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@N00BiSH beyond reasonable. Given the development time, just to break even they'll need to sell an insane number of copies. Unless team cherry just pays themselves minimum wage.

This is why game prices have universaly risen..while some game studios might just charge as much as they can get away with by default, some simply can't expect millions of sales and need more profits per sale to make any profit after covering development costs.

@Thomystic damn autocorrect.

I see. I wonder if the devs will take feedback and add in that polish.

I think this idea still has potential. It just needs some patches.

This will probably fail.

Sony has been banking on the slightest hardware upgrades for a while now and to trade that for portability would go against that.

That being said they'll probably just cheat like Microsoft did and slap their name on a steam deck competitor rather than actually making their own.

Those are mouthful modes. Not copy abilities.

I've never liked Hawlucha. However this is purely due to personal taste and not hatred of the base design. So congrats to Hawlucha fans.

Plus at least we FINALLY got a mega that didn't feel like a troll move. It actually looks like a powered up form, which is what I want from mega forms.

@BaldB3lper78 keep in mind the switch itself was aging hardware that struggled to play a lot of modern games.

So just being an upgrade greatly helps in catching up.

To put it another way the Switch wasn't going to be able to even handle AAA games in another 5 or so years at this rate.

So a pure upgrade was honestly needed.

Plus a lot of the games coming out on both switch 1 and 2 are basically handicapped on switch 1.

Perhaps people have just forgotten because of how long the switch 1 stuck around. But it's pretty normal for it to take 6 months to a year for a console to really build out it's library.

For now stuff like DK Bananza, MKW, and even this DLC is enough for a decent switch 2 exclusive line up.

But again even non switch 2 exclusive games just run so much better that it's worth the new console to just not have so many hardware limitations.

So now there is even less reason to get starfield.
Ship building was one of the few things it had that no man's sky didn't.

@N8tiveT3ch Ghibli style is particularly good (for most people at least) at creating striking set pieces with lots of nature and fantasy elements.
Like castle in the sky or howls moving castle or valley of the wind.

So the style fits Hyrule pretty well.

It's fine if you disagree, but that's why everyone thinks of Ghibli when trying to animate Legend of Zelda.

@Medic_alert pretty much every keycards game has a pure digital download so just do that.
It's not going to encourage the death of physical media because key cards aren't really designed as a replacement for physical. They are more designed to add store presence and resale value to games that would have been digital only .... Of course that doesn't mean third parties aren't using key cards as a pure substitute for physical anyway.

But my point is it's not like buying the digital version instead of key cards will kill physical. At least not anymore than the average person buying digital by default hasn't already done.

If anything buying digital sends a clearer message. Because if you don't buy the game at all companies will just assume you didn't want the game or didn't want it on switch at least.

If you buy digital then that tells them you wanted it but not the keycard.

Trust me I've seen game companies take the wrong lesson from poor sales for years. They are at least more likely to give up on key cards if people just buy digital instead of trying to boycott entirely.

It's not a guarantee, but they will 100% blame lower sales in general on lack of player interest in the game and not the keycard.

So now every showcase will have people asking for Silksong dlc announcements.

@MrGawain what needs to be understood is this isn't at all like Mario kart.

As in it's not a kart racer. The racing mode itself is actually aimed more at competition and fun even by yourself. I love Mario kart but only with friends. It loses a lot of appeal by itself.

But more importantly the mode everyone plays most isn't at all the racing mode at all. It's the kind of battle Royale like mode City Trial.

Even in the direct Sakurai outright states City Trial as the real meat of the game.

This was a PERFECT sequel to air ride. Sakurai shows he understands his own fans and what an air ride sequel needed.

I'm getting this at some point. But since we can't trust every third party cough Sega cough to play nice and give upgrade packs I'm going to hold out a bit for a switch 2 edition.

Announcement: you know what? F you guys. We're cancelling Silksong, and more than that were deleting every copy of hollowknight ever and sending the Pinkertons after physical copies.

@Nintoz my favorite part was where he just says flat out city trial is the mode everyone loved and was waiting for.

Sakurai is a man who clearly deeply understands his own audience.

He knows exactly what people wanted most with this game.

@Coolmusic yeah. Kirby air ride was never a lore game.

I mean you have dynablade just showing up randomly in city trial.

This is a game that puts fun before lore. If they give a reason for the copy ability it probably won't matter past this game.

@YunoboCo you can almost certainly do an online lobby with 16. 8 player limit was just for purely local multiplayer.

