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I fully expect Mario Kart World to retail for 50 quid in about a year. There's no way they'll keep the price that high if they want it to be an evergreen title for the system. The high price right now will be for early adopters who'll most likely pay the extra for this game.

I'd expect bigger options to be made available in the future. Especially if the Switch 2 is going to be getting mainline call of duty games.

I'll wait for the sales to crash like the 3DS and pick up a switch 2 after nintendo restructure their pricing.
Most people I've spoken to that were interested in the Switch 2 are all saying the same thing: It's to expensive.

This is a very bad pricing structure. I can see a 3DS style recalibration later in the year with game prices returning to more normal levels.

This feels like switches worst year for releases yet. But after 7 years that's to be expected. The strange thing though is that next year is already looking like one of the best (metroid prime 4, xenoblade chronicles X, fantasy life, professor layton). That's crazy for a system that'll be eight in march.

If a game is pretty story heavy then I prefer a character that talks. Any modern game I've played where the character doesn't speak, just seems strange to me. It's like your playing the main character, but whenever there's a cut scene. Your relegated to being a spectator in the main story.

I'd be very surprised if Xenoblade Chronicles X wasn't been developed right now but I still think it'll come out on the Switch successor.

The Joy Cons are the worst thing about the Switch. The faster a replacement comes the better. To be honest, I was hoping an upgraded joy con without drift issues. Would of come years ago.

I really dislike Tears of the Kingdom. There's far too much technology in the game. That just ruins the setting for me.

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I'm surprised so many liked Tears of the Kingdom. I really disliked it. Metroid Prime Remastered gets my vote for game of the year.

Wow. Considering all the systems with dedicated Gamecube hardware out there. It's crazy to think the Switch is only 4.47million away from being nintendos highest selling home console.

@Ventilator I don't understand your argument. The specs for both consoles have been well know for quite a while. The Switch is based on old architecture right now but the WiiU is based on even older architecture.

@Ventilator compared to the WiiU, the Switch has nearly double the CPU speed, with more CPU cores, a faster GPU plus twice the RAM.
Yet somehow you equate all that to just a 5% bump in performance????

I feel like Nintendolife cheated with this quiz classing the same game on different consoles as different zeldas.

I just read the review and I don't feel like they've explained much at all. I know a lot of people don't like spoilers but Nintendolife could have made more effort and gone into more detail on some things.
Are the NPC's voice acted this time? You mention the return of towns. Could you give an example of one of the Quests you'll perform in one of these towns? Also how integral will the towns and inhabitants be to the main story?
Speaking of story, we all know there'll be floating islands. Will we be able to reach these islands in the early parts of the game (in the first couple of hours) or is this something that gets introduced later in the game.
How dependent will we be on the new abilities. Can you still complete the game without them or will they be integral for progressing the story?

Wow, 125m and still going strong. If it keeps going like it has, it'll outsell native gamecube hardware this year.

@Liam_Doolan Wow only 4 movies have crossed half a million in North America . The pandemic must have really destroyed the movie industry. Now if it was half a billion it'd be a lot more healthy.

So far the gameplay sounds top notch. Hopefully the story telling and game world will be improved over Breath of the Wild as well.

@LUIGITORNADO I think you'll find that some things that start off as one thing can branch out and expand into other areas.
I used Star Wars as an example as it's been a video game franchise, for over 40 years. In fact there has been more Star Wars video games made over the years then tomb raider or resident evil games.
Another Example of a franchise expanding beyond its original business would be the Harry Potter Franchise. That started out as a massive book franchise, before it expanded out and became an even bigger movie Franchise.

@Ryu_Niiyama First off, well done Nintendo on a successful movie. I don't want to come across as trying to downplay their success.
As for what's the record for a video game movie. I still think they're being very selective for what counts and what doesn't.
You might not class Star Wars as a Video Game Franchise but I would. I see it as a Movie Franchise plus a Video Game Francise.
After all they've been making Star Wars Video games for 40 years now with multiple games across a broad range of game consoles.

I think they're being a bit selective with what's a video game movie and what's the record.
Star Wars has been churning out video games nearly as long as Mario and I'm pretty sure those movies have grossed a lot more then what the record is supposedly.

I got this on 3DS. Never realised it released on switch later. I may have to double dip.

I went with the Other M suit. I think it's the best of the standard samus suits.

I'd like the towns/villages to have more personality. Have more to do there. Talk to npcs. (Use voice acting, not text). Have plenty of Quests in these area's that affect the towns and its inhabitants.
Breath of the wild was very weak in this area.

Resident Evil 4 is on 8.32 right now. I wonder how many people intentionally marked it down with 1/10 scores to have it on such a low score.

I'd have to give ZombiU and Xenoblade X another vote. Another game I'd recommend that nobody seems to have mentioned but I hear its good is : The Legend of Zelda, breath of the wild.

