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@Heavyarms55 because of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It can be done.

Also, I think the first Sonic movie mixed the best of both worlds. Carrey is perfectly zany and evil in live action, and Sonics cartoon look worked so much better than that realistic atrocity

Holy cow this article is burying the lead here. This email openly admitted to Free to Play games not needing Xbox live gold 8 months in advance.

With that sort of foreshadowing, it makes xCloud for the Switch almost inevitable. I think the next Switch will be good, but not powerful enough to keep up. With xCloud, Nintendo won’t have to worry about missing out on the AAA releases anymore. All 3 systems will be almost unified. Crazy

Is it confirmed Jim Carey is returning for the sequel? I thought he had a thing against sequels.

Besides that, this looks great

@Snatcher perhaps the lack of DLC in 6 years is a sign that Mario Kart 9 is head and shoulders deep into development

The real question is if Just Dance 2022 will be coming to the immortal Wii

I think this says more about Nintendo’s cel shaded design- its absolutely timeless. Breath of the Wild, with just a little homebrew emulation, can easily be updated visually for many generations to come.

Jack Black as Claptrap?

I love me some Jack Black but this casting is one Dwayne Johnson away from being Jumanji 4

I mean is there zero chance this is true? Sounds like a very specific and intentional blunder.

Plus it always struck me odd that Microsoft and Nintendo would go through the trouble of recreating Banjo and Kazooie from the ground up just for Smash. Why not release their games on Nintendo platforms as well? Seems like a lot of work just to let the characters die again

Miyamato just can’t keep it in his pants.

And when I say it, I mean his drawing pen

The Switch Lite alone doubled all other non Switch console sales combined

That's incredible. Sony may not be into making mobile consoles anymore, but you have to wonder if the Switch's runaway dominance is gonna make them look back and wince at how easily they gave up on the PSP line

This game can’t be for the current Switch, or even the Switch Pro. There’s no way. The skills of these developers goes far beyond what the Switch can handle.

This is for sure the killer app for whatever Nintendo console comes out next. And I’m totally hyped for it

@nocdaes I totally agree. This wasn’t a “turn your phone sideways and squint” sort of easter egg slip up. This was blatant as it could be.

Its sad and really is something that can ruin a great relationship. Just imagine if Nintendo let Mario crossover into an Xbox game, and he kept a pronounced banana in his pocket. Spencer is gonna make heads roll

I agree with the article. If Nintendo wanted to release an upgraded refresh, waiting until March- 4 years after the Switch release- is a good idea. I’d jump on it in a heartbeat

Well, it makes Nintendo’s prerogative more clear than ever: they don’t want you keeping their games, no matter how much you pay.

Nintendo will never do something that allows you to play all your previous purchases on the newest device, like Xbox. They’ll never have an all-you-can-play service like Game Pass. Purchases will always be tied to the platform, and never roll into the next generation.

Its backwards, sad, and eventually will bite them in the ass when their competitors offer much better services

That is absolutely fascinating. And with the Xbox Series S not being overkill, the gap between the Switch lineup and next gen consoles may not be as wide as we thought. And really smart on Nintendo’s part holding out until all PS5 and Xbox news was revealed

Sony looks to be the odd one out, not offering a cheaper, budget friendly 4k option

@carlos82 MK8 Deluxe had a 22 million unit head start. The fact that Animal Crossing has closed the gap to 4 million is stunning alone. Add in it did that in 5 months AND without having sales from a single holiday season (MK8 has had 3 holiday seasons on the shelf), it really isn’t gonna be close. Animal Crossing’s sales have been monstrous

I’d expect AC to overtake Mario Kart before the year is over

I think there’s another reason it was delayed- Animal Crossing. There’s no way Nintendo could’ve anticipated AC’s level of success. When its all said and done, it’ll be the bestselling game on Switch, and second place won’t even be close

The sales, the mania, the Doom crossovers, it all was hilarious and staggering at the same time. Nintendo saw it all unfold, got behind it, and tucked Mario away for later. Covid or not, Animal Crossing became so big, Mario had to take a backseat on his own anniversary

It’s been almost 4 years since the original BotW came out. It’s not out of the realm of possibility at all Nintendo drops #2 this holiday. With no Halo Infinite this fall, it’d be the biggest holiday release by a mile

He’s only 50? So he was tasked to make the first Super Smash Brothers when he was 27? Wow, that’s amazing

Man, The Last of Us 2 dropped like a stone. After 3 weeks its not even in the top 10.

