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@ChromaticDracula Same here. The CV games on N64 were very underrated!

Really excited for Kirby Tilt n Tumble! It's nice to finally be able to play this legally on a backlit screen, without having to resort to unofficial hardware or importing a Game Boy Light.

Edit: I forgot Kirby Tilt n Tumble was GBC only and doesn’t work on the Game Boy Light, so this is the first time you can play this on official hardware with a decent screen and without backwards controls.

@NinjaWaddleDee I mean, you literally said "Or, better yet. Make a PC launcher for your old games." That certainly sounds like port begging but thank you for the clarification.

@NinjaWaddleDee Well, at least the PC port begging took longer than I expected.

LOL, I understand if this game isn't your thing but the negativity over this is pretty hilarious. And I thought Game Freak did a good job living rent-free in the minds of all the haters here!

@Kuksenkov Not sure why you're trying to shame someone who actually presents evidence to back up their arguments. And you clearly haven't been reading many comments if you think that was the most pretentious thing here. There's far more obnoxious attention seekers.

@Cashews Obviously you're going to get replies when you spread misinformation. You claimed "Nintendo is notorious for following huge hits with duds," which is factually incorrect. It's only happened once in their entire history: Wii to Wii U. Sure, it's technically "possible" that Switch 2 will be a dud in the same way that it's possible that the PS5 will suddenly have a surge in sales and overtake the Switch, but there's no good reason to predict that will happen based on any of the available data.

@johnvboy Nintendo did not release the DS out of necessity. GBA was only 3 years old when DS launched in 2004 and was still selling quite well. It even occasionally outsold PS3 all the way in 2007.

I also don't see any value in combining Wii U and 3DS sales together (or Wii and DS sales for that matter). The Wii U was unquestionably a total failure and lumping it in with the 3DS to get that pointless 90 million figure does nothing to change that fact.

@Cashews Nintendo’s handhelds have never been duds. Obviously nothing lasts forever but there’s no reason to think there’s anything particularly dangerous about Nintendo’s current situation.

I wonder how much the physical/digital ratio has changed since the Switch launched. In any case TotK’s sales are very impressive and it will likely outsell BotW in physical sales.

@LilyGoMEOW serebii.net has a complete list of challenges, ordered from the most to least recent:

https://serebii.net/pokemonhome/challenges.shtml

I’ve had auto updates turned off ever since I picked up Death Mark, since there’s an update that censors the game. No interest in the TotK glitch so I updated this game when prompted.

Nice to see it’s finally happening.

PSA: you can get a gold bottle cap in Pokémon SV with the mystery gift code: GETG0LD
Expires June 4.

@eaglebob345 Fortunately Game Freak never made the mistake of selling out to another company or going public, so this bizarre fantasy of someone doing a hostile takeover of Pokémon will not come true.

@axelhander I’m not going to waste time rereading that nonsense. You clearly don’t know anything about morality if you think “fighting game preservation” falls under any reasonable definition of evil.

@axelhander No it doesn’t, and no amount of projection/all caps/misuse of punctuation from you will ever succeed at brainwashing me.

If it’s fun I’ll play it. Don’t care one bit about what it does for the video game industry as a whole.

Nice, played the original back on GBC and it was pretty fun. Still remember the "Dark Drium" mistranslation.

@axelhander Nothing you said stands with the possible exception of underpaying/overworking testers, and that's only if the allegations are true.

@BLD Wrong. I'm bringing up Japanese sales because Pokémon SV recently passed 5 million physical sold in Japan. Nothing to do with Zelda.

@tadams587 After you watch the credits there's some postgame content you unlock by talking to Geeta at the academy. Not sure how you could've unlocked 6 star raids on your other save as I believe this has always been required.

@DiamondJim What you describe can't possible be a "tipping point" because Pokémon has never had high production values to begin with. Their games have consistently resembled primitive console games from 2 generations ago: the GB, GBA, DS, 3DS, and Switch games each look like primitive NES, SNES, PS1, PS2, and PS3 games, respectively. People who care about performance never got into Pokémon.

@johnvboy Oh no, how will I ever regain the approval of the Pokémon "fandom" now! 😜 It really is amazing how entitled some people can be, expecting me to deny myself something I enjoy just so I can help them send a message (or whatever) to Game Freak.

