These presentations must be what inspired them to make Pokémon Sleep because they have become quite a snooze fest with all this mobile junk. I really miss the pre-mobile days of Pokémon. Sigh.
Being that the steam deck is literally a handheld computer that happens to play a variety of video games, it’s not really fair to compare that to the Nintendo Switch any more than it is to compare mobile games or smart phones with the switch. Or even iPads & other tablets. The hybrid aspect of the steam deck could make a fairly valid argument for comparison to some, but still the steam deck is a computer with a lot of functionality that goes far beyond gaming, whereas the switch is simply a game system. Period.
Another example of why “if the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future”. Digital games are easy to copycat and put out, and there’s so little investment (if any!), compared to physical games. These copycat producers pocket the profits because people love digital games and buy this junk that’s generally not even refundable despite being a “fake”. If a company invests in actual game creation/innovation, and testing, fixing bugs, etc then puts it into physical distribution it’s usually a much better product. But people still chase the digital. The industry is heading for a collapse. I don’t care who wants to say negative things to me about this but it’s a fact. I have worked in the industry both as a programmer and a retailer, and I can see it’s in serious trouble.
Scalpers would have to find real jobs if supply actually met demand. This is a terrible situation because the blame belongs solely with the companies producing limited amounts of things that the public desperately wants and struggles to get.
Okay, instead of a remake, why not make a totally new game that’s like the old style games we loved? And incorporate something really fun with it like the Pokewalker accessory. Also I’d like to see a retro style but totally new mystery dungeon game for switch. Or maybe even combine the two into one game, where you flip back and forth between those two game styles (traditional Pokémon, and mystery dungeon) within one game. What happened to innovation in our current game era? Let’s get creative and make fun games again that people love and can’t stop raving about.
Their Pokémon presentations have gone painfully in the wrong direction. I know companies are making a fortune on mobile games somehow but that has become all they care about anymore, and most definitely is the case with Pokémon. Side note, Nintendo has jumped on that bandwagon too with things like Animal Crossing, which they put all kinds of unique and cool stuff into the mobile game but never in the console game. I wish these companies would just pour their effort into GOOD, well made console games like they used to and get away from the temporary cash cow that mobile gaming is. So yeah I’m not at all excited for any announcements they will make at Pokémon directs anymore. They just aren’t the same company I once loved.
I hope this little Tetris handheld doesn’t have a sideways mounted TFT LCD screen like so many of the cheap handhelds do. Those things are brutal on the eyes.
All the more reason to boycott digital gaming. Remember, digital games are only rentals. You play as long as they let you and only on their terms. If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future! Buy physical games only! They are always YOURS to play how and when you want! 😀
Still disturbing they waste time on making something like this when we are waiting for far more important things like Switch 2, Tomodachi Life, a new Animal Crossing game, etc. This is obviously not a popular product and it has such a tiny demographic.
Virtual console and NSO would be the same when it comes to Nintendo Switch because of DRM. Nothing digital is ever yours. You will always need online validation to play, even your primary system will require that from time to time. The only solution is to release these games in compilations on cartridges, like Sega did.
A giant problem with Nintendo is they don’t know how to do a one and done validation for your digital games. Take Apple for instance. You buy a digital game, download it to your iPhone and maybe two iPads. Apple validates it when you download it to your devices and you can use that forever, even offline, because it’s already been validated. But if you buy a digital game at Nintendo and play it on a second or third switch it has to validate it online every single time you play. Even if you open and close it three times in five minutes it still needs to validate it each time. That’s cheap and technologically backwards. Nintendo needs to move forward. Invest in things that make the gamer have a smoother and more enjoyable gameplay experience. Not everyone can be constantly connected to Wi-Fi. So with Nintendo games this is specifically and precisely why you need to purchase 100% physical games so they cannot dictate when or where you play. You deserve freedom. If you pay for a game you should be able to play it when and where you want regardless of being online.
Actually it was pretty fun. The stuff I posted on there was hilarious. Felt like a Nintendo Instagram without ads. But maybe Instagram is what squashed it. Or perhaps all the nearly scandalous pictures people posted. Honestly the one thing Nintendo needs to bring back from that era is StreetPass. And themes, colors, cute folders, music, etc for our Switch home page. It’s just horribly generic and ugly as it is. And we need game playtime records again too! Who else misses pulling up how many hours you spent on this game or that game? Yeah if you look on your main switch you get a general amount (played 10 hours or more, for example), but I like details. First played 2-7-25, game play 4 hours 52 minutes. Stuff like that. Nintendo keeps record but they only show us a bit at the end of the year. Why do they drop such useful things as they go forward?!
