@SwitchVogel I would say the vast majority of people browse the eShop.
Most aren’t as connected as we are. Many are casual gamers and there are literally millions of kids with Switches who don’t know anything about third party sites as an option to find Nintendo games.
My two children, for example, have their own Switches and are 6 and 9. Their only way to know about new games on Switch are through the news section, the eShop or me telling them.
Thankfully they aren’t bored because they have a great selection of games I curated for them and we are mainly physical so they can share games and so they are rarely looking for new ones. But occasionally they get some eShop funds and that eShop is a bit of a poop show.
@Sunsy if you are a bit stuck for Netflix, the cheapest way to get it is probably an Amazon Fire Stick. They are £30 here in the UK and sometimes cheaper. Similar price in US.
You do not need Amazon Prime to use apps like Netflix on it and it also plays some mobile games and stuff. It isn’t bad for the price.
If you live in the UK, a NowTV smart stick is about £15. It also enables you to watch Netflix. They both plug in through HDMI and are just a little USB stick you connect to WiFi with and they stream shows to your TV.
@DK-Fan lol, your profile picture suits your enraged comments.
This game is a mobile spin off. Nintendo have said they aren’t focusing on mobile anymore. So no, we don’t have to accept this game as the latest and greatest as MK8, and every other console MK, is better than this.
MK8 is the real deal and still sells better than most games on Switch. It would easily pay for itself, so why can’t we hope for more DLC? A new version would be great too.
Anyways, I only clicked this article because I thought it was MK8 DLC and clicked fast. When I realised it was Tour I completely lost interest and came to the comments.
I hope he continues to keep creating and not worrying or being distracted. I want as much of his creativity extracted from this man before his time comes to an end.
@dartmonkey to clarify, the two round voting system.
The first vote has all games listed. But it helps to narrow down the list to the top 100 or 50 and cuts out the junk.
The second vote helps to order that vote and give the final result.
I promise you will have much better results doing this than just throwing all games in one list and hoping for the best. It just doesn’t work like that.
@dartmonkey the simple way to fix this is to do two rounds of voting.
This massive format is broken. I’ve voted for a few things and stopped because I ran out of time. Others will do the same or forget their favourites or miss games or whatever.
People do NOT have time. As someone who works in marketing, you can’t rely on people to do homework or spend more than a few moments on this.
We always get random skewed results from these NL polls and it’s because there is too much choice.
I love you guys, but these crazy long lists simply don’t work. You have to think of a better way because you’re the only site who does it and the end result always has random games added that make no sense.
@Strictlystyles I disagree with you on that. Baby Shark is a classic.
In the future, people are going to walk down the isle to that music, I tell ya!
Anyways, I think you are talking on behalf of too many. People do want a 3D Sonic TV series, some want a 2D one. Most of us don’t care that much, we just want a good show for our children because we are not the target audience.
To us gamers though we don’t really care about the TV show, we want a new Sonic game. Personally, I want a decent 3D Sonic like Sonic Adventure.
We all have different likes and dislikes. They aren’t going to win with everyone. But I don’t mind them trying things.
@Daniel36 Exactly. The negative views from adult critics and touchy fans shouldn't deflect from the fact it was a good series and children really enjoyed it.
They loved the Sonic Boom TV series, as many of their school friends did, and have rewatched it a number of times.
It's not targetted for us grumpy adults, it's for kids and helps them get into a franchise they may not be so familiar with and parents are often happy for them to watch because we enjoyed Sonic back in the day. It's all a good thing.
It always amazes me when I see “real” musicians playing video game music.
When I was a child I was often told my love for games was stupid and even felt embarrassed sometimes because the only music I knew was from games. I bought piano collections of the Final Fantasy games and things.
It wasn’t until years later that I realised what I thought was my niche hobby was actually enjoyed and appreciated by so many and that the work of these developers and musicians produced was world class, I was shocked that a world class outfit like the London Philharmonic Orchestra would put on a Zelda concert, for example. It blew my mind and still amazes me today.
@BlubberWhale @TheDragonDAFan I think the vast majority of people don’t really care.
