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@quinnyboy58 @blockfight No, not exactly that. Loot boxes are gambling, and not only is it perfectly reasonable for a government to restrict gambling to adults, it is unreasonable for them not to. Like alcohol, a parent's view on the matter has nothing to do with its societal permissibility.

@andyg1412 I know, it's hilarious when a revenue maximizing corporation maximizes revenue. A real knee slapper.

I am, in fact, getting hyped. Never played a Monster Hunter game before, nor really any game built around deliberate, opposite-of-button-mashing combat, so I expect to die a lot as I learn both technique and discipline, but I am looking forward to it.

It's quite similar to the urge to get out on the golf course more this year, now that I think about it. Apparently I'm a masochist.

Very interested in the game, and I'm sure I'll get the amiibo because that's apparently something I do, but I expect more merch from a deluxe editor than a handful of stickers. An artbook and copy of the soundtrack are the bare minimum.

@UltimateOtaku91 You overestimate, drastically, how representative of the average consumer people who populate fan sites are. For most people, they'll see two models, ask which one they need to play Animal Crossing, ask which one is cheaper, buy it, and be on their way, never considering the question again. The only people who will worry about the difference are the very ones who will upgrade merely because they can. Very few people will truly be upset about it. Now, hardcore gamers getting themselves riled up on general principle...

@Gamecuber

http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/sinandpunishment/0/0

@Zuljaras You have it backwards. Marketing to collectors is exploiting the most exploitable.

When a game is no longer listed on digital storefronts, that is simply it going out of print. It happens to virtually every physical medium, literally every day. Yes, the Wii shop channel no longer sells games. But it did for more than a decade.
Limited Run sometimes keeps games in print for mere hours. Are you really arguing that games available for years aren't preserved simply because they're tied to a system, but games that once upon a time had a handful of copies produced that a few people could acquire if they were free that day are, simply because you can fantasize about finding an increasingly rare copy? Those would be odd criteria indeed.

@Nintendofan83 In absolutely no way are they helping. Their business model isn't games preservation, it's the exploitation of FOMO. Video games are an inherently digital medium. Whether you buy at a store or download a copy to an SD card, what you have is digital information on a storage device. There is no difference to the fundamental nature of the product. There are a few minor differences, like the ability to resell, but preservation plays no part in any of them, especially when so few physical copies are produced, as in the case of Limited Run. Digital copies never disappear, meaning the game is preserved, and a physical copy which will cost a hundred dollars on eBay, if you can even find one, can hardly be said to be preserving anything.

I'm sorry if you feel attacked right now but I'm trying to discredit your argument, not you personally.

Pre-ordered awhile ago, when the game and the special edition were announced. Good to know when to expect the credit card to process.

This is all just prelude to Monster Hunter. The Japanese charts, both hardware and software, are going to be ... decisive the last week of March.

Very interesting. The biggest advantage 3D games have over 2D games is the ability to immerse you in their world, so I'm always on the lookout for games that make that their focus, for when that's what I'm in the mood for.

Is this any different than the last 37 versions of this rumor?

Not Random At All: NintendoLife Intentionally Overstates Corporate Decision to Elicit Response From Knee-jerk Audience. Also, Doesn't Know What Irony Is.

@redpanda0310 Actually, some of these games are quite good and are easily worth their low normal price, to say nothing of extreme discounts. At 17 cents you can afford to take a chance at finding them.

@WiltonRoots To be fair I do enjoy the flavor of a quality leather Chelsea boot.

@Tao That you went straight to the ad hominen insult proves my point. But you undoubtedly already knew that.

The best part about all of this is that I get to read a bunch of comments from people who know how to run a multinational corporation. It will give me a leg up when I want to run a multinational corporation.

@andyg1412 Of course there are no first party games this month. Nintendo is allowing Monster Hunter to be the month's big game.

I'm all for short games, but not $10/hour.

@nessisonett I find it weird that he's not called Waldo. And yes, it's a name. It's never used, but that doesn't stop it from being recognizable as a name.

@Jakiboy Absolutely none of what you think you were saying was in your original comment. Nothing flew over @Lordplops 's head, and he wasn't not on the ball. No reason to be a **** to him, especially when you were the one being obtuse, but since you followed that up by continuing to be a ****, doubling down on it even, I can't say I'm surprised.

@UltimateOtaku91 That you matched the PS2 to the Wii instead of the GameCube immediately disqualifies the comparison. Not only was the GameCube contemporaneous with the PS2, but it was more powerful than the PS2, something most people forget (or ignore), especially those wishing to push a pro-Sony and pro-power narrative. Nintendo learned that power isn't the key to competing; it's mind-boggling how few other people have.

Some of the smaller games sound worth wishlisting, but probably just BDII for me.

@Snatcher It takes a heavy misunderstanding of the concept combined with a heavy predisposition to overreact before having any information to call the character design "censorship".

Was going to get it anyway, but I suppose it's good to have a bit of confirmation.

Note to @Tobiaku @ModdedInkling @TriforceReturns --

This isn't censorship. It is a business design decision, made by people who have the right to make it. Referring to it as censorship is an abuse of language which is a more serious issue than a business decision, obscures actual censorship when it appears, and has motivations similar to those behind actual censorship. Learn the meaning and implications of words before using them.

