Impaler-D

Big Doom fan, but I wouldn't pay $50 for a Power A controller.

When will a company match or exceed the quality of Nintendo's Pro Controller, with all features included?
There's definitely a demand for "Elite" Joy-Cons, at the very least.
I picked up the Hori Split Pad Pro on sale and it's great but missing features too.
Why cut corners?

There's been tons of good monster-training games from competitors, going back to the days of Red and Blue.
They never reach the sales or popularity of Pokémon though, simply due to it's massive success in several mediums and it's brand recognition.
Most recently, Level-5 tried a major, similar world-wide push with Yo-Kai Watch and that didn't catch on in the West.
They tried pushing Yo-Kai Watch merch in every major toy department and now you can find them dirt cheap at clearance stores and dollar stores.
The Dragon Quest Monsters series probably sells pretty well in Japan too but they didn't even bother releasing the last game in the West. (still angry about that)
For that matter, we haven't heard any movement on localizing Yo-Kai Watch 4, a game that many claim is superior to Sword and Shield in most every way.

I would be happy with THEMES and perhaps a return of the Nintendo Badge Arcade from 3DS, at least.

Strangely, Nintendo has actually passed up a LOT of opportunities for profit with the Switch.

I have a suspicion that Sakurai/Nintendo closed out the first Fighter Pass with the obligatory Fire Emblem character in order to save the mind-blowing character for the first slot in Fighter Pass 2, to garner excitement for the pass, just like Joker in the previous pass.

The 3 characters I still WANT:
Crash Bandicoot (icon of an era)
Doomguy (the Doom series is the Super Mario Bros. of the FPS genre, too historically important to leave out of Smash)
Geno (personal favorite, requested for years, Sakurai wanted him in too)
I would be happy with any other characters for the other 3 slots but these are the ones I SPECIFICALLY still want in.

ANYONE could have guessed Byleth.
We ALL suspected Nintendo would sneak in a Three Houses character eventually, we just didn't expect it to be on the first Fighter Pass. (which were previously all 3rd party characters from historic/iconic game series that had yet to be represented in Smash)
Just like we're all pretty sure there's going to be a Sword/Shield Pokémon in Fighter Pass 2, but it would be surprising if they were the first character on the pass.
That being said, I certainly hope for Crash; he's arguably the most iconic mascot of a great era of gaming that so many gamers have fond memories of.
If only Vivendi/Activision had given him to great developers and kept up the quality of his games after Naughty Dog moved on, he would likely be nearly as popular as Mario today.

@Chriswolf90 You get the award for the dumbest thing I've read today.

Doom is the Super Mario Bros. of the FPS genre, so to speak.
One of the most historically important game series of all time.
Doomguy not only deserves to be in Smash, he NEEDS to be in Smash to properly celebrate gaming history.

I got this on PS4 through Kickstarter and I may actually double-dip and buy the Switch version when it's done being patched up, to play through with the DLC characters, as it's a good fit for portable play.
From what I've seen of the Switch version, it doesn't seem to run badly, it's just somewhat inferior to the other platforms, which is understandable.
Amazing game, regardless.

Maybe the high sales of Sword and Shield will motivate them to update the game with DLC, possibly a season pass, that adds more areas, Pokémon, post-game content, etc.
It would certainly be better than another full-priced "special edition".
Also, this year's Pokémon is probably going to be "Let's Go 2", if I had to bet, and they wouldn't want the games cannibalizing each other's sales.
Adding to the game with substantial DLC would also go a long way toward winning back the goodwill of fans who felt they were burned by this game.

@Heavyarms55 Cool story.
And what does that have to do with the production of high-end luxury entertainment products?

