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Love e3, really helps set up what games I plan to get for the Fall / Winter months and teasers for games a few years out. Having so many developers and publishers, it can be hard to follow EVERY game event, so I mostly keep on eye on E3 then the Game Awards in December, with the occasional direct style videos the console makers put out

@Warbeard yeah that Mario Party reveal was a joke! Easily could've been a $15-30 DLC and would've capitalized on getting the existing fan base to purchase & could sell it as a deluxe bundle for newer players at $70-90. Really was a slap in the face to charge full retail price for an N64/ GC remake

@YoshiAngemon I also want to know!

As a long time Metroid fan, have to say Samus Returns was alright. It looks like a very similar graphics engine, wish they pushed the Switch hardware, lots of jagged edges and the graphics look so-so. After having beat Hollow Knight, I think Nintendo has to really up their game because that's the Metroidvania to beat. Will wait for a review and sale for this bad boy, $60 for a Switch game.based on what looks like a 3DS engine just doesn't justify the price for me. $40-50 would've been sweet (like WarioWare)

Makes sense, can't wait!

44k for the new Xbox looks pretty solid compared to last gen. Absolutely impressed with Nintendo just crushing it!

Oh that's gonna be awesome! Great (if not expected) news, love me some Dragon Quest

Gotta love that level of support

DQ XI is definitely the best, absolutely amazing game. The entire series is awesome so glad it has an entire ranking to itself

Didn't expect such a high score, must be fun. Probably won't play it but cool nonetheless

Finally another good use of an amiibo.

Bro if they release "Door bell" I'm gonna lose it!! 🤩🤩

Bookmarked for a sale

Remember when Apple showcased a Wizard of Oz game as a flagship title for the new iPhone a while back?

A related coding game I played on Switch was FUZE. I tried FUZE for about 2-3 hours and found it hard to use with the joycons + keyboard combo and having to fiddle with the tutorial in between. It was helpful and I made a map and some animated sprites but ultimately gave up. This looks great. Hope the tools just get easier and easier to use. Did a python course for fun last spring & it's been helpful for product management and working with devs, always recommend taking at least an entry level course or online tutorials for coding, it can be helpful

Absolute pinnacle of consumerism. They made sense in an age without the internet and digital manuals, sure we love them but ultimately like getting a dummy thicc phonebook for every place you move to. Sure you use it once or twice but then it just sits there 99% of the time only to serve as a fleeting memory of ownership for a product you already know how to use.

Yeah, hope they boost this for games-as-a-service with some DLC and more updates.

Love that Chrono Trigger music in the background.

Dude this is the most obvious title: The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild Deluxe.

I wonder how much all of the plastic Nintendo is responsible for weighs? I probably own like 4kg of Nintendo based material so I know it has to be millions of pounds for us poor nostalgia loving consumers 😂😭

Can't wait for the complete edition. Fighters passes are great for keeping players coming back & good revenue for the companies, but I still wish fighting games launched fully loaded. Events and new stages could keep people cominh back

Like the game but never really got the Zelda comparisons. Just because every games journalist says it still hasn't made it feel that way to me. It's like looking at those photos where one person sees a gold dress and someone else sees a blue one, it just never looks the color people say! I still like Okami, but I agree with people here that it can be slow so therefore I haven't beaten the game either

I watched a video on how the Series SX can emulate pretty much any game ever made with the dev mode unlocked

Ring of Power gives you most bang for your buck.

Can't wait for Mario Kart 9! Sold Mario kart 8 deluxe after a year, had played it a bunch on the Wii U and anytime I raced anyone on Switch it was an absolute bloodbath for them sooo yeah, in the spirit of fair competition I had to sell it so that some day when I race someone it will be a fair, fun match for them.

C'mon, companies may as well just release normal physical copies. It's way less special to do these physical releases for so many games & charge these huge mark-ups from digital to physical. It's ridiculous & unfair to us gamers that this is such a common practice for the Switch

Glad you wrote this article, Gamepass is an amazing offering and has really let me try games I wouldn't otherwise be able to afford or that I've been nervous to purchase. Some might be because the games take up a ton of memory on my microSD (400GB & 200GB) & the other is that they will not run very well on the Switch. Portability is a good selling point for a while, but I own some 80+ games on Switch so pretty sure I have thousands of hours of content on there. But also, I have spent a TON of money the last 4 years on both great games but also games I regret spending the full amount of cash on. I really love Gamepass and have been playing a ton of indie games, AAA titles and some other games that have flown under the radar. It's not to say I won't keep playing my Switch, I just think as a gamer that every gamer would be able to benefit from services like Gamepass Ultimate. Best of both worlds.

