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@pneumaticgnosis Land of the "free" ...

Aww, 2DS has fallen behind XBSX again. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

@gameboy1975 A phobia is an irrational fear. Having different taste is not xenophobia.

2DS and PS4 still going strong!

@Jam78 The Switch is basically a PS3.5 so I fully expect the next Switch to be a PS4.5. Definitely better than a PS4 Pro and probably capable of handling most PS5 games with reduced resolution/performance.

Nice, will definitely check it out. Congrats to Game Freak!

@Serpenterror I would imagine adaptations that were not farmed out to foreign studios would be more faithful in general. Pokémon is a rare anomaly though; many Pokémon actually make their debut in the anime. Ho-oh was in the very first episode years before Gold/Silver came out! You're definitely not going to have canon Mario/Zelda characters making their debut in an American cartoon.

@Uncle_Franklin Of course.
A sexist is someone who discriminates based on sex.
A misogynist is someone who hates women.

It's very easy to be a non-sexist misogynist.

@Wexter Arguing certainly is pointless. Whenever I do engage with such people it is with smug, defiant pride over buying a product they disapprove of! And mockery of their expectation that I do my part to help them teach Game Freak a lesson.

@Kiz3000 There is no "us." Game Freak may have let you down, and maybe they even let a handful of others down here and there, but you speak only for yourself.

I saw the thumbnail and thought for a second SMG2 was announced for Switch. Oh well, this is still neat.

Ash should use some of his championship prize money to get Misty a new bike.

Pokémon Scarlet/Violet sales are up 44% from last week. Congrats to Game Freak!

Sadly, 2DS could not maintain it's momentum from last week and has fallen behind XBSX again, but the PS4 is still going strong! Always funny when last gen outsells current gen.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is the most obvious example of a game that should have been ported long ago, but Nintendo's gonna Nintendo.

It's a niche title, but Game Freak's Tembo the Badass Elephant has gotten a release on pretty much everything except a Nintendo platform, which is just baffling. Not as good as Drill Dozer but it was a fun little game that really ought to be on Switch.

I'd also really like to see Witcher 1 and 2 come to Switch. I've heard nothing but great things about Witcher 3 but I've left it in the backlog just in case 1 and 2 get ports or remasters, since I'd like to play them in order.

Wow, congrats to Overcooked 2! Would have never expected to see that in the top 10 in 2022.

@parkerthon The idea that Nintendo rests on their laurels couldn't be further from the truth. The reason for their boom/bust cycles is because Nintendo comes out with crazy new gimmicks that resonate with the public at about a 50/50 rate. Sometimes these gimmicks are wildly successful (motion controls), and sometimes they're massive failures (tablet controller).

If Nintendo was always resting on their laurels each piece of hardware would just be an incremental upgrade to the previous one. That's not necessarily a bad thing either because there's a time and place to just offer incremental improvements to your current product. Case in point: the SNES was an incremental improvement to the NES and many consider it to be the best Nintendo console of all time. We'll obviously never know for sure, but if the Wii U didn't introduce a new gimmick, and instead was just an incremental improvement to the Wii's motion controls I'll bet it would have been more successful.

@HalBailman Very well, I'll go along with your clarification regarding the added context of a premium price. You're still wrong (at least in Japan and NA; maybe you're actually right for your region). Here's some NA sources for the DS Lite/DSi:

DS Lite launch price: $129.99
source: https://www.engadget.com/2006-05-04-ds-lite-us-launch-june-11-for-129-99.html
DSi launch price: $169.99
source: https://www.engadget.com/2009-02-18-nintendo-dsi-to-launch-on-april-5th.html
And one more link, just to confirm the DS Lite didn't get a price drop until 2 years after the DSi launched:
https://www.engadget.com/2011-06-01-nintendo-drops-ds-lite-to-100-makes-it-easier-to-mario-party.html

That's about a 30% price increase. For comparison's sake, I believe the PS4 slim was $300 when the Pro launched at $400, which is a 33.3% price increase.

@HalBailman How you use the phrase is incorrect and no amount of clarifications (AKA moving the goalposts) will change that. The GBC is more beefed up compared to the PS4 Pro.

