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@nate83km sold well enough that they are canceling a crowdfunding they set up in case they didn’t make enough money to stay in business. It sold well enough they are actually refunding 2x whatever people donated.

@superpotion he has a reputation of overhyping his games. Taunting extreme holy grail features that end up never delivering. However, like it or not, at the end he does still deliver games that plenty love.

He is famous for Populous, Dungeon Keeper, Black & White (pioneered gesture controls before touch screens was a thing) and the Fable series on Xbox, with a fun karma good/evil system that may had been a bit (definitively was overly) overhyped.

There was also some Kinect AI tech demo that was touted to be a game changer but... well just go to the Project Milo wiki to see how that ended.

@OmegaYato playing smash ultimate.

@gcunit I do that with some game series too, but I mean to sit down and play those eventually. THAT stops me from even considering picking up any entry in this game series, it sounds like a single game will easily eat a whole month of my life. There is no way I'll ever go through the series.

Well it needs to be online multiplayer so:
Top down multiplayer Zelda:
The Legend of Zelda: 100 Royale Swords (Battle Royalle)

@Mrtoad so, if I read that right; per month is actually performing better than most other than sun and moon, and didn’t that one release at the peak hype point of Pokémon Go?

@Mrtoad yeah I would love to see sale numbers for all those games capped at the first 4 months.

@Yosher is it too early, though? The 2DS was released in America October 2013. The 3DS March 2011.

The Switch was released March 2017, October 2019 would be spot on window, if you use Nintendo’s history.

*Fused controllers.
*Thumb sticks like the ones in the 3DS (analog sticks don’t play well with pockets)
*This may actually increase the price but: cell antenna. If it’s going to be focused on the go, would be nice to be able to hook it to my cell plan and use online features anywhere my phone gets reception.
*A DS style flap, even if only a flat piece of plastic that just flaps all the way to the back during play, to protect the screen and controllers while on the go.

That switch keyboard would be awesome if the west had access to Dragon Quest X.

I guess it may be useful for RPG Maker too.

@Spectra Nintendo is unlikely to listen to anyone asking for more power this early in the lifecycle, but it’s their pattern to introduce cheaper versions of their portables with removed features. Last gen alone they followed up the 3DS with both, the 2DS that didn’t have flip screen or 3D, and then later the more powerful 3DS (that came very late in the cycle) got yet another also-powerful 2DS model (that flipped this time.)

I think it’s next to certain Nintendo will release a somehow cheaper version if the Switch, I just am curious if it’s truly this year or next, and what features will be omitted.

I think they already sell a version wirh no dock in Japan, same model though.

I’m a bit shocked Zelda isn’t up higher, but I guess Mario appeals to a bigger audience just by being more “casual” in its theme.

@link3710 oh good, I was scared there for a minute!

Pokémon “rpg” worries me a bit, does that hint it’s not a main entry and instead just a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon entry?

Edit: thank you all for reassuring me Nintendo already confirmed this was a mainline title.

Edit 2: is it only me or this years release schedule seems to lack punch? Sure, there is a mainline Pokémon there, but I feel for the mainstream that punch will be dampened by the release of Pikachu/Eevee.

Nintendo needs more big punches, I felt Metroid was going to be it.

@SwitchForce that’s the price for the collectors edition wirh extra goodies. If you just want the game, you can get that. Limited run switch games tend to run between 29.99 and 34.99.

@mazzel honestly, I already have the game in too many platforms. I have it on disk for the PS3 and PS4, digitally on Steam, plus the original PS2 releases.

Playing on the go is appealing, but if the game is going to be half digital I may as well just get the digital package on it's own. I dare guess in digital form we can pick to buy them separately, making it cheaper if either of the games is of no interest (I just finished a X play through so I would only pick X2 if that was an option.)

@Indielink "Also, notifications for achievements can be turned off if they irritate you to such an extent."

Last time I checked, Xbox and PlayStation both only offered a complete disabling of notification popups, not just achievement/trophies. Even then, It's hard to explain, but just knowing they are there messes with my brain cogs. Honestly, the switch feels so relaxing without any of it.

If the whole series becomes available on the switch, I’d get it and get rid of my PS4 copies (that I still have not played.)

I personally prefer playing on the switch even with inferior graphics as it means portability AND no achievements (I detest achievements as I try as I might can’t ignore them and they end up ruining how I play games)

Honestly I would not mind if the bulk of the PS3 and X360 libraries were re-released for the switch. Tons of games I never got to play due to not having time to sit in front of the TV. Switch is the only way I got to beat Skyrim’s campaign.

@mazzel Bayonetta likely does not have the warning because the box specifically says the product you are bring is Bayonetta 2, the splash on the corner simply stated it also happened to include a bonus download code for the first game.

In theory Square could have done the same, had they been willing to change all marketing material to simply say Final Fantasy X, not X+X2.

