Kolzig

It's insane that 145 200 Switches have been sold in Japan in the past week. I have been here five weeks and I have not seen even one on any store shelves in Tokyo! Just some electronic stores have paper ads where they say they have five consoles to sell and those will be raffled off, not just sold to the fastest buyers.

Only used games shops have used consoles on shelf, like Splatoon and Mario special edition consoles for 50000 yen and the regular version I've seen in used game shops going for over 40000 yen which is insanity when the normal price should be 30000 yen.

I was going to buy one during this trip, but not for those rip off prices.

Nice, I wonder did they bother to update the 3DS and Switch European versions, since they completely disregarded the European fans of Azure Striker Gunvolt and left us without 1.3 and 1.4. updates that change the game a lot.

Blaster Master Zero's demo was nice, but I will not support anymore such devs that leave out a continent of their fans. Still disappointed that I actually went and bought ASG 1 and 2 back in the day. Inti-Creates really made a mess of themselves.

It's downlodable for me on my Finnish account while I'm in Japan. Strangest is though that why in the world did I not get any notification from Google Play store, I had preregistered for the availability of the app.

Thimbleweed Park will come for sure

Elliot Quest's price is not dropped to 10€ on Wii U but other platforms are? That's just dumb.

Oh wow, Julian Gollop is my favourite strategy game creator. This would've been one mind blowing turn of events if Julian had worked with Soliani on M+R:KB.

I've been playing and loving Gollop's games ever since Laser Squad on Commodore 64.

Whoa, surprising and cool to see the review embargo dropped and pretty much all reviews giving praise for the game.

Shame the limited edition was handled in such an extra super limited sense that it was sold out before it really was in the shops.

@Nico87

Because like with NES Classic they can say that buy Switch instead.

There have been countless good reports on this that Nintendo doesn't really want to sell millions of Classic devices for cheap. They got incredible amounts of publicity last year because of NES everywhere. Then it started turning negative because they didn't want to supply more than part of the incoming orders.

They only time in more than ten years that I have heard completely random people at places for example at workplaces people who never have talked about games before mention Nintendo was last Chrismas. First everyone was hopeful that they could revisit their childhood and show their own kids how the games were back then and play together, but then it turned sour because Nintendo didn't produce people what they wanted. Only after that the negative press started and Nintendo completely missed the big profits NES Classic.

In the end the only ones who did profit was the scalpers like with every limited edition these days that Big N produces. Another example is Metroid 2 limited edition.

Well considering Nintendo's history with games consoles and amiibos, the shortages are always deliberate. They get a lot of free press because of all that.

I will be very, very surprised if I ever see SNES classic on a store shelf anywhere. NES classic sure was never anywhere.

I hope Nlife reviews both versions. I'm really interested in the Wii u version.

I put ten hours on the demo of MonHun:Stories already to complete the demo. Such a great game. I would say way better than the "mainline" games.

Will be definitely looking at buying the full game, I've seen the physical go for 30€ already at launch, a very nice price.

Excellent. I can already imagine this looking amazing on 3DS. Especially when you turn the 3D slider on.

In my opinion indie audience hasn't left 3DS, maybe marketing in American eShop was bad, but I noticed the game easily in Europe.

In my opinion this Chicken Wiggle just doesn't look as interesting as Mutant Mudds and Xeodrifter. The name is also in my honest opinion a bit terrible.

If this were instead Treasurenauts then I would've bought it. Also the price is way too high for a game like this that nobody except hardcore platform audience knows, especially since general public might recognize Renegade Kid but surely doesn't recognize Atooi as a name.

Not belonging to Jools anymore, but damn I am still heavily disappointed that Renegade Kid promised to release Moon Chronicles in Europe, but never did.

Since the sales have been so good, it makes me wonder even more why do they hate their European fans so much that 1.3. and 1.4. version updates for ASG1 have never come in Europe to 3DS eShop.

I probably don't even need to mention the Striker Pack since we never got that either.

