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About damn time!

Also, releasing on "The Steam"? Thats like me wondering what the hell a TikTok was until my partner explained it to me.

@Samalik The game does have action sensitive inputs, but lets assume for the sake of argument it was a 6 frame window on Gamecube, and it stays a 6 frame window on Switch.

That means your window increases on Switch, from 1/10th to 2/10th of a second.

If they want to keep the timing the same, then it'll go from 6 frames to 3 frames, still 1/10th of a second.

Point is, unless they do something real screwy with the timing, and that seems to be what this whole damn debate is based around, it'll be fine.

Honestly, I'm glad I have Paper Mario muted on social media, after Origami king and now this those Whackos are like Whacka.

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I'm struggling to see how a 13 year old console sold 5m units in its final year of production after they stopped reporting numbers.

I don't think that's ever even been close to a thing. With consoles usually once you mention the successor 5-7 years in, sales collapse, look what happened to the PS4 at the end after all as the PS5 was talked about.

So I find this very very hard to believe. And the fact Sony themselves never bothered to update it is weird. I'd certainly be willing to show shareholders these alleged 5m units of almost pure profit I just made as the expensive PS4 launches.

@Yosher Being a tester anywhere isn't good. And that's a well documented fact at this point. Your job is purely to fill a spreadsheet at the end of the day that may or may not be ignored while replying parts of games over and over and over.

On another note, this reported seems familiar. Is this the one who talked about pirating Metroid Dread before release that got Kotaku blacklisted?

Isnt this the one with the talking gun or something?

@Desrever Thats what Im curious about. PEGI changed the rating for the game yet its only vanished from the eShop and nowhere else.

Hang on

Why does the age rating change only impact one platform. Is that a Nintendo policy thing if game resubmission or what?

Yeah lets shoot the kid dying of.....NIDS? Was that it?

I wonder if they'll skirt around it given how.....incredibly important it is as a plot point that Shadow watched her get mullered.

But even more importantly, does this mean we get to see Gerald Robotnik chained to a chair in a cell while a video camera records him being executed by firing squad?

@shgamer Remember this is to investors, and as a publicly traded business, there is one simple rule.

Your investors are thicker than a bowl of oatmeal mixed with cement, and never, ever say anything that they can take to the bank. They might be stupid, but they don't forget.

@Scoopz To be fair, Switch has never been their only business. But it has always been the main business for as long as it's been around.

In fact, if a successor launches late this year, then for the year overall it'll still have been the main business.

But Switch has always shared the overall business with mobile, 3DS, theme parks, entertainment ventures, amiibo, merch...

It's actually outdoing Pokémon in terms of players now. Well then.

What baffles me the most about situations like this is it means each move has its effects coded independently, rather than pulling from a list of effects. So moves like Thunder Wave and Stun Spore most likely are coded to inflict different instances of Paralysis rather than just call from one.

It makes a little more sense for Dragon Cheer being the first crit rate boosting move in years and having a unique side effect but still.

It reminds me of XY where one trainers single Pokémon in the whole game would play the wrong cry. Which means every trainer had their Pokémon individually coded to them.

Which is damn insane when you think about how ineffective that is.

I loved watching the video and watching Alex roll his eyes at the mentions and just sit in strained silence.

@Not_Soos @FlyingDunsparce @mereel

As usual, in game purchases is there for the same reason it is for Mario Kart, Splatoon and others.

Because there is an Online mode, if you don't have an NSO sub, it'll redirect you to the eShop from within the game to get the sub.

That's it. There's your controversy. It happened for Mario Wonder too.

I mean, he has a point.

Ocarina of Time comes out. Good.
Majora's Mask - We want it to be like Ocarina.
Wind Waker - Why isnt it like Ocarina.
Twilight Princess - Wind Waker was better
Skyward Sword - Why isnt it more like Twilight Princess

Every time the next Zelda comes out, it's treated unfavourably to the previous one, which then becomes loved and so on so forth.

Which Atari though?

