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@Tott @SillyG @ZZalapski I check serebii.net every weekend for stuff like this so I got it yesterday, but this was an extremely short deadline even by Pokémon competition standards. And FYI there's going to be a Porygon2 giveaway next weekend to coincide with the North American tournament.

I'm expecting yet another terrible video game adaptation.

Pretty annoying this expires so quickly, especially considering the Gyarados code from Stockholm tournament last month lasts until June 30th.

@Otoemetry You mean the words "just about?" What's so hard to fathom?

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/just-about

@Shredderlovespizza Obviously "petty theft" depends on jurisdiction, but even liberal California defines petty theft to be stealing $950 or less. What Gary Bowser did clearly isn't petty theft.

@dugan Significantly less amazing when you look just 1 spot above. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Switch is 7 years old, which itself is a port of a 10 year old game on Wii U.

@LadyCharlie Whether it's erasing trans characters from Mario, or erasing pinups from Tomb Raider, censorship is always a bad thing.

@InnerSound Thanks for the info. I also wonder if Vivian's sisters still intentionally misgender her, as that was their primary way of bullying her in the original. I think it's necessary to keep it in to get the full impact of Vivian's backstory, but misgendering is such a hot button issue in the west that it wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo removed it in the localization.

I never doubted this would be the case, but good to have confirmation!

@rjejr Those are all good points. I'll add another one: you could have a PS2/PS3 situation where the Switch 2 fails to take off at launch and the Switch continues selling. One of the reasons PS2 has held its record for so long is that it sold 45 million after PS3 launched, which is unprecedented for this industry.

I certainly don't think Nintendo will botch the Switch 2 launch that badly, but stranger things have happened.

@Not_Soos Kit and Krysta have great insights in how Nintendo of America works, but they've had some terrible takes when it comes to Nintendo's development in Japan. Most notably, they literally said Switch had "one foot in the grave" when Everybody 1-2 Switch was announced, and then backtracked completely 1 month later when Super Mario Wonder was revealed.

If it's ready, I think Metroid Prime 4 will the big holiday game of 2024. Metroid is not big enough to carry a console launch so I doubt it's being held back for Switch 2, but I think it's just big enough to give Nintendo a strong final holiday season for the Switch.

@nhSnork If by "several times" you just mean "double" then sure. And obviously words like "modest" are relative; for comparison's sake the DSi had double the clockspeed and quadruple the RAM of the DS.

The only funny thing is your inability to point out anything that separates the GBC, as a hardware upgrade, from the DSi, n3DS, or Ps4 Pro.

Regarding Xbox, it's almost like selling your hardware at a loss is an unsustainable business strategy. Glad Nintendo didn't do down that route.

I like how Nintendo never updated the Twitter logo when posting screenshots.

This should put to rest the utterly foolish notion that Nintendo is not as successful as they were during their Wii/DS days just because Switch hasn't outsold Wii+DS. That was always a stupid way to measure overall success now that Nintendo has a hybrid device.

Anyways, good to hear Nintendo is doing well. It looks like Nintendo's future is indeed on their own hardware. Suck on that, Phil Spencer!

@nhSnork But you did play it on GBC, was was a modest revision of the GB comparable to DSi, n3DS, and PS4 Pro.

@nhSnork A sizable interconnected world with a day/night cycle? Yeah, I played Castlevania 2 on NES, what of it?

@Savage_Joe I think Game Boy Color was more a desire to capitalize on the post-Pokémon resurgence of the Game Boy and less a stopgap response to the Virtual Boy failing, because I doubt anyone would've cared about such a small upgrade to the GB 9 years after its release if Pokémon hadn't been so huge.

You're right about me ignoring the VB, but I don't think it's really a successor to the GB. Sure, VB is technically portable, but it's not even remotely a handheld so it's more like the VB is Nintendo's first real attempt at a "third pillar."

@nhSnork Nothing ironic about it. A lot of SNES games received downgraded ports/revisions on the GB(C). Some of them, like Mega Man Xtreme (which was a remix of MMX1&2), even ran on original GB hardware.

The fact that GBC had more exclusive software than DSi or n3DS just means that it was more economically viable to ignore the GB userbase as opposed to the DS or 3DS userbases, and has nothing to do with the type of upgrade the GBC actually was.

@nhSnork Double the clockspeed was indeed very small in 1998 seeing as how the Game Boy came out in 1989, and is comparable to other hardware revisions including the DSi, n3DS, and PS4 Pro. And Shantae definitely looks more like a GB game than a GBA game, so it's exactly what I would expect to see on a modest revision of the GB.

@Justaguest I think it's just nice to have confirmation over mere rumors. After all, the rumors have been dead wrong since the "Switch Pro" articles first started appearing, which I think was even before the Switch Lite came out.

@nhSnork Of course it was. GBC's improvements to the GB were an increase in CPU clockspeed (double IIRC), extra RAM, and a color display. That's about as modest an upgrade that the DSi was to the DS. To compare the GBC to the PS2 is utterly laughable.