The Melee community is small compared to other aspects of the community and it’s seen as a thorn in the side rather than a benefit.
It might be the way the community has behaved rather than a love for Nintendo. Even this news/reaction doesn’t bathe the Melee audience in a good light.
To be fair to Nintendo, if the community keeps throwing tantrums, it isn’t going to encourage them to change their ways, they are more likely to give up on tournaments all together, but acting like adults doesn’t happen much these days, especially online.
My biggest problem with this is that the target audience is young children and they have much less self control and so it is harder for them to go without.
I guess with all the season passes and cosmetics of other games that kids play, they feel they need to do this, but it’s a bad business practice.
My wife vowed not to buy another of these games after we discovered how restrictive the song list is in a previous game. So they’ve at leat lost one future customer here. And if they just offered a £10 song pack where you keep songs forever instead of an ongoing subscription they would have kept us much easier. But still would have found it scummy.
@0blivion my kids are 5 and 8 when we went to the cinema so I don’t think they can dislike anything other than vegetables and school work.
I didn’t think it was the best movie, that’s for sure, but I waited for them to tell me there reaction and then played to their feelings of it. They were telling me how great it was as we walked out of the cinema and took a picture with a Sonic mascot. So I naturally took the position of “that movie was soo awesome” to boost their view of it.
If they said it sucked (which they wouldn’t at that age) I’d probably have given a more critical view.
I still liked the movie though. Maybe more so because they did.
Well, we know the best character in the series (Tails) will be in it, so it’s gonna be great!
Remember guys, this movie is for kids. As a father of young children, I can confirm the first film filled them joy to see one of their favourite characters on the big screen. And that’s what it’s all about. The bonus was us parents enjoyed it too.
@Tasuki the fact @Liam_Doolan didn’t just mention the name and instead gave a subtle reference with actual details of the show proves that the writers of NintendoLife are cultured individuals.
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Re: Fortnite Adds Top Football Teams Like Man City And Juventus In Latest Crossover
Gonna be providing my son a list of teams he is banned from playing as or risk being turfed out of the house. Lol
Re: The SNES Almost Got A Zelda-Style Back To The Future II RPG
@ManaOwls “Nobody calls me cucco!”
Re: Capcom Broadcasting Resident Evil Showcase Next Week, Will Feature RE: Village And "More"
@idrawrobots let us dream for the week at least. Hehe
Re: Random: Breath Of The Wild Players Are Trying To Speedrun Bread
@LinktotheFuture you could do...
The Leavening of Zeldough: Bread of the Rise
Re: Random: Breath Of The Wild Players Are Trying To Speedrun Bread
The Legend of Zeldough
Re: Splatoon 2's Mario-Themed Splatfest Takes Place This Weekend, Pick Your Power-Up
I prefer Marina, but I’m going Mushroom on this one.
Anyways, shame they coin giveaway isn’t available in Europe.
Re: Random: Let's Look At All The Things That Are Cats In Bowser's Fury
@Mr-Fuggles777 You mean, Bowser’s Furry?
Re: Nintendo's Direct Archive Appears To Have Been Updated, And It's Got Some Fans Excited
Well let’s hope so. After a very quiet 2020, in terms of Nintendo first-party releases, let’s hope they bring out some big guns this year.
Re: Switch eShop Game Prices Can No Longer Be Below $1.99, Says Death Squared Dev
@SwitchVogel I would say the vast majority of people browse the eShop.
Most aren’t as connected as we are. Many are casual gamers and there are literally millions of kids with Switches who don’t know anything about third party sites as an option to find Nintendo games.
My two children, for example, have their own Switches and are 6 and 9. Their only way to know about new games on Switch are through the news section, the eShop or me telling them.
Thankfully they aren’t bored because they have a great selection of games I curated for them and we are mainly physical so they can share games and so they are rarely looking for new ones. But occasionally they get some eShop funds and that eShop is a bit of a poop show.
Re: Ex-Halo Composer 'Would Love' To Work With Nintendo If Master Chief Joins Smash Ultimate
So, how’s about Microsoft brings the Halo Master Chief collection to the Switch?
