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@SuppressorSteve it's not about affording. I literally can't find some games anymore. Especially outside resellers and the company isn't profiting from resellers.

Like give me a legal way to get some of these games and I'd be happy. But I gave up on waiting for them to do that.

They want my money then they can sell me the game properly.

@Peach64 actually functional emulators are illegal.

See the "Legal" portion is the shell. But to actually Run emulators you need the ROM and OS files for the console ... Which have copyright protection.

So you can't really do anything with an emulator without illegal software. And some emulators cross the legal boundaries by including code they shouldn't to make it more user friendly.

But even if they don't ... Come on don't use the "It's legal" defense when everyone knows that all but th smallest portion of users illegally obtained software to use the thing.

I use Emulators for old games I can't get anymore.

So I have little potty for the ones trying to do it for modern games you can just buy online.

Stuff is expensive these days, I get it ... But the level of self righteous anger I see sometimes is delusional.

Your not robin hood, you're not fighting corruption, you're just stealing games because you just don't want to buy them.

I won't lecture you on it as it's not my business... But don't get on a soap box and act wronged when the company you actively stole from tries to stop you.

It is a shame though when this affects the part of the emulation community actually preserving old games.

@UpsideDownRowlet I've always been fond of Lapras. Never used it in a team and they NEVER gave it an evolution and it's just not great combat wise. But design wise I love it.

@UpsideDownRowlet wouldn't the paint wear off and maybe even smear the board? Better to just use what works than make the game worse just for a minor decoration.

Now if it was a digital version then yeah make it a pokeball.

@Anti-Matter in general too much crossover dilutes IP identity.

Nintendo ONLY Really crosses over with smash bros and that's depicted more like a toy box than anything.

But with Sonic crossworlds you have .... Spongebob? Now it feels less like a sonic racer and more a random IP racer.

That being said. The problem here is just Rovio was a one hit wonder with OG Angry birds and they have been dying a slow death ever since.

SEGA once again made a terrible business decision buying the company when it was already failing and the Angry birds IP was aost cause.

@h3s not sure but it was enough of a problem on switch 1 that I could see them implementing such measures into the switch 2 from the start

@Waluigi451 it seems to be part of their new anti piracy measures.

Preventing ROM leaks is near impossible these days. But if the servers require an update that pirated copies will have a harder time receiving. Then they can at least lock it out of online play.

They might also throw in a few big fixes. But it seems like their main purpose is to lock anyone unable to receive updates from online play. Wether this discourages piracy I can't say ... But that seems to be the goal.

@RoboCube exactly. People saw Pokemon and automatically treated it like a first party Nintendo title.

This seems more a spin off made by the Pokemon company and game freak with koei doing the bulk of the work.

Nintendo might have only given their approval to release the game.

It's annoying Koei went with key-cards. But it means this isn't at all an indication actual Nintendo made games would do the same. Even NintendoLife jumped to conclusions and made an article declaring this "Nintendo's first game-key card.

@Polvasti yeah I do feel there is a point you should put a bow on it and move on.

If you have new.ideqs put them in a sequel.

@Divide_and_Wander same I never played the builder games. But I've heard good things about them.

I.hope.rhe dev team brought their A game and didn't use the Pokemon IP to phone it in.

If it goes well then while this won't be a console seller. It might be a "Must try" for Pokemon fans that have a console already.

@Dazman oh no they did have jank.

It's just with 2D pixels you get two things.

1. It's faster to make so you have more time for bug testing. 3D games are bigger and take more to make.

2. It's harder to notice. With the older games you generally didn't notice the little oddity or two. And you couldn't clip through the floor so unless you walked into every tree or wall you wouldn't even notice. It took people searching for this stuff to find them. Meanwhile with 3D you can clip through anything, even the floor.

@Res462 so it does. Mention of download required threw me off as I skimmed the article.

Well people got their wish then. No keycards at all.

Just two codes in boxes ... Win?

@8bit-Man except it is. Mention of a download required threw me off too but apparently that's just for the polish language. It's otherwise on the cart.

