JetForceGemInEye

@SoraPlaysNintendo he's definitely the best, or biggest, at something...

@HammerGalladeBro mario sports game tunes: underrated XD

@Kingy Yeah, it was the golden age..

@Zaruboggan Yeah! The chemistry element for batting and fielding positions struck a perfect balance for a mario sports game. A layer of strategy that made a real impact without getting overly complex. I really liked diddy kong in the outfield, with DK at first and then dixie at short-stop.. But there were other fun mixes.. mario, luigi, peach and daisy made some killer combos..
When playing with friends, it was fun to pick and build our team. We would always alternate picks. Usually the first pick would take Waluigi, then the other would take Boo (we didn't use Kamek for whatever reason but yeah, now that i think about it, his changeup was nasty, how the ball would disappear half way to the plate before appearing again last second). From the pitchers, going one by one, your opponent's pick would influence how you would build out your team, and vice versa. How many power hitters do i pick.. what about speed on the bases.. gotta make sure there is chemistry between my shortstop and first baseman.. Who is that last player or two that will make an impact..
Anyway, I could ramble on, but superstar baseball was certainly my favourite sports game on the gamecube. It coming to NSO would go some way in baiting me to buy the switch 2!

littttttttttttttttttttt

Spot on assessment. There weren't no smoosh the pikmin into the ground alive. There was smoosh the pikmin to pikmin heaven.

This is amazing! Huge props to @saiotoko002 for this awesome creation. Tanks are like my favourite land vehicle ever and siege tanks from the Starcraft series are my favourite video game land vehicles too. So much pownage!

@heisnbrg Exactly!

@Gamer83 Wurd

I like the decision. What's next? Link? Mario?
I understand getting more visibility for Samus & the Metroid series. Everyone knows who Link and Mario are.
I think it's the association.
Looking at the sheer number of skins that have passed the threshold for skin-worthy in fortnite, I think Nintendo throwing in their IPs looks kind of bush league.
Hopefully they market Metroid Prime 4 hard. Being a cross-generation game should naturally help as non-initiated consumers wonder what the main system launch games are for this new-fangled switch 2.

@Diogmites ohhh okay, I see. And yeah, good point about licensing.. Seeing the number of GW games out there, not only 40K and fantasy, but games for the likes of blood bowl, necromunda, mordheim & battlefleet gothic.. Reminds me of my first time visiting a games workshop store around 1999 or 2000 when those games were actually sold and on display XD

I hope Relic continues to make Warhammer 40000 games, notably 'Space Marine' games or something like that.
I wonder if losing Sega as its parent company will impact their ability to get licensing from Games Workshop...

@Broosh Yeah, removal of vintage games. That's one of the key changes. I live in Ottawa, Canada and we have a store called Microplay, similar to Gamestop except that it sells vintage games ALONG with the high-margin swag/figures/cards/funko pops/game accessories that are surely the main revenue drivers for GS.
There are a lot of independent game stores that use this model so I'm glad that for the time being, I'll be able to go to these spots.

I read "plus a little logo teaser" and I immediately think of Metroid Prime 4.
Should be a Nintendo Direct any day now?
Could be a teaser for MP4 that features more than just a logo???

"ABBB-SOOOO-LUTELY" - Siege Tank

@CANOEberry @AlanaHagues Hear hear! Add to that rivers of the finest sirop d'erable du Quebec (maple syrup)..

Let's Goooo Bluuuue Jays!

@RupeeClock Been thinking about this day for a while. Good old Arlo (the muppet Metroid/Pikmin superfan we need) posted some months ago about what many fans had been concluding, that being it would launch on the Switch's successor. And yeah, as you say, hopefully it's a dual launch given it was teased so long ago. I'm guessing too for the successor system that the development platform will be very similar to that of switch. I'm hoping that the successor will be able to play switch titles beyond straight emulation, and that the architecture will allow frame rates and graphics to be boosted..
All that aside, I'm super hopeful we get the next gen console reveal coupled with a proper MP4 tease..

