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@MamaSymphonia oh rune factory is the one with a good child system? That does interest me. Marriage systems in games often just amount to an NPC that smiles at you.

Do.we know if it's a generic child template or does it at least look like the player and/or spouse?

@Taya I was also thinking of fantasy life I as it's reviewing well. But I'm not really into the style of it and combat felt rather flat.

But I've never been into farming sims much. But I did enjoy sim city back in the day so a village management sim might grab me more.

I'll have to consider this one.

Okay now add a function to sync Nintendo music to Alarmo.

Seriously make Alarmo able to sync with it and it becomes incredibly useful.

@TrogdorTheBurninator it's not being rushed at all.
Nintendo's first party games are basically all fully compatible besides some minor things like Labo (which no one cares about).

Most of the "not fully compatible list" are 3rd party Titles Nintendo has little control over and most of those still play with only minor issues.

Nintendo couldn't just freely give every random developer access to code to make their games switch 2 compatible before the proper reveal.

So addressing every single game HAD to wait until now.

So calm down. Basically everything you likely have or will want to play should already work just fine or will work soon enough.

But since legally some games aren't 100% working on switch 2 they can't legally say otherwise.

@johnedwin because switch had a lot of third party software. Nintendo does not actively control all of it. Also a lot of these games apparently still run. They just have certain features that either don't work or have issues.

@JohnnyMind I'm sure these restrictions are on only temporary. Meaning secondary and reselling stores will be able to operate normally eventually. They just need to do SOMETHING to stop scalpers.

Honestly what they need is a sequel that adds a new layer or two to combat.

While some people loved the game many fighting games fans found it too shallow and most casual fans just weren't interested enough.

OR instead of tweaking the combat, they could add a punch out style single player mode and make that the main focus.

Both is also an option.

@Novuscourvous did you even look at the trailers? You still have courses and even the free roam has missions in it which honestly looked great for practice.

I understand the pessimistic view of open world. But not EVERY use of open world is bad. Honestly it looks like they used it pretty well based on trailers.

Btw not saying you have to like it. But keep a little more of an open mind.

@sanderev why are you counting live home circuit? That was just a spin off to play with AR tech.

You guys do know spin offs are a thing right.

Honestly would also consider Tour a spin off because while Nintendo did certainly endorse it, it's still a mobile game and not on a Nintendo Console. It's a substantial spin off, but still wouldn't really call it a mainline entry.

But even then f we did count it, World would at least be 10th.

Realistically world is treated as 9 by Nintendo.

@Strictlystyles Yeah it wasn't exactly the most gentle response. But the post he was replying to was beyond entitled. Wtf does he mean "Most gamers won't pay into this notion of increasing prices"? YOU MEAN INFLATION!?!

Seriously the fact everyone is raising prices shows how little choice they had. People are basically demanding bigger games be made for less profit because if you account for inflation they have been earning less and less per sale each year.

I'm not saying it doesn't suck ... But who do these people think they are? If borderlands 4 was made in a smaller budget than 3 these same people would call them cheapskates. But they don't want to pay for a bigger game.

I think profit margins per sale have grown so thin we're just going to have to accept bigger games will start to mean larger price tags.

If we can't afford those games then devs will need to make smaller games instead and we'll have to accept that.

It's time to stop acting like static prices when the economy is in out of control inflation is some kind of right.

@Deenroy they were spoiled. For about 20. Years games basically didn't change in price. We did move up from $50 to $60. But aside from a few outliers that hit $70 that held pretty firm.

So gamers are just spoiled as hell and don't believe inflation should affect gaming since it hasn't until now. What people don't realize is that because of static prices, profits have been thinning out for a while now.

The fact we're seeing increases is partly because profit margins are getting too thin.

@Clark2k NO YOU DO NOT. Are you absolutely insane? Government run videogames? Yeah let's put tax dollars into the privilege to play political propaganda and out of touch projects.

FYI there have been government funded videogame projects. And they basically always end up crap.

Capitalism works with stuff like videogames. Because the only way you push games to improve is with a customer demand driven business.

The rising costs aren't because "Capitalism bad" it's because companies are stuck in a death spiral of trying to make every game a massive release. We need to bring back the AA games market so companies can afford to experiment more and release games at lower prices.

Although funnily enough. People flipped out on Nintendo for suggesting "Variable pricing" but that's what we need. To price games more on what they are worth instead of a flat standard.