Animal crossing clone this is definitely NOT. There are a lot of very complex puzzles that will have you scratching your head, especially the haunted house which resembles Luigi’s Mansion 3 in a lot of ways. There’s a lot of complex overlapping quests all through the game too. Don’t let the cute appearance of this fool you! This is a game for all gamers. Unless you need something super easy like Animal Crossing. In other words, if you’re looking for a sandbox game, this isn’t it. Great game tho, and I’d rate it a 10.
The decline is SOLELY due to lack of availability. The video game industry will have a full on crash if this problem continues. If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. Only the tangible will last!
The only good thing they have released in the last 20 years is the MySims series. And they own PopCap games but refuse to put them on Nintendo consoles after Nintendo DS, which is a major loss. (PopCap = Bejeweled, Bookworm, Zuma, Peggle, Plants vs Zombies, etc).
I’m the minority here because I’m honestly not excited at all about this potential Mario Kart 9 and especially 24 racers, but the thought dawned on me that it would be cool if Nintendo made an Animal Crossing Kart game with a vast number of characters from the game to race as or against, and cars made in themes that you find in the game, and allow you to customize them as such, and tracks based on all kinds of stuff, even wacky things like racing around inside massive “houses”, or across landscapes, islands, water, inside the museum, etc. And seasonal weather even affecting races (snow, wind, rain, etc). That would be a fun departure from Mario Kart. Also being a big fan of Mario Golf, it would be cool to see them use these ideas for golf courses too, and let you play as some of the many popular characters in animal crossing. Nintendo plays it way too safe anymore. Their games are becoming predictable and boring. I’d love to see them jump out of the same old stuff and do innovative and fun new things with games, and mix things up like they used to.
Meanwhile I’m over here trying to rationalize why people will buy a bunch of digital games and need a stack of micro SD cards to store them on. Why not just buy physical games?!
This looked like a rushed AI created “teaser” or better yet appeaser to combat the nonstop rumors and reveals. As I said before this obsession is just awful. Doesn’t anyone do anything else besides think of this system? I was honestly very disappointed with the “official” reveal because it lacks any explanation, technical specifications, or software info besides Mario Kart which I’m very much “over” because they’ve been advertising and selling that game in every which way possible nonstop for years. Even this past holiday was all about Mario Kart. I would be much more excited if this reveal specifically stated screen size, hardware power, and at least 1-2 NEW games. New as in totally new, not sequels. Or perhaps even if it was a sequel, how about Animal Crossing? People have been desperate for a new version of that, or even a remastered version of New Leaf.
The biggest problem is actually all the websites that devote all their attention to leaks and rumors of a system that’s never been formally announced. It is an unhealthy obsession that is contagious and causes readers as well as more websites to do the same. There’s so much stuff we already have that is always overlooked. Hundreds of games that never get a review or even a mention, for instance. Because everyone is obsessed with the one mystery thing they don’t have. Doesn’t anyone see how wrong that is? Nintendo should be doing something like releasing more games or the new system, absolutely, but is that the only thing that matters in the world? Do gamers play other games or systems? I know I sure do. And I honestly get so tired of the switch 2 obsession. I’d love to see other things get some attention for once!
The idiocy in this is that Nintendo continually shuts down and/or discontinues products and services that people are still actively using or interested in buying. And then they have the audacity to police it after the fact. Why not just keep these things going so people can enjoy them. Most notably the 3DS systems, games, and online services. This would all still be profitable today had it not been shut down. Nintendo is a company that makes no sense a lot of the time. And so here we are 8 years into the Switch life and barely a trickle of games coming, and zero announcement on the successor either. And no way to enjoy all the features of the previous systems while we wait. Gamers will still game regardless of what Nintendo says. If they don’t have things to entertain us we find other stuff to do. Things like finding ways to play their older stuff or perhaps just moving on to competing systems. Loyalty and patience can only stretch so far!
