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@Orpheus79V companies always need to make money, it's naive to think in terms of what we see as a lot of money.
Just keeping a company that size running costs a lot. So saying "They made enough" is extremely short sighted. Especially considering any smart company will make sure to have enough so that they won't go bankrupt if they have a bad year or two.

How many times does a game studio have to go bankrupt or layoff half its staff (Even the ones that seemingly treated its employees well) before people realize companies don't just have infinite funds? So enough of this "They made enough" to justify being cheap and not wanting to pay for optional content.

Of course there is a limit to things. Companies need to keep making money, but to justify making that money they need to keep providing something to earn that money.

Real examples of corporate greed is when they start trying to make money without doing anything to earn it.

If anything putting incentives into DLC or NSO makes them more worth the money, not less.

Also let me be clear, I'm saying all this to be realistic. Not specifically to defend Nintendo. What I said applies to any company really. Again corporate greed does exist and they absolutely can take things too far.

But charging for DLC not required to enjoy the main game is NOT one of those things.

@Monkeido oh yeah HOW DARE Nintendo try to make money. What do they think they are a business?

How disgusting of them to charge for optional things that aren't required for the main experience. They should only charge for stuff we don't want so we can complain how no one asked for it.

.... Seriously.... Drop the entitled act. It's an emerald rush event ... For digital freaking statues.

If you seriously cared enough to actually be upset you'd get the damn DLC. Is it worth $20? Not for everyone, but it's clearly an extra mode and not part of the core game.
Same with Pokemon. Oh boo hoo, some optional stuff like Pokemon with slightly special traits or unique mega stones are made incentives instead of handed out for free.

There is nothing scummy about basic marketing. Now if an actual part of the core game was removed for the DLC that would be another thing.

But even the mega dimensions DLC is clearly extra. No one is forcing you to get any of this ... Sigh ... Okay actually sorry for the rant. I'm just really tired of everytime Nintendo puts an optional incentive into literally anything some people act like they're forced to pay extra.

It's extra content, don't want to pay then don't.

@Pillowpants I think you kind of missed the point.

The in-game event is literally related to emerald rush and the statues it introduced.

The even isn't locked behind DLC, it an even related to the DLC. There would be no event if there was no DLC.

@Jack_Goetz they said inthe trailer the bike was to travel between zones.

Comparing to Metroid Dread taht's like the elevators you took between zones.

All they seeminglydid was make traveling through zones part of the gameplay and not just a loading screen. As long as the actual zones weren't cut down to make room for it then it's fine and it doesn't seem like they did.

Love the suit

that was dumb, but kinda fun.

It made me smile at least.

Nice. Still haven't gotten to the first one. Plan to, but adulting makes finding time for big rpgs hard.

@Bobobiwan could be they want to do more than just uncap the frame rate for switch 2 edition. No point in releasing that NOW if it's meant to be part of a larger upgrade.

@Markiemania95 ah. My bad, statement still stands but thanks for the correction.

The thing is this may be a "Pokemon" game. But it's a life sim spin off from Bandai-namco.

I could easily see keycard (Assuming it's true) as being something they insisted on before agreeing to develop it.

Nintendo even said before they didn't intend to do keycards with first party releases.

I admit I'm a little surprised that doesn't include this, but it's also somewhat understandable when you look at who else besides Nintendo is involved.

@GinMiguel not sure but that specific slide.and pose, yes. Akira is definitely where that specific pose comes from.

Bandai Namco couldn't have asked for a better advertisement for their new engine.

Not only is the game absolutely solid. It has so many eyes on it for many different reasons. Now everyone will be looking out for what else they do with this engine.

And it's good to have more engines Rather than risk letting Unreal.and Unity control the entire market.

@Waluigi451 he made ONE. And honestly if he's just had better 3D artists mighty no.9 would have been a lot more successful. Or if he'd gone with 2D Instead.

