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@WiltonRoots you’re right! The switch doesn’t even come close! And those old games are still fun today! 😀

@SuperRetroArt I’ve been playing video games almost daily since 1977. Yes, it’s been almost 50 years. And I can state emphatically that I have never noticed or cared about frame rates. I play to have fun. Sure some games have flaws. So does all media. Websites, music, movies, etc. But, like you, I just don’t care. I like the experience of playing and enjoying a game, not making it a tech spectacle. Nice to see a fellow gamer with the same mindset! 😀

Nintendo did make a strong commitment to continue selling physical games, and that further cements the need for backwards compatibility with the switch 2. Just like the 3ds with DS games. I’ve always hoped (and even saw a patent application for) a dual screen switch successor. It would be a dream come true if they made a system like that and it was backwards compatible with DS, 3DS, and switch games. Playable on a tv with the main console screen of the handheld device functioning as screen 2, and of course playable in handheld mode with both screens as a DS/3DS/Switch/Switch2. Gamers could buy games for all systems (including GameCube!) on the eShop, or just play their own physical ones I mentioned above.

Nintendo wastes their time on a game like Emio when they could have made something that people REALLY want, like Tomodachi Life or Nintendogs. SMH. 🤦🏻‍♀️

The RIGHT thing to do would be to create a version of this on switch that allows us to unlock all the in-game items we accumulated over the years and/or have the option to just obtain them otherwise in a complete paid version on a cartridge for the switch. But it’s Nintendo so… nope. Never please the players, or think of what they want.

That’s great. I would absolutely buy it. Why can’t they do this with Animal Crossing/Happy Home Paradise? 🤨

I have the switch version that’s already out, I found it to be quite a bit of fun and one of the few games I can actually see pretty good on the switch lite too!

@dartmonkey yes I so agree with you. Stickers devalue a set too in my opinion.

I built this yesterday and it’s really cute. I do agree that Orville was a painful omission but otherwise this set is great. I’ve built all of the Animal Crossing Lego sets, as well as hundreds of other sets over the years and I want to point out that this 10 cent per brick rule people abide by doesn’t really apply with most sets anymore, and that’s due to the fact that tiny details like flowers and other single studs can be sold for pennies but these printed tiles that are found in the Animal Crossing sets, as well as other larger than usual tiles included can sell for a few dollars each on the Lego website (in pick a brick). So with that said, again I will emphasize these sets have only printed tiles and no stickers, they are pretty affordably or appropriately priced for what they are. I’m not disappointed with any of them, personally.

I see a lot of people saying they need to drop the price on the switch… I am all for saving money but really this system is approaching 8 years old, and we have had absolutely excessive inflation worldwide since this released and yet it still sells for the same price it did at launch. Honestly I think that’s great. Just in the USA alone, according to the inflation calculator, this system that’s 299.99 would sell now for 384.50. I think we are doing alright! Also the DS having such a powerful lead over all other Nintendo systems speaks volumes about what gamers really like. Handheld gaming is the way to go. We are a mobile generation. And keeping the switch successor portable is critical. Honestly I wish they would release a modernized dual screen system as well as a “switch 2”.

Of all the games to pick, why this one? We already have it on switch as rescue team dx. Strange. It’s a good game but there are so many others that would have been better choices. FireRed/LeafGreen or even Emerald or something… since the batteries in some of these old games that use real time events don’t work anymore on the GBA after all these years.

This offer isn’t very inclusive. What about all the solo gamers out there? Do they not matter to Nintendo now? 🤨

@SillyG actually there are sort of 3 amiibo games. Two for the Wii U, and one for the 3ds, which is shown here https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/3ds-eshop/mini_mario_and_friends_amiibo_challenge
That same game is on the Wii U, and the other Wii U one was based on Animal Crossing. None of them were particularly memorable though 😆

This is actually pretty funny! I’ve seen fluent English speaking people say more ridiculous things than this (even leading politicians!) so this game doesn’t look bad at all in light of that 😆

@Savage_Joe you are completely wrong, I have 47 Super Nintendo games right here next to me that I play regularly. I also have more than 50 NES games, more than 50 GameBoy games, and many other legacy games including Atari and Intellivision that work just fine TODAY in the original systems I have owned since the late 70s and beyond. You obviously are not old enough to have experienced the joys of legacy games, and you won’t in the future because digital games will have no access.

