FirstEmperor

Congratulations! I very much enjoyed what little I played of TotK but then I got distracted by Final Fantasy XVI and just never got around to returning to it. I'm not really looking forward to much this holiday season so I should have a lot of time to return to my backlog.

Nice, been looking forward to this! It's going to be even more fun to play now with all the drama that Pokémon haters are desperately stirring up.

Bummer about Astro Bot. Haven't played it yet but the praise is near universal and I plan to pick it up once I finish Black Myth Wukong.

@HeadPirate I'm actually really confused about post numbering now. Sometimes it skips over blocked posts and sometimes it doesn't. In any case thanks for the tag.

Alright, so I did log out just to see what the real post 109 is, and it turns out to be HammerKirby's post which I already responded to. Go figure.

Your "Marxist propaganda" post is actually #111, so 2 posts apparently have you blocked.

@LavenderShroud I'm guessing they're here to be buzzkills because it's not enough for them to simply avoid Nintendo products - they want to ruin the enjoyment of Nintendo's actual consumers. My advice is to just accept their presence and enjoy the delicious bitter tears when Switch becomes the best selling console of all time.

@Wexter Yup. Like I said, it's a blatant lie or gross incompetence, which is to be expected from some whose whole schtick is AlL CoRpOrAtIoNs ArE EvIl!!1

Fun fact: Pokémon did appear in Nintendo products in the US even before the Gameboy RPGs were translated. Off the top of my head the Gameboy Camera had Pokemon sprites you could use to decorate your photos with, and it came out several months before Red/Blue.

@HeadPirate Thank you very much for your informative posts here. The only thing I'm still really curious about is how Japanese patent law will impact this case. I've always heard Japan has very strong IP protection laws, but I'm no expert.

Second Edit: post numbering makes no sense at all, so thanks for tagging me in what post 109 looks like to you.

@RubyCarbuncle I'm sure the feeling is mutual, and Nintendo cares as much about the game you paid for as you care about Nintendo.

If Nintendo's success against Yuzu is any indication, Nintendo is definitely willing to be patient and build a strong case, since that lawsuit wasn't filed until Yuzu was out for several years.

A lot of Nintendo haters who were gloating about how Nintendo can't sue are eating crow right now. Hope Nintendo wins so they get to eat crow again.

As someone who spent $200 on a 1TB memory card for the Switch, the additional 1.2 TB in the PS5 Pro's internal SSD makes the extra $200 seem like a good deal to me, but I really don't like that it's missing the disc drive and a stand.

If I didn't already have a PS5 I'd definitely pick up a Pro, but I really can't justify spending $700 on a slight upgrade to a console I already have, unless some store like Gamestop offers a really good trade-in deal.

And LOL at everyone calling the PS5 Pro a "scam." The PS5 slim still exists, so you haven't lost anything. The Pro is just an option for gamers who don't want to have to choose between fidelity and performance modes, along with some extra storage. It's up to each individual consumer if that's worth an extra $200. Having more options is not a bad thing.

It's nice to see Emio ahead of Star Wars in Japan. Really enjoyed the demo so I'll definitely be picking it up!

I enjoyed the old Super Mario Super Show but always despised the Zelda cartoon, even back in the day. However, as someone who thoroughly enjoyed Metroid: Other M despite the supposed character assassination that Samus went through in that game, I guess I can understand how someone could enjoy this despite the genuine character assassination that Link went through here.

As someone who was sad to see the colored Pokémon cartridges end with Diamond/Pearl, it's kinda neat seeing these themed SD cards. I might pick up Snorlax when there's a good sale.

Nice! Always good so see companies that don't engage in mass layoffs doing well.

Nice! Just got my free Slurpee and I get to play some newly added GBA games!

Looks like the market has spoken (in Japan at least)! Luigi's Mansion 2 HD is not overpriced after all.

As for the evergreen titles, it's nice to see Animal Crossing at the top. Should reach 8 million physical in a few months.

@Lady_Galadhiel Yes, there was a surfing Pikachu 7 star raid before. And no, all of these raids are 7 star except Gimmighoul.

@120frames-please Pretty hilarious for a pirate to whine about anyone else's lack of ethics.

@batmanbud2 When someone has to preface their post with the word "honestly," you can be pretty sure that everything they say will be anything but honest.

@RubyCarbuncle You can whine about my choice of words all you want, but I will always consider complaining about first-world problems whining.

Also, I never said you were whining about LM2HD. I said you "have a right to whine about me whining about their whining." If you had never inserted yourself into that discussion, this conversation (that apparently didn't go anywhere) wouldn't have happened.

@RubyCarbuncle Of course it's whining, just like what you're doing now. And I've already acknowledged everyone's right to whine about whatever they want so I'm not sure why you're bringing up rights again.

The only people I called hypocrites (and its wasn't anyone specific at first because I'm not going through everyone's post history) are the ones to whine about Nintendo's prices while also condemning the mass layoffs that all other major publishers have been doing recently. Clearly Nintendo uses their profits responsibly since they were able to weather the Wii U storm without layoffs.