The other two aren't carts at all. They are just digital only. Really just get it off the Eshop at that point.

Code in box.is so pointless.

At least people can't act like we'd have gotten Indiana Jones on cart if it wasn't for keycards.

That game is bigger than 100 GB. There was no chance of that going on a cart.

And they didn't even bother with keycarts for the other two.

So if there was no keycart option we'd have just gotten 3 codes in boxes instead of 2.

Edit: someone pointed out indie is on full cart. The mention of download required threw me off. Honestly impressed they actually optimized it that far ... How poorly optimized were the other versions then? One was 150GB!!!

So congratulations you guys got what you wanted. No keycards at all. We get codes in boxes instead!

I'm gradually getting more interested in this one.

@DeDeFrosty yeah as much as people hate on key-cards at least they are better than code in box ... Just buy off the Eshop at that point.

@tsim21 I don't have that much of a back log on switch 2 specifically.

But I am happy with what I've played so far.

I do want more, but I'm fine if the announcements are a bit dry ... That being said Nintendo DOES need a few more console sellers to win over those not already happy with what's out so far.
So hopefully they put some like that out soon.

Wasn't really a lot of new announcements. Mostly just reconfirming older ones.

A few of the games did catch my interest though including one or two of the actual new announcements.

But hopefully we don't wait too long for a main showcase.

That's not bad at least.

I mean it's not amazing either and with its long development time may or may not have broke even. But with how incredibly critical some have been I was worried I was alone in actually liking it and it was a flop.

But that's at least you respectable sales.

@robotreptile Elon musk throws better parties for his friends in the stock market than Nintendo's CEO.

@Jhena you're seeing similar if not worse issues with the competition. Not sure if the video addresses that (no time right now) but really the industry is in a bit of a slump.

I don't think the entire industry is in the brink of collapse like the doomsayers insist. But there is a slump.

@Solid_Python it's just insane how quickly the bubble inflated.

I get why people want to get in on it. LLMs do have some pretty good uses.

But rather than refining the models themselves and optimization... They just want to brute force it with pure hardware power by devouring every ram and SSD chip in the market.

If they just slowed down and focused on more sustainable development... None of this would be happening.

And companies like Nvidia want to milk this bubble so bad they are restructuring their entire company.

I'm not hyped for any of this honestly

But that's fine. I loved stuff like DK Bananza last year so I'm just waiting for something that really clicks with me to come out.

@GoldenSunRM and in th case of Smash bros joker being in smash WAS just extra. He was just dlc after release and not advertised more than any other dlc characters.

Sonic crossword put so much advertisement into th dlc I'm pretty sure the general public is more aware of the dlc characters then the actual ones aside from Sonic and Shadow.

Cross series advertisement should not be a central part of advertising at release. Unless you're games very identity is a cross of series.

@SalvorHardin and yet they put SpongeBob and Miku into the game ... Restricting themselves to a specific cannon wasn't the issue.

Unless the devs declared so then it's just a fan theory.

But even if we take it seriously there were more sonic characters to use from the games and just throwing in SpongeBob made it feel cheaper.

Especially right away. If the game has been out for a year and they added SpongeBob dlc then it would just be weird dlc. But this was part of its marketing at release as if it was a selling point.

It felt like SEGA never believed in the game and tried to rely on pure IP to sell the game ... What I feel they failed to realize is that even if I like SpongeBob... I have no particular desire to play as SpongeBob thrown into a Sonic racer.

@cyrus_zuo I would argue MK8 had a high enough skill ceiling to make it "Not a party game" if you played with try hards.

Some people I played with were just ... Always ahead of me.

So I feel MKW is the same in that regard, just with an even higher skill ceiling.

That being said my favorite is still Kirby Air riders. It's not actually a dedicated kart racer with its almost BR style mode it's maid draw which is part of why I favor it. But I also think Sakurai just put the most effort and love into Air riders. It has so many little attentions to detail.

@premko1 I half agree.

While saying the game has NO SOUL is a bit much. I feel the game immediately abandoned any sense of identity when it had stuff like SPONGEBOB in the game.

