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Re: You'll Need Hi-tech Earbuds To Adjust The Volume In Pokémon Sword And Shield

Kawaiipikachu

Seams like half the time Game freak have good ideas & the other half the time have now idea what to do.

From gimmicky battle elements (Z Moves, Mega Evolutions & Dynamax) that doesn't really doo much.
Plus XY's updated the Pokémon cries to ear sores despite something that they could have easily done 11 years prier with Ruby & Sapphire
Plus whats the ddeal with Pikachu with the anime cry & the weak excues to go with it.
. "You can go all around the world and ask people what Pikachu sounds like and it'll always be the 'Pi-kaaa!'"
Well that can easily said about any other Pokémon so to have it to be the anime cry as absolutely nonsense.

Sure there have been improvements & neat ideas like TM'S no longer single use only for example, yet from xy onwards it seam like GameFreak has gone & jumped the Sharpedo.

Re: The Wireless SNES Controller For Switch Unlocks Super Mario World Sound Effects

Kawaiipikachu

@Lizuka Wii? Amiibo's?
Really?
After less than stellar sales of the Gamecube & before that the N64 wasn't much better the Wii was a much better hit than expected.
The Gamecube lifetime sales was 22 million verses Wii's first quarter alone 101 million units
So the Wii sold 4 times more units in 3 months that what the gamecube did in 6 years.
That's not really scarce at all what so ever.
The numbers alone would tell you that the Wii was a bigger hit than expected & naturally means it would sell out easily.

So long story short the Wii was a bigger hit than expected.

As for the Amiibo's it looks more like miss management with them.
How else would you explain that the same amiibos sell out in some regions & yet still widely available in others.
Take the Splatoon triple pack for example it sold out in north america yet in certain european countries & here in Australia they were widely available for months.
I seen plenty at my local JB Hifi store with plenty of stock for at least 3 months.

As for games, it seems to be more of a push for digital despite figures stating that a lot of people still using DSL internet connection.(40-60% dependin who you believe.)

So really Artificial Scarcity is really nothing more tham mostly a myth.

Re: The Wireless SNES Controller For Switch Unlocks Super Mario World Sound Effects

Kawaiipikachu

@Lizuka Really? More than likely people that were unable to get said product give up on said product.

Also the SNES first run was really never that hard to get hold of I noticed plenty of stores had SNES Mini's on sales for weeks before being sold out.
Also I still find that there's plenty in stock today for both consoles.
so he SNES never really been that scarce in the first place, just really proves that there was really never was any Artificial scarcity in the first place.

Re: Random: You Can't Dock A Switch Lite, But You Can Play It On A 1984 Panasonic Boombox

Kawaiipikachu

@StevenG I not denying the idea to completely remove video out to be a silly idea, just that your solution to replace a piece of hardware with a simple software solution is not really feasible, especially on a system where every CPU clock cycle is counted for & every byte of ram counted for.

Displaylink would take up extra cpu clock cycles & extra ram & probably the ram is the component that takes an extra hit.

Plus I been reading up on the Displaylink technology since we started arguing about it & noticed another thing, it's also Dependent on the GPU as well, it it does not support Display link then it won't work.
So also it might be hardware issue as well meaning if the Tegra chip inside the switch doesn't support Displaylink then it won't work.

Also I think if Nintendo were able to choose Displaylink instead of Displayport for the switch I imagine that there be an optional dock for the Switch lite.
Something smaller to fit the console & built in rails for use with joycon charging.
But as Nintendo choose a Displayport solution, then it menas the switch lite will never get video out at all.

Re: Random: You Can't Dock A Switch Lite, But You Can Play It On A 1984 Panasonic Boombox

Kawaiipikachu

@StevenG I'm not defending Nintendo or anything, just saying that a simple alternate solution is not really as simple as it sounds.
Displaylink is another piece of code running in the background.

The switch is not like Windows or Linux where you can ad any program in the background.
The switch is carefully balanced between game performance & system feature.

Think about bluetooth headset that people been complaining sometime now.
It's something that Nintendo should have supported at the beginning & to add it now it would means potential conflict with the existing audio subsystem.
even games that don't need to use a bluetooth headset could have intermittent audio problems.

So pretty much it's much more difficult to add bluetooth headset support now than to have it at the beginning because Nintendo have to wrangle a delicate balance in software.

As you see I'm not really defending Nintendo just explaining that a apparent simple solution could easily add a host of compatibility problems.

Re: Random: You Can't Dock A Switch Lite, But You Can Play It On A 1984 Panasonic Boombox

Kawaiipikachu

@StevenG While I know realized what you meant.
Even with Displaylink being a software solution, still means tinkering how the whole thing works.
Its an extra background resource taking up extra memory & changing extra balance of things.

Don't forget Nintendo always been on compatibility & never risk something that could suddenly go haywire or reduce performance.
Like playing DS games on a 3DS the CPU speeds underclocked to match the DS speeds & extra cores & gpu remain redundant in DS mode.