@ryan craddock does the inevitable review of The Longing for Switch come as a review in progress until day 400? Or will time travel help get the full picture for the review? 🤔 Game looks super awesome

Get the SplitPad pro, definitely the best way to play in handheld mode, especially for fighting games or reflex heavy platformers (Messenger, metroidvanias).

Outriders is excellent, really enjoying the game. Shame more people are not hopping onto Gamepass, as a long time Nintendo fan & day one owner of a Switch have to say I'm honestly blown away by the Xbox Series X and Gamepass. They have a ton of indies, sports games, shooters, AAA games, etc I held out on getting for the Switch and it paid off. Perfect pair for me (don't have to spend $25 on Narita Boy for example), will get a PS5 Digital some time down the road at a lower price / smaller size for the Sony exclusives but keep cross-platform on the XSX. Absolutely fantastic time to be a gamer! Wish Xbox had more penetration in that market but it's doing well in others. Totally fine, poor MSFT 😂

Great SEO tactic to have the guide split up, but a bit tricky navigating around as a regular site visitor 😵

@TheFullAndy it would seem so unfortunately

@Clyde_Radcliffe yeah this is the point right? They have a few pricing tiers but keeping themes behind a paywall is kinda lame since we pay for the service. Doesn't matter to me who's publishing as it's included with my annual NSO subscription & Tetris 99 is such a good example of how to do that properly

$2 per theme is such a ripoff. Love the Galaga theme, which we could unlock by playing. Major oversight for consumers here.

Oh please let it be so, it would be a fantastic addition and save us gamers some money & plastic from dongles

Doug should address owning 2 consoles and respecting digital purchases between profiles. Really regret some digital purchases because other people in the house can't play certain games on the Lite because it isn't the "primary" console, while playing on the primary requires an internet connection. Really lame compared to PS or Xbox.

Ay I got way too many controllers at this point 😂 I'm in control already NL! Switch Pro launch controller, base joycons, red blue first gen (hyper drift) joycons, gamecube wireless, NES add ons, SNES controller EU version, SplitPad Pro attachment and the new MH Rise Pro Controller (since the joycons constantly drift / to have a level playing field for fighting games). I'll mayyyybe get an N64 controller if Hori or Nintendo releases a full reprint with bluetooth. But please, I have enough controllers haha a PS5s worth of them

Great article, hit all the points (and more) that I've been making here and on the Pure Xbox comments section, thanks for approaching this from a largely non-biased standpoint and covering lots of caveats to game preservation and making games available to gamers for years to come.

This weekend I am playing some Super Mario 64, Star Wars Squadrons and ACNH.. plus started Octopath Traveler on the Xbox series x. Poured 90 hours into the Switch version & happy to start it again and get some achievements this time around. Played a bit on xCloud and Remote Play, was a bit choppy on 2.4GHZ but will switch to 5GHZ to keep it smooth

@kducky11 yeah I might actually get the cartridge...damn nostalgia to hell! Even if I can play this with Xbox remote play, still want a cartridge/ physical for the occasional game I really like

Art style looks fantastic

@GrailUK haha yeah it is obvious it doesn't benefit from having one creative director helping tie it all in together

@kducky11 the game is $9.99 on the Xbox / Microsoft store if you can pick it up there

@GrailUK really random but the Commando squad is Disney canon. They added them into the Clone Wars which is considered canon. Very short cameo 🤓

Star Wars Republic Commando is a must buy if you missed it! If you're on the fence, wish list and buy on sale. Great game! Wonder if online is intact?

Excellent time to launch a AAA heavy hitter!

@Agent069 yeah agreed. Really a money grab. They'll probably bring some of it back anyway to continue churning a profit

@streetzman ooo insult guy over here everyone! Ever heard of the Nintendo eShop? For Wii? 3DS? Wii U? Where many of those older gen titles are held? Lots of us have purchased on those digital eshops as recently as the last few months and definitely over the past 15 years. Not everyone holds onto those consoles & digital purchases aren't tied across the ecosystem. So why don't you use the energy you have to insult other people to use your brain to think about & understand the limitations of the Nintendo eShop and online ecosystem from this century.

Much prefer Xbox's way of treating consumer's purchases with respect and allowing them access to older digital purchases across generations.

That price is highway robbery when you can pick up all 3 games for under $10 on most systems / devices. Really doubt accessing these digitally will be a problem ever.