Everyone likes to just blindly dunk on it or even if ignorantly call it a scam.

But really most of the games problems trace back to he didn't have anyone that actually understood 3D graphics on the team.

Inafunes concept art for the game was great ( people didn't get excited for no reason. The Kickstarter page looked great) but whoever did the actual in-game model made it all look terrible.

Some of the levels needed more polish, but overall they were okay. Story wasn't amazing but it set up a decent setting that a franchise could have built from.

Cute.

No interested. But some kids will probably like them.

@EarthboundBenjy part of it could be tradition. Mythical pokemon are normally obtained through mystery gifts.

@Ralek85 my guess is th deserts will be fairly barren and bleak. But that they'll only really be essentially playable elevators, moving you between maps where the meat of the game is.

If we look at the way Nintendo tends to evolve games. A logical next step would be to go from Metroid gameplay in a single facility, to the same gameplay in a wider variety of locations.

The Bike is a logical way to realistically move between such locations.

Now this is JUST a theory. But it follows Nintendo's pattern a lot more than assuming the bulk of the game is in open desserts.

@AlonditeFE seriously. As far as the Bike goes did people forget stuff like the elevators in Dread?

Every Metroid game isn't just one singular map. Even if they kind of pretend it is.

We've seen they clearly have plenty of walking and normal combat.

In all likelihood the bike is just a more entertaining version of the elevators. A way to move between maps, which will probably be separate areas of the planet and multiple ruins instead of multiple sections of a single location.

In a way it's funny. People went from being hyped at the idea of game worlds becoming more open, now the mere idea makes people cry out in despair. Of course there is a reason people are sick of open worlds. But they went too far in the other direction.

Blind hatred isn't better than blind hype.

Rather if you think about it, when has Nintendo ever done a major formula departure without it being a spinoff? For better or for worse Nintendo sticks to their guns with most of their series with only a few exceptions ever.

So it's REALLY unlikely they'd make Prime 4 be a severe departure. People just say the bike focused on in the direct and immediately assumed that was the entire game for some reason.

Donkey Kong Bananza is legitimately my game of the year.

What a loser "I run the streets" dude though he was some videogame gangster.

But seriously streaming games before they were released? There is no defending that.

I'm tired of people acting like they can do whatever they want as long as the victim is a "Corporation". Not that they need my defense, I'm just tired of the wannabe Robin hood routine.

Nice. Risky revolution was interesting but I do like the more detailed modern look.

Really the only criticism I had for 7 sirens was they turned animal dances into in and out movement abilities and turned dances into generic screen wiping attacks.

I say let the small animal transformations remain as they were in 7 sirens. But have the genie dances be actual transformations with unique attacks and such or something along those lines.

Unless they just want to go in a completely different direction.

This was a long time comming honestly.
Looking back Microsoft shot itself in the chest with it's legendary failure of the Xbox One. At the time most people figured they'd recover and bounce back, but it turned out that was the WORST generation for them to loose as that was the generation people started to build up digital libraries that persisted between generations. So when they lost that generation they lost any hope of ever surpassing Sony or Nintendo.
They created game pass to try to compensate as at the end of the day you're basically paying a subscription for access to a digital library. It wasn't a bad idea on paper but they messed up not only by putting day 1 releases on it (Meaning it absolutely tanked software sales) but by creating a PC port of the entire platform. Once they did that the entire service was undercutting their entire console brand, and with the service already eating software sales ... Frankly Game Pass was nothing more than poison for the Xbox brand, a slow, deadly poison.

Their only hope of staying in the game was building up their exclusive library, but Microsoft NEVER cared about gaming. They just wanted profits by any means necessary. So instead they gave up exclusivity and with that they threw away the last bit of value they had as a platform.

Going full software won't save the brand. It might make Mirosoft more money. But in another 10 years people will look at the Xbox like they do the Sega DreamCast.

