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Moral to the story: Don't buy used Switch games...

...sorry dudes that depend on reselling their games to buy new ones. Better find a 2nd job like Sony told potential PS3 users.

@cleveland124 I know that the truth upsets you but the fact is that Breath of the Wild is basically a Wii U game. Period.

The awards were given to the game itself. Not the platforms. Still, it was a Wii U game developed with that console in mind.

So yes, the Wii U has a GOTY awarded game while the Dreamcast never had that and will never have that.

@cleveland124 First of all, the Dreamcast did NOT sell "nearly 10 million" it sold nearly 9 million units of hardware. By comparison, the Wii U sold "nearly 14 million" units (using your own arbitrary measure of sales).

Second, in terms of software, the Wii U sold 102 million units of software. The Dreamcast didn't even came close to those numbers.

And third, a Wii U game won the most GOTY awards in 2017, beating out games from other platforms. Which the Dreamcast never achieve in its own time.

Sorry dude, but even the Wii U beats the absolute crap out of the Dreamcast. Try comparing it to the Atari Jaguar next time.

@sillygostly Barely any downloads and its at 25% ??? You got some extra stuff stored in that card not related to the Switch?

I did that with my 2nd 3DS. I didn't download anything to it beside demos and used most of the SD card memory to save videos and family pics.

Are you making a stealthy request for retail versions of these games? Just say it dewd. How else are these devs going to get that message.

Did Nintendolife asked this question when the SNES mini and NES mini came out?

I don't think it means that since the vast majority of Switch owners do not own any of those consoles

@sillygostly What's the issue? Switch isn't a Vita and you can easily buy dependable sd cards that have a ton of memory.

Jim Sterling is so poopular...

Why are people calling the Mega Drive, "Genesis"? Stop that crap at once!

BTW, Sonic is more at home on PC

@maceng And to everyone else with looney conspiracies about Nintendo holding Netflix back.

Explain Hulu then.

It was there since day one.

@Bunkerneath "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Racing Game of the Year? Poor old Gran Turismo, beaten by a port"

Poor GT? Nah! Poor all the current gen games that were beaten by a 'last-gen game'

Zelda is a Wii U game. It beat them all.

Let that sink in.... a Wii U game is 2017's GOTY.

@Daruncic Swapnote wasn't a "news feed".

I guess by "news feed" on the 3DS you guys mean the brief notifications you would get about new games being available on eShop?

C'mon son.

@shani Hey, breh... cool it with the wall of text. I'm on my phone and there is no way Imma gonna read all that Cuz I'M ON THE GO.

Speaking of portability... good luck stuffing your PC or even a laptop in yer pocket.

@alasdai91 I wanna see some receipts on that being a feature on the 3DS.

@shani I mean superfluous features that my phone already covers on the go. Youtube, Netflix, Hulu (emulators) Etc.

"The Wii had its moments of genius..."

@alasdair91 There was no news feed on the 3DS, breh. I call #FakeNews on that one.

@shani A lackluster device that is still the best selling gaming hardware for months.

Imagine when superfluous features come out to eat the Switch's battery. It will surpass the Wii or maybe even the DS in sales.

@Orangezap89 In the US, only 64% have some sort of lock protection on their phones. 36% love to live dangerously.

This same developer barely supported the game on other platforms. If at all.

Buy at your own risk.

@Prof_Yoshtonics Your comment needs more sharpen to beat my edgelord ways.

@JasmineDragon But what if you're not a furry, tho?

What if you want to play as a human, a reptile or a robot?

That's the problem of limiting the roster to just furry characters. You limit the appeal.

@8-Bit_Superman Don't worry. Bayonetta 1 and 2 will still be available next week too.

"Oh look, another indie metroidvania title that looks like it could run on the NES..."

I agree. The Master System was always the best 8 bit console

@peeks Naw, trophies are for those that need an incentive to play games. No such thing is needed for most Nintendo games. Especially when many of them already have collectable items.

"Given that basically no one bought a Wii U (sorry, Wii U!) chances are you've never played this excellent hack and slasher."