Mega man collections are trickier, since they advertise a full collection and have a one time digital code for the second half without a banner, but someone stated earlier that the white label seems to be for anything were the download is bigger than 25gb.

I’m imagining the corrupted file gets auto-uploaded to the cloud.

I’m turning off Auto-backups temporarily for this game tomorrow, just to be safe, even if I don’t play all-stars mode.

@mazzel Nintendo is the one that chose these labels and they are used on many games, I’m sure the punisher would love to hide this fact on small print on the back. I personally appreciate that a game that is not complete will be perpetually marked as such, no store can ever sell you a used copy and hide it’s incomplete, and no publisher can hide the fact you need internet to get the whole game.

The right solution is not the removal of the impossible to miss disclaimer, it’s for publishers to just include the whole game on the cart!

I’m personally going to avoid this version of the game, and eventually just buy the Asian version. No ugly label, and no one-time-use codes.

@Majora101 I’m sorry you feel non English inclusion to be so offensive in products sold in a country with Spanish speakers.

@Majora101 “Never assume you know more than someone because you dislike what they say. You are not as smart as you think you are.”
...
Dude, pause and take your own advice, think before you try to act all smart. I’m Puerto Rican. It’s not common to find English speakers outside of metropolitan areas.

TV is in Spanish. Newspapers are in soanish. Movies in theaters are always subtitled in Spanish.

Mainland school students also are supposed to take either Spanish or French in high school, go about asking how many actually can say more than two words in these language.

"Spanish and French were not widely added to the box artwork of Nintendo-licensed games until the Wii years"

And it has been annoying as #$!@ that French is prominently added to US releases of most products but Spanish always been ignored even given how many Spanish speakers that only speak Spanish are living within the US.

@mazzel those instructions seem to be about managing stuff for one switch. There does not seem to be a way for me to ever move a digital purchase to a new switch without access to the online store (that’s the same thing going on with the Wii now, once their store does dark, only the one switch you downloaded stuff too can continue to play then, hacking aside.)

Mind you, we may get lucky and Nintendo stops reinventing their store every generation, allowing us to continue downloading forever going forward (yea... like that is going to happen.)

@JaxonH I don’t think Nintendo offers any way to back up games to SD card, at least not in any way you can use it in a different device if yours was to break down.

Carts are ridiculously resilient, unlike disks, it’s unlikely that they will degrade before your time in this realm is up (aciddents like a dog eating them aside)

@Majora101 educate yourself before posting ignorant stuff. Puerto Rico is a US territory with more population than a large number of states and their official language is Spanish. They buy games too.

@WillTheLion and most people will completely miss the small print. If a publisher decides to do this, it better cost them sales.

BTW, this is common at least in the US, for games that require a download to play (like LA Noir.)

I think it’s a Nintendo policy (and still don’t know how Mega Man got around it)

@WillTheLion no, this need to be visible on the front of the box. No one should buy this and realize they need access to high speed internet to download half the game.

I’m upset as it is that some games somehow don’t have this warning (Mega Man collections don’t.)

Nice... anyone going to publish the other two seasons for Switch?

For anyone thinking this is fake just to drive up hits: who would think AC3 would drive hits??? If you going to go take, go Etzio Collection or Black Flag, those would get a lot more attention.

@Dezzy the space taken by high quality audio is not as small as you may think, but that’s irrelevant, i just played X HD recently and I had forgotten how much pre-rendered cut-scenes are in the game, and those take a lot of room.

@Dezzy the remasters have higher quality textures, 3D models, UI graphics, music (wirh 2 versions of every track, original and new composition) and higher quality voice tracks (plus 2 language tracks.)

Pre-rendered cut scenes are also now rendered in HD instead of DVD quality. This all adds up to a huge size increase.

Nice, knowing there will be extra content helps resist all the cheap sales of the PC and PS4 version. Can’t wait to be able to play this on the go!

@Jokerwolf was about to say exact this! Mega man needs big power gloves if done “realistic”

Outrage aside, I’m shocked how far Nintendo has come, from heavily censoring the tiniest hint of religious references from the likes of Castlefania in the NES era, to allowing this game into the eshop.

@everyone: this is extremely normal. Almost all multi-platform games are made by the main team for a single platform with outside teams, very often outsourced, doing simultaneous ports. As stated, this studio has worked on big games like Call of Duty, so it’s not like their only technical achievement has been a 2D game.

@riChchestM don’t know if you are looking at a regional sale, FFX/2 is $29.99 on US steam right now.

If x2 is digital, it’s an instant pass for me, I already have it in too many platforms anyways.

Hope X2 is in the cart, detest when they split games into half digital download wirh one time code.

Preordering 12 and stamping my calendar, though! Been holding on playing my PS4 copy for this!

Oh also forgot: confirmed, Tidus is the third DLC fighter for Smash!

/s