Steam does that and people love the steam store!

But in any case... Handing game development to the government will not improve things.

@-wc- well enjoy finding a new hobby because Microsoft is doing the same and you can bet Sony isn't going to hold itself back.

This is industry Wide buddy, so your not getting away from it. At least Nintendo isn't pricing everything at 80. A good few listings are 70 or less.

If you can't afford games then that's unfortunate, but you all need to stop acting like your walking out on Nintendo specifically.

Because it only gets worse in terms of pricing.

@MangoMahn the update didn't remove games. It simply prevents cheap titles that rack up download counts due to being cheap from making front page.

It's not a perfect solution but it at least pushes the slop down. Eve indie titles that are goog enough to earn real profit should at least be listed above the slop.

@Pillowpants actually the problem is "eslop" is largely subjective. Sure if you carefully review you could ban some obvious junk. But unless they payed a pretty big team to JUST do that they'd never keep up. Even a user report system would have issues.

Now Obviously Nintendo could still do better. But it's not so simple to get rid of the slop without also possibly killing simple but honest indie games.

Makes sense.since it's actual DLC on top of performance boost.

You can almost think of it as $10 dlc with $10 switch 2 editions upgrade.

dammit. Fell asleep due to being sick and woke up 2 hours past midnight. Well hopefully I either nab one soon enough or everyone going nuts for these will mean less competition for the Nintendo store invites.

@Dinglehopper because it wasn't for game preservation.

The vast majority of the leaked data aside from employee info was future stuff or early drafts so rough there was no reason they needed to see the light of day.

Don't hero worship leakers like they're all robin hoods saving gaming history. Most just want clout and attention. Although most are polite enough to at least not doxx employees in the process.

@John_Deacon if I remember right it was basically he hacked their private servers.and just dumped everything he got.

So the dump included ANYTHING that you might find in a company's private server.

Again normally a leaker that gets this kind of info currates it first to avoid DOXXing the employees. But apparently this one either didn't know how because they don't know Japanese or just didn't care.

I remember people raising a fuss about it since it makes the leaker community look bad when private info gets leaked.

@AlexanderDaniels he also leaked private employee information that could be used to stalk or harass them.

@demacho from what I've heard the typhlosion lore wasn't actually even that crazy. It was just translated poorly.

Like apparently the girl wasnt as young as people think and it was consensual? So it was still implied human/pokemon romance but apparently it wasn't actually as creepy when properly translated.

I can't say this with 100% certainty... But honestly it makes sense so until I hear otherwise I'll go with the more logical answers over the sensational one.

@Vyacheslav333 it was personal information.

A lot of people glossed over it. But the leaker actually hot chewed out by the leaker community because you are supposed to currate that before you dump.

Leaking personal information and stuff isn't cool. But the leaker just wanted his 15 minutes of fame and didn't care.

So screw that loser he's no hero. He's just a hacker that wanted attention.

@father_noo I know your joking... But I think one of the devs did say he collected beetles as a kid and he wanted to capture that feeling with Pokemon.

On a serious note. Obviously everything is inspired by something. They key is if you actually do anything inventive or new with it.

Which is why I just don't see a reason to praise Palworld. It didn't really do anything new. Even giving cute monsters guns was already done by Digimon.

Palworld just more blatantly projected itself as "pokemon with guns" which got the attention of everyone used to Pokemon being aggressively family friendly.

Again just to be extra clear I don't hate Palworld for doing this ... I'm just not impressed either.

They appealed to the same people that want to see Mickey mouse horror games. There is just a certain appeal to seeing things people recognize as pure and innocent get twisted.

This isn't a bad thing ... It's just a cheap gimmick that's been done a lot lately.

@Jester676 I never suggested otherwise. I only stated Palworld wasn't some brilliant and original idea.

It just took several existing ideals and combined them competently while using the popularity of Pokemon to launch itself.

I'm not saying that's exactly wrong. I mean the fact they actually copied other games well shows a fair bit of skill compared to devs that copy other games and completely fail.

I'm more ... Neutral in terms of my opinion. I find them a bit shameless in how they blatantly leveraged Pokemon but try to act like they didn't ... But I also think they did a good job in making a game people enjoyed. The game may not have original elements, but it still made a fun copy which is more than most copies do.

So I don't curse Palworld's existence, but I don't praise it either.

