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Answer:

We don't know
No-one knows
Go back to playing games and wait
Stop paying any mind to grifting guesswork artists and sham "insiders"

@nessisonett Fans plead for decades to play as Zelda (yes I know Zelda's Adventure exists on CDi), but as soon as that wish is granted, there's pushback that she has her own unique moveset and abilities, and isn't simply a reskin of Link, and thus some begin looking for ways to sideline her and play as Link.

Only 9? Missing at least 11 games on Switch, and 1 on Mobile, that deserve a mention:

Sky Oceans (Skies of Arcade-like)
Crow Country
Wildermyth
YS X Nordics
F-Zero Climax (NSO)
F-Zero GP Legend (NSO)
Clock Tower Rewind
Amber Isle
Date Everything
Core Keeper
Broken Sword - Shadows Of The Templar's

Pokemon TCG Pocket

"...a random Redditor isn't exactly the most credible of sources"

but we encourage such behaviour by giving these guesswork artists the time of day on our website

umm...yeah. We knew about this months ago shrug

What a load of santicmonious bilge from Pocket Pair. There are plenty of monster-catching indie games on Nintendo platforms, and Nintendo themselves have demonstrably shown they're happy to promote them.

The difference being those games have an art direction that isn't based on shameless plagiarism and aren't prone to lifting creature designs from Pokemon games and kitbashing them together

@NintendoLife: Don't you mean "Emio Bags A Top Five Spot whilst Star Wars flounders"

"Emio flounders" is so contextually bereft. No-one expects it to sell gangbusters. Sales expectations and targets for Emio vs. Star Wars Outlaws are vastly different.

@Pigeon Do you perhaps need to go to Specsavers? 9 of the top 40 are Switch-exclusive Nintendo developed / published titles.

All this talk of inflation justifying a higher priced system negates the fact that real wage growth has been stagnant in the UK since before the Switch released.

Why would they not be allowed to upload photos of it to the internet. No one is getting in trouble for having a prototype version of a 20+ year old piece of hardware.

So this is a sparse, low effort, stock image picture book and little else? No thank you. I'd rather put money to an anthology that has some actual graft to it.

Monolith, making an RPG? I'm shocked

@WhiteUmbrella I hate to break it to you but it 'is' a hybrid. Nintendo is never going to 're-join' the sun cost fallacy of chasing bleeding edge power and performance. Best make peace with it

I get that the developers want fans to judge this on its own terms but it's a bit much at this point to ask that they don't approach it as a Chibi-Robo game when from the main character to the gameplay, to the story, it's as close to a Chibi-Robo game as you can get without being one.

Hopefully, as work continues, and the project gets fleshed out, it'll develop an identity all its own.

Quite why 3-Point Contest is single player only is beyond me.

You were able to take turns in 2-4 local multiplayer in Wii Sports Resort, why hasn't that been retained in Nintendo Switch Sports!?

Basketball would also be improved by allowing the use of the second Joy-Con for free movement.

Nintendo Life is summarising the case above but it's a poor summary if they're omitting the key fact that Modded Hardware is alleged to have preinstalled portfolios of ready-to-play pirated games on modded systems.

This is inarguably piracy for profit and they deserve to suffer the full legal ramifications for their brazen idiocy

Am I the only one that thinks it looks hideous?

FYI: You might want to update this article to include the official response from GAME

"This reporting is categorically not true. GAME continues to support the physical gaming market, offering a wide-range of physical games, hardware, software, accessories and digital gift cards, in stores and online."

Can we maybe cool it with pandering to "leakers" and "insiders" when the Direct is today! Let's try to preserve the surprise instead of feeding clout chasers and pumping for clicks.

Violence Killer sounds like a fake TV show made up for laughs in a sitcom, like 'Kickpuncher' in Community

Song felt completely at odds with the visuals and vibe of the game. Hopefully it isn't indicative of the music that'll accompany the gameplay.