I’m guessing after Master Chief became available on PS4 and Switch in Fortnite, Microsoft might be a little more open to that idea these days.
Re: Netflix Is Winding Down Its Services On Wii U And 3DS
@Sunsy if you are a bit stuck for Netflix, the cheapest way to get it is probably an Amazon Fire Stick. They are £30 here in the UK and sometimes cheaper. Similar price in US.
You do not need Amazon Prime to use apps like Netflix on it and it also plays some mobile games and stuff. It isn’t bad for the price.
If you live in the UK, a NowTV smart stick is about £15. It also enables you to watch Netflix. They both plug in through HDMI and are just a little USB stick you connect to WiFi with and they stream shows to your TV.
Re: Capcom To Share "Brand-New Information" About Monster Hunter Rise This Month
This is the MH World equivalent the Switch was longing for, but with its own unique style.
I can’t wait.
Re: Top Hat Studios Issues Statement Regarding Demands To Censor Sense - A Cyberpunk Ghost Story
I really don’t get why people are offended by boobs.
The developers are living out their fantasy and some gamers will experience theirs as a result. It doesn’t hurt anybody.
Re: Round Up: Nintendo Life 2020 - A Year In Interviews
NintendoLife killed it last year. You even hosted your own Nindies Direct!!
Keep up the good work, we appreciate you guys and we’ll be here for the journey through 2021!
Re: Student Sells $80k Pokémon Card Collection To Pay For University
I gave all my cards to my brother about 15 years ago.
He has some amazing cards and can probably make a down payment on a house now. Lol
No hard feelings from me. Happy to help him out. Although I just wish I bought more cards and kept a deck.
Re: Mario Kart Tour Gets A New Year Update With RMX Rainbow Road 2
@DK-Fan lol, your profile picture suits your enraged comments.
This game is a mobile spin off. Nintendo have said they aren’t focusing on mobile anymore. So no, we don’t have to accept this game as the latest and greatest as MK8, and every other console MK, is better than this.
MK8 is the real deal and still sells better than most games on Switch. It would easily pay for itself, so why can’t we hope for more DLC? A new version would be great too.
Anyways, I only clicked this article because I thought it was MK8 DLC and clicked fast. When I realised it was Tour I completely lost interest and came to the comments.
Re: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story Will Be Haunting The Switch Soon
Booblieve me when I say NintendoLife will defondle - sorry, definitely keep their eyes on those... THIS one.
DD-on’t you worry aboob it. I mean about ti... erm, it.
Geez. For some reason I can’t comment straight.
Re: Random: Sakurai Won't Be Sharing As Many Smash Ultimate Photos Next Year
Sakurai clearly loves what he has created. It’s a wonderful thing to see.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl #73 - 1080° Snowboarding
I grew up with the European cover, but I actually picked the North American as it feels fresher for this type of cover.
Re: Editorial: Merry Christmas And Happy Holidays From Nintendo Life
Merry Christmas! God bless all of you!
Re: Miyamoto "Not Concerned" About Who Will Replace Him At Nintendo
The fun creator becomes a wise sage.
I hope he continues to keep creating and not worrying or being distracted. I want as much of his creativity extracted from this man before his time comes to an end.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl #72 - Tuff E Nuff
Japan of course. Gotta free those pecks.
But what is with the eyes on the guys? The woman’s face looks perfectly normal. The men all look dopey. Lol
Re: Random: Man Accidentally Names Nephew After A Pokémon
@HotGoomba___Rebrand well, as a consolation she said I could one day buy a turtle and cal it Kameko, so it saved the marriage.
Re: Random: Man Accidentally Names Nephew After A Pokémon
@Lilia yeah, you’re right.
It was six years ago and I kinda forgot what it meant. Hehe.
Re: Random: Man Accidentally Names Nephew After A Pokémon
I wanted to name my daughter Kameko, it means “Turtle” in Japanese.
My wife said no. She didn’t want to think of turtles every time she looked at her daughter.
I’m still a little sad. I love turtles. Lol
Re: Nintendo Kicks Off Huge Festive Sale, Over 900 Switch Games Discounted (Europe)
Perfect timing for the Nintendo gift card my son is getting as part of his presents this Christmas.