Again what turns me off from Palworld is more it's community that I just overall find annoying. Not that Pokemon fans are all saints mind you. But I just dislike the overall Palworld fan base so I just have no interest in the game.

No offense to you personally btw.

@Jester676 here is the thing. Palworld doesn't have a "why didn't we think of that" element.

When you break it down Palworld's entire appeal is that it's basically Pokemon but with guns, slave labor, and is unapologetically dark with a cute art style.

That is not something Pokemon could do without making it's brand not family friendly.

As for it's gameplay it's really just ark style crafting survival and it's art "looks good" but even putting aside the copied pokemon designs they are only dealing with a handful of pals. Pokemon has to find some way to make hundreds of models.

Honestly I think making Pokemon games 3D was a mistake. It's just too expensive to create that many high quality 3D models.

BTW not saying Pokemon is perfect. But Palworld wasn't some work of genius either. It's competently made, but it didn't really do anything new.

@UnbreakableAlex Nintendo has sales all the time.they just aren't super well advertised.

Also Sony and Microsoft don't permanently lower their game prices either..why are people pretending those two are fountains of generosity? Steam sales are largely through steam and encouraged by steam. The credit for those go to steam, not really Sony or Microsoft.

Before steam took off they didn't lower their prices any more often than Nintendo.

Nintendo is not some evil monolith by selling their games for peanuts periodically enough for you.

In fact some developers have even complained that the sales steam aggressively encourages happen so often they struggle to actually sell enough at market price since everyone just waits for a sale.

I'm not saying sales are bad, we all love to save money. But steam has spoiled people with them too much to the point you guys are acting like that's some kind of industry standard.

@JohnnyMind although either way dr.mario was far from the first Tetris clone anyway and it wasn't anything significant. It was just a minor Tetris clone with a mild spin on it.

The thing is Tetris itself is so basic that anything at all in the same idea looks like a copy.

At the very least I mostly see it as different from copying a distinct look and feel of a game when you absolutely didn't have to in order to make the desired game.

Any falling block puzzle will look like Tetris. But every creature capture.RPG doesn't need to look like Pokemon. In fact plenty don't, like Tem Tem.

@OwenOtter dude calm the heck down. It wasn't even that it was a political quote ... More just Nazi related quotes are so aggressively overdone they are generally the cheap ones.

So it was just eye rolling to default to that. Especially when the point it was trying to make was exaggerated.

Overall do I think Nintendo should have sued? Probably not. Don't really think it was worth it. But I don't think this is going to lead to some Domino effect any more than every other time a company enforced a game mechanic patent.

@joeyflannel that is my thoughts honestly.

In fact the reason I don't like Palworld has less to do with the game and more how toxically defensive it's fan base is.

Like they NEED to take shots at Pokemon and Nintendo and get salty if you argue back. Like the whole monster quest thing ... They point to a bat monster and go "that's Zubat" even when said bat monster looks completely different. Or they point to a tree monster and claim that's trevenent ... Just about everything RPG has some sort of treant monster. Hell the idea predates videogames in general.

But the Palworld fans act so damn insistent and smug about it like "ha you idiot. I win because Palworld is amazing and Pokemon is lame".

So I just want nothing to do with Palworld because it's fans are just ... REALLY annoying. It's the only time the fan base of a game effected my enjoyment of it.

@OwenOtter oh do NOT try to use the damn Nazi quote as if that applies.

Look you already mentioned the Nemesis system issue yourself. Can we stop always trying to act like Nintendo is some kind of Vanguard of the gaming apocalypse?

Nintendo may be big but they aren't the definitive authority on all things gaming. Things will happen with or without them.

Like people trying to crucify Nintendo over Mario kart world. No Nintendo is not "opening the flood gate". If you actually payed attention, games have been edging $80 for a while and most AAA games have skirted around it with day 1 payed dlc and deluxe edition with game changing bonuses.

So the reality is most gamers have been paying $80 or more for major AAA games for a while now. But everyone wants to act Like Nintendo is some kind of Vanguard of game prices.

Again same things here. People have sued over game mechanics for ages. Luckily a lot don't succeed but plenty do for one reason or another. Nintendo succeeding won't change anything major.

@Glasso are you serious with that? Non of those designs look stolen from dragon quest beyond a concept level. Like some sort of purple bat thing. Or some type of blue dragon.

