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@Quarbit the problem is that it's gotten worse to the point of it becoming near impossible to get things even 6+ months in some cases. Because the scalpers just just buy up the stick every time there is a restock.

Plus we simply shouldn't have to wait or pay extra. Which is why people need to stop ***** paying the scalpers already.

@eltomo the physical switch 2 editions are just upgraded to optimize the switch 1 game for switch 2. To use the new tech properly. It's essentially a rerelease of the base game without charging for the full game again.

So it actually makes sense to not include the dlc. This isn't a definitive edition, it's just an upgrade. Some even come with their own dlc like Kirby getting an entire post game.

People complaining about this aren't thinking about it properly. They're looking at switch 2 editions like definitive editions. Those typically include the dlc for free in order to encourage people to get the game again or encourage new customers. You don't have to buy the entire game again.

@N00BiSH This is a comment complaining about comments complaining about the price of Mario Kart World.

Jokes aside I only started to care about Mario Kart due to a few streamers playing it regularly with viewer. But as a result I did start to enjoy the game a bit and the wall riding and rail grinding look like they'll add a lot. Plus now I can just drive around and not exclusively race against others.

@Paper_Yoshi yes ....yes people make mistakes like that constantly.

@Narrator1 I like the steam deck because I love the switch but there are Non Nintendo games I very much want to play.

So I got the steam deck, not to replace the switch, but to play all of the other games I wanted on a handheld like the switch. Plus I needed to replace my old gaming PC anyway... So getting a steam deck instead just made more sense.

@BrokenCiv exactly. Switch 2 is no slouch and if a game is available on both I might have to think about which is prefer ... Although the fact steam made it clear we don't own ***** ... Kinda leaning switch 2.

But aside from that, you get a switch to play switch games and steam deck to play PC

There are a lot of games that will never be on the switch. And a lot of games that will never legally be on steam deck.

So neither is going to kill the other because no one's going to abandon the games they like for hardware.

Doesn't matter which is objectively better if it doesn't have the games you want to play.

@Alpha008 same. Switch 2 comes with decent memory to hold a good few games. With the "virual card" system to better manage digital downloads I can just "Slot in" as much as the system will allow and remove what's not needed.

I can easily get by without more storage for a while.

Okay people don't panic YET. Is Donkey Kong Bonanza. A 3D platform launch title with one of the oldest mascots is $70 then $80 may not be normal and might even just be for Mario kart.

Possibly other large scale games as well but we don't have to assume that will be the price of all games since we already know of one not that price.

@DylanMcGrann they did that with the Alarmo. So it's quite possible.

@RupeeClock it's say less "cut out" since it's not like that stuff will go away even if they wanted it to.

I see it as more them not wanting to be dependent on other companies.

Think about it, if Google one day said "Nintendo. Do what we say or well block all Nintendo content ... They'd be in a rough spot. We've already seen that happen with some credit card companies making demands or cutting off payments to site and services they"won't support".

So this could be Nintendo just making sure they have a news pipeline they control.

@ArcadeSixties It's not cherry picking there is a difference. Although the divide is a bit grey so it's a bit of nuace.

The simplest way to put if something is a "copycat/ripoff" or "inspired by" is one simple question "How similar is the game if you remove genera norms?".

I specify genera norms because obviously every fighting game will have certain elements that are similar given they're all fighting games.

But anyone pretending Multiverse wasn't like ... 70% smash bros is coping. Why? Because no one, NOT A SINGLE PERSON. Looked at Multiverse and thought of any other game but Smash Bros. They didn't think of street fighter, or Tekken, or any other fighting based game. That proves how heavily similar the game was to Smash Bros specifically.

and really this new revelation only proves they were doing it intentionally. You can try to pretend they were just "heavily inspired" by Smash Bros and just wanted to make their own platform fighter that played almost identically .... but you can't seriously believe they just happened to only be inspired by mario Kart at the EXACT SAME TIME AND MADE THE GAMES IN PARALLEL!!!

Seriously for anyone that ever tried to play defense for Multiverse and claim it was just innocent inspiration ... this just definitely proved them wrong.

Now that's not to say Multiverse wasn't fun. it was a competent copycat unlike most like Sony's attempt with "All star Crawl" or that barely okay Nickelodeon knock off.

So to give the devs credit they were absolutely competent at copying Nintendo's homework. But they were still ABSOLUTELY and without question ... copying Nintendo's homework specifically.
As for TUNIC, aside from some visual elements it's a completely different game from Zelda witch a heavy focus on cryptic puzzles that even requires a bit of metagaming to solve. So that is very much in the realm of "inspired by" because they didn't take anything from Zelda but a bit of art inspiration and even that isn't a 1 to 1 copy.