@BANJO The fact its Superstars on Switch at 4K and the other physical releases are nowhere to be seen.....uhoh.

Fair play. They asked that Smash tournament to license for 2023/2024 and to NOT cancel their current cup, but the tournament threw a hissy fit and cancelled it anyway.

Then all the misconduct and illegal stuff came out about some top players, then the other drama happened, then Nintendo tried again with an officially licensed event and that fell through because low and behold it's all abusers baby.

This is them now saying sod it, we aren't letting you lot within 500 miles of our brand without a license that they seem quite happy to give should you be above board. And that's fine.

Ah yes, the incomplete, incoherent mess of XY.

Which also gave us the Mega Evolutions that addressed power creep by.... massively increasing power creep. At least Z-moves etc are usable by everyone.

But hey, at least they gave Megas to long forgotten Pokemon like Garchomp, Metagross, Salamence, Tyranitar, Lucario, Ampharos, Latios and Latias, Rayquaza, Charizard, Charizard again, Blastoise, Venusaur, Mewtwo, Mewtwo again....wait.

@rjejr Yeah I only get a handful of hours per day. Not good really

@burgerkingsauce You say that, but upgraded Switch talk and rumours started in 2017 when the damn thing came out.

Switch 3 rumours will begin before this thing is even revealed

Imagine rocking up to MiHoYo or Pokemon Company and demanding money for Genshin or Pokemon GO.

The fist would be firmly inserted.

@Vyacheslav333 Unreal Engine games either look like Yoshi, Fortnite, Octopath, Pikmin 4 or Hellblade.

Huh....thats quite a spectrum

@Matroska Not as true as you may think, as Nintendo has stated several times in their financials, digital Switch sales now account for over 50% of all software sales. Sure, they're probably inflated relative to the other systems, but not by as much as claimed.

But likewise, Nintendo doesnt share digital data with these sales charts companies, so when the overall monthly sales charts come out, Nintendo is actually massively underrepresented in the charts compared to the competition.

So we never actually get an accurate read on sales until Nintendo provides them with their usual transparency every quarter. Which is more than what the others do.

Really just leapt over Galar there huh. They added what, the mascots, Wooooo, some of the new evolutions and regionals, Wooooo, Falinks....and the two new titans? I think that's it.

@ancientlii I reckon offensively, it gives the user STAB on every type, replicating the boost that a Tera Type gives. So moves of your base and Tera Type get super strong, moves of your Tera Type that aren't your base type get STAB.

I think this'll be Omni-STAB from an offensive side, and just make Tera Blast a mini-nuke that's neutral.

Defensively though....I have no idea.

@RupeeClock 8.5 hours? EIGHT AND A HALF?

Goodness, I'm lucky to get 3-4 hours of sleep a night.

Is that what we are meant to do as a species?

@Half-ShellHero Except they got Frostbite working with PVZ a few years ago.

I'm not sure what the hold up actually was, it could have been money they ended up using to pay FIFA for all we know, or not having much manpower on it due to expecting Switch sales to die off but it looks like FIFA on Switch has done consistently well enough and the console itself refuses to die so they may as well make the investment now for the next one so they don't look like fools twice in a row.

@Fizza Renegade Roundup on Cheese Land. Crikey.

@Chapapa It's a Battle Course in Double Dash I believe. Other games have also had systems as battle courses.

@canaryfarmer It was probably quite far down the list below things such as "Actual Sewer", "Top of a Gamecube", "Pinball Machine", "A Rainbow", "Childs Bedroom" and "Cheese. Just Cheese".

Cant wait to see a Legacy Edition of a title that has just been made. That'll be legendarily impressive. /s

Lets ask Eurogamer, and also about Pokemon Stars while we are at it.

If the Dualsense Edge has the price it does this won't be far off.

Also taking bets on battery life for this Dualsense (5-8 hours) with an 8inch screen and constant wifi.

It seems TOTK may lean just over 50% digital all things considered. Nintendo did say in three days it sold over 2.24m in Japan.

Time to play the card they've avoided this whole time - drop the price.