If the internet would stop advertising this tacky, dead-eyed, soulless Funko trash that would be great, thanks.

@JohnnyMind Hmm. Probably a dumb question but If Nintendo Network is only used to facilitate new connections, and active connections are P2P, if this was the last person online on a Pokemon 3DS title then they weren't connected to anyone else....so what exactly were they connected to if it wasn't Nintendo Network and it wasn't another player?

...before expressing hope that "someday in some form or fashion [the Nintendo Network] returns" (yeah, that's some wishful thinking right there)

Is it? Pretendo exists and is getting better and more stable all the time.

Only interested in the pins and I don't need more tat taking up space in my home. I likely won't get the game digitally either as the price doesn't justify how much time i'd likely spend with it.

@Vordus Bold of you to categorise sitting in an empty lobby for weeks on end as fun

@Nintentoad125 What's wrong with a little perspective? The above people are like contestants in a 'keep touching the car challenge' for which there is no reward. What's to be applauded about keeping your console on all day and night whilst you sit in a lobby for a race that's never going to happen?

Better to realise it's a fruitless endeavour, move on, and engage in a more enjoyable gaming activity or otherwise.

It's hard to see these people as making a heroic last stand when the Pretendo Network already exists. Stop chasing cheap internet cred and start playing Wii U and 3DS games online again

Thanks Elon Musk for stupidly driving up the API costs and overseeing rampant instability and toxicity on the platform.

@sanderev I'm not sure if you're being deliberately disingenuous but the negative reaction to Endless Ocean: Luminous has been quite clearly set out in reviews and impressions of the game.

A lot of it stems from the fact story missions are unforgivably short and egregiously gated, and that there's a complete lack of gameplay variety in comparison to previous titles.

By comparison, Endless Ocean 2 on Wii had multiple locations, more diverse missions, a far better and longer story, NPC's to talk to and get quests from, trainable dolphin pals, areas where you could explore on land, a homebase you could decorate, various tools to use, more ways to interact with fish, and lots more. None of those things are in Luminous and they're charging more for it.

There's less to Luminous than even the 17 year old Wii original. There's nothing wrong with review outlets and players having some standards and deeming this as regressive, underwhelming, disappointing, and even unacceptable. Hope this clears things up for you.

If my Joy-Cons are working, why wouldn't I want to use them as wireless controllers, or controllers for additional players?

The question is a rather spurious one at the moment given all we have to go on for controllers is rumours from click farmer grifters and peripheral makers etc.

"Switch’s meager racing offerings"

Are you for real? At least do a little research into this area before spouting such untruths, especially given your interest in the genre. There's an avalanche of good racing games on Switch

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fuelled
Sonic Team Racing
GRID Autosport
Cruis'n Blast
NFS: Hot Pursuit
Burnout Paradise Remastered
F-Zero 99
Horizon Chase Turbo
Wreckfest
Hot Wheels Unleashed
Trials Rising
Lonely Mountains: Downhill
FAST RMX
WRC 10
Gear. Club Unlimited 2
Sega Ages Virtua Racing
Art of Rally
Hot Shot Racing
LEGO 2K Drive
V-Rally 4
SEGA Ages Outrun
Moto GP 20
Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer
Burnout Paradise City
Circuit Superstars
Asphalt 9: Legends
...and more

@razza1987 Good for you, but if you have a Wii, i'd recommend playing 2 instead of rewarding poor efforts like this one.

Speak for yourself all you want, but some of us have played Endless Ocean games, and we are justifiably sad that this new entry removes so much of what made the series special.

Some people seem to be in denial. I'm a huge Endless Ocean fan but this feels like a big let down after Endless Ocean 2

No unique handcrafted areas, no gadgets like the Pulsar Gun or Multi-Sensor, less mission variety and a much weaker, shallow story mode compared to 1 or 2, the gear is cosmetic and doesn't affect your depth dive or air tank capacity, no NPC's to interact with, no on-land exploration like EO2, no customisable home base like EO2, no aquarium, no dolphin pals to train, and on and on the list of omissions goes

I was ready and willing to pay full price for this, and to support the franchise, but seeing as this is a disappointing and overly simplified downgrade in every way bar the graphics, I won't bother now.