@MrGawain thats a good point. There is a large influx of Mario merchandise for no other apparent reason. I guess the deals Nintendo made with manufacturers couldn’t be delayed like the games and theme park

If this account was made in March, that isn’t really proof of an imminent announcement imo. In fact, whatever announcement would’ve been made by this account probably should’ve happened already, but was postponed because of Covid-19, judging by the accounts creation in March- which is when everything really went down.

I’d wager Nintendo is not only waiting for Xbox’s press conference on the 23rd, but also waiting for Sony’s response to Xbox. I’d expect a Direct between August 1st-8th. A Mario anniversary can be overshadowed by immenent console announcements, but when Mario gets the last word, its hard to stop the hype train

Well wouldn’t THAT be an unexpected Smash character...

Has there ever been a larger drop in sales than TLOU 2? 90% drop from week to week. Wow

That’s a damn shame they choose to hike the price on this edition. People will buy it because a legend passed away, which will allow 2k to permanently justify the price.

Love Kobe, but I hope people boycott this and it flops

An exclusive MH on Switch would be well worth Capcoms time. As of now 15.5 million copies of MHW has sold for PS4 and Xbox combined. I’m sure an exclusive Switch release could hit 10 million when its all said and done

I agree with the comments about the current CEO. From outside looking in, he hasn’t done much. It was Iwata that fostered the development of the NX and Kimishima who sold the idea to the public.

With online play in shambles, mobile games underperforming, and next gen consoles looming, Furukawa is riding on the shoulders of his predecessors and still has a lot to prove.

Captain Falcon and Min Min as friendly adversaries works so well, and I don’t know why

@imgrowinglegs First week sales also include preorders, and Sony threw in digital downloads into that number too.

This was Sony’s best first party release in Japan, but it ranks lower than 14 first party Nintendo Switch releases.

I have a feeling next few weeks numbers for TLOU 2 will reflect more accurately the interest in it.

I’ve noticed Sony hasn’t been very bullish about TLOU 2 sales. Usually by now, they’d have come out and announced some amazing sales number, like with God of War and Spiderman

But all that’s been said is that it’s been the fastest selling PS4 exclusive.... in the UK. Not the fastest selling PS4 game, and not even the fastest selling PS4 exclusive worldwide- just in the UK. And no mention of total sales after a full week.

Now looking at this weeks Japanese charts, 178k copies at launch for such a huge release is not a lot at all. Maybe this game wasn’t the blockbuster Sony though it’d be

Brought back Captain Falcon VO just for a few grunts in a DLC reveal for a character not even from his game? SURE...

On another note, seeing such different characters cameo in a video eating ramen is the most heartwarming thing ever.

I mean... they could just tell us already. At this point I don't understand the secrecy around it. So many characters that seemed like long shots are already in.

Really, the secrecy is only necessary if the characters are so stupidly far fetched that it warrants its own announcement. Like Master Chief, Kratos, Goku, Spyro, Ratchet and Clank, and Crash Bandicoot or something. Outside of that and a few others, just let us know already

OK, but are we really going to see any of its benefits on the current Switch configuration? It uses a chip from 2015. That may be expecting too much

HOWEVER, this engines release would coincide perfectly with a switch revision and the release of Metroid Prime 4 and BotW 2. Seeing the benefits of this engine in Zelda dungeons would be REALLY cool

The thing is, fighting games are a shrinking niche. Their hayday peaked in the arcade era, and when that era died, so did widespread adoption of Street Fighter.

And no, I don’t consider Smash a fighting game. Its a party game. Thats just how it is

Remember at the beginning of the Switch’s life cycle, people complained there were no games?

When its all said and done and we look back, this will probably go down as the best Nintendo platform for games ever

@gortsi no one would’ve thought Animal Crossing had a shot at being the #1 selling game on the Switch was my point...

New Leaf took 7 YEARS to get those numbers, with multiple discounts, AND is still on shelves today. NH took 12 days to top it, full price, and is gunning for Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey for the crown. That’s insane

Nintendo themselves probably didn’t see this coming.

Let’s face it- Animal Crossing was a C-tier franchise to Nintendo, right next to Pikmin. Solid gameplay for a niche crowd and it’d probably sell decent.