Every other system, Xbox and Playstation met the same goals the Switch has hit by having several permanent price cuts.

@nomither6 Does it though? You've got the Boost. Granted that has, on some objects, the same launching properties as the Sonic Adventure era Spin Dash.

But I suppose it would be the first 3D implementation of the move since 2006, and the game does have the first implementation of the Drop Dash in 3D so it is a little odd it was absent.

Be interesting to see if after Bloomberg's report the stock price went up. If so, then a publication once again promised something that didn't happen and impacted the stock market.

Of course the Switch is getting long in the tooth. It's six years old based on tech from 7 years ago. Naturally, you've seen what it can do by now.

Yet this wasn't being said about the PS4 or Xbone at the relative point either. 2019 didn't have "It's getting long in the tooth", despite games very clearly starting to struggle. And the tech in those was even older relative to the tech inside the Switch now.

The difference though? Switch is still selling exceptionally well for a system this late in its life without a price drop, and those other two systems went off a cliff the second their replacements were mentioned.

@MrHonest Why would they make it exclusive? Think about it.

Right now Microsoft gets 30% of any CoD related purchase on Xbox.

When they own it, they'd get 100% on Xbox, %70% from Playstation, Steam and Nintendo.

If you're gonna leave that kind of money on the table you're out of your damn mind.

@Vivianeat I feel this is because most Pokemon designers don't publicly speak or acknowledge what aspects they worked on.

@Minfinity The amiibo thing was stuff like Woolly World where every Nintendo and third party amiibo gave a skin....except Pokemon. Same with Mario Maker on Wii U, every costume has unique sounds attached....except Pokemon.

@Minfinity "The timeframe given aren't in their hands"?

Yes it is. Game Freak owns one third of the Pokemon Company. They make the games. They decide the scope.

Sure we don't know exactly how the Pokemon Company works beyond ownership percentages, after all this company didn't let Nintendo use the Smash Pokemon amiibo for anything Pokemon based as a bonus in other games when even third party developers were letting them do it, so clearly that shows some level of aggressive independence.

Plus, Ishihara famously said the Switch wouldn't work and seemingly wasn't keen on making games for it. Not something a company Nintendo has much of a say in would do.

@Snatcher Countless games on Switch use Unity/UE4/CryEngine.

Of all the things people have complained about with this game this is what they do first.

Can't be that bad of a game then.

@Doomcrow If only that was feasible.

@BulkSlash Sonic games historically sell best on Nintendo platforms. By large margins.

So this is just....lol.

@sixrings Sure. But is it a bad thing that they dont feel the need, in a slide to investors, state outright "Cheaper innit"?

I imagine right now, pushing this angle is to get more investors, because no duh it's cheaper, all these people care about is money, but if you can highlight it's environmental too, chances are you can pull some more investors in.

And let's be honest, everything in these slides is marketing, environmental or not. Look how well out games sell, invest in us please. Look at our subscribers, give us more money now.

Plus, I recall Nintendo had in previous years come under fire from various angles for not being transparent enough or doing enough with environmental responsibility. I can imagine this is now going to be a regular thing with the environment becoming more of an issue, and the history of groups going "Are you sustainable?"

@dew12333 It's both, not a binary issue. They aren't mutually exclusive.

Make the system more power efficient, cheaper for consumer to use, especially now.

Less packaging? Cheaper to make, less waste, can transport more units at once as each takes less space.

To be fair, it's not hard to position the Switch as the more economical console when the other two are raising game prices and console prices (mostly Sony because of ballooning budgets to be fair, but Xbox seems intent to follow), and they also drink electricity like a drunk goes through wine.

Who knew stepping away from the graphical arms race would mean you can make a profit on every console sold, giving you greater price flexibility if needed instead of selling for a loss and then raising prices so you don't sell for even more of a loss, and also meaning you don't have to spend as much on games meaning those orofits don't just go into the next sequel, but across the business to fund more variety and niche products to get a broader userbase buying the console that makes a profit.

Funny that