The high cost of living is a real problem, and that's were phrases like "price gouging" are actually appropriate. Not luxury items like video games.

@RubyCarbuncle Any complaint (and related discussion) about the price of a video game is pretty much the definition of a first-world problem and I call that whining.

If there's anyone who defends Nintendo's prices while complaining about other $70 games on other platforms then they deserve to be called out for hypocrisy too. I'm not one of them though; I spent $70 on FF7 Rebirth and Stellar Blade and have no regrets.

There actually should already be a 4th timeline, because in Skyward Sword there should be a timeline split when Ghirahim goes back in time to revive Demise.

Maybe Echoes of Wisdom will take place in that timeline. Or maybe I've put more thought into the timeline than anyone at Nintendo.

@RubyCarbuncle Of course people have a right to whine about whatever they want. And I have a right to whine about their whining. And you have a right to whine about me whining about their whining. And so on...

I have a big problem with hypocrisy though, and it's the absolute height of hypocrisy to condemn mass layoffs while also demanding lower prices. Not sure if anyone here is guilty of that specifically (if they are here they know who they are) and I don't feel like combing through everyone's post history to find out, so I left my comment vague.

I wonder how many people whining about Nintendo's prices are the same people whining about all the mass layoffs that almost everyone other than Nintendo has been doing.

Nice to see PS4 hanging in there!

I wonder how many people complaining about Nintendo’s prices were also whining about all the mass layoffs that all the big companies other than Nintendo were doing earlier this year. Perhaps someday they’ll learn how to connect the dots.

@JohnnyMind You can strive for anything you want, but there is no "we."

@JohnnyMind 100% disagree. People who violate the trust of others deserve nothing less than to have their own trust violated. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

@SpaceboyScreams "none have broken 3 million except Dread" is a really weird way to say "one has broken 3 million"

Now that Zelda is the protagonist, I wonder Link will finally talk.

M&L Brothership, Zelda: EoW, and MP4 makes this one of the best directs of all time. Then there's the stuff that is new outside of Japan, like the second Miles Edgeworth game. Fantastic lineup overall!

@Ulysses I'm not sure what you mean by exponential, but the Switch is basically a PS3 Pro, so it's well over a generation ahead of the Gamecube.

@Jalex_64 The only times I can think of when Nintendo canceled a game for its original platform were Pikmin 3 and 4, and those were only because they were delayed so much that their original platform was no longer even in production. That's why I've always said the only way Prime 4 could become a Switch 2 exclusive is if development restarted yet again so that the Switch 1 would no longer be available when it comes out.

I still remember people claiming TotK was delayed so it could coincide with Switch 2's launch. You'd think people might've learned something from that, but no.

@Edu23XWiiU Same place it said the Switch Pro is just around the corner. Which is to say, nowhere at all. Some people won't let their wishful thinking go.

LOL at all the people who said Prime 4 was "guaranteed" to be a Switch 2 exclusive! Good to see Nintendo has good business sense.

Interesting to see that Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers were at Game Fest since they were also at CTWC that same weekend. Pasadena and LA are very close so it'd be easy enough to attend both.

@GreyFenyx It's amazing what NES Tetris players are able to do, especially after rolling was discovered. Really looking forward to where things go from here!

@Tendogamerxxx Wrong. The vocal minority is the one that wants Nintendo to abandon their 130 million+ Switch userbase for no good reason. Metroid has never been a system seller so making it exclusive for a new system would be an incredibly stupid business decision.

@Tendogamerxxx A whole generation behind what? Certainly not any handheld, which the Switch most certainly qualifies as. It's a full generation ahead of the 3DS and certainly more powerful than the Vita as well.

If Nintendo is developing MP4 for Switch 2 from the ground up then that makes it twice that development has restarted. This rarely ends well (just see what happened with Final Fantasy XV). It also means breaking their promise to the Switch userbase, which would be a terrible business decision.

I think the only way it ends up as a Switch 2 exclusive is if it's delayed for so long that the Switch is no longer even in production, similar to what happened with Pikmin 3 and 4.

@Tendogamerxxx Development was restarted 5 years ago, long before any Switch 2 specs would have been finalized. There's nothing even remotely resembling "retrofitting" in releasing Prime 4 on the console where its development began.

As long as Yasuda stays true to his promise not to censor the game I'll be picking it up day 1!

@rjejr Funny you should mention Pikmin 4. That game was announced in 2015 and was supposedly close to being finished on the Wii U. It came out 8 years after its announcement so Prime 4 still has some hope of not being Nintendo's most delayed game ever.

If it coincides with the Classic Tetris World Championship again there's no chance I'll be watching.

Bold move, coinciding with the official North American International Championship.

It isn't too much for me. Super Mario RPG and Paper Mario TTYD are well worth the price for the enjoyment I've gotten out of them. Also picked up Another Code Recollection (which is 2 games) since the second game didn't get an NA release.