You have so many sonic characters across so many continuities ... And you add SpongeBob?

It made it feel less like a sonic racing game and more like a "Whatever IPs we could get" racing game.

Smash bros only added characters that were at least on Nintendo hardware and it only did that after it was a well established name.

Sonic racing has never quite had the firm identity Smash Bros did and grasping at IPs just felt cheap to me.

As a sonic fan I'd have preferred they pull in some more comic characters or something.

At the very least they should have stuck to SEGA IPs.

@RoboCube this is actually more likely like dragon quest builder and/or animal crossing than Minecraft.

Not everything with any kind of crafting is Minecraft.

That is th most nothing burger of a preorder bonus ever.

I mean I guess it's a good thing nothing important is locked behind preorders... But come on ... At least make it something more fun like a pirhana plant or a themed rug or something.

This is just... Why would I even want such a boring plant?

Did they just pick a decoration no one would miss and make it the preorder bonus?

I'm still interested in the game ... But still if you're going to offer something give it a little more flair.

Not selling older stuff was a stupid idea.

People that want new games will just get them from Amazon, Walmart, or something.

Even gamestop still sells those and they are half a hobby shop at this point.

@RupeeClock maybe Intie creates themselves will snatch it up?

Mighty no.9 has some promise with it's world building.

@AllBLK it wasn't greed or arrogance it was just mismanagement.

It wasn't a scam or anything either.

However it did highlight Inafune is just not qualified to be a CEO.

He is a good artist and concept designer. And his world building and writing are pretty good too.

But it seems he's just not good at project management. People severely underestimate how important it is that funs and personnel are managed properly. It's why in some cases a big studio can spend literally billions on a game's development and put out something worse than what a Smaller studio made for a few million or less.

There is no sign Inafune scammed or lied. He was just too ambitious for his own good and tried to assume a role he wasn't suited for.

Honestly I'd be happy if he either went back to Capcom or even joined Intie creates. Just as long as he's not in a CEO or management role he'll do good work. He just needs to accept he's not the gaming industry guru he thought he was and just do what he's good at.

@Bass_X0 sort of.

So far Capcom has only released bundled versions of every MegaMan game they've ever made and good but forgettable follow up to classic MegaMan with their next game looking to be the same.

I want something more like X series, Zero series, or even legends series. I'd even take a new battle network successor.

It's definitely good to see Capcom hasn't completely abandoned MegaMan. But so far they are really doing the bare minimum and not really making games from the parts of the IP I actually want.

Hopefully that changes, but until then I don't really agree with the sentiment that MegaMan fans in general are getting games.

@SoIDecidedTo making these games multicolor would require pretty much remaking th assets.
Not really worth it.

@Vyacheslav333 no the rights for the series itself aren't at all in dispute.

Even what dispute is claimed to exist is largely rumors. But the dispute that exists is with Shueshia who were responsible for the anime and such. Not the IP as a whole.

Plenty of stuff has been comming out this entire time to prove that.

What's VERY worth mentioning is age 1000 is specifically when the dragon ball MMO "Dragon ball online" took place.

It never saw a global release but it's plot and world building were made by Toriyama.

Additionally the two Xenoverse games use Online's world building. While they don't directly state they are related to online, Online is what established Majin as an entire race and put Namekians and freeza's race all on earth. So if you ever saw those games and were confused on why you could make your own Majin, that's why.

It seems unlikely they used Age 1000 by coincidence. Especially when years aren't normally used in the marketing.

So this new game is almost definitely related to Dragon ball online.

My theory is it's Xenoverse 3, but it's adapting the MMO's story line.

@Tyranexx you forgot to insult anyone that tries to speak reason or bring up market conditions as a whole.

You aren't properly fear mongering unless you also bully anyone who speaks against you into silence.

But I thought the greedy Nintendo was being taught a harsh lesson?

You know the sad part is the "Nintendo greedy" narrative won't stop even if Nintendo doesn't raise prices during the shortage like it's competition.