@Dr_Lugae Well said. I think a lot of the animosity comes from people who expect Game Freak to "grow up" (AKA sell out) from their indie roots just because they hit it big with Pokémon, but for whatever reason they've decided to stay small (less than 200 employees). Seeing the state that Final Fantasy has been in the last 20 years, I'm glad GF didn't chase power.

Anyways, I fully expect a Switch 2 Pokémon game to resemble a PS4 launch title.

Happy to do my part “enabling laziness” by continuing to purchase games that I enjoy. Cry moar haters!

@Fiskern I’ve got my popcorn ready! The delicious bitter tears over SV’s massive success never ends!

@GrailUK Indeed, a huge missed opportunity to report on two huge milestones being surpassed. Push Square actually did an article so here's the numbers for anyone interested:

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2023/05/japan-sales-charts-golden-week-helps-drive-ps5-just-shy-of-100k-units

@Jhena I wouldn't worry since it's only Nintendo of America's channel that's promoting the game. As you can see it's not on the Japanese channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@NintendoJP

A simple marketing deal in the west isn't going to affect Nintendo's first party development.

@DarkScythe13 I agree that constructive criticism is a good thing. I have a few of my own, like the rampant cheating that GF hasn't taken the necessary steps to address. I have no problem with people that are criticizing a product they're purchased, as long as they're not misrepresenting anything. I can't fault the people that are here just to mock Game Freak either, because I'm here to mock the haters.

The ones I enjoy mocking the most: people who try to pressure me into joining their boycott by insulting me, and the people who want Nintendo to do some sort of hostile takeover of Pokémon from Game Freak. The idea I'd deny myself something I enjoy to appease people on the internet is hilarious, and hostile takeovers are one of the things I hate most about corporatism. Fortunately Game Freak never made the mistake of selling out and going public, so there's no outside investors that can kick the founders out of their own company.

Also, SV just hit 5 million physical sold in Japan! GF has no reason whatsoever to give the time of day to people in favor of hostile takeovers.

@hypercoyote Thank you! A good night and happy weekend to you as well!

@hypercoyote
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a material thing that can be seen and touched.

@hypercoyote Video games aren't furniture.

@Simon97 I haven't failed to understand anything. I brought up price where it was relevant (XB360/PS3). Wii launch price was cheaper than the PS2 launch price ($250 vs $300 in NA). If the Wii targeted the same audience as the PS2 then we would have seen PS2 sales slow just like how PS1 sales slowed when the PS2 launched. But PS2 sales didn't slow significantly, which means Wii wasn't selling to the same audience.

Your claim that Wii targeted a lower age than PS2 is wrong according to all the available data. Wii was very successful among an older audience that video game industry analysts previously thought was unobtainable.

Handhelds do occasionally compete with consoles, so the DS and PSP are absolutely relevant. The fall of console gaming directly correlates with the rise of handheld gaming in Japan.

This is a sales thread. Your opinions on what hardcore gamers like are irrelevant if the sales numbers don't back it up.

@BLD Since we're bringing up irrelevant stuff from other threads here's one for the haters:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/05/japanese-charts-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-dominates-surprising-no-one
5 million physical passed in Japan! How the haters holdin' up?

@tadams587 You also need to do the gym rematches and post game tournament in addition to everything else you mentioned to unlock 6 star raids.

@hypercoyote I don't think that's an appropriate use of the word "unfinished" at all, but if the butchering of words like "literally" have taught me anything, people sure do love stretching definitions until they become utterly meaningless. Even a vague description like "unoptimized" is an infinitely more informative and accurate criticism of SV.

@LikelySatan I was about to say the same thing. Nintendo blacklisted Kotaku years ago and with good reason.

The link to "last week's charts" was written on April 27th; exactly three weeks ago. You guys never reported the post Golden Week numbers from last week.

Speaking of which, belated congrats to Pokémon SV and Splatoon 3 for reaching 5 million and 4 million physical sold in Japan, respectively! This actually happened last week but (as mentioned above) for some reason Nintendo Life neglected to report on that.

Amazing start for Tears of the Kingdom! Very few Zelda games have reached a million sold in Japan so for TotK to pass that in physical units alone already is incredible!