Re: Poll: What's The Best Switch Game Of 2020? It's Time To Rate Your Favourites
@dartmonkey to clarify, the two round voting system.
The first vote has all games listed. But it helps to narrow down the list to the top 100 or 50 and cuts out the junk.
The second vote helps to order that vote and give the final result.
I promise you will have much better results doing this than just throwing all games in one list and hoping for the best. It just doesn’t work like that.
Re: Poll: What's The Best Switch Game Of 2020? It's Time To Rate Your Favourites
@dartmonkey the simple way to fix this is to do two rounds of voting.
This massive format is broken. I’ve voted for a few things and stopped because I ran out of time. Others will do the same or forget their favourites or miss games or whatever.
People do NOT have time. As someone who works in marketing, you can’t rely on people to do homework or spend more than a few moments on this.
We always get random skewed results from these NL polls and it’s because there is too much choice.
I love you guys, but these crazy long lists simply don’t work. You have to think of a better way because you’re the only site who does it and the end result always has random games added that make no sense.
Re: Poll: What's The Best Switch Game Of 2020? It's Time To Rate Your Favourites
NintendoLife - please PLEASE do at least two rounds of voting.
This format is so broken. We need to have less choices and all the bad games to be routed out. Then we vote for the best 30 or so at the end.
Re: Netflix Announces New 3D Sonic Animated Series, Quickly Deletes Tweet
@Strictlystyles I disagree with you on that. Baby Shark is a classic.
In the future, people are going to walk down the isle to that music, I tell ya!
Anyways, I think you are talking on behalf of too many. People do want a 3D Sonic TV series, some want a 2D one. Most of us don’t care that much, we just want a good show for our children because we are not the target audience.
To us gamers though we don’t really care about the TV show, we want a new Sonic game. Personally, I want a decent 3D Sonic like Sonic Adventure.
We all have different likes and dislikes. They aren’t going to win with everyone. But I don’t mind them trying things.
Re: Netflix Announces New 3D Sonic Animated Series, Quickly Deletes Tweet
@Daniel36 Exactly. The negative views from adult critics and touchy fans shouldn't deflect from the fact it was a good series and children really enjoyed it.
Re: Netflix Announces New 3D Sonic Animated Series, Quickly Deletes Tweet
@Strictlystyles Tell that to my kids.
They loved the Sonic Boom TV series, as many of their school friends did, and have rewatched it a number of times.
It's not targetted for us grumpy adults, it's for kids and helps them get into a franchise they may not be so familiar with and parents are often happy for them to watch because we enjoyed Sonic back in the day. It's all a good thing.
Re: Switch Becomes The Best-Selling Console For 24 Consecutive Months Despite PS5, Xbox Series Launches (US)
@shimarin I know, Sony did great. Probably broke a record profit for Scalpers also. Lol
I was just making a joke comment, but meh, it was a bit lame.
Re: Switch Becomes The Best-Selling Console For 24 Consecutive Months Despite PS5, Xbox Series Launches (US)
PlayStation and Xbox just doing what Ninten-don’t?
Re: Developers Of The New Perfect Dark Will Treat It "Very Carefully"
People on here acting like NintendoLife is breaking religious doctrine or something.
I’m happy they posted it, I wouldn’t have known otherwise.
As an old school Perfect Dark fan I see nothing wrong with the site tickling our nostalgic senses.
Re: Sephiroth From Final Fantasy VII Joins Super Smash Bros. Ultimate This Month
@COVIDberry Wow! So that’s the one Sephiroth is summoning to win all Smash battles then?
(Oh, it missed. Clearly his plan got foiled again)
Re: Video: Listen To The London Philharmonic's Super Mario Medley From Abbey Road
It always amazes me when I see “real” musicians playing video game music.
When I was a child I was often told my love for games was stupid and even felt embarrassed sometimes because the only music I knew was from games. I bought piano collections of the Final Fantasy games and things.