If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. The past validates this point. Keep these physical games coming! I will always buy physical ones only!

This practice should mandate that cartridges sold after the patches & updates are out, should be updated themselves to INCLUDE all patches and updates ON the cartridge. I’ve actually seen some do this, but it’s not common.
As I always say, if the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. Reasons like this article scream loud and clear why that is true.

Leaving Tomodachi Life off of this list is criminal.

I have only the basic NSO but received and completed the survey anyway. I told them I was satisfied with the basic service and never planning to get the expansion. I did have that expansion briefly awhile back, and hated it, and very rarely used it, found the tiny screen of the n64 (handheld mode) to be terribly disappointing and there were zero GBA games I liked. And certainly no need for the Genesis console since I own almost all of those on the Sega Genesis Classics cartridge. Nintendo was kind enough to refund me for the expansion and I’ve been happily using the cheap NSO service and enjoying the NES, GB, and SNES games with it.

@sixrings you’re right. The movie industry is on the brink of a total collapse. In fact, a record breaking strike happened due to the consequences of digital streaming and the epic profit losses incurred as a result.

If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future.

Finally! I get my kleptomaniac mouse! 🐭

Psh, 25 years is nothing when you get to be my age. That being said, I loved that game on 64, but Mario Golf on GBA was much better! And so was the GameCube one! That’s my favorite!

What I wish for:
Tomodachi Life 2
Animal Crossing New Leaf Deluxe
Style Savvy 4 Styling Star HD
Dr Mario/Tetris Attack, Switch Version

What I will get: Zelda, Metroid, etc type games/DLC
Sigh 😔

I’d like to see a proper style savvy game and graphically enhanced remakes of harvest moon magical melody and grand bazaar!

Wasn’t there a review of the game here just yesterday? So, it’s not that crazy that others have played it too! Mine arrives here in a couple hours.

Finally! These are the Taito “milestones” I’ve been waiting for!

I didn’t want to buy this game because I thought it was a hot mess when I played it 20 years ago (yea I know that’s an unpopular opinion, I admit), but I got an offer to get it for 30% off at target plus my 5% off with their card, so I preordered it and that made it around $40. Thankfully no cancellation notice so far! And hopefully I’ll enjoy the game more this time around. Life is a lot different for me now than it was in 2004. That could make all the difference! Sometimes playing video games under bad circumstances can make us think negatively of a game that might actually be awesome.

UPDATE: I just got an email right after typing this, that my Paper Mario game just shipped! I’m stunned! It will be here several days before release. This must be why they are cancelling preorders but mine slipped through!

Fanning that kleptomania flame! lol. As for me, I just like having a cute mouse in a game! 😁

I remember the NES remix for 3ds, I was so excited to get that and then so utterly let down when I realized it was nothing but select bite size bits of games I loved. Never going down that road again. If it’s not full games, there’s just no point in getting it.

That’s good because if the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. The past, even recent past will loudly validate that!

I used to love square enix. At one time it was only their RPGs that I would ever play. But anything they have put out in recent years has really been pretty lousy, and it’s always irritated me severely that the enhanced remake of Secret of Mana was never released on switch. And don’t EVEN get me started on the whole Kingdom Hearts disaster. They have no love for Nintendo gamers. So I moved on. There’s many other RPGs I enjoy more than square enix ones now. Just my personal thoughts.

I just keep wondering if during this in-between time they might release another version of switch, such as an LCD XL or something like they kept doing with DS and 3DS in their latter days.

@Joriss I have a laserdisc player and laserdiscs. The reason why they didn’t survive through the years like music CDs is because the process of making such a large disc created problems with sealing the media film inside the plastic, and air & humidity would get in and create “laser rot” which is what we called it in the 80s & 90s, and significantly compromise the video quality. To that end, video games on discs, while made better and not subject to “laser rot” can often find the game systems themselves break down due to constantly moving parts (particularly the laser arm that constantly moves back and forth to read the disc). In stark contrast, over the decades you will find that many systems made in the 80s, and their games, such as Atari, Intellivision, Nintendo, and many others still work today because of how they are made which is close to how switch games are made. So in the case of Nintendo switch games, they can potentially last “forever”, and the most likely barrier to playing them in the future would be the system fan or the screen on the switch not working. So physical media is always the way to go. Digital is a vapor. It’s here and gone. (3ds eShop, anyone?).