@Erigen ah I see. Still that just shows how strong the sports market is.

It doesn't have to be a popular sport. Just being a big budget sports game is enough for sports fans to jump on it.

@Erigen remember there is a significant number of sports fans who ONLY play those sports titles.

So there is essentially an entire customer base just for those games. That's why they make money despite no one online ever calling them good games.

@Greatluigi now? Well now that the distraction is over I can resume my plans to destroy all country music.

@Anti-Matter just to be clear though. The best part of Kirby Air Ride wasn't even the racing mode.

So I wouldn't completely dismiss this game. I'm not a big racing fan either, but I loved City Trial in Kirby air ride.

I understand your low hype. But just keep an eye out tomorrow.

@Lylat I would honestly recommend Kirby and the forgotten lands (which is getting a switch 2 edition + dlc).

I'm also a fan of Kirby air ride and I hope we all enjoy it. I just wouldn't really consider it a FIRST Kirby game.

Loved tales of xillia and I actually never played both story paths. I just played one and moved on.

So I can get the remaster and have an excuse to finally play the other story. Only downside is I won't start with a bunch of stuff already unlocked like if I had done NG+

Just give me a MegaMan legends collection and I'll be happy.

Neat. At least Nintendo is making an effort to keep.the game interesting in their own way.

I'm not especially interested, but I'm sure plenty will be.

@BenAV same. I have no issue with the wheelchair concept itself unlike some that try to drag controversy into it.

But even putting that aside everything about the game looks like a tech demo for the mouse feature.

It's really weird because it feels so lacking in aesthetics compared to Nintendo's other offerings.

Really makes me wonder if this was a tech demo that they just decided to give a little polish and sell as a game.

Really id rather they made ARMs 2 with mouse controls as an option instead. That IP deserves a second chance.

It's good to see one of the most pro consumer game companies doing well.

Don't get me wrong. I know Nintendo aren't saints, nor are they my friends. They are a business and I am a customer.

But compared to the liked of Ubisoft telling us to get used to not owning our games or Microsoft destroying countless game studios by buying them only to rip them apart ... I'll take Nintendo.
After all, in an age people constantly complain about games releasing unfinished, Nintendo rarely does that. It's rare a Nintendo game gets anything aside from a few minor tweaks and expansions after release. Even Pokemon SV still WORKED and could still be played to completion, it certainly had performance issues but it still releaseed in a better state than some other infamous game launches.

So again, I'm not being a blind fanboy or simping for a company. I know they aren't perfect and make mistakes.

But they are still a good company overall, so I'm happy to see them doing well. Especially because them doing well means they can afford to make more games I might want to play.

@Geit_de that wasn't the issue in the slightest.

The case is relatively light weight and the magnets are more than strong enough for it.

The problem was entirely that the gap between the joycons and main console turned out to be part of a flexible mechanism to maintain magnetic lock.

The Killswitch joycon covers got in the way of this. For some this wasn't a big issue and only slightly weakened the magnets. But if the grips were even slightly defective they could break the connection almost completely.

The joylocks use a more complicated manufacturing method but in exchange they get around the issue entirely.

New art is better anyway so I guess it's a win win overall.

Although it's because of crap like this that apparently Pokemon has actually decided against certain designs for Pokemon simply because fan artists already did them.

Meaning they could just use the design we all clearly want, but because some fan artist might actually pick a fight over it they don't. Which is dumb and they should be able to just use whatever is best.

@MSaturn clearly it's because this is specifically refering to using the joycon mouse sensor to track the gear crank.

THey aren't patenting cranks in general obviously.

In any case this could mean we'll start seeing new kinds of accessories that are more functional and not just useless plastic that makes the joycon kind of look like other stuff for the sake of "immersion".

If I had little kids I would probably get this. It looks adorable.

It was pretty decent for an indie direct. Not any earth shaking announcements. But some good stuff.

Honestly just the fact people weren't coming in assuming their dreams would come true probably helped it's perception compared to the partner direct.

This one seemed interesting

Hope we get a new copy ability or two at least.

But overall excited to play this.

@Jack_Goetz on what basis aside from you just deciding it?

No one is realistically expecting anything major from an indie show cases within three months from the switch 2 release.

Nothing is riding on this. It would be a great surprise if they announced something big, but realistically at best we'll get a silksong release date. It's supposed to have a playable demo at the next con so it should be getting close.