This should have been called Donkey Kong Country Boomerang. It just keeps returning! I got this for free on 3DS from Nintendo as a parting gift from the end of their much better rewards program they had back then.
Hardware is a paperweight without software, there’s no point whatsoever in buying it with nothing to play on it. They need to announce at least 2 different games with the system reveal or the response will be a yawn of boredom. 🥱
Definitely getting the 4k physical copy of Hello Kitty Island Adventures on Switch 2 this spring. Not wasting my time/money with the digital only version on the original Switch.
Nintendo is snoozing with Snorlax. In the meantime, game sites that have nothing new to report could maybe fill this emptiness with doing reviews on vast numbers of games they missed over the years! Or maybe do highlight features on fun games over the last several years. Or even make strategy guides for games that are more complex. It’s never good to just focus on one thing. That system will come out eventually. Let’s do other things while we wait!
It’s kinda funny that NintendoLife has done dozens (or hundreds?) of articles about the Switch 2… it’s basically been a never ending flood of “reveals”. So there’s nothing left for Nintendo to announce now except the date and any launch day games. Oddly, Nintendo has been sound asleep for nearly a year. Did they forget to set their Alarmo?
Ridiculous. All Nintendo has to do to stop this nonsense is have the label “cut out” on the front and back of the game cases to show the actual game cartridge inside, fully visible from the front and back.
The Nintendo branded (SanDisk) memory cards have an actual warranty by Nintendo printed on the package. So “cute design” or not, I’d rather have a guarantee to at least get my money back if my data is lost/corrupted.
The thing that amazes me is that there are still humans that don’t own Mario Kart 8 at this point lol. Vast numbers of them based on how many copies of this are still selling! I mean it’s cool, that’s a great game. It’s just so old, it baffles the mind that it’s still near or at the top every month!
That battle took forever too, ugh. I was almost 30 when I got that game back then so there wasn’t any drama for me, just exhaustion from how long it took to finish it 😆
It’s been a year and you got one thing completely right… zero announcement of switch 2 until 2025. Kind of surprised me they would put that off another year. But then again, that’s so Nintendo.
Still no Wordtris. That was always the one I played the most. At least I can still play it on my GameBoy and Super Nintendo. Gotta love how physical games can be played 30-40 years later! 😀 #IfTheFutureOfGamingIsDigitalThenGamingHasNoFuture
For everyone uninspired by the similarity of switch to switch 2, remember we did this with DS and 3DS… and the 3DS had a very short run 🤔 maybe they are cooking up a whole new system on the side like they did with switch overlapping and squashing the 3DS
Back when games were 100% physical it was a lot easier to pick a quality game. People don’t seem to realize how much the digital game movement is destroying gaming not only now but for the entire future if it doesn’t stop.
They were exploding with profits when they made casual, family friendly games on the DS & 3DS. Now all they want to make is violent garbage and they go bankrupt. Hmm.
Sony and Microsoft have a strong affinity for digital gaming. So knowing them, they’d make a digital only handheld, which in my mind is just like playing games on a phone, tablet, or perhaps a steam deck. Those bases are covered so there’s no point. As long as Nintendo makes handheld systems that take cartridges, they will own the market! Sony and Microsoft have no idea how to make cartridge games.
Definitely not, it would upend a lot of things… many people have already completed Christmas shopping, or are in the process of it now, and showcasing new games or systems this late would likely make a lot of people angry or cause them to return games or systems to wait for new releases instead. From a business standpoint this would be very bad to do a direct now. I would expect one in February, after the Christmas season has settled down. And of course that will showcase the switch successor and release day games.
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Re: How Would You Rate The Pokémon Presents Showcase For February 2025?
These presentations must be what inspired them to make Pokémon Sleep because they have become quite a snooze fest with all this mobile junk. I really miss the pre-mobile days of Pokémon. Sigh.
Re: Nintendo Switch 2 Doesn't Need To Worry About Steam Deck Sales
Being that the steam deck is literally a handheld computer that happens to play a variety of video games, it’s not really fair to compare that to the Nintendo Switch any more than it is to compare mobile games or smart phones with the switch. Or even iPads & other tablets. The hybrid aspect of the steam deck could make a fairly valid argument for comparison to some, but still the steam deck is a computer with a lot of functionality that goes far beyond gaming, whereas the switch is simply a game system. Period.