Oh no, not the dreaded electromagnetic suction docking structure! Do you know how many stability updates they will have to do for that thing?! 🫣

My favorites are Side Pocket, Super Scrabble, Wordtris, and Boggle Plus. Also greatly enjoy Spot (7up), Tetris Attack, Tetris Blast, Pac-Man, Yoshi’s Cookie, Kirby Pinball, and so many more that no one likely remembers. Would love to see these on switch but since they probably will never show up, I got an analogue pocket to play them, and yay - no subscription required either!

Analogue Pocket because I just got a shiny new one yesterday and long live physical gaming! I’m happily digging thru my mountain of GB, GBC and GBA games to play on it all weekend! 😀

We never get a Nintendo Direct anymore, just these indie ones that keep getting worse and worse. The switch definitely appears to be at the end of its life cycle. When the 3ds was 7 years old as switch is now, it was 2018, and there were practically no games for the 3ds then, and the switch had already been out a year as well. I wonder why Nintendo has basically gone silent now. This isn’t typical Nintendo at all.

They need to stop wasting their efforts on making all this limited time junk. The game is such a mess it needs permanent additions, actually a total overhaul to be honest. Better yet, put that effort into bringing us a real Style Savvy game.

Looks like a crappy game to me so nope.

If you wait a little while, target will restock them at $4.99 each. Also eBay isn’t super expensive if you want one now. I love mine, it was free with a Lego purchase at a low threshold.

Hmm, digital gaming, pay as you go/cash grab (particularly mobile gaming), cheap & faulty programming (hello 200 updates after your games are released!), and even an aging Nintendo console (happy 7+ years, switch!), as well as many other factors… just crushing the game industry. It was thriving until all this digital crap started, and so many people want to ignore that fact. The industry is on the brink of total collapse. Check back with me on this in a couple years when the smoldering ashes of a once thriving industry are all that remain. It’s coming.

If the future of gaming is digital, then gaming has no future. How can a physical store survive in a digital world? The big gaming crash 2.0 is coming soon!

First of all, I really love this game! It’s a lot of fun! That being said, after having played it for many hours, I think the European box clearly communicates what this game is about with literal art from the game in the foreground and background. So that’s my pick! Plus I think it is the cutest.

Animal crossing new horizons because it’s easy like Sunday morning.

I’m so tired of these same old games. Switch needs Tomodachi Life and Style Savvy. Period!

I’d rather just see enhanced remakes of the good old games, honestly.

This game is such a disappointment. All the characters you dress up (so far I’ve only encountered about 10 different ones after 15 hours of gameplay and most play areas unlocked), are so lifeless, like robots or AI, they have you dress them over and over again with the same requests, the same dialogue. Clothes in this game are boring, limited, uninspiring. Sorting is a nightmare. You have to scroll on and on just to find a simple pair of shoes. No dedicated pages to clothing types anymore like what was in Style Savvy. And they keep adding these limited time events, that helps nothing. Not everyone can play on their schedule. Just add stuff and let it be part of the game forever! There’s already so little even with all their patches, that this should have been a $20 game from day 1. I hope SynSophia will issue a humble apology to all of us who wasted $50 on this game. An apology made in the form of making Style Savvy Styling Star (3DS) available for switch as a physical game since it was never released in North America except on the eShop plus so many people missed out on that gem which was the best one they ever made. It’s sad they have fallen so far from that. These two are like night and day.

The leftover pieces are part of Lego’s long standing policy of including an extra one of each tiny piece due to them easily getting lost or stuck in a bag & thrown away accidentally. It saves money for the company to just include these in the sets for reasons like that instead of having to send one out individually for all the people that lose them.

The eShop has turned into an App Store or Google Play store. Hoards of junky worthless games and a few decent ones. This devalues the switch so much. Oh how I wish we could go back to all games being physical only. They had meaning then. They were almost always finished then too. No updates, patches, DLC, etc. And they last, unlike the eShop and all the digital junk, which will be cut off soon. Anyone remember the DS? 3DS? How’s that digital stuff working out on those now? 🤨