Most never played Bayo 2 because most retail copies were bought by scalpers that were selling the game for hundreds of dollars

@retro_player_22 Not developing for a fail system is the practical thing to do, tho.

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I hope to see more Dragon Quest, Bravely Default and Secret of Mana. Maybe a Chrono Trigger HD remake?

Don't care for Kingdom Hearts. Never found the series appealing. The gameplay was always a mayor issue with me. Didn't help that I also don't care for Disney characters that much. But Square Enix made it a point to keep the mainline games on PlayStation systems. And as far as I am concerned, it can stay there this gen as well.

I think Square Enix will also keep mainline Final Fantasy on PS4 as to not fracture the fanbase. Again, I got no problems with that.

Just give us proper Dragon Quest games and some new experimental JRPGs like Project Octopath

Both Sony and Microsoft are already setting things up for a digital ONLY future. Especially MS.

Nintendo is getting there. Slowly but surely.

The market that will be more resistant to the idea will be Japan.

In before port-begging of Overwatch begins!

(Looks up....)

Too late!

But seriously tho... its nice that Akiman found a new appreciation for videyagamez.

@KryptoKrunch Those dismissive type of comments are pretty predictable, actually.

Nintendo can't win. Like, not ever with these people.

I mean, Nintendo Life just posted a video dealing with 9 Mario games that need to be erased from existance.

Which proved that just handing the Mario license to a 3rd party dev does not guarantee success.

Nintendoomer reads:

>> Third party company achieves success on Switch <<

(Moves goal posts)

"Yeah but that was an exclusive 3rd party game that used Nintendo characters. So it doesn't count as a 3rd party success"

Wait for it...

Edit: LOL And like clockwork someone said something like that to take away some credit from the game:

"Well, no wonder. It has Mario in the name and on the box art.

Not saying that's the only reason it sold so well, but there's no way that that wasn't a massive helping hand."

But 3rd party Mario games are currently meme generators.

I've yet to see a Tumblr timeline without a Hotel Mario meme on it

P.S. Besides, the worse Mario game is still better than any Sonic game (oh no he didn't!!!! Oh yes I did. I went there)

I guess the partnership makes a lot of sense in that they can tie the movie to a Super Mario attraction at Universal Studios.

I wonder if Wario and Waluigi will be in it, tho.

@BulbasaurusRex Naw. Ever heard of Mr. October? FERNANDOMANIA? Even Canseco had a bigger impact than those two (before he fell from grace)

Nothing has come close to that.

@Fandabidozi I fell asleep creating my character* and woke up to a dead 3DS.

*Always happens when I have to create a character. I can't decide how he/she should look. Thank Gawd for prefabricated characters like LINK!

@Nygiantz17 The stats are real. Studies were made just last year about it. They found out most active & dedicated fans are generally around age 55+.

So the solution would be to get more young people involved in the sport. Unfortunately, there isn't a big draw for that at the moment. No huge star or something making headlines. And playing the sport as a kid requires having a certain amount of peeps and field (big enough area). By comparison, basketball is easy af to pick up and play. You only need 2 people to have a decent session. Even playing alone is fun. But baseball? Not as easy.

A good way to introduce young ppl inti baseball would be video games. But devs probably look at the numbers and go: "baseball is only popular with old decrepit fossils". So they instead do something else that they think kids would like.

@ekwcll Ok let me take that back about baseball being boring. But only in part. Its boring to watch. But it's a joy to play for real.

In regards to the age thing. Those numbers are real. But that's not to say younger ppl don't like baseball.

To put it bluntly, its mostly because baseball is boring.

And currently, most fans of the sport are of the older variety (50 and over mostly). Which means that they're well beyond the videogame optimal demographic.

Doesn't help that ticket prices have gone up but player's performance has gone down. Nobody exciting on any field.

Maybe Nintendo will port Wii Sports to the Switch, tho.

@Filth_Element BREH!!!!

@NYCallday I know what you are... but what am I, BREH?

@Mr_Pepperami Gooooooood.

I can feel your anger. I am defenseless. Use the IGNORE button! Strike me down with it with all your hatred. And your journey towards the irrelevant side of the Website will be complete!