Listen ... It's fine to anticipate. But you can't shove un realistic expectations on people. You need to give devs time to actually put stuff together for the switch 2.

Looking at past consoles the switch 2's launch line up is pretty decent. DK Bananza even proved to be more of a hit than anyone expected.

@Jeff2sayshi it's possible some indie devs that had capped performance on switch might just release a switch 2 edition with those caps off.

But aside from that no indie studio will have a switch 2 game out until at least next year unless Nintendo gave any early kits.

@Jack_Goetz not really. People acting like the last direct was some disaster are forgetting all of the already announce games like prime 4, than bloodborn like game, and a few others that weren't for me so I forget their names.

Point is While not overflowing with new content the switch 2 is having a decent early launch. Games take time guys and most devs haven't had switch 2 devkits for even 6 months.

You can't expect everything to just be instantly announced.
@McMongoose OR ... Maybe just have realistic expectations instead of acting like every showcase within 3 months of release needs to be legendary.

People need to just calm down and give devs sometime to cook. We have a handful of good announcements across all of the directs. Maybe they weren't all for you but that's to be expected.

@Morph doubtful. While people were underwhelmed. People still overall reacted positively to many of the game announcements themselves.

They certainly couldn't put an entire showcase together in a week. I think they just hid it to last minute to give it more impact.

Or if anything they didn't mention it until now to avoid excessive anticipation.

Indie show cases can be amazing or boring. Depends on if any indie gems are in the works or not.

Not every indie game is groundbreaking.

So for this I say keep expectations within reason, but feel free to hope for something good.

The map was great. I used it to also help find some of the get away NPCs since they are shown on the map. especially helpful if I needed to heal up.and didn't want to teleport back to where I had been.

Interesting. This game did mildly catch my eye, I'll probably get this.

@LazyDaisy Listen I know you just want to imagine your favorite games getting new entries and stuff.

But realistically it's going to be hard to to make a new smash bros.

They can't really outdo ultimate in terms of scale.

So while. You may reject a deluxe version, that's the more realistic option. Maybe with a couple new fighters squeezed in. It's the only real way to go further in terms of scale.

Of course the other option is to go in reverse and return to the scale of the first smash bros and go for a reinvention of the base gameplay instead.

This way they could reduce scale without looking inferior to Ultimate. This will be riskier but would allow actual room for growth.

Which of these two options Nintendo takes is unknown and the fact this is a complicated decision means we might be waiting longer than you think for a new smash bros. Yes ultimate was a system seller, but that doesn't mean just making a new entry is that easy.

Indo hope to see something eventually. But do be ready to wait a while. Forcing a new game too early will just blow up in their faces.

It's really baffling that Nintendo gift wraps a way to advance from switch 1 to switch 2 without being needlessly greedy and these company go "yeah but ... What if we just ignored that and over charged anyway?"

@Waxifari IMO its much simpler than that. Nintendo isn't playing 4D chess here. This is just the consequence of them being so right lipped on the console and so stingy with dev kits prior to release.

They had their reasons for doing that. But as a result, most third parties only even had the chance to work on switch 2 games a couple months ago ... That's it. Nintendo's first part output is pretty solid and the console is selling well so third party support will come.

They need time to actually do it.

People really acting like this direct needed to be something.

DK Bonanza has turned out better than anyone imagined. Were getting prime 4 later. Plus even if it wasn't in this direct silksong is coming.

Plus there is that bloodborn like game ... This was just a small direct to announce some stuff coming out soon and a couple new announcements coming out relatively soon.

Plus most third parties didn't get advanced dev kits. So it should be obvious that most third parties won't have much to show yet aside from. Some that did probably just took their switch 1 builds and tweeked it last minute.

I'm not saying this direct was amazing btw. But it really feels like people were expecting E3 levels of hype when this was probably only ever meant to be a minor update.

Everyone calling this a poor showcase just put way too much expectations on it.

It was average with a few decent announcements and a pretty even spread of genera.

So overall it may not excite many but it probably got most people interested in at least something.

@Serpenterror some are saying this might basically be a console adaptation of the mobile game to basically bring it's story to console players.

Which would explain the inclusion of a custom protagonist.

This caught my eye. I'll need to see more but I'm keeping an eye on this one.

@ShieldHero the direct was a pretty even spread overall. A few good ports here, a couple decent looking new games there.

It wasn't the most amazing direct ever but there is probably at least one thing for just about everyone in that direct.