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Guys, yes the movie sucked, but hear me out:

It also ruled.

@Specter_of-the_OLED the lust for graphical perfection is a mystery to me (not counting games that don’t work due to issues)

@Gwynbleidd IDK dude I like all the ports I’ve bought on the Switch - I think my Switch is gifted or something though because The Outer Worlds never crashed, no Witcher draw in issues, all the famous graphic complaints never hit for me on my machine

Hey! Listen!

Press 🅰️ To Open This Door

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What’s not to like?

@TheJamesHollan that was my guess too

I understand the need for affiliate links and SEO, but it is quaint to imagine a Switch owning Kirby fan who is puzzled at where to find a AAA tentpole first party Nintendo pre-order

@nhSnork “Link is a Hylian though” he said, embarrassed being that commenter ruining a good joke

Maybe the physics are different in a world where you can float 250 meters by holding on to the feet of a chicken

@citizen_zane I want it but not $25 bad, I wonder if that’s why it’s more common

@thugpipe same! I was like “this is rare?”

@HeeHo lol why do you always have coins in your pocket

@Frobodobo well 8% is still not bad haha - start throwing your weight around at corporate and call yourself “mini-boss”

@Maplemiles lol roms are good though if people literally can’t buy the games

@Frobodobo just a heads up - you can only buy listed shares on the stock market - people in the C suite and investors don’t just lose their stock unwillingly if you but 50.1% of available stock - you’d probably end up owning something like 8% of a company

@sanderev hey Microsoft’s history of bullying is incredibly documented and easily searchable

SELL. ME. THE. CONTROLLER. c’mon Ninty !

@KateGray that’s what I assumed at first - like putting together a nice yard or something banal and I was like “Zelda inspired? What?” So thanks for putting those missing pieces together haha

@KateGray ohhhh like CARD decks lol - that makes sense, thank you!

@kategray what’s deckbuilding? Haven’t heard of this genre

@Amsterdamsters what’s urine therapy I feel like this is a funny joke i’m missing and i have FOMO

I assumed cyberpunk would be number one that’s nuts.

Or the expansion pack from everybody dunking on it.

@KateGray I’m so used to your excellent double meaning titles it took me a minute to realize that “record breaking” didn’t have another layer haha

@ModdedInkling don’t forget Sony also sold PS2’s for years marked down to $50 at wal marts and blockbusters next to huge amounts of discount games so tons of people picked one up because hey, why not?

@CactusMan allegedly that was Miyamoto’s idea for a Link To The Past with a future world instead of the dark world but they couldn’t pull it off

@Damo hahaha fair enough! Also, not slamming your piece, I know you probably have a big kanban of article cards to grab and you did a commendable job

My main editorial complaint is pretending that Zelda and CP77 are two of the “most talked about” games like uhhhhhhhh CP is a single game that is just over a year old and a huge dumpster fire VS. one of the most critically acclaimed series in the history of the medium?

Okayyyyy!

The lack of footprint for Super Mario Odyssey is so weird to me - that game was brilliant and we all kind of moved on

If we have learned anything in the past 2 years, it’s that analysts predicting Nintendo updates are never, ever wrong

@clyderadcliff your cup of coffee comparison has made it mainstream

@kal_el_07241 lmao what

@Mando44646 gamestop BDS - who’s with us?

@MatoFilipovic sure! There are a couple different things:

1. Development is zero sum - all time they spend on this is something they cannot put development hours towards something that DOES interest us

2. The end goal of Non-Fungible Tokens is unbreakable and irreversible DRM

3. The consequences of the electronic transactions are devastating from an energy perspective. Here’s a fun description of it:

imagine if you went up to the mona lisa and you were like “i’d like to own this” and someone nearby went “give me 65 million dollars and i’ll burn down an unspecified amount of the amazon rainforest in order to give you this receipt of purchase” so you paid them and they went “here’s your receipt, thank you for your purchase” and went to an unmarked supply closet in the back of the museum and posted a handmade label inside it behind the brooms that said “mona lisa currently owned by jacobgalapagos” so if anyone wants to know who owns it they’d have to find this specific closet in this specific hallway and look behind the correct brooms. and you went “can i take the mona lisa home now?” and they went “oh god no are you stupid? you only bought the receipt that says you own it, you didn’t actually buy the mona lisa itself, you can’t take the real mona lisa you idiot. you CAN take this though.” and gave you the replica print in a cardboard tube that’s sold in the gift shop. also the person selling you the receipt of purchase has at no point in time ever owned the mona lisa.

@noobish_hat I think sneaking in the “and complying with Japanese regulations” is the REAL reason

@Octane_st1m oh cool glad to hear that! I don’t really like to evangelize games because everyone likes different stuff, but this one knocks my socks off

@Faucet everybody that made Goldeneye, Banjo and Perfect Dark was burned out and leaving - sucks that they lost the IP but the studio itself was about to implode on the personnel side

@rdm22 kinda yeah but it’s broken apart into multiple “worlds” (levels)

@Dirty0814 judging from most comments it was a huge PR win

@Morph thanks! After the first 15 “wow i love this amazing company” i blanked and didn’t make it to 22

@icomma there is some conscientious consumption on capitalism, people try and act like it’s a free for all

Uhhhh - does anyone else think maybe they realized it would be more profitable to sell retail, secured outside funding, then refunded the Kickstarter as advised by legal and doesn’t actually care about the backers?

Or am I overly cynical?

@lumothesinner they used to be bundled on physical for $60 then they stopped printing it

@Gwynbleidd ohhh ok gotcha - I thought you were talking about “press X to eat pancakes” and “which presidential policy is good”

That “go to map objective” is president common for open world third person, GTA, Fable, Asassin’s Creed, Witcher - not all games are cool and trusting like Fallout and Elder Scrolls

EDIT: Lol whoops meant PRETTY COMMON idk what my phone did there

@Jammmmmmeesss1996 i actually know a couple people that are Switch main gamers that picked up Dusk on my recommendation and said the 60 fps gave them motion headaches - didn’t happen to me but it is telling

@OorWullie i picked THPS but it hurt because I love Dusk so much

@Octane_st1m I have exactly 101 switch games and this is one of three that I’ve 100%’d - I love it

@SeantheDon29 i 100%’d SRIV on Switch and it never crashed - that sucks that happened to you - sometimes I think my Switch is magical though I also never had issues with The Outer Worlds or Mortal Kombat 11 that I’ve heard about

@Gwynbleidd you clearly haven’t played past the first 20 minutes - the whole intro is a joke making fun of those kind of games then a massive open world is available

@BenAV ridiculous yoooo this is like one if my all time faves

@popey1980 all multiplayer - no voice chat tho

@mr_somewhere the game itself goes on sale a lot if you wish list it - they rely more on the DLC for profits so they just want to get people in the door