Re: Stunning New Physical Edition Of Stardew Valley Is Now Available At Fangamer
For everyone curious about what version is on this, it’s 1.5.
Re: "They Stole The Whole Game" - Horror Indie Dev Fights The eShop Scam Blatantly Ripping Their Work
Another example of why “if the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future”. Digital games are easy to copycat and put out, and there’s so little investment (if any!), compared to physical games. These copycat producers pocket the profits because people love digital games and buy this junk that’s generally not even refundable despite being a “fake”. If a company invests in actual game creation/innovation, and testing, fixing bugs, etc then puts it into physical distribution it’s usually a much better product. But people still chase the digital. The industry is heading for a collapse. I don’t care who wants to say negative things to me about this but it’s a fact. I have worked in the industry both as a programmer and a retailer, and I can see it’s in serious trouble.
Re: GameStop Discontinues Pokémon Trading Card Game Pre-Orders
Scalpers would have to find real jobs if supply actually met demand. This is a terrible situation because the blame belongs solely with the companies producing limited amounts of things that the public desperately wants and struggles to get.
Re: Poll: Which Pokémon Game Really Deserves A Remake Next?
Okay, instead of a remake, why not make a totally new game that’s like the old style games we loved? And incorporate something really fun with it like the Pokewalker accessory.
Also I’d like to see a retro style but totally new mystery dungeon game for switch. Or maybe even combine the two into one game, where you flip back and forth between those two game styles (traditional Pokémon, and mystery dungeon) within one game. What happened to innovation in our current game era? Let’s get creative and make fun games again that people love and can’t stop raving about.
Re: Talking Point: The 3DS Library Is Ripe For Switch 2, But Is NSO The Way To Go?
Remasters, remakes, physical copies ONLY. Start with Tomodachi Life, Animal Crossing New Leaf, and Style Savvy Styling Star.
Re: Talking Point: Should We Actually Get Excited For Pokémon Day This Year?
Their Pokémon presentations have gone painfully in the wrong direction. I know companies are making a fortune on mobile games somehow but that has become all they care about anymore, and most definitely is the case with Pokémon. Side note, Nintendo has jumped on that bandwagon too with things like Animal Crossing, which they put all kinds of unique and cool stuff into the mobile game but never in the console game. I wish these companies would just pour their effort into GOOD, well made console games like they used to and get away from the temporary cash cow that mobile gaming is. So yeah I’m not at all excited for any announcements they will make at Pokémon directs anymore. They just aren’t the same company I once loved.
Re: Tetris Forever Is Getting Its Own Collectable Handheld Console
I hope this little Tetris handheld doesn’t have a sideways mounted TFT LCD screen like so many of the cheap handhelds do. Those things are brutal on the eyes.
Re: Opinion: Scrapping Gold Points Makes Sense For Nintendo, But It's A Bitter Pill For Loyal Fans
All the more reason to boycott digital gaming. Remember, digital games are only rentals. You play as long as they let you and only on their terms. If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future! Buy physical games only! They are always YOURS to play how and when you want! 😀
Re: Alarmo Now Available To Everyone On The My Nintendo Store (US)
Still disturbing they waste time on making something like this when we are waiting for far more important things like Switch 2, Tomodachi Life, a new Animal Crossing game, etc. This is obviously not a popular product and it has such a tiny demographic.
Re: Hideki Kamiya Wants Nintendo To Reboot Virtual Console For Switch 2
Virtual console and NSO would be the same when it comes to Nintendo Switch because of DRM. Nothing digital is ever yours. You will always need online validation to play, even your primary system will require that from time to time. The only solution is to release these games in compilations on cartridges, like Sega did.
Re: Switch 2 Units Are Reportedly Selling For $40,000 On The Chinese Black Market
Might be a good time to change this website name from NintendoLife to NintendoRumours, just a thought. 😂🤨
Re: Switch 2 Patent Suggests You Can Flip The Console Upside Down
Honestly I’d rather this flipped OPEN to reveal a second screen like a DS instead of flip upside down!
