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@Incoherent1 They are not actively holding new releases. Stuff like Paper Mario, Age of Calamity, 3D world remaster kept getting announced and then out.
People keep forgetting that Nintendo workforce is really small compared to the biggest names in gaming, even when counting partners studios. Add the coronavirus to this (with reportedly, Japanese work environnement - especially in gaming - were not ready for homeworking at all) and the truth is, more likely than anything, that nothing is actually ready

It's so funny seeing people praising Sonic Adventures plot today while at the time they were hated for those hyper serious stuff so detached from the Megadrive games. The wind turns so strong with nostalgia googled

@roy130390 The truth is here. In gaming as well, the only real feedback is the money. Even more true with developers like Nintendo or Game Freak where social media are even more worthless

The saddest part of those fake leaks is also to assume Nintendo has the scale to produce this many games in parallel. From sources I can find it's workforce is about 3x smaller than say Ubisoft.

@Folkloner @nessisonett You're right. Try to have a Assassins Creed or Call of Duty fangame with revenues and see how long it survives. Somehow only Nintendo is hated tho.

@SorridoSnake SEGA needs the Sonic fanbase for the franchise to survive. Nintendon't

It is very obviously a software weakness that could hack a 3DS that got patched. I don't get why people get on board with crazy Switch version theories.

@Munchlax This is the (Nintendo) way

But in fairness, the game is quite recent already and don't need much more than a 1080p render (maybe a few HQ assets)

@Trajan I know, yet I have seen people saying they will pass P3 because "they don't know the previous games". Don't know how much they actually are, but they can amount to something.

The sequel only part has done damage... A trilogy would have performed way better.

If this confirms, it will probably return the licence to the freezer...

@alexybubble This is actually easy to explain, if you recall dreams are made of parts of reality. It seems the village existed and was then dreamed into Awakening.

@SwitchForce Why the hell are you talking about ? I only speak of Hollywood movies and nothing else...

@Giancarlothomaz The classic movie adaptation dissonance. Buy a game licence to attract a large audience, but movies are expensive so it must please a general audience and must take no risks. So they follow a generic template loosely (badly) adapted to the licenced universe.

Your examples are not totally good examples as well. Sonic is just a generic super hero origin story movie template. Not bad neither unforgettable, nothing more (and don't forget the original design...). Detective Pikachu isn't much more groundbreaking, but it's a step above, because it has at least had a more intelligent pitch by going with a spinoff way more suitable to a movie adaptation. That allowed to dive into the Pokemon world without the games weirdness. But Pikachu pretty much carries the film alone ; a Ash based movie would probably collapse.

@noobish_hat A slap in what way exactly ? Like people care how the games are run. It will sell like nothing, as usual.

@Large-Kelpfries Nintendo, like some others studios surviving, makes games with a end-to-end vision, kinda like an art. They intend their games to be played in only one way and no other and will fix any bugs to return to the vision. It's highly the same idea behind the Star Wars special editions changes by Georges Lucas and in opposite effect, prevent unwanted alterations, like the creators' backlash against Netflix fast-forward feature.

Like it or don't, but it's a been like this for decades now. People can't be surprised Nintendo keep fixing games in re-releases.

@BulbasaurusRex Indeed most problem on Other M were on the awful plot, gameplay was solid (but
sometimes technically unstable depending on setup)

@rockodoodle (#20) It sounds like Pokemon fans complaining about generation gimmicks then praising previous generation gimmicks

Aren't those, with Mayo vs Ketchup a rerun of older splatfest ?
I mean they could totally make a rotation of all the fests in automatic mode.

@nessisonett Nice one ! Will re-use it.

@nessisonett Heh. Strangely, those "anti-SJW"/"anti-cancel" seems to show only on specific subjects.

I stopped giving them any credits in gaming with the whole Battlefield drama, where prototype, never developped weapons or people standing up on flying plane wings was ok, but playable female soldiers was an Unacceptable© breach of History Accuracy©

@DarkSim01 Not sure that's a full generational problem. But I see your point.

And clearly the company would have made this response... if there was something to back it up. It feel like they had nothing to defend their promise.

@DarkSim01 Can't believe it takes #55 to finally have a intelligent opinion here. This was a pile of garbage, clearly exposed by the community and the company is doing damage control by itself to save cash, not for the sake of a fabled "cancel culture".