Atlus, get your sh*t together and bring Snowboard Kids and Snowboard Kids 2 to N64 - Nintendo Switch Online!

Of all the issues impacting gaming, and the problems facing the games industry, the "predicament" you choose to write about is exclamation marks?

Is this a late April Fools bit?

@romanista I've been translating screengrabs from the Japanese site for the last hour. Here's some additional info not covered in the article above:

• Some of the 578 creatures have 'variant forms'
• Salvage treasures/objects from ocean floor as part of 'surveys' to unravel mysteries
• Some areas can't be explored without 'special permission'
• Creatures have a minimum and maximum size to uncover
• Document creatures and discover treasures to unlock new diving suit colours.
• Environments include coral reefs, caves, underwater volcanoes, shipwrecks, underwater temples, and more
• When diving as a team, everyone starts from a different location in the area. As divers move, they can tag items and creatures. Once close enough to other divers, they can freely share that info.
• Divers can use gestures to signal to others. As you accumulate experience, you can purchase more gestures.
• Reveal 80% of an area to obtain an Ocean ID Code. Share the code or use it yourself to explore the same area.

Still feel like I need to know a lot more, especially about the single player (is there a single player campaign?) and whether there's any actual story or plot we'll be following.

Is diver customisation purely cosmetic or will gear have an impact on say how fast you can swim, how much air you can carry, how deep you can dive etc

Is there anything to collect and catalogue besides fish, such as relics or places of interest?

An ex-CEO spouting figures on a podcast should not be the barometer of fact. We should stick with the 155M sold for PS2 unless Jim Ryan or Sony produces verifiable evidence to the contrary

Reminder to always proofread your articles. Writer claims the trial ends 23rd March and lasts for 10 days when it ends 21st March.

@AmplifyMJ No worries. The original reveal was during the recent LEGO Super Mario video.

It's textbook Nintendo social media behaviour to re-broadcast announcements a few days after the initial one. It helps to give a singular piece of news its own spotlight, to advertise it to those who missed it, and to drum up further conversation.

Maybe that subtitle should be "What could've been. What still could be"

No reason Princess Daisy couldn't be in the follow-up after all.

@AmplifyMJ It was actually announced on 9th March

@Magician I think you're confusing Blast Corps for Body Harvest

To me, it feels like this could've been a more substantial merger between the gameplay of both series.

Watching the farm grow as you complete nonogram puzzles is rather slight.

I would've preferred puzzle completion to give you points, allowing you to choose which action(s) to carry out on the farm or which animals or upgrades you'd like to purchase.

Everyone and his Poochie could've predicted the Switch follow-up was coming out at the end of 2024 or Financial Year 2024/25

All these attention seekers with their "whispers" and "sources" are flailing in the dark, hoping to hit the light switch. As blind as the rest of us on the matter.

Wish they'd all just quieten down and wait until official news. We've got plenty of games to play in the meantime. The truth is, they can't, because the clicks are their meal ticket and they got to eat. We do need to be smarter when it comes to swallowing their guesswork though.

@TheMegaMarshtomp They're also adding a special Amiibo Tag Tournament mode to the game on 1st March

@SwitchVogel Yeah, that's almost certainly true, and that's absolutely a plus for Eastward owners. The trade-off is that for those who don't own Eastward, the cost 'is' high since you need to own both - and if you're only interested in Octopia, then the perceived value is lower still.

We have seen some sales on Switch that were discounted 'if' you already owned another title from the same developer/publisher.

Perhaps Pixpil should've offered Octopia standalone at a higher price for newcomers, with a discount for those that already owned Eastward. That flexibility would've been better I feel.