Because it might be true that in terms of short term profits you can get more with software than hardware, but you lose the brand identity and store presence where you walk by electronics at Walmart and see an Isle of just Nintendo. That has a big impact on people, especailly kids.

@MTMike87 it was obvious Xbox was dropping out of the console market when they started the "What's an Xbox" campaign.

In the words of syndrome "When everyone is super, no one will be". They are trying to hype it up as an evolution, but if everything "Is an Xbox" then the title and brand have no meaning.

If you just treat it as a label you slap onto things then it means nothing. If Xbox at least had good quality control it could serve as a kind of certification. But they fumble enough that that's not true either.

@darkswabber he said "SOME" not all.

Really the fact he said no dlc was planned (Expansions are still possible depending on fan feedback, just nothing is being planned at this time). Should be enough indicator that the game is as complete as possible.

@Max_the_German dude day 1 patches aren't about space. It's about wether all bugs got ironned out before they started manufacturing. Which even back in the old days there were often minor bugs left over were either ignored or resulted in cut content to make deadlines.

@N00BiSH the reality of game development is that it's near impossible to fix EVERYTHING before release. It's not that game development has gotten worse, it's just most developers favor day 1 patches over cutting content entirely.

@Elektrogeist1287 except it's not a terrible game. It's just not the jewel.encrusted treasure you demand it be just because it's Pokemon.

The actual review is state that while the game isn't as exploration focused as Arceus, the combat is amoung the series best so far.

People calling it bad just basically wanted Arceus 2.

@RupeeClock pretty much.

LLMs aren't pure evil and could be used to improve procedural generation to incredible levels.

But too many just want to immediately use it to replace people. I've playee around with text and image generation in a casual sense and while it is helpful for amateurs like me without creative talent, you start to notice it's limitations even with the best models. The way these things write, the way they generate images. There is still a pattern even if it's a complex one. Trying to do this stuff on a professional scale isn't going to turn out well for them in the long run.

@datamonkey I would too. Sadly unless we get a shadow drop ... Not happening.

It's makes sense. The idea with these is you can swap rider and machine.

You'd need to release 4 or more to make that feature actually usable.

Good news is you only REALLY need to buy one or two of you want a specific combo.

Anything after that is just extra.

@datamonkey it's always possible they'll release them later.

it's not like they HAD to be released before prime 4.

@WiltonRoots actually most people would probably be fine with improved cut scenes ... unless they didn't convey info correctly and made the game more confusing.

but that wouldn't be a "gate" and would just be legitimate criticism.

So it's good they prioritised what made the game more fun and not just flashier cut scenes.

I'd be fine with just an NSO release at this point. same with the other zelda games in the wind waker timeline. Spirit tracks and whatever the other one was.

@N00BiSH Nah it wasn't that more focus was put on racing. It's that city Trial was just accidentally that much better than the main racing mode.

If you think about it City Trial was just a single map you could drive from end to end in under a minute with a handful of minigames you played afterwards in a random rotation and a few things thrown in for good measure.

It was fun but the replayability came from how it mixed up those elements, not that it simply had that much more content than the racing mode.

That being said the lack of any real campaign meant you only really bothered to do racing to unlock stuff.

In any case Air Riders so far feels like everythign Air Ride was but improved. So I"m assuming the new direct will show off either Top Ride or it's replacement and will show off the internal achievement system.

Amoung other things of course because just those two won't equal 60 minutes.

@Lizuka there are a fair few DS games made specifically for the dual screens that didn't adapt super well to switch because of that.

If we could get DS versions on virtual console it would be great.

@AG_Awesome yeah joylocks are great.

I do recommend the entire Killswitch package, especially if you don't already have a screen protector. The screen protector has an idiot proof applicator that's great for idiots like me who struggle to keep dust from SOMEHOW making it onto the screen protector.