(Why you HATE me so much?) 😉

@Mr_Pepperami LOL I knew it!... you are quick to lose your temper. Look at you get vapors over a few letters spelling "BREH"

The point is that if I did that to you, you would certainly get all bent out of shape about it.

So you trying to shame gamers that think achieving records as something irrelevant and insignificant sure sounds hypocritical.

What say YOU now, breh?

@Mr_Pepperami But that's your FLESH AND BLOOD, son. Not the same thing at all.

So let me change the scenario a bit... what would you do if you AND your son were playing a game. Bonding by beating a near impossible boss. Achieving a near impossible trophy together. Something that would stay in your son's memory banks well after you're gone.... and then just as you both are going to win... I, a complete stranger, pull the plug.

"ITS JUST A GAME, BREHS!"

@Mr_Pepperami What would you do if just as your beating an impossible BOSS and getting a near impossible trophy, I pulled the plug of your game console? Thus turning it off.

In how many ways would you murder me while I went "It's only a game, breh! Calm down, BREH!"

@Pnkr0cker The way Voice Actors perform is entirely up to the voice director (s).

In this case, none of the actors had any idea what the real context was. They only had the director(s) as a guide. Maybe even the director himself/herself was in the dark about the context of the scenes. And only had a superficial guideline to follow.

That's the problem with projects where they cannot share a lot of info. A lot of guess work.

@youkoaoshi Yard sales are still a viable option tho. I bought several NES games at one of them. Including a mint Castlevania III copy & Startropics. The woman that sold them to me had ZERO clue what they were (she thought they were PC games and had placed them in the same box as real PC games). She said those were from his son who left them after he went to college a decade or so prior. So whenever I see a yard sale, I'm there looking to get lucky again.

@LewisBurr Well I expected nothing and I was STILL letdown by it

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@XenoShaun At least it looks and plays better than LIFE OF BLACK TIGER, tho.

Man, I remember when Rare Ltd. was heavily involved with KINECT projects. But that ship sailed into an iceberg. Who would've thunk it.

Now some of their best IP's (Killer Instinct, Perfect Dark) are not even being developed by them.

Rare should just drop the name and start over with a new one. Make new IPs and make a new for themselves.

Are people really desperate to PAY for online gaming?

Just buy a PS4 and have fun with that paywall.

@MarcelRguez Well when it comes to hobbies that depend almost entirely on NOSTALGIA you can't really expect for them to be very casual friendly. I mean let's be real here.

Even when nostalgia is not a factor you find similar hurdles, like... I'm not gonna casually go into coin/stamp collecting and expect the best coins/stamps to be affordable or easy to get a hold of. That's not how it works. Otherwise why collect stuff like that.

In a perfect world, sure... everyone would have easy access to everything. But collectors have set things up so that hunting for items is fun for THEM not casuals.

@youkoaoshi Which games are you looking for? Are you trying to find rare NES carts? I doubt those will see a price drop any time soon.

Regular NES carts are not THAT expensive, IMO. I mean some will go from $3-$5 bucks while a game like Zelda (gold cart) will go for $30. Unless you are looking for boxed carts, then sure. But then you're in collector's territory if you want that.

@mike_intv I mean it might be easier for indies dealing with NOE than NOA.

However, the biggest hurdle after that is dealing with the European ratings board. Which is a lot more finicky (and expensive) than their American counterpart. Since they ask for a fee and a working demo before giving them a pass.

So yeah, releasing videogames isn't an easy thing (unless you stick to Steam and deal with getting buried with a gazillion half-baked "games"). Instead of complaining, they should do more networking and making contacts (friends).

@MarcelRguez What rare carts are you looking for on eBay that you cannot afford? The ones that have screws like the ones collectors want them to have?

Just look for the cheaper options and avoid the expensive ones. Simple.

Flea markets are still a cheaper alternative too. eBay is for suckers looking to spend too much money anyways.

@MarcelRguez But it doesn't affect a non serious collector like YOU, tho.

Why would someone who doesn't collect care if collectors are so anal about the stuff they collect? If they wanna go hardcore with their hobby, seems to me that they can place as many arbitrary rules or demands about what they spend their money on. Go nuts, I say.

Live and let live.