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Surprised anyone would look like something like that of a clearly well known and famous character and just bin it. I imagine it would fetch a good price on ebay.

The e-slop issue is a major problem on the e-shop especially. Seems like it has been flooded with low quality mobile/AI games for many years now. Willing to bet about 95% of the Switch 1 library is just heaps and loads of slop not fit for human consumption.

The way I always felt about roms and emulation is it's fine when it comes to old games from old platforms that haven't been sold for over a decade. I think it's another thing entirely when it's current gen games and platforms that are currently being sold.

@LEGEND_MARIOID Today's gaming sites and forums seem to be obsessed with trying to create controversy where there shouldn't be any and eliminating controversy where there should be some.

Only way to save it would be to sell it to someone else. It's doomed with Microsoft, no way they are going to bring it back after cancelling a sequel they probably spent many millions developing.

He made a mistake by getting involved with Microsoft in the first place. Microsoft is basically EA these days, they seem to shut down every studio they get involved with.

This is the problem with the app approach to retro gaming by the time it reaches this generation. It's easy to just put a bunch of roms in an app when all it's got is SNES, Game Boy, or N64 games as they don't take up much space. However by the time it gets to the Gamecube generation games got massively larger in size and such an approach quickly stops making sense.

They're charging $40 for amiibos now?! Seems like a total ripoff, especially since their usefulness just isn't there compared to how it was back in the 3DS and Wii U era. I thought they were fine to collect at $13 each but at $40 it seems like a waste of money.

@TheExile285 Yup same. Amazon just doesn't seem to be a good place to buy serious electronics hardware. Their delivery of such items can leave a lot to be desired, they rarely seem to have Nintendo stuff available, and too often there will be sketchy 3'rd party sellers selling stuff. With Best Buy I know I'm buying it from them and I can just drive out to my local store about 10 minutes away and pick up whatever they have in stock. They were great for the Switch 2 launch as well, opened the store at midnight for people to collect their orders and it went real quick and smoothly.

@RupeeClock Yeah I can totally understand why some people would do this and I also find it funny how quick video games journalism can be to point out "review bombing" while completely ignoring the complete opposite where a bunch of shills and bots flood the user reviews with 10's which seems to happen quite often when it comes to big AAA releases.

Honestly all the score manipulation and the way everyone seems to leave either 10's or 0's has made me very dismissive of metacritic scores. Doesn't help how the average, niche, and small market games can often wind up with no reviews at all over there. Personally I just watch some videos on youtube and don't concern myself with number scores.

People still use Metacritic?!

Reminds me of why I wanted to do a store pickup. I just don't trust deliveries when it comes to a console launch, too many shady people in these delivery companies these days.

@JJtheTexan True lol, it's definitely the griefer weapon.

@Coalescence Yeah I could never really understand how some people managed to chuck their wiimotes at a TV, always seemed really easy for me to just grip the controller and hold it as I moved it around. I always assumed they must have been really drunk or something.

Have they thought about not sticking their fingers between the gaps? This is like sticking your hand on a door frame and complaining when it crushes your fingers as you close the door while leaving it there.

Sounds like some people are really going out of their way to try to make an issue out of it. Seems fine to me.

I honestly forgot this game was a thing.

So this is like dollar store Animal Crossing?

This arcade version plays totally different from the PS version. This was designed around being played with a racing wheel so it's got some proper analog steering that is far more effective and it's doesn't have the same drift mechanics. A fun way to play one of the original 3D racing titles.

@JibberX Actually left foot braking is an advanced driving technique common in motorsport, so you are supposed to be able to use brakes and gas at the same time.

Nintendo really blew it at having a good opportunity for real racing games when they decided to not have analog triggers again. There is no way a serious racing simulator can work without them. Nintendo needs to realize it's not the 1990's anymore.

Way to completely eliminate a popular genre Nintendo by making a boneheaded hardware decision.

What, you're telling me "hawk-tuah" is not one of Vader's signature lines?

I have long been wanting the ACA games to be more focused on the 90's. Glad to see that seems to be happening.

@DominionGamma Part of the fun was always trying to get the highest score you could in 2 minutes, or trying to get some goals accomplished in that time. There was always a free skate option as well but it never really counted towards any high score or anything.

Please, the alternative control methods are a gimmick that have run its course.

@TwinFami Yeah same I just don't trust the delivery system when it comes to a big launch like this, would rather just drive out to the store and pick it up. Hope it works out for us lol.

@TwinFami I am just glad I got a pre-order in with Best Buy. I did that initially as a backup but it looks like it will be my only opportunity to buy one.

Yeah, I have no idea what Nintendo's deal is but they haven't sent me anything.

It's like they're going out of their way to make me not want to buy this lol

Nice, he seems to have finally gotten his life together and getting back out there. Seems like perfect timing for him to be back on THPS.

@Scollurio Yeah I feel like fighting games is one of the worst examples anyone could go off. First off the joycons have always been AWFUL for 2D fighters, the 4 directional buttons just don't work well at all as a d-pad replacement for complex inputs. Then there's the fact that most modern fighting games don't even use more than 4 buttons anymore, and the ones that do are games like Street Fighter where you won't be competitive online without an arcade stick or dedicated fighting game controller that has 6 face buttons and a proper d-pad.