No one in their right mind would’ve guessed it’d outsell heavyweights like Splatoon 2 and Luigi’s Mansion, and be in the same league as almighty Mario and Zelda. Animal Crossing isn’t even featured in Mario Kart! This is just madness.

EDIT: I need to start choosing more racers in Mario Kart...

I still play ranked and Salmon Run regularly. There really isn’t another game like it, especially if you have a few friends with copies themselves. Incredibly fun

Something else to consider- all this would’ve coincided very well with the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Nintendo was probably planning for Mario to rule the world this summer.

@Octane that’s what I was about to say. There should be a difference between designating a development team and creating/pulling assets and actually spending development money from “hey we just finished New Leaf, we should totally create a sequel around another idea”

@Wootus I never questioned the integrity of grocery store staff. Not once. You’re proving my point though- its hell in there. Nonstop lines with frustrated people in highly populated, risky conditions.

It really puts sitting behind a counter in an empty Gamestop into perspective. They’re probably earning just about the same being in FAR less risky conditions, and still making money, unlike millions of people. I just don’t understand their negative perspective.

@TeslaChippie things are a bit different in America. I do agree, a company the size of Gamestop should be able to have paid time off for these sorts of things. But many businesses, especially small businesses, can’t afford it.

I can’t imagine a better, more unpopulated, empty place to work right now than Gamestop

@SwitchForce I was about to say the same thing. Yeah, you can be ticked off at GameStop for staying open, but the employees really should check the silver lining

I live in Washington state in America, everyone calls it ground zero because it’s so bad. Nearly everything is shut down. People are out of work making no money, and the people who do have to go to work are busting their behind in grocery stores and hospitals. Meanwhile GameStop employees get to sit in a gaming boutique with even less traffic than usual and collect a check.

Them staying open is a bad idea by management. But the employees at least have a choice- knuckle up and be able to pay rent, or be like the rest of us in quarantine

On a side note, what a beautiful holiday. Payback for Valentine’s Day? Yes please

My country would just get bent out of shape by the name

I’ll expand on Miyamoto’s line of thinking

Before the last generation, most video games were FAR more linear. Everyone who played a game was more or less going to experience the same thing. However, you could very well experience close to the same thing by just watching someone else play, and save the money. All the while, the player gets paid for just popping in a game while Nintendo, who invested hundreds of millions to make the experience possible, gets nothing AND loses a sale. I disagreed with their old policy, but I understood.

However, games have evolved in the past 3 years. Worlds are vast and open now. Any one mission can be played or completed a thousand different ways. When the experiences are infinite instead of linear and limited, its hard not to encourage someone to share it. Miyamoto probably saw this with Breath of the Wild. That game will be played for the next 30 years, and new things will be found all along the way. If we couldn’t share it, would the game ever really be completed? That’s the magic I think Miyamoto has opened up to

@Crono1973 I think it’d confuse the consumer. Being mini was a fine excuse for it not taking original cartridges. It was a novelty, not a serious effort. Plus its located literally in the same aisle as the new consoles. There would’ve been no way around the optics- it would seem Nintendo had rereleased an entire console in the wake of the Wii U failure. It literally could’ve been the broom that swept Nintendo away into irrelevance in the console space.

That ain’t a lot of cash at all. How many people didn’t drop $60 on the newest Pokémon game because of this pay wall?

To put in perspective- they could’ve made that money by selling 30,000 more copies, which is less than what was sold in Japan... last week. And I’d say more than 30,000 people worldwide passed on this game because of the ongoing nickle and dime business practices.

Kinda feel like Nintendo played themselves here

He's right, they aren't. Xbox and Playstation are sub-brands of larger behemoths, and they dabble in pretty close to niche gaming territory- stationary, under the TV consoles. They've known for a long time competing with them would be like fighting bodybuilders for grains of rice at a buffet

Nintendo's true competitors are Apple and Google. Both are raking in cash, taking 30% of all in-app purchases, and doing absolutely nothing to get it. As their mobile prowess stacks up and their IP spreads beyond games, I think one of two things will happen in the next decade- Nintendo releases and licenses they're own mobile OS to manufacturers to take on iOS and Android, or they grow too big for comfort and face a hostile takeover by Apple, Google, or Microsoft

Jim Carey at least seems funny again. Still think Bryan Cranston would’ve made for a better Dr. Eggman

Yeah gonna hold off until its confirmed none of them are Fire Emblem characters.