Oh, and Six Days in Fallujah still happened as far as 2009. So either the "cancel culture" is this old, OR, groundbreaking idea, some stuff is just terrible. And I didn't see many defend that one back then.

@RPGamer Noisy Pokemon fans are pissed. As with so many other communities before, the haters are most likely < 50%. Game just have to be good enough to be a total financial success. And at the end of the day, that's the only metric that matter.

@RPGamer Not only people are interested, but you can bet this will be the biggest financial success ever for The Pokemon Company.

@colmtheperson Only new legendaries are new in the DLC, all others are a couple new forms and all returning 'mons

@bl4ckbl00d He was also on some Nintendo Direct recently with an hilarious gag. But since, well, there was no big event.

@Razer Yet they exactly did that with the trilogy in the first place ; games were remastered to go 16/9 and support motion controls....

@ml156 There is already much epic 3D platformers largely influenced by Mario 64, the most recent I can think of is A Hat in Time and it gets in sale sometimes for cheaper than your average Starbucks Coffee

But of course, everything should be free in life, right ?

@Ajent @Patendo Yes, it is dumb, because it goes against their own document ("simple")

Seeing on the bright side, it proves how much freedom the games offers.
Also, that explains how Nintendo was so hard on the cheating issues.

@Mew Nintendo. 10 years backward about online stuff since ever.

@tendonerd They may be Sony associated characters but they own none of them. Sony had not much licences back in the day. That kinda ruined the PlayStation classic, btw.

@CodyMKW There will be form of cloud save ? Only thing preventing me to buy

By this point it seems obvious Nintendo has not enough content ready to showcase to a complete direct. After all, the only official known next AAA games are Animal Crossing, Metroid Prime 4 and Xenoblade. Even considering secret projects and third party, there is not much ready for primetime yet.

@Madder128 What is sold most nowadays ? Grey and sad online shooters (that you play alone at home) or fun and nice party games ?

Not only he was right at the time, but it got even worst that those times.

This is the story of how Smogon dies. With a row of applause.

Diverting this much from official sponsored tournament is the best way to stop existing cause ain't nobody got time to maintain multiple strategies for multiple metas.

@Wilforce A different Charizard is also impossible to get (only one is able to Gigamax in the game), meaning a different Charizard would be hacked.

Hacked is not forbidden by the VCG, provided the Pokemons generated are not with non natural moves or stats.

@Elithal it's also quite a subtile way for NintendoLife to acknowledge there is quite a ... rift in the community currently and that they are not a blind follower fansite. That's important for new readers that end up here to see that there is a little bit of objectivity (many fansites don't even dare to say there is a Dexit or a fan outcry)

Waiiiit ! Meat food in Pokemon ??
Guess we found out where are the excluded Pokemons....

I still don't get how the hell, with the level of automation and what they risk with the publisher (essentially a total black list), how the hell such leaks keep happening with online stores.

Not believing in any switch mini. It amounts to ruining 3 years of marketing as a "home you can carry" machine, break compatibility with the large range of joycons and the worst, the dock.

@WebHead There is some kind of mentality in most Japanese developpers of never ever listening to western, or even all, feedback.

The reason ?
Keeping silence for a "surprise" announcement at E3 direct

@tonyhoro you have way too high expectations for this disaster. When a movie is on trailer phase like this, most of content is already shot and ready. They would have pulled it in the trailer to save the PR debacle.

If it goes out on switch in the same way than PS4 (essentially cross play and cross save), instabuy. Being able to log and do stuff on the go is huge for me (2k hours already invested and more going)

Not a cloning machine under Flareon, just a table where he likely just evolved.

The statue seems to be a Giratina. Seems legit between a Palkia and Dialga.

@Timppis There is no unwinnable situations, or else no pro could do consistently the game with the 1HP only mode.

It's ok if it's not your cup(head) of tea but that does not makes it bad design.

@LavaTwilight Splatoon has hack issues, Mario Tennis and Smash are laggy with the wrong opponent. No matter how cheap it is (even for 5€/year with the family pack), that is paying for zero network improvements. You may be paying 20 mores elsewhere but you can play 24v24 without issues

@Yasume Not everyone has 50+h to kill just to unlock all content. We're gonna play 4 players match regularly when the game release and we have no time to grind solo. Thanks Nintendo for listening to actual public and not bitter and unemployed fanboys.

It certainly has a different tone than the Detective Pikachu game. It could be interesting.