Honestly do wish this nonsense would end.

Nintendo needs to either settle with them or pull out a serious smoking gun to better validate the lawsuit.

I mean they aren't even going after then over blatantly ripped off designs and at this point the PR over the situation isn't great.

Plus ... If I'm being totally honest. Palworld does have some interesting designs. I mean aside from the lazy rip offs.

Although I guess Nintendo could always reverse rip Palworld off and watch the haters lose their minds trying to use the same arguments they dismissed before.

I'm glad they removed blade levels. Too much crap to manage was annoying. But I wish they'd given each division a buff so it wasn't entirely reduced to meaningless visual flair.
Like maybe interceptors get bonus exp from battles while Pathfinder's get bonuses from exploration.

Removing all value from divisions was a bad call IMO. But I guess it's hard to complain when they already remade this huge ass game and improved so much of it.

It's still worth calling out though.

@StewdaMegaManNerd I heard he did. In his defense Inafune pushed for embracing the west mostly at a time where Western game development was flourishing far better than Japan which has fallen into a bit of a rut.

Big companies like Sega were collapsing. Companies were moving to silicon valley.

Really there was a point you could argue Inafune had a point. But then ... Stuff happened... And now game development is moving out of the west.

@RareFan well comics used to be more varied. But DC and Marvel dominated the field much that it largely fell under them. Other comics do exist but they aren't given public attention.

But we do have plenty more than action flicks. Although the MCU has caused action to dominate more than ever. Horror and comedy still have decent followings.

Overall it's not that our tastes are limited. It's the monopoly of companies like Disney has caused most high budget productions to fall under them and they care about profit over entertainment so they just make the same stuff over and over.

That's why anime and such is so popular. We want that stuff but the big companies here won't give it to us.

@BenAV Xenoblade on the 3ds isn't a 10. They did their best but it's frankly way too crunched. Plus it lacks the definitive versions improvements so in comparison it's even worse.

Xenoblade is great but the 3ds version is easily the worst one.

@Ultimapunch I feel the only people surprised are those that don't realize Nintendo still makes at half a dozen or so new amiibos every year.
Their demand isn't like it was at launch but it's still pretty big. When Xenoblade 3 amiibos of Noah and Mio were released the Nintendo store was crashing from the traffic.

So Amiibos are still big profits for Nintendo. They just focus on particular figures rather than mass producing as many as possible.

@Pillowpants they can't stop it but if you don't at least try to deal with it it only gets worse.

Like you can't stop the drug trade, but that doesn't mean you just let people sell meth on public street corners. You want to at least suppress it so it's not easily available.

@Bolt_Strike it has both mega evolutions and tera forms. So the point is largely to create an arena dedicated to unifying Pokemon battle mechanics.

The other point is likely the mobile phone app. This basically lets people not able to bring their switch with them still play Pokemon.

Combine this with home, tcg pocket, and go ... And Nintendo is slowly turning phones into a secondary console for themselves.

Since they abandoned dedicated handheld gaming devices with the hybrid switch, this might be part of Nintendo's effort to have a platform besides the switch that appeals to that handheld market that wants gaming in their pocket.

@rjejr I doubt you use both like mice at once. It's rather difficult to to two different things with each hand at once. Even if you are good with both hands.

Most likely the double mouse Lazer is for either two player. Or both sensors will be used to like ... Gauge distance between both remotes or something.

@larryisaman exactly. People are STILL releasing good games on the switch. Sure it struggles with more powerful games. But Nintendo keeping it's games less graphic greedy has likely helped keep cost down compared to these other games costing tens of millions on graphics alone.

It's still time for an upgrade, but some people are acting like it needs to outperform the PS5 ...which is crazy for something handheld to outdo the best Sony could put out.

Give me MegaMan legends collection already. Complete with the tron bonny game.

Nintendo micromanages because they learned from experience.

They tried being hands off with a live action Mario movie back in the 80s ... It ended up a mad Max like hell scape full of drugs and sex and they had to spend a lot trying to salvage it.

Frankly speaking if they feel the need to keep asking for corrections then your probably not doing the job right.

@MeloMan it's also the only timeline that "river Zora" actually exist in. They aren't in the other timelines because they are a mutation of "ocean Zora" and this mutation only occured in that timeline.
Funnily enough the Rito are also a Zora mutation so Nintendo really likes to use Zora as a base for other races.

@larryisaman I will clarify one thing.

it's not COMPLETELY disjointed as part of the issue is the timeline Nintendo created attempts to resolve some rather heavy retcons.