It's also good to see PS5 continue to do respectable numbers; it would be sad to see the home console market completely die in Japan. Looking forward to FF16 and FF7R-2 almost as much as TotK.

@WeLiveInASociety No worries, and thank you for the correct release dates.

@WeLiveInASociety I got nothing messed up. The tweet shown in the article clearly labels DQ8 as the PS2 release.

@michellelynn0976 Oh, don’t be like that. The bitter tears over SV’s success are still as hilarious as they were during launch week!

@Munchlax You don’t seem to understand what unfinished means.

That release date for Dragon Quest VIII is wrong. No way a PS2 game came out in 2014.

Congrats to Nintendo; clearly the market has decided that $70 is not too much for TotK!

And it's always amusing to see people are still salty over Pokémon SV's success. The bitter tears never end!

LOL, I remember people claiming TotK was delayed just so it wouldn’t be overshadowed by Elden Ring!

Thank you for the update; I was able to get the Collector's Edition from Best Buy!

@Simon97 None of these points refute anything in my post, because like I said the PS2 only sold around 110 million after 6 years, which is when the PS3 launched. So the PS2's dominance vs GameCube/Xbox was not enough to keep it ahead of Switch when launch aligned.

It's the PS2's continued success vs XB360/PS3/Wii that will make it difficult to top. No other console is even close to selling 45 million after its successor launched, but Switch won't need to. If Nintendo meets its 15 million target for this FY then its only another 15 million they need, which is certainly doable even if Switch 2 launches next March.

Also, when I said Wii/DS appealed to different markets I was referring to the PS2's market. This is why the PS2 was able to continue selling well despite the success of the DS and Wii. The only direct competition PS2 had was from the XB360 and PS3, which were priced out of the mass market for several years after launch.

The PS2 had sold around 110 million after 6 years, so the Switch is tracking well ahead of it. What’ll make the PS2 difficult to surpass is the fact than next gen was so expensive at launch, so it continued to sell well several years into the life of the PS3 and XB360. Add the fact that the Wii and DS appealed to different markets and you have a unique situation that probably won’t repeat itself here, since I can’t see Nintendo charging $600 for Switch 2.

Of course, Switch only needs to sell 30 million in the time it took PS2 (post PS3 launch) to sell 45 million. Definitely possible.

@Anti-Matter Already there.
https://www.museumofplay.org/games/dance-dance-revolution/

@Maxz Glad to know I'm not the only one who can't stand movies that shoehorn the US military in where they don't belong. Avoided the Sonic movies for that very reason.

@RetroGames Was Grace Randolph the one whining about Cat Mario taking away Mario's dignity? Asking because I'm not going to even take the chance of giving that stupid review a click by looking it up myself.

@Ralizah I love the old dialogue so much!

"Hold me if I'm dying, and vice-versa okay!"

@Eggman94 Aww, looks like he's banned. Bummer, I was looking forward to his reaction to the inevitable "5 million physical Pokémon SV sold in Japan" article later this week.

@Ursaking I'd say the 2006 animated Animal Crossing movie was the first, but sadly it was only shown in Japan.

Congrats to everyone involved!

@AstroTheGamosian Nintendo was actually directly involved in the production of an animated Animal Crossing movie based on Wild World for the DS. It's quite good if you like the slice-of-life genre but unfortunately it never came out outside of Japan.

@Thomystic The New 2DS LL only lasted 3 years. It was the final revision of the 3DS and launched in 2017 (a few months after the Switch) and was discontinued in 2020. All that's being sold now is excess stock.

Removing unnecessary features is actually quite common with late Nintendo hardware revisions. The Game Boy Micro removed GB/GBC backwards compatibility, the Wii Mini removed GameCube backwards compatibility and internet functionality, etc. Even consoles that didn't receive a full revision often removed features, like the late GameCube models removing component cable ports.

3DS/Wii U eShops are down everywhere.

The SNES game was very ambitious for its time but the lack of saves (or even passwords) made it unplayable given its length and the amount of exploration required. A remake has a lot of potential!

@BTB20 Well technically it's the 2DS that outsold XBSS but close enough. There was a week not too long ago when 2DS outsold XBSX+S!