The armor for the main body of pretty good too if you prefer handheld mode. Travel cover is either great or lacking depending on what you want. It doesn't have extra space for accessories because it's basically front armor that connects to the body armor. But it's space efficient and easy to carry, so if you want something that could still fit into a bag or something then it's great.

@Coalescence seriously the main excuse for raging over gkc is "they'll kill physical" but people acting like anyone that would jump on gkc wouldn't have just ditched physical anyway.

I'm not a big fan of them either, but people talking like they want to boycott games over it was just delusional

Good. I'm kind of getting sick of leaks so a massive wave of them would be annoying.

It's literally just the Rog Ally which already existed but with Xbox logo slapped on it and maybe a few upgrades.

I'm not against Xbox trying to compete with the Switch. But I'm honestly disgusted how completely shamelessly corporate their strategy is "Why make something when we can use our monopoly over the PC industry to just take something someone else made?".

If the steam deck wasn't Linux based we probably would have seen the "X deck" or something.

I feel people aren't talking about this issue enough and act like this is a legitimate entry into the market like switch or steam deck. It's not, it's just Microsoft putting in minimal effort to muscle into a market without committing to it.

If you want Switch competition just stick with Steam Deck. I own both and there is basically no game I can't play even if you don't count emulation.

I honestly don't mind them scaling back on the exploration if it meant they were able to make the more dynamic and fun combat system.

People need to understand games don't just have infinite man power and budget. You make compromises.

Open worlds can be very resource intensive and take a lot of time to get right.

So if we traded that for better combat... I'm good with that. In fact given their apparent struggle with open world I'd say they might want to avoid that.

HOWEVER... They do need a better compromise than locking you into a city the entire time.

I'd love to see them do like Mario and Luigi style graphics and perspective. Not overly detailed or large but enough flair and exploration to give a sense of this being a world I can explore.

@BrazillianCara but then he won't get that sweet sweet attention the loser so desperately craves.

Getting real tired of this *****. And I mean this for all game companies.

These scum aren't Robin hoods. They're just criminals and deserve no sympathy.

@WhiteUmbrella "Nintendo are notoriously litigious. Everyone knows this. Nintendo is a law firm that makes games." just because a lot of people say it doesn't make it true.

Seriously people don't know how to read past headlines to rage bait articles anymore.

Especially with that US government nonsense ... WTF do you think even would have happened? It wasn't for profit so even trying to make a suit would have debatably overlapped with arguments over fair use and fanmade stuff.

But no one cares about that do they? Nope they just wanted Nintendo to go after Trump. That's all that was. Has nothing to do with gaming at all, people just get upset when the big coporations they constantly complain about don't validate their politics.

and of course you'll continue to completely ignore all of the Mario Kart and other clones of Nintendo games they don't go after. Nope Nintendo is DEFINITELY goign to threaten and preassure people with their patents and ruin the industry ... as long as you ignore all the time they don't.

Nintendo aren't saints, but they're not the boogeyman either. People really jump from one extreme to the other too much these days.

@WhiteUmbrella "So, you're arguing that Nintendo should have unlimited power, because we can trust them not to use it? Go and look in the mirror, and take that Mario hat off, while you're at it." You take off the tin foil hat first and look in the mirror.

Do you ... have no grasp on how patents work? How lawsuits work? That junk isn't free or instant. Nintendo couldn't do what you're afraid of even if they tried.

You aren't a freedom fighter stopping a tyrant from taking power. You're the old man on the street screeming "THE END IS NEAR!" everytime he hears thunder.

Nintendo seriously can't afford to just .... sue absolutely everyone over everything. Again you take ONE CASE where they appear to use a game mechanic in a suit, and suddenly you act like that's the norm.

Do you have any idea how much time and money goes into lawsuits like this? People act like Nintendo is some kind of lawsuit Tyrant, but the vast majority of their lawsuits were related to Piracy. Yes even the emulation lawsuits were because those emulators were being used for piracy even if players played dumb and acted like they were fighting for "game preservation" ... I mean FFS one of the emulators Nintendo sued sold a "Premium version" with tools specifically for pirating Nintendo games pre-installed. But all people cared about was "Oh no my emulator I totally used for legal reasons got taken down!"