Re: Feature: Nintendo Hardware Refreshes Through The Ages

Kawaiipikachu

"squeeze in more RAM and a better CPU"
Exempt really there's never been an official mention of it having faster CPU nor has there been any games that show of faster CPU.
So really the DSi never really have a faster CPU.

In Fact I recently played Solatorobo, A game that some people quote online that it showed improved framerate on a couple of levels.
Yet I tried it out on both my DS Lite & New 3DS & they both showed exact same slight hiccups in framerate.

Which shows that my 3DS underclocked itself to 66MHz/33MHz, not 111Mhz/60MHz, which means that the DSi only has 66Mhz/33MHz CPU chipset same as a DS.

Re: Review: Dragon: Marked for Death - An Attractive Action Title That's All Burned Out When It Comes To Fresh Ideas

Kawaiipikachu

Here we have here Nintendolife reviewing a previously unreleased PSP game in a more modern light & it shows within the first few sentences.
Really is if fair to compare this game to other games the devoloper did even f most of them really never conceived until after this games original cancelation? No.
Then why compare then like they are DMFD predisuccerrs when really they were in a since successors.
Just like Duke Nukems forever been reviewed as a modern game instead of a late 90’s.
Sure they both have flaws, but they are games that have late releases & should really be reviewed as such, not a modern games.

Re: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Piranha Plant amiibo Could Cause Some Trouble For Collectors

Kawaiipikachu

@IHateTombs sure a simple Web search shows that the concept exist but nothing really provides evidence that it works or don't work.
Besides which most retailers I recently been to have ample supplies of NES & SNES mini's & it's been like that for months.
That surely does not sound like artificial scarcity at work.
That to me looks like Nintendo Learned a lesson after the nes mini kufuffle & fixed there supply issues ready for the launch of the snes mini & the nes mini rerelease.

So really it's more of a misjudgement of supply & demand rather than artificial scarcity.

Re: NIS America's Online Stores Hacked, Credit Card Details Compromised

Kawaiipikachu

@Raylax Correction, Credit card detailsarenot stored on NISA sitebut as it's clearly stated that customers were redirected to a site that lookslike NISA on site where the customers were unwittingly given out details to the hackers then led back to NISA's own site.

Long story short there credit car details were not stored on NISA's site.

Re: Feature: Ten of Our Favourite DSiWare Games

Kawaiipikachu

I'm still trying to figure out the point of the DSi itself.
Just off the shelf hardware changes & nothing else.
the eShop could have waited till the 3DS.
doubtful many games used the extra 8MB of RAM
there is not real point in a faster wifi module.
And to top it all off there is no boost to the CPU speed, no official mention, no nothing.

Re: A 15 Year Old Patent Shows A Nintendo Phone That Never Was

Kawaiipikachu

@Pikachupwnage There was the Tegic T9 predictive text that was used on many Nokia & Ericsson phones back in the day.
Just only need to type each key once & there's the complete word without needing to cycle thru the letters of that button.

43550 would turn into hello instead of 4433555 pause 555666 so 5 key presses verses 12 & an akward pause.
Plus it's works better than most of todays smartphones spell checkers.

Re: Review: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (Wii U eShop / GBA)

Kawaiipikachu

@Megas75 I never had that much hassle with the laws.
I simply stock piled on anti law cards, & even if I didn't have the right anti-law card, I simply just wondered around the map a few steps until the annoying law disappeared & simply replaced with a law I can deal with.
So really it's really simple to deal with & it's also all written in the instruction manual.
The sequel Final Fantasy Tatics A2 I couldn't handle because there were no way to bypass the laws & many of the missions appeared to have rigged to have certain laws applied to it, which is way I gave up on it.

Anyway I loved this game & feel like playing it again.

Re: New Patent Sparks Talk of Potential NX Details

Kawaiipikachu

@Funky_Kong Un over 70% of the internet users at leas can't move to digital because there ADSL2 connection too slow to download these games.
say a 1Gb game for example would likely to time out & have it restart at the beginning every time.

It's true that most of us is on broadband, but most broadband connections still not fast enough.

Re: You Won't Need An Adult's Wallet To Get This Adorable Young Link Nendoroid

Kawaiipikachu

@MrBecker Um thats how all Nendoroids look since Good Smile Company started the line about a decade ago.
They even had A Nendoroid Light from Death note & more recently Attack on Titan.
Besides Nendoroid figures been popular for nearly a decade because of the cute factor With Good Smile churning out characters from popular franchises while mostly Anime & Vocaloid thou they haved released Frozens Anna as well.

Re: The Man Who Found The SNES PlayStation Thinks It Will Probably Be Sold

Kawaiipikachu

@Gridatttack The yellowing can easily be faked so that alone isn't really proof enough.
But personally I believe that this is the real deal here, It has the Nintendo connectors, Nintendo branded controller & Game Pak & even the ext port.
A lot of little details that fakes that tend to ether change, or miss.
It's also the very same details that the most people ignore when criticizing wether it's a fake or not.