Re: Nintendo President Reiterates Switch Online Will "Continue To Be Available" For Switch 2
A giant problem with Nintendo is they don’t know how to do a one and done validation for your digital games. Take Apple for instance. You buy a digital game, download it to your iPhone and maybe two iPads. Apple validates it when you download it to your devices and you can use that forever, even offline, because it’s already been validated. But if you buy a digital game at Nintendo and play it on a second or third switch it has to validate it online every single time you play. Even if you open and close it three times in five minutes it still needs to validate it each time. That’s cheap and technologically backwards. Nintendo needs to move forward. Invest in things that make the gamer have a smoother and more enjoyable gameplay experience. Not everyone can be constantly connected to Wi-Fi. So with Nintendo games this is specifically and precisely why you need to purchase 100% physical games so they cannot dictate when or where you play. You deserve freedom. If you pay for a game you should be able to play it when and where you want regardless of being online.
Re: Opinion: Miiverse Was Fine, But Does Anybody Really Want It Back In 2025?
Actually it was pretty fun. The stuff I posted on there was hilarious. Felt like a Nintendo Instagram without ads. But maybe Instagram is what squashed it. Or perhaps all the nearly scandalous pictures people posted. Honestly the one thing Nintendo needs to bring back from that era is StreetPass. And themes, colors, cute folders, music, etc for our Switch home page. It’s just horribly generic and ugly as it is. And we need game playtime records again too! Who else misses pulling up how many hours you spent on this game or that game? Yeah if you look on your main switch you get a general amount (played 10 hours or more, for example), but I like details. First played 2-7-25, game play 4 hours 52 minutes. Stuff like that. Nintendo keeps record but they only show us a bit at the end of the year. Why do they drop such useful things as they go forward?!
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Hello Kitty Island Adventure (Switch)
Animal crossing clone this is definitely NOT. There are a lot of very complex puzzles that will have you scratching your head, especially the haunted house which resembles Luigi’s Mansion 3 in a lot of ways. There’s a lot of complex overlapping quests all through the game too. Don’t let the cute appearance of this fool you! This is a game for all gamers. Unless you need something super easy like Animal Crossing. In other words, if you’re looking for a sandbox game, this isn’t it. Great game tho, and I’d rate it a 10.
Re: Japan's Switch eShop Will Soon No Longer Accept Overseas Payment Methods
Maybe they should stop releasing so many games for Japan only!
Re: US Physical Game Spending Continued To Decline Last Year, Now Sits At Half 2021's Numbers
The decline is SOLELY due to lack of availability. The video game industry will have a full on crash if this problem continues. If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. Only the tangible will last!
Re: EA's Share Price Plummets After Reports Of Disappointing Financial Performance
The only good thing they have released in the last 20 years is the MySims series. And they own PopCap games but refuse to put them on Nintendo consoles after Nintendo DS, which is a major loss. (PopCap = Bejeweled, Bookworm, Zuma, Peggle, Plants vs Zombies, etc).
Re: Poll: So, How Would You Feel About 24 Racers In Mario Kart 9?
I’m the minority here because I’m honestly not excited at all about this potential Mario Kart 9 and especially 24 racers, but the thought dawned on me that it would be cool if Nintendo made an Animal Crossing Kart game with a vast number of characters from the game to race as or against, and cars made in themes that you find in the game, and allow you to customize them as such, and tracks based on all kinds of stuff, even wacky things like racing around inside massive “houses”, or across landscapes, islands, water, inside the museum, etc. And seasonal weather even affecting races (snow, wind, rain, etc). That would be a fun departure from Mario Kart. Also being a big fan of Mario Golf, it would be cool to see them use these ideas for golf courses too, and let you play as some of the many popular characters in animal crossing. Nintendo plays it way too safe anymore. Their games are becoming predictable and boring. I’d love to see them jump out of the same old stuff and do innovative and fun new things with games, and mix things up like they used to.
Re: Video: We've Spotted Some Secrets In The Nintendo Switch 2 Reveal Trailer
Meanwhile I’m over here trying to rationalize why people will buy a bunch of digital games and need a stack of micro SD cards to store them on. Why not just buy physical games?!
Re: Poll: So, What Did You Think Of The Switch 2 Reveal?
