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@Anti-Matter Got news for you, your precious PS5 drops frames in Limsa. Waaaay below 30 during peak hours lol.

Well, there goes my entire life

It looks nice, but I dunno if it looks "yeah I can see why the frame rate's having trouble" nice.

"Perhaps we'll get a port later down the line, but for now, unless you have a PC, Xbox, or PS5, you'll have to weigh anchor... or dig your Wii U out."

Uh, the original Black Flag is already on Switch though...

No Switch 2 version of Outer Wilds ;-;

I don't really mind this, but I always thought of Rosalina as this kind of timeless cosmic entity (visiting Mario's world every hundred years for seemingly many centuries and presiding over the birth of new universes) that had little to no mortal ties. This kinda takes away a little of her mystery imo... and unless Peach is canonically immortal too, brings up more questions about the Mario timeline...

As a Kickstarter backer, I have to say I'm completely confused as to how I get my copy, or whether I can get this Switch 2 version. When I backed, you could only choose between vague "physical" and "digital" options, there was no platform choice.

EDIT: Wow, I backed the project on August 2nd, 2023... almost 3 years ago lol

I do really like the character designs. Reminds me a lot of Tail Concerto / Solatorobo.

Gotta wonder what Sony's strategy is here... Meanwhile, surely Switch 2 can't stay at US$450 and equivalent forever if prices keep rising, but I wonder if it goes any higher than $500 if it won't end up in the same boat as PS5.

Haha I love how the obligatory footer gives up on saying the full name

Someone at NL really loves Treasure Tracker, don't they Jim

It's a great game, although I do wonder how far a sequel could push the design. The first game explored pretty much all you could do with the diorama format I feel like.

Wow, Switch 2 is catching up to base PS5 which had a 5 year head start. Pretty nuts.

Not to be that guy but it's "sapience," not sentience. Sentience is what separates conscious animals from things like rocks and grass, and geese have it.

Anyone who complains about this being derivative of Balatro loses their pass to complain about Nintendo copyrighting game mechanics, just sayin'

@Tyranexx It might be worth noting that (not a game changer obviously but) the standalone Switch releases of SMG 1 and 2 have been pretty significantly improved visually over the Wii and even the SM3DAS version. Textures are much higher resolution and of course the UI has been redone in HD. They've also gone in and changed all the tutorial / help text to refer to Switch controls, and added amiibo functionality. Not something I'd re-buy either game for at $40, but they are better!

@Por-E-Gone How could you possibly know without having some kind of intimate relationship with the people making the decision? I actually have never heard of a business raising prices "just because." It's actually not good economics; it usually doesn't make money. Learned that in high school my man.

But the internet said the only possible reason prices go up is because of corporate greed!

Honestly, a multi-platform AAA game selling better on Nintendo than Xbox is a pretty sobering data point.

Once again, the comments are fully of rabid and hyperbolic negativity. These prices are fine for the target audience and I think this app is gonna make Nintendo a metric ton of cash.

For the people relentlessly complaining, maybe try the game when it comes out since it's free?

"Just"?

"JUST"?!

(adding words so that my comment is more constructive, please ignore)

Jeez, Japan really is just Switch 2 land at this point. Outselling all other systems by an order of magnitude!

@Bolt_Strike Sorry but Majora's Mask is better than Ocarina in my opinion and it's not even close. There are more important things to Zelda than "exploration;" in fact I'd say that's only been of critical importance since BotW. The games before that were actually pretty linear (apart from Zelda 1 obvs)

@wizzgamer Because it's Mario Kart lol. It being $10 more than the previous game isn't gonna have that much of a long term effect I imagine.

@jsty3105 You mean like how they made every Pokemon do Animal Crossing-style voices but based them all on their original Pokedex cries from the main games? I still can't believe more people aren't talking about how cool that is lol

There was a time in my life I thought Overwatch was the most magical thing ever. I thought it'd usher in a new golden age of gaming. Haven't really thought about it in two years.

@RetroBox Key Cards are... sigh... marginally more consumer friendly than a "code in the box." For the time being, you can still lend them to friends / trade them for store credit, unlike a digital code.