The sheer hideousness of Funko Pops has helped keep my figurine collecting urges in check. Jeebus. [shudders uncontrollably]

I remember hearing about that. It's not quite Sadness for the Wii in terms of lamented vaporware for me, but at the time I was interested in at least seeing what it was about.

Note to Soulja: if you didn't have a choice, it's not bossing up.

I'm sure I'll check it out, but I don't play fighters enough to add another one to my repertoire. I'd be better served by focusing on the ones I already play. (Plus Tatsunoko vs. Capcom; I just found a decently priced copy on eBay.)

@Ryu_Niiyama I don't think it was sent out to die. I think everyone, from Nintendo on down, underestimated how quickly the 3DS base would stop buying content. But I agree with you--that game absolutely deserves an audience.

I've been looking for some good roguelites recently, to see what I like about the genre. I enjoy a good card or board game, and the strength of those comes entirely from the rulesets and how they sustain different setups and different playthroughs, so it seems worthwhile to check out the video game analogue.

Mario Golf was the one new announcement that I was actually hoping to see, so I'm very excited about that. Glad to see Outer Wilds come; I'll be double-dipping. And I should start learning how to play Splatoon well, so that when 3 is released I can play online without being an utter embarrassment to the very concept of playing games.

@Aozz101x I'd be shocked, honestly, if Pauline isn't in. Rosalina, too. And I'm hoping for a few guest characters from other franchises--pretty much the ones from Mario Kart 8 would be fine.

I will play as him when necessary to complete any challenges the game may offer. Otherwise, Daisy is my main.

@BenAV Where did you put your pre-order in, and where have you seen it sell out? I've checked about a half dozen of the usual outlets, and haven't seen any indication whatsoever that they've been up for order.

@MS7000 I was going to respond to your woefully ridiculous "nothing new for Switch owners" narrative, but @__jamiie already took care of it, as well as I would like to have. It's also disingenuous to discount shovelware on the Switch but not on the Wii U, which had a worse problem with it than the Switch, because instead of having a bunch of developers flocking to it because of the potential audience, it had a bunch of developers flocking to it because they could get approved by a Nintendo desperate for content. Do you know who the top third-party developer/publisher on the Wii U was? RCMADIAX. Let that sink in. After Nintendo, the most prolific producer of content for the Wii U was R C FUC!ING MADIAX. (If that name isn't familiar, just google him; I'm sure the NintendoLife article about his asset flipping technique will be one of the first available.) The only reason he was able to survive was because there were so few games that his shovelware didn't look that bad, because there were no good games to compare them to. So please, put away that tired old narrative of the Switch offering nothing new; most of the old stuff was garbage.

Always feels good, in a fiscally responsible sort of way, to vote for "nothing". I hope the new games are good and find an audience, but they're not for me.

The best part of these is how salty unauthorized controller "artists" are about them.

@Ventilator Of course they'll charge full price. Why wouldn't they? Are you honestly so self-centered, or delusional, that you believe people who already bought the HD versions are the intended audience? That they're just trying to bilk us out of more money? The last numbers I saw for lifetime sales were:

Switch 76 million
Wii U 13 million

That means that, even if you assume every Wii U owner has bought one (which we know isn't true, because the people who haven't won't shut up about it), there are 63 million Switch owners who didn't own a Wii U, and haven't had a chance to play the remastered Zelda games. They are the audience that Nintendo would be targeting, not the idiots who bought a Wii U and basically had to be bribed with trinkets to purchase software.

Yep. 3, 2, 1, let's jam.

@LUIGITORNADO Need? Of course not. But it doesn't need Breath of the Wild 2, either, so feel free to put away that dismissive tone.

@UltimateOtaku91 Bravely Default 2 and Monster Hunter Rise are neither bland, nor ports, shovelware, or available elsewhere, and will be out in just the next month and a half, belying any such claim about this year's outlook.

Still surprised it wasn't the Monster Hunter. I'm quite happy, but surprised.

@Mr-Fuggles777 It won't survive long-term. But it will do well enough for a short time to justify the port.

@MaxiPareja This is now the second game I bought on my PS4 because I didn't expect it to come to the Switch. Unlike Brothers, which just took so long that I figured they weren't bothering, this one I'd heard was too processor-intensive to be feasible. But apparently not. As I have yet to get around to it, I might as well double-dip, since I'm more likely to play it on the Switch.

Easily my favorite sport series, and a game I've been hoping for for four years. Very excited to take Princess Daisy out on the links.

Ah yes, the "quote a bunch of tweets" technique, essential to modern journalism needing to fill column inches, or whatever the equivalent online measurement is.

@johnvboy Good call on the Mario Golf. I'd love to see it, and think it's fairly likely.

With Monster Hunter a month away, that's who the next character will represent.

Sony is going to sell about 37 PS5s in Japan in late March and April.

@Ganner Once it's downloaded to your SD card, it's the same as a physical release--digital code on a storage device. That's all a video game is, whatever the medium.

@Tyranexx Buying it physically only matters if you bought the collectors edition which included a Drippy plush and an actual copy of the in game book, the Wizards Companion. Which I did.