This looked like a rushed AI created “teaser” or better yet appeaser to combat the nonstop rumors and reveals. As I said before this obsession is just awful. Doesn’t anyone do anything else besides think of this system? I was honestly very disappointed with the “official” reveal because it lacks any explanation, technical specifications, or software info besides Mario Kart which I’m very much “over” because they’ve been advertising and selling that game in every which way possible nonstop for years. Even this past holiday was all about Mario Kart. I would be much more excited if this reveal specifically stated screen size, hardware power, and at least 1-2 NEW games. New as in totally new, not sequels. Or perhaps even if it was a sequel, how about Animal Crossing? People have been desperate for a new version of that, or even a remastered version of New Leaf.
Re: Nintendo Is "Very Upset" About The Switch 2 Leaks, It's Claimed
The biggest problem is actually all the websites that devote all their attention to leaks and rumors of a system that’s never been formally announced. It is an unhealthy obsession that is contagious and causes readers as well as more websites to do the same. There’s so much stuff we already have that is always overlooked. Hundreds of games that never get a review or even a mention, for instance. Because everyone is obsessed with the one mystery thing they don’t have. Doesn’t anyone see how wrong that is? Nintendo should be doing something like releasing more games or the new system, absolutely, but is that the only thing that matters in the world? Do gamers play other games or systems? I know I sure do. And I honestly get so tired of the switch 2 obsession. I’d love to see other things get some attention for once!
Re: Nintendo Asks Wii U Owners To Refrain From Using "Unauthorised" Online Services
The idiocy in this is that Nintendo continually shuts down and/or discontinues products and services that people are still actively using or interested in buying. And then they have the audacity to police it after the fact. Why not just keep these things going so people can enjoy them. Most notably the 3DS systems, games, and online services. This would all still be profitable today had it not been shut down. Nintendo is a company that makes no sense a lot of the time. And so here we are 8 years into the Switch life and barely a trickle of games coming, and zero announcement on the successor either. And no way to enjoy all the features of the previous systems while we wait. Gamers will still game regardless of what Nintendo says. If they don’t have things to entertain us we find other stuff to do. Things like finding ways to play their older stuff or perhaps just moving on to competing systems. Loyalty and patience can only stretch so far!
Re: Review: Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (Switch) - Aping A Retro Classic
This should have been called Donkey Kong Country Boomerang. It just keeps returning! I got this for free on 3DS from Nintendo as a parting gift from the end of their much better rewards program they had back then.
Re: Rumour: 'Switch 2' Will Reportedly Be Officially Revealed This Thursday
Hardware is a paperweight without software, there’s no point whatsoever in buying it with nothing to play on it. They need to announce at least 2 different games with the system reveal or the response will be a yawn of boredom. 🥱
Re: Genki Claims The 'Switch 2' Joy-Con Can Be Removed By 'Brute Force'
I really do NOT like the idea of using magnets for the joycons. This is a bad idea and seems like it will result in many problems for this new switch.
Re: 'Switch 2' Ergonomic Grip Case Surfaces On Amazon
All of the NDAs expired on 31 Dec and Nintendo must have decided it was worth the risk.
Re: Yes, We're Getting Closer To Pokémon Day
Ironically I’m diving into a brand new game of X/Y (specifically X) after a 10 year hiatus 😎
Re: Video: 15 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In January 2025
Definitely getting the 4k physical copy of Hello Kitty Island Adventures on Switch 2 this spring. Not wasting my time/money with the digital only version on the original Switch.
Re: Talking Point: Everyone Else Is Busy Revealing Switch 2 - What Gives, Nintendo?
Nintendo is snoozing with Snorlax. In the meantime, game sites that have nothing new to report could maybe fill this emptiness with doing reviews on vast numbers of games they missed over the years! Or maybe do highlight features on fun games over the last several years. Or even make strategy guides for games that are more complex. It’s never good to just focus on one thing. That system will come out eventually. Let’s do other things while we wait!
Re: Is This Our Best Look Yet At 'Switch 2'?
It’s kinda funny that NintendoLife has done dozens (or hundreds?) of articles about the Switch 2… it’s basically been a never ending flood of “reveals”. So there’s nothing left for Nintendo to announce now except the date and any launch day games. Oddly, Nintendo has been sound asleep for nearly a year. Did they forget to set their Alarmo?
Re: Random: Switch Players Report Game Cards Being Swapped Out For Googly Eyes
Ridiculous. All Nintendo has to do to stop this nonsense is have the label “cut out” on the front and back of the game cases to show the actual game cartridge inside, fully visible from the front and back.