It's entirely possible Pokemon devs got some ideas from monster quest. But you can't seriously call those stolen designs.

Meanwhile Palworld has things like Egyptian Lucario and everyone can see it at a glance. It's not just a similar concept of a bipedal dog, it's basically Lucario.

Now I won't completely hate on Palworld. They do have some designs that don't feel like Pokemon that are decent. But a lot of their most popular designs feel plucked straight from Pokemon.

Besides you can't pretend like literally everyone calling it "pokemon with guns" at a glance was only because Pokemon is well known.

Again I'm fine with Palworld existing and I don't think they did quite enough to get sued. But I also don't feel a ton of sympathy for them when they blatantly tried to piggy back off pokemon. They didn't steal from other series like Digimon or dragon quest.

@WiltonRoots Interesting. I was a somewhat late adopter of the Switch.

I had largely drifted away from mario games and RPG franchises like Xenoblade were still niche and not even on the system at launch.

Plus the failure of the Wii U made me take more of a "wait and see" approach.

But seeing people fuss over the price then is definitely telling.

THe only way I could see this make sense would be if the new "Virtual card" system is meant to take over save storage and it's not TECHNICALLY cloud saving or at least not cloud saving tied to NSO.

That being said I hope they didn't do something dumb like forget to let people transfer their existing cloud saved to the new system if that's the case.

@StewdaMegaManNerd It makes me laugh when people talk about the vaguely announced hand held Xbox like it's going to be a Switch killer.

Even if you put terrible Xbox sales aside ... What games does Xbox even have left that can't be played on steam?

Because if you want to take Xbox games on the go you can really just get a steam deck. Barely any Xbox games don't have a steam port.

But people want to act like a wannabe steam deck made by Microsoft is going to move that needle in their favor.

P.S. I don't hate Xbox ... But Microsoft really just turned it into a gaming PC and gave up their exclusives. So as a console Xbox is kinda dead. Because it's company doesn't even really need it.

@commentlife given the number of free repairs they did for a long time I can say they almost certainly didn't sell enough additional joy cons to be worth making that issue on purpose.

especially given people just buy extra joy cons when they break them some other way or when new colors they want come out.

I know people don't trust a lot of companies these days for good reason ... but that doesn't mean EVERYTHING is a lie and conspiracy.

There is no way they risked the entire Switch just to try to boost joycon sales. THere are so many less risky and more promising ways to profit and get money from Nintendo customers that aggresive planned obselesence.

IMO it really was just a design flaw that wasn't noticed until it was too late and Nintendo just refuses to address it properly for legal reasons.

But honestly Joy con drift did become less common as time went on so they defininitely did some tinkering behind the scenes and with the Switch 2's joycons completely rebuilt from the ground up, supossedly, they probably accounted for that issue this time.

@Oldstalk Exactly. Everyone just started worshiping "hall Effect" and acted like it's an absolute requirement.

People also acting like it's somehow guaranteed Drift will be a problem without it.

Did everyone get amnesia and forget drafit wasn't a massive issue BEFORE the Switch? And those past consoles didn't have drift issues.

Why is it so utterly impossible to imagine that they just fixed the design flaw without hall effect? I swear my opinion of a good chunk of the gaming community has gone down a lot with how absolutely rabbid some have been acting like it's their life's purpose to spread as much negativity as possible.

I know there have already been people like that, but it just feels especially aggresive this time.

@Baker1000 I'm sure Lakitu will still exist in cases you actually do get out of bounds for.

But they needed to do something for the open world format where you get off track. Since off track isn't always out of bounds for the race anymore but you could still be screwed.

So I don't think it's outright replacing Lakitu, it's just a clean and efficient way to deal with the issue of trying to do Mario Kart with an open map format like this.

Sure they could have had you summon your own Lakitu, but that would take more time to let the animtion play. Nintendo probably figured players reseting their own mistakes would prefer to get into the race as fast as possible. and honestly they were probably right.

@Baker1000 the rewind is basically your own personal lakitu that you activate on command.

Because everything is drivable now there are less clearly defined "off track" points.

Rewind is probably mostly to save yourself if you drive off track.

@DanijoEX-The-Kumiho I'm sure they will. They made a giant canvas of a game. Unless the game failed to find players they wouldn't abandon it.