I wouldn't go near cloud gaming.

Great article. Although it's making me yern for a HD remake of disaster day of crisis.

I don't see how this is surprising. The Switch has a far larger user base then the PS5 and Xbox Series combined while the PS4 is a largely dead console at this stage.

@Serpenterror I wouldn't be counting the mini consoles. But I'd expect this generation to end with a comfortable win for Nintendo. The 1 thing I'd take from the head to heads is that Sony has only won 1 generation in the last 15 years.

An interesting point to note between Sony and Nintendo. The Switch vs PS5 is the 7th time the 2 company's have gone head to head in a generation. (Numbers got from vgcharts and measured in millions).
Round 1:
The PS1 took on the N64 and won with a sales record of 102.49 vs 32.93.
1-0 to Sony.
Round 2:
The PS2 took on the Gamecube and gave Nintendo it's biggest beating winning with a sales record of 158.7 vs 21.74.
2-0 to Sony.
Round 3:
Sony feeling confident now decided to enter the handheld space. This time the DS took on the PSP with Nintendo giving Sony its biggest beating with a sales record of 154.02 vs 80.79.
2-1 to Sony.
Round 4:
While the handhelds were fighting it out a new console generation was also released with the Wii taking on the PS3. Once again Nintendo came out on top with sales of 101.63 vs 87.4.
2-2.
Round 5:
Next it was time for the handhelds to go at it once again. This time the 3DS took on the PS Vita and won with sales of 75.94 vs 15.82.
3-2 to Nintendo.
Round 6:
At the same time as the handhelds another set of consoles went head to head with the PS4 taking on the WiiU. This time the PS4 won with current sales of 116.97 vs 13.56.
All square again at 3-3.
Round 7.
Finally we reach the current generation with the Switch taking on the PS5. There's no final score as the generation is still ongoing but the current sales have Switch ahead with sales of 110.71 vs 21.61.

Quite an interesting list but I would swap the controller from the N64 for the Gamecube controller (It's just too good not to have). That would then free up the most interesting part of the N64 to be used, the expansion port. How great would it be to upgrade your console mid generation without discarding your old console.

Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is a great game. Sometimes I'll dive into it just to have a good game of pool.

I can't wait. If its half as good as two point hospital it'll be great.

I never taught I'd see the day where an xbox would outsell the current PlayStation console in Japan.

@Hero-of-WiiU Ya it's been 8 years, there were rumors that they had a big project shelved by nintendo after 3 years of work. Plus they've been the lead developer for MP4 for another 3 years so that's probably taken up a huge chunk of the last 8 years. The tropical freeze port to switch shouldn't have taken too much resources from them.

Poor Retro Studios. 8 year's since their last new game. Hopefully they knock it out of the park with MP4.

The European one with more Gold and less black border is the best by far. Why wouldn't you have it as an option seems strange to me.

It's has to be the A button. But the A button on the gamecube style switch controllers.

Ya GX is definitely better.

Two point hospital was great. So really looking forward to this.

A bit surprising that the market leader has the smallest share. Considering pc, android and ios have such a large share I would imagine that the GDC is geared more towards indies rather then large publishers.

I wonder if this has anything to do with Brexit. I've gotten games from them in the past and been happy with the product but last year I wanted to get the desponia collection off them but the customs and delivery charges were going to increase the price above 100 euro which was far to much for me. I wonder if this has affected there sales to customers in Europe like myself.

I see a few predictions for the next nintendo console and they all seem to focus on the power of it. I'll make my prediction but I'll focus on what I think will be the usp of the new device. Of course it'll be more powerful but not as big a leap as many will hope.
Anyway I think the next nintendo console will be similar to the switch but with one main difference. And that would be that it'll get a folding screen. So for handheld gaming it'll have say for example a 4x6 inch screen. Which could be folded out to a 6x8 inch screen for tabletop play. TV play would be similar to what we have now except maybe it would have a 4K output.

@soupwoman 2024 is a good possibility also. 1 thing to keep in mind though is that once the switch successor is released, the switch will also continue to be in production for at least 2 years. Probably doing 5 to 10 million in sales the first year and dropping to a couple of million the second year before being discontinued. That would give it an 8 year life cycle if a successor releases in 2023 or 9 if it releases a year later.

@soupwoman I'd expect a new console from nintendo around the start of 2023 and I'd imagine BotW2 to be a launch title.
The main reason is with nintendo only having 1 main hardware platform to support the company, they will need to release their next console with a strong line up of games. If BotW2 is released on switch before the next hardware release. Then nintendo will be looking at probably 4 years without a mainline Zelda on their next console.

I can't see it releasing next year. I'd expect it to be a launch game for the next nintendo console.

A review for a game like this should really give the track list. I've bought a few karaoke games over the years and the single biggest factor on whether I would buy the game or not was the music.

Wow Sony really have abandoned the Japanese Market.