Re: Samsung Reveals New Sonic-Themed MicroSD Cards
The Nintendo branded (SanDisk) memory cards have an actual warranty by Nintendo printed on the package. So “cute design” or not, I’d rather have a guarantee to at least get my money back if my data is lost/corrupted.
Re: UK Charts: Nintendo Switch Closes Out 2024 With The Old Favourites
The thing that amazes me is that there are still humans that don’t own Mario Kart 8 at this point lol. Vast numbers of them based on how many copies of this are still selling! I mean it’s cool, that’s a great game. It’s just so old, it baffles the mind that it’s still near or at the top every month!
Re: Best Of 2024: The Trauma Of Giygas & Growing Up In EarthBound
That battle took forever too, ugh. I was almost 30 when I got that game back then so there wasn’t any drama for me, just exhaustion from how long it took to finish it 😆
Re: Multiple Cartoon Network Games Have Been Removed From The Switch eShop
If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has NO future.
Re: Best Of 2024: 'DO NOT MENTION SWITCH 2' - We Infiltrate Nintendo And Sneak A Peek At Its 2024 Calendar
It’s been a year and you got one thing completely right… zero announcement of switch 2 until 2025. Kind of surprised me they would put that off another year. But then again, that’s so Nintendo.
Re: 'Tetris Forever' Adds Curious Sequel 'Welltris' Via A Free Update
Still no Wordtris. That was always the one I played the most. At least I can still play it on my GameBoy and Super Nintendo. Gotta love how physical games can be played 30-40 years later! 😀 #IfTheFutureOfGamingIsDigitalThenGamingHasNoFuture
Re: Thieves Steal Thousands Of Pounds Of Rare Pokémon Cards From YouTuber's Company
Thievul and Purrloin were behind this.
Re: Your 'Nintendo Switch Year In Review 2024' Stats Are Available Now
126 games and 329 hours, and switch is only one of several systems I played this year
Re: PSA: If You're Into Switch 2 'Leaks', It's The Wild West Out There Right Now
For everyone uninspired by the similarity of switch to switch 2, remember we did this with DS and 3DS… and the 3DS had a very short run 🤔 maybe they are cooking up a whole new system on the side like they did with switch overlapping and squashing the 3DS
Re: Opinion: Nintendo Needs To Let Us Block The Crap On Switch 2's eShop
Back when games were 100% physical it was a lot easier to pick a quality game. People don’t seem to realize how much the digital game movement is destroying gaming not only now but for the entire future if it doesn’t stop.
Re: Ubisoft Closes Two Studios And Will Reportedly Lay Off Hundreds Of Employees
@Anti-Matter I do like those, I have most of them, but they really don’t have the charm that they Imagine & Petz ones did way back when.
Re: Ubisoft Closes Two Studios And Will Reportedly Lay Off Hundreds Of Employees
They were exploding with profits when they made casual, family friendly games on the DS & 3DS. Now all they want to make is violent garbage and they go bankrupt. Hmm.
Re: Talking Point: Can Sony And Microsoft Really Compete With Nintendo In A New 'Handheld War'?
Sony and Microsoft have a strong affinity for digital gaming. So knowing them, they’d make a digital only handheld, which in my mind is just like playing games on a phone, tablet, or perhaps a steam deck. Those bases are covered so there’s no point. As long as Nintendo makes handheld systems that take cartridges, they will own the market! Sony and Microsoft have no idea how to make cartridge games.
Re: Poll: After Three Quiet Months, Will We Finally Get A Nintendo Direct In December?
Definitely not, it would upend a lot of things… many people have already completed Christmas shopping, or are in the process of it now, and showcasing new games or systems this late would likely make a lot of people angry or cause them to return games or systems to wait for new releases instead. From a business standpoint this would be very bad to do a direct now. I would expect one in February, after the Christmas season has settled down. And of course that will showcase the switch successor and release day games.
Re: A Bunch Of Nascar Games Will Soon Be Delisted From The Switch eShop
If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. 😏
Re: Poll: So, Will You Be Getting Donkey Kong Country Returns HD For Switch?
How many times is Donkey Kong Country gonna return? lol
I’m not getting it though. Never really enjoyed this one much.