesis, it's second nature by the time you are playing it and learn how to abuse it, but it's work.

I do wonder if it's not better to create a new IP, i mean, if you are going to change what made Xenoblade, why not just create a new IP that's action based

Considering they won't even make a PC version (which is nuts considering the game is made on PCs lol), and that GTA6 should be even way more scalable than GTA5 (engines getting better in mamny ways) i just doubt it's an issue of power but more about willing and $$$.

If Rockstar thinks there's enough profit for their invesment on Switch 2, it'll probably come out. By the time Switch was out (and remember, WiiU was a massive failure so developers probably werent that interested, at least until it became clear the switch was a success) and had a decent player base GTA5 was like 6 years old (if not more) and probably everyone had it.

Switch was also a dif architecture which mean porting an old engine and huge game even more of an issue, and that means more invesment.

Nowadays, ARM is way more prevalent than what it was 10 years ago, so engines are taking into account that architecture when being developed.

It'll not be as pretty, but if Nintendo approaches R* and there's enough incentive and demand, it'll totally come to Switch 2, maybe not on release, but later for sure.

@Axecon To be fair, TOTK is a much more expensive game physical, so vouchers are probably doing most of the work there.

Xbox had a 5k yen price drop as a promotion, hence the huge increase week over week

@reporterdavid I would despise a mario movie with charles martinent voice for 2 hours straight.

too high pitch, cool for one liners tho.

The takes on this comment section are something else, quite impressive amount of bad takes.

what i like about boycotts is that people draw a line where they think its good to do it, like not buying nintendo games because the SA are a regime (and i agree) but using social media like twitter or facebook is not bad even if one of the owners of a particular social media made it's money by literally being a slaver, and the other is an ***** that sells your entire information and probably skews voting to what he likes.

@Giancarlothomaz 7% is literally nothing, and nintendo owns most of their shares between them and tursted partners, nothing will happen.

It's the issues of being a public traded company, anyone can buy shares. take overs tho, that's another situation and that's what laws and govt can shut down.

@Would_you_kindly this is one of the stupidest comments i've seen in this site, and i've seen a lot

@Bret @Not_Soos you are also not obligated to download it

@Buizel UK is a pretty "anti" nintendo ground and the 360 was pretty big (PS3 was later in that generation)

Dragalia Lost was a gret game for a mobile game IMO.

it has a lot of potential

Should be around PS4, if not more powerful, but with DLSS 2.2 it should be able to do stuff that only next gen could.

This could be huge, DLSS is a game changer, 1080p to 4k looks REALLY GOOD and this theorical console should be able to do so without much issues

Decent to good, some great games for ME but lacked a bit of wide appeal top tier games but... then botw 2 happened.

Definetely not the best, but far far from the worst, will probably be the ones of you'll remember because of Pikmin 4 and BOTW2 and not because it blew your mind

@UltimateOtaku91 Except some games are made with blockchan/nft in mind

My issue with the showw is that when there are zombies and monsters the show is actually good, sadly, and somehow, someone though it was a good a idea that it should take step back for some weird ass family and teenage drama

To be fair, where would it have been launched this year? february sounds great

the subtitle should have been "Life after the frontiers"

@IronMan30 Is literally $60 with the deal right now.

Monolith Soft are wirzards tbh, if the graphics holds up like they are showing... incredible what they are doing with the Switch.

X2 had some up and downs, but Torna was already a huge improvement and this one looks like another step up

Those numbers are weird, I'm not an economist but nintendo posted 13bn not 8bn, which puts it slightly above Microsoft

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14618338

"The company posted 1.6953 trillion yen ($13 billion) in net sales in fiscal 2021, down 3.6 percent from a year earlier."

https://twitter.com/MauroNL3/status/1523972989766840322?t=V8ErnBJZvD6OZu6TDXusBw&s=19

But who cares

This game looks way better than Xenoblade 2 in the graphics department. Monolith are wizards.