@Ralizah The absolute worst generation for Nintendo sales is probably N64, since there wasn't a real next generation handheld at the time. The Game Boy Color was released and did very well for a hardware revision, but it's only estimated to have sold around 50 million. I guess you could consider the Game Boy Pocket as part of the N64 generation, but then you'd also have to include the New 2DS XL as part of the Switch generation.

@Max_the_German There's a lot wrong with saying Nintendo sales declined since NES/GB. First of all, GB was released 6 years after Famicom and 1 year before Super Famicom in Japan, so it makes no sense to combine NES/GB sales. Also, regardless of whether you consider GBC numbers as a new platform, N64/GBC was still outsold by GCN/GBA. So it turns out that Nintendo's combined console/handheld sales have only declined twice: SNES/GB to N64/GBC, and Wii/DS to WiiU/3DS.

@LadyCharlie It was a big enough deal that you considered buying it digitally now instead of waiting for a physical release.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/04/lara-crofts-pinup-posters-go-missing-in-tomb-raider-i-iii-remastered#comment8085960

@StAmbrosius I was thinking something like this too. I don't believe for a second that the removal was accidental, but Aspyr did a good job faithfully recreating the original and didn't make any noticeable changes for "modern audiences" so it was very strange for them to remove things post launch

It's a little bittersweet seeing MK8 at the top. It's nice that great game like MK8 got the success it deserved on the Switch after the failure of the Wii U, but it's also sad to see a port of a decade old game overshadow current games like Princess Peach Showtime.

@WaffleRaptor01 No idea what you're talking about. I don't even post here every day, much less spend all day watching people.

@Fangleman32 Alright, in the interest of being polite I will give you a serious reply.

I grew up with the SNES, and I remember how censorship escalated back then. It was little things at first, like removing crosses and other religious references from Castlevania, which I would have said was no big deal at the time. Then we got blood being turned into sweat in the SNES port of Mortal Kombat, which blew up in Nintendo's face so much they almost lost the console war to Sega (in NA, at least), and rightfully so. And while I never played Tomb Raider back in the day, games with more mature themes definitely were a selling point in favor of the PS1 over the N64.

That's why I care about "little" things like this, despite having not played Tomb Raider. No matter how small it starts, censorship always escalates until it affects something big that I really do care about.

As I said in the poll, Final Fantasy Adventure is called Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden in Japan. It's a true Final Fantasy spinoff and should have been included.

@zet They're not on Nintendo hardware. That's why FF16 is also excluded, and why only the Pocket Edition of FF15 is here.

Well this is a welcome surprise! Dead Patient was in development hell so long that I gave up on it.

Hope the Wrong Ends are as good as they were in Repeated Fear and Book of Shadows. Blood Drive was a huge disappointment.

Nice! Loved the first game on the DS.

@JohnnyMind Looks like Dragon Quest X Online: The Door to the Future and the Sleeping Girl is just a code for the latest expansion and does not contain a physical cartridge, so the copies sold here are just the people who wanted to buy a code in a box. Also worth noting that DQ10 launched back in 2012 so these numbers aren't that bad.

You're wrong about Final Fantasy Adventure not being a true Final Fantasy game. Its full Japanese title is Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden.

It's pretty hilarious that Nintendo still uses the old Twitter logo under friend suggestions.

@Bret I used to say the same thing about Microsoft Works back in the day!

@Greatluigi I was content with BDSP. As a one-to-one remake of the originals with a few QoL improvements they're fine games, but with all the extras that HGSS and ORAS had it was very disappointing that BDSP didn't even include the Platinum content from gen 4. Of course, I'm so jaded with the virtue signaling that modern remakes have inserted into them that I'll support any competent remake that's faithful to the original.

@dimi It is sad to see the series fall so far, but I don't think it's franchise fatigue. The NES, SNES, PS1, and PS2 each had 3 mainline Final Fantasy games which were all very successful. Now we get one mainline game per generation because each one has been in development hell since FF12. FF16 seems to have reversed that trend but it might just be too little, too late.

At least FF14 was able to recover from its disastrous launch but the interest in single player FF just isn't there anymore. I'm guessing people moved onto Monster Hunter (in Japan, at least).

Another factor is that portable gaming had dominated Japan post-PS2. Unless SE scales back the production values so that they can launch on Nintendo hardware, the series will just become more and more irrelevant. Dragon Quest really did itself a favor by not chasing power.

@Anti-Matter It's pretty hilarious to see PS4 neck and neck with XB!

Very tragic news. Been a fan of Dragon Quest, my introduction to RPGs, ever since the very first game (which was localized as "Dragon Warrior" back in the day). I was also saddened by Sugiyama's death, but he made it to 90 so I knew it was only a matter of time for him. For Toriyama to die at just 68 years is such a shock. Best wishes to his friends and family.

@hyperion31 Even younger for Japanese standards; they have the highest life expectancy of any country.

I'll mostly be shiny hunting in Pokémon Go Sinnoh Tour this weekend.

@Gryffin People don't "need" to hold anyone to any standard. Learn the difference between needs and wants.

The March launch worked so well with the Switch that I'd be very surprised if they didn't do the same with Switch 2. The people insisting it needs to come out during the holiday season are even more out of touch than the people who insisted Tears of the Kingdom was delayed to coincide with Switch 2's launch.