It wasn’t until years later that I realised what I thought was my niche hobby was actually enjoyed and appreciated by so many and that the work of these developers and musicians produced was world class, I was shocked that a world class outfit like the London Philharmonic Orchestra would put on a Zelda concert, for example. It blew my mind and still amazes me today.
Re: Sephiroth From Final Fantasy VII Joins Super Smash Bros. Ultimate This Month
Oh great, now a meteor is gonna hit earth, just what we needed to finish us off in 2020.
Re: Nintendo Cancels Splatoon 2 NA Open Livestream, "Free Melee" Believed To Have Played A Part
@Donnerkebab I’ve never tasted Nintendo’s boots.
I’m quite enjoying this cup of Smash fan tears though.
Re: Nintendo Cancels Splatoon 2 NA Open Livestream, "Free Melee" Believed To Have Played A Part
@BlubberWhale @TheDragonDAFan I think the vast majority of people don’t really care.
The Melee community is small compared to other aspects of the community and it’s seen as a thorn in the side rather than a benefit.
It might be the way the community has behaved rather than a love for Nintendo. Even this news/reaction doesn’t bathe the Melee audience in a good light.
Re: Nintendo Cancels Splatoon 2 NA Open Livestream, "Free Melee" Believed To Have Played A Part
To be fair to Nintendo, if the community keeps throwing tantrums, it isn’t going to encourage them to change their ways, they are more likely to give up on tournaments all together, but acting like adults doesn’t happen much these days, especially online.
Re: Zelda Modder Performs The Ultimate Renovation On Breath Of The Wild's Hyrule Castle
@nessisonett modding isn’t illegal, but I didn’t know this game had released on PC?
Still impressive work though and I hope Nintendo don’t hit it with a law suit.
Re: Zelda Modder Performs The Ultimate Renovation On Breath Of The Wild's Hyrule Castle
Just shows you how talented some people are. I couldn’t even dream of making this.
Re: Yes, The Super Mario Bros. Game & Watch Can Run DOOM
Doom on your wrist? That’s quite...
Wait! Is this the Mark of the Beast?!
Re: Review: Just Dance 2021 - Still Fun, But Feels More Like A Cash-Grab Than Ever Before
My biggest problem with this is that the target audience is young children and they have much less self control and so it is harder for them to go without.
I guess with all the season passes and cosmetics of other games that kids play, they feel they need to do this, but it’s a bad business practice.
My wife vowed not to buy another of these games after we discovered how restrictive the song list is in a previous game. So they’ve at leat lost one future customer here. And if they just offered a £10 song pack where you keep songs forever instead of an ongoing subscription they would have kept us much easier. But still would have found it scummy.
Re: Sonic Movie Sequel Scheduled To Start Production In March Next Year
@0blivion my kids are 5 and 8 when we went to the cinema so I don’t think they can dislike anything other than vegetables and school work.
I didn’t think it was the best movie, that’s for sure, but I waited for them to tell me there reaction and then played to their feelings of it. They were telling me how great it was as we walked out of the cinema and took a picture with a Sonic mascot. So I naturally took the position of “that movie was soo awesome” to boost their view of it.
If they said it sucked (which they wouldn’t at that age) I’d probably have given a more critical view.
I still liked the movie though. Maybe more so because they did.
Re: Sonic Movie Sequel Scheduled To Start Production In March Next Year
Well, we know the best character in the series (Tails) will be in it, so it’s gonna be great!
Remember guys, this movie is for kids. As a father of young children, I can confirm the first film filled them joy to see one of their favourite characters on the big screen. And that’s what it’s all about. The bonus was us parents enjoyed it too.
Re: You Can Now Visit Nintendo's Official Island In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
That’s one “trippy” dream.
Re: "Master The Art Of Drifting" When Absolute Drift Speeds Onto Switch This December
@Tasuki the fact @Liam_Doolan didn’t just mention the name and instead gave a subtle reference with actual details of the show proves that the writers of NintendoLife are cultured individuals.
Re: "Master The Art Of Drifting" When Absolute Drift Speeds Onto Switch This December
Wait, I thought the laws of physics dictate that cars are incapable of drifting unless Eurobeat music is playing in the background?