Furthermore, you may not believe Venezuela is Socialist but many of your own Marxist figureheads like Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn certainly did, as well as a number of popular Marxist commentators and pundits who praised Chavez and his successor.
(Not to mention, Cuba essentially having been a satellite nation of the Soviet Union, or do you not consider them to have been "true" Socialism/Communism either?)
And I'm not even saying all of Venezuela's issues are primarily due to Socialism, but the "It wasn't real Communism/Socialism" argument is cringe, it's literally a meme, and a "No true Scotsman fallacy", to put it in the parlance of earlier in this waning decade, and that certainly doesn't help your argument.
Conversely, there's many who don't consider Norway to be a "true" Socialist nation, due to it's more populist economic leanings. (Also, the kind of government utilized by Norway is far more likely to succeed in a more culturally/ethnically homogeneous society and certainly wouldn't work in America, for example, but that's a different discussion)
Yes, a more balanced "mixed" system is preferable, as unfettered Capitalism places nearly all wealth into the hands of a few and the unrestrained opposite also places nearly all wealth into the hands of a few by different means; this is why I'm a Nationalist first and foremost, advocating for systems that explicitly place the well-being of a nation's PEOPLE above all else, rather than Marxism, which will always be easily subverted, leading to a system adverse to the well-being of it's own people.
But again, you're moving the goal post, as I said, an economic system would still need a populist component to produce such high-end luxuries as big-budget video games like this.
The mixed system you're advocating for would have little or absolutely NO effect on this situation, of this game.
Or were you just using this article as a vague excuse to speak out against "profit" and unrestrained Capitalism in general, off topic?

@Heavyarms55 It sounds like you're the one who needs a "better understanding of how things really are".
No matter the political system, the only successful economic system that would produce these kinds of luxuries would still have to be populist in nature.
People would not be motivated to produce a large-scale commercial entertainment product such as video games without profit as a central factor.
Now, there's certainly arguments to be made when it comes to a degree of government control over essential industries, utilities, regulations, protectionism, etc. but that would really have little to no effect on the current means and motivations for producing high-budget luxury entertainment products.
Oh and nice "bUt iT wAsn'T REaL sOciALisM!" argument.
I'm not even necessarily against forms of government control over industry, etc. but I feel like I just timewarped back to 2013 with that level of cringe, the "I pity you" comment especially brought to mind the classic image of a very obese acne-ridden man with an anime avatar staining the brim of his fedora with Doritos dust over black-rimmed glasses.
I'm going to miss this decade.

@SKTTR The article mentions Xenosaga remasters, not Xenogears.
The Xenosaga series is a spiritual successor to Xenogears, just like the Xenoblade series is a spiritual successor to Xenosaga.
They only share very loose connections to each other, as a sort of "meta-series" from the developers.

@Trajan Yes, it SHOULD be an exclusive if Nintendo pays for the development; similar to Bayonetta 2, another game that wouldn't exist without Nintendo's funding.
Not to mention, the "Xeno" meta-series, with the recent popular entries, and it's developers are pretty synonymous with Nintendo at this point.
And button inputs would be tailored to the Switch, obviously.
What kind of argument is that?

Nintendo should fund the remasters as a Switch exclusive, alongside the other Xeno games.
If Xenoblade Chronicles can get a remaster/remake, then the Xenosaga trilogy (there's 3 main games, not 6) can certainly get a remaster.

@Kineas Not happening, aside from indie games, less-demanding retro-style games and maybe some cross-gen games.
Why on Earth would you think next-gen AAA games will be optimized for a console that was created with optimizing current-gen titles in mind? Lmao
The Switch will still have plenty of 3rd-party games built from the ground-up for the console, that take advantage of the very developer-friendly hardware to great effect, regardless.

@Gwynbleidd After the enormous success of The Witcher 3, it really is a mystery why the first two games haven't been re-released in a collection...

@Kineas Actually, Nintendo and Nvidia VERY MUCH designed the Switch WITH 3rd-parties in mind.
Triple-A multiplatform games only need optimization/downgrading because they initially target far more powerful hardware.
The fact that graphic-intensive games like Doom and The Witcher 3 can run competently with some optimization on a HANDHELD console that's LESS THAN HALF as powerful as the hardware these games were initially developed for, should tell you just how friendly the Switch is for 3rd-party development.