@Dogorilla uhm, Wilko Japan please XD

"Pikmin 5 - Date TBD

• DO NOT mention for the next 10 years"
  LOLOLOL
  "Metroid...............Prime..............Pinball - Sept 2025 <--There will be riots"
  LOLOLOL

hey, LET'S NOT FORGET, we're coming up on the 5 year anniversary of the infamous YT announcement:

"Development Update on Metroid Prime 4 for Nintendo Switch"

[Note: T'was a bittersweet day. But ultimately sweet as releasing an average, so-so MP4 would be heart breaking]

@Hwatt Interesting point regarding potential bonuses being paid out to developers based on profitability. I'm not familiar with how different studios/publishers structure bonuses for their developers.. Never even crossed my mind. I suppose I have this whimsical mental image of game studios being something akin to Rare in the 90s/early 2000s. A small studio were everyone knows everyone and they all go through the (sometimes brutal) crunch simply because they love to make games. When I hear 20000 employees at Ubisoft, I'm shocked. So yeah, with that, I can see how there are compensation structures at game companies that mimic those of a massive multi-national corporation in the non-gaming world..
And yeah, hopefully they broke even.. I don't imagine the development cost was massive, like in the 200M range, but it wouldn't be small either..

@Qwiff That's a really good point. Especially with a somewhat broken/weak eShop setup that favours games on the top sellers list and items on sale.

@ItsOKToBeOK Yeah, it's definitely possible.. As we read above, the CEO even stated that publicly which I think is pretty rare. Perhaps they contemplated it but with incredible switch sales, Nintendo opted to push the release of switch 2 (I think I can safely assume at this point that the next console will be the same hybrid model with backward compatibility given the massive switch install base and titles which continue to sell well.
If it was indeed pushed out then I don't think ubisoft wanted to wait around for that since development was done summer/fall 2022.
Maybe they'll do a meaty DLC that only runs on switch 2?

@Hwatt Oh right, that's a really good point.. Yeah, hopefully they broke even. The soundtrack (which is incredible) is on Spotify, YouTube music & apple music so they're probably pulling in a bit of money there. Nothing earth shattering I imagine but they've leveraged that profit opportunity more than most devs/publishers do. Hopefully they at least break even on what they paid Kirkhope, Coker and Shimomura!

Love these games. I would guess from this report that SoH is profitable so there's a good chance we see a third!

Sikkkkkk. I played the first one back when it launched and i remember being close to beating the game (or at least, "close" according to my 13 year-old estimate). Excited to beat the first and try the second!

256GB pwetty pweez! I just bought a top-tier 256GB micro SD card last month for like CAD$15. So if you have that chip right on the circuit board, and you take away the mark-up that computer shops charge for micro sd cards, you have something very important/valuable to the user that will be wayyyy down the BOM. It's so small that it really shouldn't be a nuisance to the hardware engineers working on the board to accommodate it

@JetForceGemInEye
whoops. I forgot you guys are currently unable to sell Canadian eshop cards
@nintendolife Do you anticipate ever being able to add this to your wares?

@Ventilator I am jelly. Would love to meet any and all of them.

Now, i must say that Robin Beanland liked a twitter comment I posted a few days back re his tweet about Jet Force Gemini coming to N64 Online in December.
#tier2flex

So much F-Zero-ness. The success of this game could be used as another measuring stick by Nintendo as they weigh whether or not to make a new F-Zero game. "as they weigh" being a bit optimistic perhaps, heehee

Thank you Nintendo! Thank you Rare/Microsoft!
The username I chose is a testament to my love for this game!

Not sure if Nintendo retained full rights to release it's library of Rare games.. but given the hype around Banjo in Super Smash, I'm guessing a deal had to be made for Nintendo to do that. Then there was the release of Banjo Kazooie & soon Goldeneye.. So Jet Force Gemini is probably no different.

Huge shout-out to the original devs at Rare & an extra huge shout-out to Robin Beanland, the lead composer for the INCREDIBLE sound track.

eShop card here I come..

@boatie Smart. Love the Simpsons ref.
"Homer, are you going to eat it?"