Any way you put it, no demands for fighting games will be restricted by having analog triggers. Even triggers can be turned into digital buttons with alternative controllers like arcade sticks. Meanwhile by not having analog triggers, anything that uses them or was originally designed with having them will simply never be properly compatible. It's like analog can always be turned into digital, but you can't make buttons analog that were originally intended to be digital, the way the console reads the inputs simply won't allow for that. It also seems foolish to discard analog triggers by claiming only racing games use them, there is no shortage of games across a wide variety of genres that seem to make good use of them now a days, especially since Sony introduced the dualsense triggers. Not having anything to compete with that does feel like an obvious major loss when it comes to PS5 vs Switch 2 comparisons.

Why bother with having physical cards if I will need to download the games digitally off them anyways? This reminds me of why I stopped buying game discs, they became little more than piece of plastic you have to put in a disc drive for DRM purposes. By the time I am being forced to download all the game data I am sticking to digital sales.

*checks calendar
No, April fools was definitely about a month ago.

@Scollurio Yeah I just really don't get why they don't think we can use analog triggers on a handheld. Seems to work great on my Steam Deck.

It just seems like such a needlessly stubborn decision on their end. It's like they just have to be the only company out there opposed to analog triggers for some reason, while the rest of the world has moved on, embraced them, and even enhanced them with feedback to make gaming more immersive, Nintendo is out here shouting a loud NO, saying keep it 4 simple old fashioned shoulder buttons instead. I don't think anyone else could get away with that.

@8bit-Man Yeah Nintendo's continued opposition to analog triggers is very confusing by this point, especially with their apparent focus on trying to make Gamecube a big part of the Switch 2 experience.

As for this controller, I just don't see the need for it over an the original controller, it just looks like an improved version of that.

Honestly nothing. I am going to see if I actually get one first, then I will probably only get a case for it and a screen protector and eventually an SD card. The way the Switch 2 is coming from the factory I should have enough storage to last me the early launch era and I doubt I will even dock it.

This is why I went ahead and placed a pre-order at Best Buy. I figure maybe if I can get an offer later from Nintendo I might buy one for my nephew or something.

Yeah got the Switch 2 with Mario Kart bundle from Best Buy, I was just on the site checking it out at the right time last night. I would prefer to do a store pickup and I like their stores a lot better than Gamestop. Hard to trust most deliveries with a console launch like this, handhelds are too easily stolen and everyone knows what's delivering that date.

Wow that's a lot of junk for more than what Nintendo's asking for a Switch 2 and Mario Kart World

@Ryu_Niiyama We're talking about a handheld. Bring up alternative controllers, racing wheels, flight sticks, and arcade sticks seems to miss the entire point of how people use handhelds and ignore the entire convenience factor for using them. Analog triggers have long been an industry standard and it's a lot more convenient for a handheld to simply have them. If you're going to use stuff like racing wheels and flight sticks why even have a console handheld in the first place? Why not just focus entirely on home consoles or a gaming PC?

@8bit-Man The portability argument is the main thing working against the Switch 2 right now IMO. The fact that they battery life took such a big hit is a major blow to the main reason I still liked using my Switch 1 over a Steam Deck as a go anywhere travel console. Now it's like I might as well just take a Steam Deck.

I thought this would be a performance comparison not just holding some handhelds up to a Switch 2

This is probably the #1 reason why I don't care about the Switch 2 anymore. They desperately needed to add analog triggers, it's simply an industry standard and most games today are made knowing they're there. If they want their console to be taken seriously as something that's just as capable of playing all the ports and AAA games as Playstation/Xbox it's needed, especially when it comes to certain genres of games that a lot of people happen to be fans of. Otherwise it's like I might as well just stick with my Steam Deck.

Heck Playstation has the best approach for people who like better response with their adaptive triggers, they can be as clicky as you like and it really adds to the immersion. Simply put the industry has evolved to where it's no longer acceptable to be missing them.

Wow the shilling is real this is a weak launch lineup and everyone knows it.

@Yoshi3 Yeah I really don't need the Switch 2 especially early.

@wiiware Switch 1 was the right product at the right time with all the right ideas. Switch 2 is feeling like the opposite.

@Daniel36 I think the backlogs are why it will be easy for people to stop buying new games. The market is setting it's self for a crash.

Sounds like they're really trying to sell us on inferior display technology. OLED was really hyped up as such a significant improvement only to now suddenly get dismissed.

I'd say a comparison between an LCD Steam Deck vs OLED model would be a good indicator, as the LCD model had a great LCD screen but the OLED is still a notable improvement.

Claims like this are kinda pointless, 10x the performance yet you'd hardly notice it sometimes.

So it's another gimmick? Well I am shocked!

Getting a lot of mixed messages from the Nintendo community over time. When the Switch OLED released it was highly praised as a big improvement with the benefits OLED provides over LCD being obvious. Now we're being told OLED isn't that big of a deal and we should be happy with LCD.