@HalBailman If by my warped meaning of "beefed up" you mean Merriam-Webster's warped meaning, then sure. I'm not making up definitions like you. Also, I never said the Pro is a Sony concept; I said it's a Sony name, which is why Nintendo will obviously not use the name "Switch Pro" if they ever upgrade the hardware. All of your other claims are just your personal opinions. It's your opinion that GBC was a minor update to the GB, but like I said both GBC and PS4 Pro were about double the power of their base models, so if the GBC is a minor update then so is the PS4 Pro.

Pro-tip: claiming that your statements are undisputed does not mean they actually are undisputed. I mean, I'm disputing them right now in case you couldn't tell. And you still haven't been able to show that anything I said was factually incorrect.

@HalBailman I know what "beefed up" means, but since you apparently don't here's what the dictionary says: "to add weight, strength, or power to (something)." The GBC, DSi, and n3DS each added power to their base models and thus are beefed up, regardless of whatever definition of the phrase you've invented.

Typing a bunch of words in all caps multiple times does not change anything (and is also a sign of immaturity I might add). The GBC was just as meaningful an upgrade as the PS4 Pro; arguably more so to the point where some people at the time considered the GBC to be a separate platform altogether instead of just a mere revision. Nobody considers the PS4 Pro to be a separate platform, so you're in the tiny minority that thinks PS4 Pro is more "beefed up" (relative to the hardware at the time, of course). But if you want to ignore perception and look strictly at numbers, both the GBC and PS4 Pro are approximately twice as powerful as their base models. So yes, Nintendo did a "PS4 Pro style" upgrade long before Sony did.

You clearly don't understand simple facts and you apparently don't know the definitions of the words cosmetic and superficial. The GB Pocket and DS Lite are cosmetic and superficial; the GBC and DSi are not.

At least you're not whining like a child anymore about me responding to your posts (even though you keep responding to mine). That's a small step forward for you.

Well, that's one way to avoid admitting you were wrong. I believe the people behind the Pokémon Stars rumor claimed the same thing.

Definitely Yuppie Psycho. One of the best 2D indie horror games I've ever played!

@theModestMouse Winning is actually quite simple. Sell well in spite of the critics.

@HalBailman My original claim that "attacked" (LOL!) your comment, in case you're too lazy to look it up, was the following: "Nintendo "beefed up" the base models of all of their handhelds except the GBA; the GB, DS, and 3DS were upgraded to the GBC, DSi, and new 3DS, respectively." You said I was wrong, which is equivalent to saying Nintendo did not improve the processor, RAM, or any other aspect of hardware that affects game performance. Whether or not you personally think there was a point in buying one of these upgrades has no relevance whatsoever to my claim.

If by providing three clarifications you mean you moved the goalpost three times and still failed to say anything refuting my claim, then sure. You've also done a lot of name-calling and whining so I'm going to assume you telling me to grow up is just projection.

@johnvboy Ports are always less impressive than games that optimize the hardware, and the Wii (underpowered as it was) is certainly more powerful than the 3DS. If I had to guess, something like Xenoblade would have to be rebuilt from the ground up to get it working on original 3DS hardware.

@johnvboy Well, the upgrades certainly were "here and there" in my argument with HalBailman because he was trying to refute my claims. If you'd rather talk about what the developers did with those upgrades that's fine; I still maintain that going from 4 shades of grey to 56 colors is far more meaningful than going from 1080p to 4k.

Nothing on the DSi or new 3DS really blew me away either, but since I never played a game on both the original and upgraded hardware I can't say what the improvements in performance are, if any. I did use Miiverse a lot though, and it ran significantly better on the n3DS. And while I never did own a PS4 Pro, I've played plenty of PS4 games on the PS5 and haven't exactly been blown away by that either.

@HalBailman Wrong again. DSi has double the processor clock speed and quadruple the RAM of the DS. Not "cosmetic and superficial" as you keep lying.

Oh yeah, and thank you for expressing your disapproval of my manners. Your attempt at tone policing has been very entertaining!

@HalBailman The only demonstrable lie is your claim that the GBC, DSi, and new 3DS are "cosmetic and superficial." Your personal opinion of whatever "PS4 Pro style updates" means is completely irrelevant.

@HalBailman I don't care because it's irrelevant. The DSi improved the DS's performance, unlike the Switch OLED which just has a better screen. BTW there's no such thing as a DS XL. There is a DSi XL, but the original DS never got a revision with just a larger screen.