@Spoony_Tech @Highlar Nintendo has closed 2 offices and moved those employees to another offices, so, like krysta and kit, people have left because they dont want to be relocated.

They are closing satelite offices to in favor of keeping most of the people under fewer/bigger buildings

"Kaiju feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last"

This is top tier

If anything they could build 1-2 more studios to keep more content coming. Nintendo has enough IPs, they need more workforce

@SilentHunter382 MY bad, somehow i missed that part of the story.

ngl, somehow i missed the part about no monetization

@BranJ0 Well, in that regard, a game is also not sorely decided by its graphical prowress.

Two sides of the same coin

@Troll_Decimator That went dark quickly

why is there an UK retailer named after an indian dish?

Whats the point of buying EA, i mean, kinda bioware, but the heavy hitters are all FIFA, Madden and NBA. I don't see FIFA not taking away the license from EA if a takeover happens and means said game is exclusive to one platform.

I mean, is kinda already happening. EA is a bit of a shell without those big names

Kinda like activison without Warzone and Candy Crush, lots of decent IPs, but you wonder if they actually worth a lot.

MS wont be bought by Nintendo because tech companies will be defended by each country/govt, they are worth a lot. Especially gaming and entertainment.

@Specter_of-the_OLED as if Activision was doing anything besides CoD and a bit of Diablo tho.

This is a way better buy for thw gaming community than the Bethesda one IMO, it might mean we get new games from pretty dead ips.

Nintendo probably doesn't care because the current state of Activision is not worth it on the potential of games, more so on the IP side.

Activision was doing barely anything with their IPs bar say a bit of Diablo and Call of Duty.

So in all honesty, this one move feels a lot more "safe" for the industry than the Bethesda one. If anything Microsoft could push for more ips to be "revived". Bethesda WAS making games for everyone (for the most part), unlike Activision which was just a Call of Duty Warzone machine.

This seems unrealistic large sum, at some point it might be money laundering lol

Bar Warzone, what else does Activision/Blizzard has that could consider 70bn dollars huge.

@fafonio Nintendo said in novemeber they will spend about 1bn to expand their first party studios, and that includes acquisitions.

It was Nintendo that deban Goldeneye from Germany (and NoE is in Germany, so every game must probably also release in Germany), so yeah, it's also coming to a Nintendo System near you.

the diversity of genres is incredible, nintendo has been doing so well with indies, exposure is great for them.

WINBAAAAAAAAAAAAACK

The Deck wont sell more than 10m, and im being incredibly generous. Probably around 5m.

And this is not about being portable or whatever, its about marketing and being available. The deck is awful to buy.

This is a terribly designed game for what it wants to be, it's an RPG where progression doesnt feel, it's a high risk terribly low reward game and its an adventure game where, so far, i've only found 1 gadget that actually makes the gameplay feel better and not just there to stop me from going to other parts of the map.

Frustrating because it is fun, but there's 0 reward in this rpg game, so im just going through it and i never feel stronger, i see some stats that in the end mean nothing because the enemy in the next part of the game takes more or less the same amount of hits to kill than the last one and i barely understand if im actually getting hit for less or what.

The balance doesnt make sense, some parts are just harder because the enemies are harder even tho supposedly game ease into it, the difficuly spikes are aplenty and not fun.

There's just need to be a lot of rework to be done, if it wants to be an RPG then make me feel stronger, having numbers go up barely counts as an RPG...

it is a good bullet hell game tho, id give it a 6/10.

NEO TWEWY should have been switch exclusive, at least for a year. The series is already tied with Nintendo (i would not be surprised if it sold something like 70/30 in favor of Nintendo) and could have done way better marketing that what Square Enix did, which was literally 0.

NEO TWEWY its a quality game that's unlike anything out there.

And i think Square did a terrible job since even people on this page are mixing TWEWY with NEO lmao