• looks down at sandwich for a second*
  "Yes"
  Collapses and starts crawling XD

@SpinEnDash I can relate but only for the N64. I sold my N64 and goldeneye to raise money to buy a gamecube (black) at launch. It would be cool to have that original 64 still. I've bought a couple used ones, one being the translucent 'Jungle Green' but it's fun to have the original. I dropped my gamecube and the laser mechanism broke, but it was right around the time the Wii came out so I was able to do that. Yeah, it's a little tedious.. As great as it is to be able to play GCN games on my Wii, and Wii games on the Wii U. I agree there's something about playing a game on the native console. Not just the convenience of no adapters & extra menu navigation.. but a certain.. nostalgia(?) to it?

I've kept that Wii and Wii U.

@The_Pixel_King
Good call. The OLED will have the best re-sale value, hands down.

"If" Switch 2 is backwards compatible???
I think at this point it's pretty obvious it will be. Just take a read of the title of Tuesday's article:
"Nintendo's 330M+ User Accounts Will Be Foundation Of 'Lasting Relationship With Consumers'"
The vast majority of those 330M are Switch accounts. It's not much of a "lasting relationship" if you deprive your customers of the reason they bought a switch in the first place: to play switch games!
I understand the angle of an "out there hypothetical theory" for a slow news day. I mean, know you guys know, or well, are "highly confident" it will be backward compatible.

But yesh, I'll lend it to friends/family. That way the nostalgia remains along with multiple people getting to enjoy it as most gamers inevitably put consoles down for a time in order to play sth on a different platform/another hobby/life

****SPOILER ALERT****

Mario Odyssey: Telling someone that Mario takes control of Bowser at the end of the main story
Mario Galaxy 2: Telling someone it's essentially the same game as Mario Galaxy (which is not a bad thing, mind you)

@HammerGalladeBro Haha, oh man, I don't even know! Just doing one region of the three would be incredible. I just remember Pikmin 2 having more items than Pikmin 1 & Pikmin 3.. Maybe my pikmin memory fails me.. Fails me like i fail my pikmin when I'm crossing a bridge (over water) and one pikmin of the group clips the edge and goes into the water without me noticing..

This is awesome!
Challenge #2: Pikmin 2 items
0_o

@boxyguy lolol. Perhaps that's the way the Pikmin see us? Not so different from them after all...

Who says video games don't provide values and structure??

@Wazeddie22 ohh, haha, right. I suppose that is a benefit of digital. I use a basic shell carrying case for my switch that has 8 little slots for carts. So whether I'm playing on the go or at home, the other games are right at my fingertips!

Punch Out! I feel like a proper hypocrite as I've only played a few minutes of Punch-Out!! for Wii. I haven't beaten the original either but i think paying the penance of trying to beat the Wii version would be a TAD bit easier than trying to beat terrible Mike Ty-- I mean, * cough cough * Mr. Dream in the NES version.. I've only reached Soda Popinski sooooo

@luckiernut The system works!

@Wazeddie22 If you have at least one friend/relative (of any degree of gaming taste, heehee) who owns/has access to a switch, then you would do them a disservice if it wasn't physical. You can still claim the gold points for a physical game once you've played it on your system!

@brandonbwii lolol. I've played and beat all 3 and then played the pikmin 4 demo obvs, but I've never tried, or tried to try, _____. There has got to be at least one or two redeeming qualities of (un)said game?

@badmotorfinger74 #truth

@Uncle_Franklin lol

1000000% getting it at some point. Played the first two back in the day when they first released. Pikmin 3 was one of my favourite Wii U games. Pikmin 4 looks to build on the story atmosphere, tone, humour & quirkiness of the previous 3 games. The graphics are spot on, nothing overly flashy, but true to the running art style. Plus Pikmin 4 made Arlo super happy (understatement) and his love, reactions to and coverage of, Pikmin (along with Metroid) brings me much joy. My favourite Nintendo Youtuber by far. Dunkey does some really solid Nintendo reviews & comedic pieces, but as far as a pure Nintendo Youtuber.
So in a somewhat convoluted and meandering reply to the straightforward question... I will not get it at launch but I will likely wait until a chain drug store (that happens to sell switch games) has a mega bonus loyalty point day and get it then assuming they have stocked it by that time..

Massive props to CHUNSOFT baybeeee

Who here that has played Dragon Warrior (NES) remembers traveling south early in the game, foolishly crossing the HP draining swamp or brambles or whatever that stuff was, trying to get to the abandoned town ONLY to get murked by Wyverns. Good times.. Such an awesome game.