For consoles, SNES by a mile. It's the only Nintendo console where Nintendo and third parties were simultaneously at their peak. Honorable mention to N64 which had two of the greatest games of all time in Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time, but what it had in quality it sorely lacked in quantity.

Much harder to decide on their best portable, but I think DS edges the rest out just because of how much variety there was. Games like Ace Attorney (which, granted, was a GBA game in Japan) and Trauma Center were so refreshing to pick up during a time when I wasn't able to sink 100+ hours into a single game anymore.

Overall, I give it to WiiDS due to my preference for handheld gaming.

@glaemay Yeah, Game Boy has an unusually long life. I think Pokémon was definitely the peak for the GB, which was late Super Famicom era in Japan (Feb 1996) and early N64 era elsewhere. One thing I certainly don't miss from that generation is the long localization time for RPGs!

@HalBailman I don't care one bit about whether two pieces of hardware were sold at the same time or not. My claim has always been that the GBC, DSi, and new 3DS were revisions that improved game performance and even had exclusive software (so not "cosmetic and superficial"), and that claim is 100% true regardless of whatever irrelevant nonsense you want to bring up.

And not that it matters because it's completely irrelevant, but the DS Lite and DSi actually were sold concurrently several years into the life of the DSi, so you're wrong again.

This is a discussion forum. You want to be left alone? Stop posting.

@johnvboy It is entirely a matter of opinion whether a hardware upgrade is "meaningful" or not (and I think you mean Xbox One X, not Series X). I consider the addition of color to the GB, and downloadable DSiWare games to the DS, to be more meaningful upgrades than 4k and HDR. I didn't personally care about the SNES Virtual Console on the new 3DS, but I'm sure others would consider that meaningful as well. Also, I'm obviously excluding revisions that do not boost game performance so things like the GB Pocket, GBA SP, DS Lite, and the Switch revisions you mentioned are irrelevant here. Battery life and screen quality are not the type of upgrades I'm referring to.

It might not seem like much in absolute terms nowadays, but relatively speaking the DSi was a decent leap forward from the DS. Double the processor clock speed and quadruple the RAM. DSiWare would not have been possible on the original DS.

Been really enjoying Ghost Song, but I just started it so we'll see where it falls once recency bias wears off. And I'm going wait until 2022 is actually over before voting for game of 2022 anyways.

@HalBailman I get it just fine regardless of your attempts to gaslight me, and I'll reply to whatever I want and there's nothing you can do about it. Maybe try being the change you want to see and stop replying to me if it bothers you that much.

The PS4 Pro, regardless of how much of an upgrade you consider it to be, did not feature any software that didn't also run on the base PS4. The GBC, DSi, and new 3DS all did, which makes their upgrades even more substantial in a sense. My claim is that Nintendo released enhanced models of all their handhelds with only one exception. All you've done is attempt to diminish those enhancements with completely subjective criteria on what constitutes "super enhanced" or whatever (a phrase I never used before I might add). In my opinion, adding color to the GB was far more substantial than adding 4k to the PS4, so I don't even agree with your point even after you've moved the goalposts multiple times.

@johnvboy Silly or not, the Switch will be the second handheld Nintendo has never upgraded (in terms of performance) if they go straight to a Switch 2.

@HalBailman No, you're wrong, again. The GBC, DSi, and new 3DS all boosted hardware performance to the point where some games actually required the upgrades to be playable at all. This was most common with the GBC, but the DSi and new 3DS had exclusives as well. DSi was also able to run the DS internet browser without the memory expansion that the original DS required, and the new 3DS was required for the SNES Virtual Console.

Everything I said was factually correct, and you trying to draw a distinction between "minor" upgrades and whatever you think the PS4 Pro is does nothing to change that. And you apparently didn't read the second half of my post because like I said, the PSP 2000 was not just a slim revision.

@HalBailman Wrong. Nintendo "beefed up" the base models of all of their handhelds except the GBA; the GB, DS, and 3DS were upgraded to the GBC, DSi, and new 3DS, respectively.

Incidentally, Sony upgraded the PSP to the PSP 2000 long before the PS4 Pro came out. This was not just a slim revision of the PSP; it doubled the RAM of the original PSP which boosted game performance.

By far my biggest disappointment with the Switch is the lack of the Virtual Console. It seems like a no-brainer that Nintendo should include it at least as an option for those uninterested in NSO.