I'm loving Pokopia so far. Not big on the fact that there's no true physical, BUT this is the kind of evergreen game I'd mostly likely buy digital anyway. It's a fantastically polished and SUPREMELY cozy, cozy game. I feel so much less stressed playing it than I did playing Animal Crossing, lol

As a shareholder, I couldn't possibly have anticipated a Pokemon game doing well! That little, barely-known franchise just came outta nowhere!

Almost half the "coming soon" page are games with the title "Hentai _________."

@AussieMcBucket They sure are.

@lyle_catcliffe What's funny is that if you do that, you can see how similar they all actually are--at least, for ensemble-focused movies, in which case the characters are usually pictured forward facing, centered, and distributed either horizontally or vertically.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, good or bad. I'm just saying it's really silly to complain about it like it's a new fad.

@lyle_catcliffe Sometimes things work because they work shrug

If you lined up the top 10 most important portraits ever painted by master artists, they would also be 90% similar.

The absolute reaching some people are doing to complain about this is legendary haha

@tourjeff IMO, Fallout 4 is the best one to start with. The overall experience is far more streamlined than previous games (possibly thanks to the role playing elements being toned down). There are references to previous games but they are not critical to understanding the story.

Cool beans. This one definitely did not click with me (does it get... more interesting eventually? It just seemed like poker with some occasional silly rules), but I'm super happy for all the fans!

EDIT: Sorry for the word that had to be removed. It must mean something different in the UK!

@darkswabber This isn't a "broken product". It's a fantastic looking game with some pop in lol

@Rhaoulos Who decided that it "should have been free?" And even if it should, it's a console problem not a Nintendo one. Most PS5 editions of PS4 games are paid upgrades as well, for example.

@UpsideDownRowlet Just wait until Paper Mario TTYD (a GameCube game) gets its heavily rumored Switch 2 edition!

Well that is welcome news, although I think Xenoblade 2 is the one that needs an upgrade the most. Hopefully the whole series gets these!

@NPC411 By December 31st, Switch 2 had already sold more than Switch 1 in its first entire year. So, somewhere your logic has gone screwy.

Mario Kart World sold pretty good on Switch considering it didn't release on it!

@kfflscnt Legends ZA has like 200 hours of content if you don't mind grind which, if you're an Animal Crossing completionist, I'm guessing you don't...

600fps?! What an upgrade!

Seriously though, this is great news! Fantastic survival games (especially the first one) with an engrossing story. Will be happy to play them again in all their glory

@Gohanjin And again, we're gonna have people blaming awful optimization on the hardware. The hardware is plenty powerful enough for a game like this. Any failings belong entirely to Capcom.

The flow aura thing is interesting but after noodling around with it, it's clear to me it's only really going to be important to top-level play. My playstyle is so hit-and-run that I'll hardly ever activate it.

I also kinda thought that you'd automatically ink the ground you stood on as long as the buff was active; i.e., you could walk or swim and everywhere you move, you'd ink. But really it's just a little circle around you, once, like a splat bomb went off, which doesn't really seem that impactful to me. Maybe what I was imagining would be way too OP in the big leagues.

Sorry, I'd rather my games be cute and character-driven. But good luck to them!

"Well, there is a popular fan request, which has to do with the children, trying to make the children a little more interesting."

Literally the best sentence I've ever heard anyone say. Flesh out those family elements! I'm so excited for this

@shoeses Yet it's interesting that in the richest country in the world, nearly half (44%) of people don't make enough money to cover basic living expenses without credit. Makes you wonder where all that money they supposedly have is...

@Oldstalk Nintendo is a global company, so they might raise prices in Europe to offset losses in the States. This is also why prices for Amiibos and other accessories are going up even though they're not getting more expensive to make: it's to offset the cost of things that ARE getting more expensive.

Well, I do love kiddos in my video games. Seems like I'll be playing this one out of principle.

@Nao120 You can always get better visuals at 30fps than 60, so a dev might choose the lower frame rate to bring their vision to life more accurately.