With the first Zelda games the world was already fully dominated and twisted by Ganon. Who resembled a big pig monster.

But then after following that formula for a while They decided to do more "peaceful kingdom gets overrun by the Dark Lord" type story and some races like the Zora were retconned into peaceful races.

To explain this away they made these new games take place BEFORE the older games, and then to avoid needing to bring the games back into the dark future they split the timeline.

I do agree it's rather messy but it ended up that way largely because they made it up to resolve the massive lore gaps from basically hard rebooting the world building they'd built up.

in any ways the massive departure seen in BoTW is similar. But I guess Nintendo realized pulling the same trick again wouldn't work so they just explicitely placed them outside of the timeline.

I still say the timeline has value for it's aid in world building ... but we just don't need to take it too seriously because the overall events don't really connect beyond simply establishing Ganon, Link, and Zelda exist.

All we need to care about is stuff like "Okay so in this timeline Ocean and River Zora both exist but in that timeline they don't" and stuff like that.

@larryisaman the value in the timeline is mainly in the world building.

We don't need characters to mention past events but it's difficult to really establish a rich world and culture with just one game.

So the timeline allows games to rely on prior games world building and build off of it.

@Serpenterror the tales of series has always had a lot of outfits and accessories.

Graces F was one of the first times the devs played with dlc and they went absolutely nuts with it. they sold basically every outfit you used to be able to unlock in the game as dlc ... Each single outfit as a separate dlc.

For example the "angel set" is a halo and wing accessories. Those used to be found in game and were found in game again in other games.

But THIS game was when the devs really tried to milk that dlc greed. Back when a lot of devs were trying to lock everything they could behind paywalls.

@Cronodoug fingers crossed. Nintendo has been very non censorship with the Switch but it's possible they'll just default to applying the same censors they did before.

Hopefully not but we'll have to wait and see to be sure.

@DoBetterNintendo What annoys me is they have a "20 player game mode" but only 4 or 8 party lobbies.

I want them to really expad on this and let players play with 20 people lobbies.

In fact the 8 player bowser battle should be doubled to two teams of 8 to 10 that compete to see who can beat bowser the fastest.

they already time and grade your performance so just make it a live competition of two teams.

I like Jamboree overall but it does feel like a lot of missed potential to really go big. A lot of party games are enjoyed on Twitch streams these days and big party party games are great for allowing viewers to reasonably expect to join in.

@Axecon "Bigger than previous ones" is probably an exageration.

Don't get me wrong I am hyped for it. But XCX is known for being lighter on the story and being really a lot like a single player MMO.

While that style has some fans it's not entirely what JRPG fans like the most. Most XC fans will probably get the game anyway, but it's questionable how many outside that circle will take an interest in it.

@Tyranexx Also XCX takes place is a sci-fi future version of OUR world. Like actual IRL cities are referenced. So rather than an entirely fantasy setting with sci-fi elements it goes really hard on the sci-fi.

@RupeeClock

To add onto this the origional Wii release of Xenoblade Chronicles was a limited release. For a long time it was a rare gem of a Wii title. So it had a cult following rather than massive sales.

So the franchise didn't really gain traction until Xenoblade chronicles 2 on the Switch and the DE edition of the first game.
So the majority of fans didn't even get into the series until after the Wii U.

So this is a game most had only vagly heard of and even some Wii U owners probably didn't play it simply because it was still relatively uknown.

This is entirely what I expected and I'm happy with it.
I just want to collect the cards and I'm not in a grand rush to do so.

So I'm fine at best getting the premium pass once in a while and just taking what I can get.

A gatcha only really needs to allow you to reasonably play without paying to be fair and you open at least two packs a day without even doing anything.

It's a neat little card collector game with a PvP attached to give you something to do with your collection.

@MirrorFate2 oh I have no idea. I ordered a physical copy. I just know this from the pre release trailers.

Now I did see a few examples like a flying mini game. So it's not only rhythm at least.

No idea beyond that.

@MirrorFate2 some involve motion controls. So you'll probably need them for those.

@MirrorFate2 Some minigames require joy-con motion controls. But you can turn those off if you want to avoid them apparently. It seems they added a fair bit of customization to this one so you aren't entirely forced to play by the default rulebook.

@koopababble Nintendo should do this more often. As much as I hesitate to turn the Online Subscription into a "get it early" thing ... scalping has gotten so bad in some cases that big items like consoles can take over a year to become avaliable to normal people at actual market price.

So if it holds back scalpers then it's worth it at this point.