Greedy, entitled consumers won't be happy unless they think they're saving money. Then they'll complain about quality because they want bargain prices and premium performance at the same time.

@PessitheMystic yeah people mostly know him from his name and that's it.

I'm actually curious what he exactly did during his time.

@JohnnyMind at the same time ... Looking how some IP.have decayed from owners lack of care. I don't blame them taking the protective stance.

They definitely go too far at times. But if an IPs image is damaged in the public mind it can be impossible to fix. So I get the better safe than sorry approach, even while I wish they'd learn the areas they can safely lighten up without risking their IP.

Nintendo... My pals ... My mad lads .... SONIC RUNS SUPER SONIC!!! OF COURSE HE IS FASTER THAN MARIO!

The very idea it's even a competition is a heavy nerf to Sonic already.

@AG_Awesome that's ... Actually a good point. Literally any sort of new model would require a separate code even if it's just a color change right?

But even if that's not it Honestly I doubt this will amount to much.

It's too early for OLED.

My guess is.
1. It's just a placeholder for an eventual new model. Maybe they've got early blueprints ready and just decided to put the code into the system.
2. It's a minor upgrade of something like battery and may even replace normal switch 2 completely but still requires a separate code in the system.
3. It's the lite, it's still too early for the lite ... But it's not like they announced it yet. They could be aiming for a switch 2 lite release sometime next year or 2027? A code in the system now doesn't give us any clue of an announcement window.

@Trmn8r no that was a stock price article..which stock prices fluctuate for a lot of reasons... Like the chip shortage everyone is freaking out over.

A company that sells hardware like Nintendo and isn't investing in AI could get hit hard by the shortage.

@the_beaver despite how anti-Nintendon grifters try to spin it, the dip in Nintendo stocks is most likely more due to the chip shortage.

With a chip shortage so close to the launch of a new console, if th situation isn't resolved before Nintendo runs out of stock and/or whatever advanced orders it could damage their profits.

Nintendo rarely raises the Price of a console, only doing it to the switch OLED after years. So they aren't likely to raise the switch 2's price even if they have to sell at a loss unless the loss becomes too big to ignore.

But as a result Nintendo COULD see a fall in profits as the ongoing chip shortage hits them.

I'd bet a lot of similar Japanese based tech companies that aren't investing in AI are probably seeing similar drops.

Meaning Nintendo stock will bounce back either once the chip shortage ends or Nintendo is just able to weather the storm.

Do the Inazuma games sell that well? Or are they just easier to make than something like professor Layton where you have to make over a hundred puzzles with only some using the same assets?

@axelhander do you have the slightest clue how much goes into developing some games? Saying crap like the world would be better simply because it's an "ultra-rich multi-national corpos" is nothing more than mindless eat the rich nonsense. Not EVERYTHING corporations do is bad and some things require the resources and supply chains of them.

Of course we shouldn't mindlessly defend them either like this guy did. EA is the most hated for a reason and acting like they are all innocent is just as senseless as acting like they're all equally guilty. That's just rageing at corporations for existing, which is pointless.

After all Nintendo IPs we like wouldn't be as well maintained as they are without Nintendo. Same is true for other big game companies that actually bothered to maintain their IP and didn't completely sell out for pure profit.

@kmtrain83 it had to eventually. Developers couldn't offset inflation forever.

@obijuankanoobie fair enough. I will say road trip is more fun than I thought. So if you didn't bother with it then it's worth trying. I would argue it's more than an HD remaster but many of its improvements are either subtle or require engaging with the game in specific ways to make use of.

Aside from that I guess the other consolation is look into switch 2 editions of games. Even if a switch 1 version exists the difference in performance can be pretty big depending on how well it ran on switch 1 in the first place.

@obijuankanoobie have you played DK Bananza? I know not everyone has the same tastes, but I never played a DK game before and Bananza was nearly worth the console alone for me. I also enjoyed Kirby air riders but I get people dismiss it thinking it's a racing focused game. But it might be worth looking into if you haven't already played it.

If you have then sorry, just thought I'd give some suggestions. Because I do think the Switch 2 is worth getting even now.