Congrats to 2DS for outselling XBSX! PS4 putting in impressive numbers too!

BTW XBSX came in at number 9, not 10 like the article says.

@Anti-Matter You beat me to it! Been a huge fan back when he was known as NitroFlasher.

@Bobb There's a vocal minority whining about pretty much everything.

Iconic for giving Yoshi a voice, but also a disappointing follow-up to Yoshi's Island. The game was also way too easy unless you were crazy enough to do the 30 melon challenge, which was unreasonably punishing due to how many missable melons there are. The artstyle is fantastic though, and it was nice to see a 2D game when just about every other franchise was moving to 3D.

@Jayenkai That's when the anime launched in Japan so unless you were living there you probably didn't see it until late 1998 at the earliest.

Nice to see Pokémon still going strong!

This looks neat! Link's Awakening is still one of my favorite Zelda games ever.

Congrats to Pokémon SV! I've been thoroughly enjoying my time with it, and the accusations that I'm enabling laziness with my purchase makes it even more fun! However I do hope Game Freak sticks to releasing 2 new generations per platform and waits until the Switch successor for generation 10.

And honorable mention to the PS4 for hanging in there! By far the best console of last gen.

@MajorTom On the internet, I make no distinctions between general statements and personal attacks. Whether someone think all Pokémon fans are bloody sheeple (or whatever) or just me in particular makes no difference to me; I'm going to enjoy defying them all the same.

Sure, we'll eventually get a MK9. We'll also eventually get a Pokémon game with PS4 quality graphics. After playing a significant amount of Scarlet I can say the game looks and performs like an early PS3 game. It's in HD, but just barely and with an inconsistent framerate. This is actually par for the course for Game Freak. The GB, GBA, DS, and 3DS games all look like primitive NES, SNES, PS1, and PS2 games, respectively. If things continue as usual you can expect Nintendo handhelds to be one generation behind the modern consoles, and GF's games to be another generation behind that. So if you're waiting for a PS4 quality Pokémon game we'll probably get that next on whatever the Switch successor ends up being.

You've been civil so I'd like to end on a positive note. I also loved Dragon Quest XI and am eagerly awaiting DQ12 and the DQ3 remake! And I certainly wouldn't mind seeing Pokémon with those production values, but there's also something endearing to me about a company that decides to stay small and private after a huge success.

Really excited for this! I just hope the music is as good as the graphics. A shame Sugiyama didn't live to work on this; hopefully their new composer does the old tracks justice.

@MajorTom Sorry for the late reply; I spent most of the holiday away from the internet. I'll elaborate on my previous post as you requested.

I have no interest in validating my opinion to anyone I don't know in real life. On the contrary, I revel in the disapproval of people who think they can shame me into behaving in a certain way, so part of me hopes they continue to disapprove and cry about it. The fact that I enjoy Pokémon is the only reason I need to buy it, period. I don't care one bit about "the message" that my purchase sends to Game Freak.

Your description of "literal" is circular, but I think I understand what you mean. I'm not doing the same thing as the people I'm responding to because I would never hope for the failure of a game (or any other product) that I don't like, even of such a failure could possibly result in something I want. And I certainly would never insult people for liking something I don't like.

For example, I would rather see Mario Kart 9 than more Mario Kart 8 DLC, and I think it's a shame that the Switch is likely to be the first Nintendo platform since the Virtual Boy that won't get an original Mario Kart (unless you count Mario Kart Live). But I don't hope for the failure of MK8 just because that would ensure we get MK9 sooner, and I am happy for the people who are enjoying the new waves of MK8 DLC. Sure, I get a bit tired of seeing it week after week in the Japanese sales charts, but I'm not going to whine about it.

@SonOfDracula Just because an article mentions Pokémon does not mean that it is a Pokémon article. This is, first and foremost as the first two words of the headline clearly state, a Japanese sales article that happens to mention Pokémon along with 9 other games and 9 pieces of hardware.

In any case, I'm not going to stop this alleged foolishness and there's nothing you can do about it.

@SonOfDracula First two words are "Japanese sales," and nothing that appears after the colon changes that. Once again, read the full headline before whining about off topic posting.

As much as I love this game, it's just too long for me to ever revisit. Still nice to see it come to Switch though; long overdue after that Joker in Smash reveal!