So seriously, enough with this paranoid nonsense. I'm not naive for not losing my mind over every rage bait article I see. I'm actually looking at trends beyond outlier cases and using common sense. Because even in the WORST CASE scenario possible ... all that really happens is Nintendo goes after a few other copy cat games, and developers either counter sue or just tweek the formula enough to dodge the patent.

It's seriously not even a fraction as serious as you're making it out to be ... I mean WTF do you think Nintendo could do anyway? You're seriously over estimating Nintendo's power here.

@WhiteUmbrella patent troll companies don't win but they can still cause problems. Plus a somewhat larger issue is when smaller game companies engage in the same practice.

But look you brought up two examples but just immediately go "Oh but THOSE are different" no, no they aren't.

People just don't pay attention when others do it and only highlight Nintendo. You go "It's different Nintendo is trying to control the industry" You don't even have one example of that. Again the Palworld suit is an outliar and there is far more to that than some game mechanics.

You're just making far reaching assumptions that outrage articles told you to think "Oh look Nintendo did this, so we're going to assume that" and you're not questioning it further.

Seriously aside from Palworld has Nintendo actually done any of the ***** you claim yet? Some of these "dangerous" patents have been out for a few months now.

Seriously did you develop amnesia for all of the other "Nintendo-like" games that have come out that Nintendo NEVER bothered? What about all of the Mario-kart clones? many even used damn item blocks with the same functions are Mario kart ones but nothing happened. What about Smash Bros clones? Zelda clones?

THe Palworld suit drops and everyone loses their heads like Nintendo is suddenly some patent tyrant.

Look the reality of all of this is simple. Nintendo isn't some massive monolith company with infinite money. THey are certainly a big game company but just being a game company only gets you so far. They do not have infinite reach or power and a few silly patents won't change that.

These patents largely mean NOTHING, because even if Nintendo got possessed and turned pure evil. THey can't really afford to just burn all of their money on lawsuits that won't even get them a return on the money they'd sink into them. Plus many of their games are made in collaboration with other game companies, so they can't afford to just ... go to war with the entire industry even if they lost all sense and tried to.

So enough of the tin foil hat nonsense.

@Wewewi have you not heard anything infamous lord of the rings nemesis patent?

Shadow of mordor has a really cool system where, If a mob killed you they got promoted to an elite mob. There were some other aspects but that was the main one.

But no one else can do something like that because they patented it and do go after people.

Also just to make clear. Nintendo filing a patent doesn't actually mean anything. The Palworld situation is an outliar, not the norm.

The reason japanese game companies NORMALLY file for parents like this is so no one can do it themselves and then patent troll them.

Besides, we all know it wasn't really the game mechanics that started the Palworld suit. That was just the angle their lawyers chose to go from. It doesn't mean they are going to suddenly start sueing everything that plays like any of their games.

@WhiteUmbrella what you people don't understand is this isn't a Nintendo thing.

Most major game companies do this, especially Japanese ones and they don't because if they don't then eventually a patent troll comes in and files for the patent themselves and creates a big legal headache they need to spend a bunch of money fixing.

I'm not saying Nintendo are Saints BTW. But people really need to realize this isn't unique to Nintendo. It's just people only care when it's Nintendo.

@KayFiOS judging by the current pattern. They might do Metroid soon after prime 4 releases.

That's clearly ghost baby from Luigi's Mansion.

@SoIDecidedTo doubtful.

The entire appeal of Mario vs Sonic was the fan perceived rivalry.

It won't have the same appeal just pairing Sonic with random series.

This .... Definitely crosses a line.

At first I read that title as "Lovecraft puzzler" and was confused by the paper theme.