I really would like to hear an explanation either straight from the devs or through journalistic investigation from NLife's excellent writers like @SwitchVogel why Inti Creates never updated the European version.

That behaviour and combined lousy work they did on Mighty No 9 just killed all my interest in their company's work.

I wouldn't mind if the 1.3 and 1.4. were just some stability fixes, but 1.3. changes the whole game with the so called Steam update and Japanese language etc.

@readyletsgo

I would say that would be impossible that Nintendo says no to an update when the devs updated the North American version without problems a year ago already. NoE is always really open to dev talks compared to the NoA operations.

Europeans however never got the so called Steam version update with the Japanese language and uncut dialogue etc.

Devs also have promised to release it in Europe but haven't done that during all this time. This from their own blog.

It's not business of making money if you make your paying fans hate you. I at least will never buy any of their games because of this behaviour towards customers. ASG and the missing Striker Pack (which also released in North America a year ago) and their shoddy developing of Mighty No 9 sealed that boycott deal.

If I would've known how they operate I would've never bought the first ASG from the eShop.

This week finally shows it will Inti Creates hate European fans or not.

Azure Striker Gunvolt: Striker Pack arrives, but seems to be only for Switch. So 3DS users are again forgotten and let me guess the Switch version comes with the latest updates while the 3DS version is never going to be updated?

I so hope Nintendolife would just ask Inti Creates directly that why do they do this? Why do they hate the European 3DS fans so much?

Avoid this like the plague. Takeover is really bad game, a shadow of Streets of Rage only. The dev gave keys of this to the backers of his crashed and burned Kickstarter racing project.

This guy is the one behind the failed 90's Arcade Racer Kickstarter.

You have been warned.

I wonder will this publisher take up the duties and actually release the Striker Pack for 3DS as well in Europe since that never happened?

Still waiting for the missing updates for the 3DS version, hopefully those come before this Switch version arrives, or then the developer truly does hate their European fans.

@sillygostly

Shame id Software's mobile unit is pretty much abandoned after Carmack left the company.

It's beyond hilarious that the special edition console does not come with a copy of the game.

It's truly excellent on 3DS and Wii U especially since it's crossbuy enabled. If I had a Switch, I would someday consider getting Severed also for it. Drinkbox are a really quality dev, better than most AAA houses.

Shame Moon Chronicles never came out even though they promised. Now it's even more muddy since the Renegade Kid guys parted ways with the 2D and 3D business.

Also, Treasurenauts will never come out, it's long gone by now.

Excellent. Now if we could just get Miles Edgeworth Investigations 1&2 for 3DS and also The Great Ace Attourney 1&2.

@buildz

Well, The Great Ace Attourney games will never be localized anyway, because Capcom is so great.

It sucks that this edition is sold out everywhere. Nintendo needs to learn more about supply and demand. They are leaving huge amounts of customers without the legacy edition. But then they make tons of versions of Animal Crossing Wii U special edition boxes or the Wind Waker Wii U special edition that nobody bought.

Just noticed there's actually 1.4. version update for North America existing, but Europe is forever stuck in 1.2. because of non-communicative developers. Inti Creates really doesn't want people to buy their games apparently, especially in Europe.

I would get it if the developers deserved it, but they don't because of how they treated their fans and customers in Europe regarding Azure Striker Gunvolt.

It's incredible that Azure Striker Gunvolt: Striker Pack is coming to Switch 31.8.2017 and the 1.3. version is still not in Europe for 3DS, and also the physical Striker Pack is nowhere to be seen in Europe for 3DS.

There's apparently even a damn 1.4. version available for North America while Europe is still stuck in 1.2.!
NA got 1.3. in October 2016 and 1.4. in December 2016.

Also the 3DS game's completion awards you with the code for DQ1?

I love King of Games's shirts. Got a Starfox shirt from them last year and Splatoon t-shirt earlier.

The shirts are crazy expensive though. Like 50-60€ per shirt. And with very limited quantities in the typical Japanese way.

The price is a bit explained that these shirts are not some cheap crap from China or Bangladesh etc, but instead all made in Kyoto.