@bleeflooflah the direct may have not given much purely new info.but it did confirm quite a few things.
1. It's confirmed you can race classicaly and choose tracks freely instead of being bound to cups. Some people thought everything would be tied to the open world so being able to just pick tracks and race is good.
2. Unlocked outfits are just added to the select screen. A bit disappointing as that's going to be a pain to navigate.
3. The lack of kart customization is part of the game and not a limitation of the demo.
4.battle modes are still a thing.
5. We got an indepth look into free roam mode including stuff we didn't know before

Overall there was maybe .... 5 minutes of actual new info. But making a direct for just one game was already a bit extra.

@BANJO I'd less thank EA themselves and more thank Hazelight for creating such a robust game sharing system that it can easily just make use of Switch 2's gameshare.

But seriously this is neat and I'd love to see more Switch 2 games make use of the switch as a second screen.

In fact an idea this game me is a stripped down Switch that is just the screen and wifi components. Meaning cheaper than a switch but able to receive screen share.

Most people should already have a switch they can use. But just in case they don't this would help use the function without buying two consoles.

@Diaclone_Dad fair ... But do keep in mind. Developers have said the regular Steam sales are sometimes a problem. Because people just wait for sales so no one buys it full price.

I mean I love a good steam sale ... But it's not really realistic to expect the same with Nintendo ... Although it wouldn't kill them to offer a few more sales and improve their store front.

Anyway good luck. If you want the Switch 2 now though you could just buy it as a hardware upgrade for Switch and try getting games at resell discounts later. Until then just play Switch 1 games better.

Or wait. Up to you but thought I'd suggest the option.

@astrogamer but mario kart 8 deluxe itself was a port. So you could say the dlc was where the bulk of the switch original content was.

I don't expect notable Mario kart expansions for a year minimum... Probably two. They got other stuff to make. Mario kart isn't all they do.

@Chlocean IMO there just wasn't much to innovate on that fans wanted. Switch 1 sales are not only going strong but Sony and Microsoft are trying to copy it.

It would be downright stupid to give up the switch concept right now. Meaning any innovation has to fit in the switch.

They added a mouse and game chat. Adding much else like a second screen or a new controller would have raised the cost even higher or made or not able to play switch 1 games.

So I wouldn't say innovation is dead. Just there wasn't much room to do so this generation. Maybe if VR gets a bit better they'll release a VR headset... I mean a real one not Labo.

@Diaclone_Dad keep in mind the average game will probably be more like $70 physical and $60 digital.

So if you either stay away from big games or just splurge only on a couple of big ones or go full digital then your overall spending shouldn't be much more than before.

Even if $80 is the actual norm, which I doubt, getting it for $70 digital won't be that bad. It's not a perfect situation but everything is more expensive so sadly I have to accept this was just going to happen.

Let me translate "Nintendo didn't do any wildly creative and innovative new concepts for us to steal and we really need something to convince players to not just get a steam deck or PC since we barely have any exclusives."

Seriously I can't take criticism of innovation seriously from Sony of all people. Even Xbox innovated more than them ... Their innovations just weren't worth stealing so Sony didn't care.

But really Nintendo had little choice this generation. The switch already has motion control support. The switch is already portable. They tried 3d and no one cared. VR still isn't really ready to be a main feature.

What innovation could Nintendo realistically do? Best they could do would be a completely reworked controller but that would make playing Switch 1 games harder.

It's not bad to iterate on hardware instead of completely reinventing it. It's a solid upgrade in every sense of the word and they made an effort to add a chat service and mouse controls.

If you want Nintendo innovation there it is. Every one else added a track pad to their controller ... Nintendo said "nah we making a mouse instead". It's a subtle innovation but it's still there.

I think it will be fine. Stick drift was less common as time went on anyway. So if they improved them further then they'll.probably be fine.

Like a few others have said they might simply not be saying the words hall effect for liability reasons or just wanting to use their own variant that they gave their own name and treating it as secret tech.

It's also possible the magnetic connectors made them unable to also use hall effect and they chose improved connection over hall effect.

However I've heard at least one leaker claims to have seen inside one and seen what looked like hall effect so unless they lied that is supposedly confirmed.

We'll have to wait and see but I doubt it will be a notable issue.

I'm sad but not entirely surprised Kirby air riders isn't listed. People are probaygoing to compare it to Mario Kart and sleep on it. But it's an entirely different kind of game with the best mode on the OG game being a kind of battle Royal like game.

I hope people warm up to it later.