@BANJO From what I've seen ... if you were going to play any Mario Party game Solo this would be it.

The fact it has better online support than previous titles is also a help. So you don't need a group of friends together every single time.

But of course mario Party is at it's best with friends. So keep that in mind.

What's really baffling about the Eurogamer review if there is a pro-mode that removes the luck based mini games.

So like ... If you want to be try hard about it you can do that.

To still complain is to act like simply having luck heavy mini games at all is a negative.

@axelhander IT's not a copyright violation as long as it's not an actual Nintendo IP.

The larger issue is that it being unliscenced means it's simply not approved by Nintendo to run on their system.

The reason the liscensing system exists is to prevent any random crap from being sold as a legitimate game.

You think shovel ware is bad now? Imagine if some of those ***** online flash games were put on store shelves!

Thus Nintendo has good reason to not allow unliscenced games to be sold for their console ... whoever this is the NES, Nintendo isn't selling NES cartridges anymore.

so it's questionable if they'd care since this won't really affect their brand. Because that's the issue here. IF people could flood the market with ***** games Nintendo never approved of when we could get ... poop commando and child abuse simulator on the Nintendo switch (You know someone would try to do that if they could).

But since it's not a console they are actively selling for and the new Tengen isn't pretending it's supported by Nintendo ... it should be fine.

@Cia Oh for sure. I'm looking forward to this game because it seems fun but this does not look like a big budget title. This looks like an experimental side game made with a small team.

most likely because the big teams are probably preparing the Switch 2's line up.

But even if the graphics don't look high budget ... they look nice enough and it's the gameplay I'm more interested in anyway so it's fine.

@epicgamner We're done really. I wouldn't really count the Layton crossover because that's not purely an AA game.

Not saying it's bad but it's kind of it's own thing rather than part of the series.

So with this every proper AA game is now on the switch and in English as well.

That being said there is a decent chance of them making a new AA game at this point. It would be odd to invest this much in porting every single game to modern hardware and just drop the series right there.

@Uncle_Franklin This isn't at all like NFT.

NFT was the attempt at using a blockchain digital reciet to pretend an indavidual png image was a unique and "valuable" artwork and that you could monetize the hell out of it. There were a lot of issues with it

But this is more like lootboxes if you want a comparison outside of Gatcha games themselves. It's spending money for randomly obtained digital items. Those digital items aren't framed as unique, but you have to get them on YOUR account to have access to them yourself. But that's kinda how the physical cards were too so really it's just a digital version of what they had before.

@Anti-Matter IDK scalping might be a bit hard. You can likely buy cards for your account but they are digital so it's not like you can buy them all up.

You can also trade but that's card to card so unless there is a way to sell individual cards the only way to profit would be an unofficial market system of "you pay me and I trade this good card for one of your junk cards".

Scalping happens because of physical limited quantity which isn't really the case here.

Now what's more likely to happen is people build up account with lots of good cards and then sell the entire account people have been doing that with Gatcha games for ages. But that market is limited since you have to build up each account.

@Dom_31 As long as they give out free packs then it won't be bad to just passively collect free cards for the sake of just having what you get.

Paying likely won't be necessary unless you want every card or want to be competative ... which is fine really.

Mobile games need people to pay to keep their continuous development cycle going. That's just how it works. But as long as paying is a choice and not a hard requirement to fuction in the game then it's good enough.

As someone that used to collect the cards I'm mildly looking foward to it ... might even drop a LITTLE money on it. But I have no intention of spending a lot.

Still making their already well established cardgame a digital mobile game was a good move. It won't even hurt card sales since people that want to collect physical cards will still want to do so.

@SwitchForce A few I'd say are REALLY questionable with how they almost look like pure reskins on Pokemon models.

But to be fair most aren't THAT blatant so worst case scenario the devs have to update the game with a few designs tweeked.

Nothing about the designs as a whole or it's fundemental design is taken from Pokemon that's not legally countable as inspired.

Like they capture the Pal's in balls ... that's OBVIOUSLY from Pokemon but they're also legally distinct enough from Pokeballs that it's not an issue unless they make them red topped and white bottomed.

But what I find funny is the modders already trying to just traight up put Pokemon int he game ... the game's already in a grey area as it is and they just can't resist putting full on Pokemon in the game.

So far Nintendo's only taken legal action against a modder that was charging for his Pokemon mod which was really dumb of him.

it's become the popular thing to dog on Nintendo but for the most part as long as you're not profiting off their IP in some way they don't tend to bother too many.

They have a weird obsession with footage on Youtube that they need to work out but it's fine otherwise.