If Sega did a Saturn mini and a Dreamcast mini. I would buy those immediately. Instabought.

Brian truly makes the game on every platform, but still never managed to release it on Wii U and instead hid behind the Wiiware excuse.

The worst handled Kickstarter ever. Still happy that the Greek dev Pelikan actually refunded my pledge back after months of discussions.

Nicalis aka Tyrone Rodriguez and Pelikan really messed this up in a major way. Nicalis always messes up their projects and this one was doomed from the moment when Nicalis bought the rights.

Not going to touch this one ever, when it finally gets released in 2020.

3DS, PS4 and Switch versions of DQ11 definitely need to come to Europe and Americas. It's so weird that DQ series is not sold much at all here.

Syberia 1-3 is great stuff, but Flashback 2013 is a really horrible version. Cuisset should just release the original 1992 game instead of the crappy 3D remaster.

Thimbleweed Park is so awesome. Extremely happy it's coming to Switch.

Hopefully Youtube, HBO Nordic comes along to make an app for Switch. Crunchyroll would be nice as well.

Excellent. Finally a quality adventure game on a Nintendo platform.

And by the grand masters Ron Gilbert, Gary Winnick and David Fox.

Hopefully HeadUp is also working on bringing Cave Story 3D to 3DS eShop since the lazy Europe hating Tyrone won't do it.

I really hope this doesn't mean that Level 5 will no go down in quality because of the turd that Comcept creates...

@readyletsgo

Blaster Master Zero could possibly be worth the price, but I will never support the devs again, because of how they treated European fans regarding Azure Striker Gunvolt.

It's a good thing Nintendo has put some new quality standards on Switch so that developers like RCMADIAX will never get anything released in the eShop.

@Elpizo Interesting, but in yesterday's announcements they said the Azure Striker Pack is coming to Europe for Switch, I hope they are meaning also 3DS because that would be a crappy decision to leave 3DS out, since the 1.3 update is still missing also. They are over six months late with the European 3DS release now.

I just wish Inti Creates would stop hating their European fans and release the Azure Striker Gunvolt 1.3 update in Europe that North Americans already got last year for 3DS.

Could Nintendo Life and @SwitchVogel ask from Inti Creates that will the 1.3. version update ever appear in Europe for Azure Striker Gunvolt? Also could you please update and clarify this Blaster Master Zero news as well and ask from Inti Creates is this 1.2. version update only coming to North American 3DS eshop?

I especially love that Nintendo released this update also on Wii U. Immediately downloaded the language pack. This is awesome.

Difference between the Japanese announcement and the other regions is that in Japan the say it's only temporarily discontinued.

But damn this NES/Famicom Mini was unbelievably badly handled by Nintendo. They lost sales that would've reached millions during Christmas.

I do not want an amiibo, but I sure would like Nicalis to finally release Cave Story 3D version in 3DS eShop. The wait has only been six years so far, go Tyrone!

One thing the idiots at Nintendo need to learn is that they need to actually get the product to shelves. The demand for Nintendo Mini was incredible, bigger than I've ever seen for ANY console around here. So many people for example at my workplace talked about wanting to get it and none of them ever play games these days are talked about games. They all wanted Nintendo Mini to get back to the good old days in their childhood and show their kids also.

None of them could buy Nintendo Mini since it was never sold in Finland at all, I never saw it in any shop and online stores always had "temporarily sold out" messages, never in stock. So it never was actually sold here.

Just ridiculous, thanks Nintendo. Really well handled supply and demand situation.

I never even saw it sold anywhere in Finland. Did they ever even have it for sale? Was it all just a joke?

It seems incredible that NES Mini was the first gaming device that even old ladies at my workplace talked about wanting to buy, but none could because it was never sold anywhere.

Doesn't Nintendo understand how stupid they are when they left millions of customers unsatisfied and disappointed?

Weird, there is no update for Wii U BotW. Also strange that wasn't the Shovel Knight add on supposed to be released to other platforms already or is it coming soon? I don't remember.