ModdedInkling

This was something poised to come earlier than expected after the major vulnerability over the course of this year for certain games, with Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 going under maintenance for an absurd amount of time. It clearly costed them resources they didn't like to spend, so it's much easier for them to simply cut it short.

@TheBoilerman
It still feels like an inevitability.

I'd imagine this is solely due to Arkham Knight, but I'm certainly not opposed to waiting a bit longer.

I actually never thought about it, but the aforementioned vulnerability is true, and was one of the main contributing factors to why both the Wii U and 3DS were so easily hacked.

To put it simply, modding a Wii U involves accessing the Wii. Modding a 3DS involves accessing the DSi.

I did not realize that the FIFA-EA split was going to be THAT severe. Well, I suppose it's honestly a good thing. A rare game doesn't necessarily mean it's a good game, and the soon-to-be-rare games they removed are certainly not great games.

Just as long as we're observing a STABLE 30fps, I'd say it's okay.

However, the 24 in the title is a blunt reminder that they decided to wait until their licensing safeguard expired. 6 years into the lifecycle of hardware that is 8 years old.

@Truegamer79
He was essentially the biggest threat to the New Republic shortly after the Galactic Civil War, and what amplified this was that he was a very grounded villain, unlike most we have seen in Star Wars.

If you have watched the latter half of Rebels, you would also see just how effective he was despite not being a Force user.

TWWHD being more vibrant is my reasoning behind preferring it over the original.

This leaves a rather uncertain fate on the future of remastered classic Star Wars games. I am still waiting for the day we start getting remasters of the Rogue Squadron trilogy.

@SalvorHardin
I'm more concerned about them using the Xbox BAYX layout instead of Nintendo's ABXY.

@mudmask
I'm actually a bit pessimistic that we'd be getting the original GBA version and not the super rare DSi version. The GBA version doesn't have that much content...

If this gets released in North America, I might finally consider buying Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. I'm one of the few Switch owners who avoided it for so long.

I don't know what's more interesting. The fact that these internal discussions took place, or the fact that we now have an official placeholder title for the successor, dubbed the "NG Switch"

Nintendo still holds true to their original NES marketing; They will forever refer to their devices as "systems" rather than consoles.

Considering how licensed sports games consistently aim to stay with the latest hardware, these downgrades were inevitable. NBA 2K had many good moments on the Switch as arguably the best option out of all licensed sports games, but it seems like that is about to change with Sony, as ridiculous as it sounds, taking the crown. Maybe EA, if their latest game does well, but so far it seems to be Sony.

I've got one voucher waiting for another $70 game. Already spent my first one on TotK. Gonna keep waiting.

I hope that if this game proves successful, it also proves a point to Intelligent Systems that there is already an... intelligent system for the Paper Mario series. It doesn't need to be stuck in an endless identity crisis.

@PokemonDMG @Nickinator The Yoshi's colour is dependent on how long you wait after you get the egg. If you hatch it as soon as possible, it's green. I think pink might be the very last one, with the longest wait.

@Zyph
It was actually both. The more recent one was from PAX.

The original purpose of E3 is something ReedPop already provides at PAX, as we clearly saw with the latest rumours of Nintendo showcasing supposedly an early build of their next console to investors, developers, and journalists.

This article fails to acknowledge that the first DLC of BotW was content that usually gets shipped free in Zelda games, and that the amount of content introduced in DLC 2 is more or less the same amount of content as Mineru's arc in TotK.

Why are people treating it like Nintendo shafted Charles Martinet rather than him voluntarily retiring from voicing Mario (and related characters)? Who started that line of negative speculation to begin with?

This doesn't sound like anything too special. Just some future-proofing and probably a reminder that Nintendo is still going to make amiibo, even if they are going to be rarely used in-game.

Now, if we could just get the Star Wars: Rogue Squadron trilogy, that would be amazing.

The real challenge left now is to see if the Switch can overtake the DS, even if it's within one region.

Hot damn, now I kind of do want Ridley Scott to be the one to make a Zelda movie, ironically more than a Metroid movie.

@AstroTheGamosian
If you're familiar with the Kit & Krysta Podcast, issues like that were the result of poor management and lack of communication.

A lot of the times, NoA tries to maintain constant communication with NCL (Japan) to ensure the guidelines are consistent, but there's the occasional slip-up that happens. NoA also had a lot of reorganization involved in order to get their content creator stuff organized.

@kfflscnt
I disagree on the basis that it was a good thing to remove it entirely. Nintendo was still very corporate with their PR during the "Iwata-Reggie era" but it was just enough for fans to actually be tolerant of the many terrible decisions Nintendo has made. Their PR policy is still very different from most other companies, even if they kept those standards today.

Nintendo of America could use a facelift in their PR department. Everything shrinked back to corporate.

These are all just gaming laptops that replace the keyboard with a controller. Until someone makes a handheld gaming device that uses mobile architecture (surprising that Sony has not done this yet), no one would be a true competitor to Nintendo.

I would genuinely laugh if a board game video game beats out every single one of these nominees, especially looking into the action-adventure genre which seems to have repeatedly won Game of the Year.

I'd be insulted if it ran poorly. Thankfully, they were aware that the Switch is more powerful than an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.

Mr. Iwata would be proud.

I think more games were stolen from me than games that I sold. I'm not someone to sell games, even if they were terrible games.

8bitdo continues to be one of the top 3rd-party controller brands out there. I wonder how much smaller they can get with their controllers.

At least the devs were committed to bringing most of the same experience on the Switch since literally day 1. NBA 2K was one of the games showcased in the First Look trailer.

Genshin Impact isn't a bad game. As a matter of fact, many people cited it as one of the better gacha games (though that may not apply today, necessarily). The only thing I would like to devs to do is to be transparent around the Switch version.

Goddess of the Demon Empire is one of the most badas subtitles I've ever heard for Mario.

I already watched this movie. It's actually not bad as a movie for its time, but definitely not a great movie for Mario.

The western one feels cheaply made, with PNGs slapped onto a background. The Japanese one feels like a dramatic experience, showcasing the ensemble cast.

Could be Metroid. Could be Samus Returns HD. Could be their own game.

It's just like purchasing the physical versions of free-to-play games. You get it if you are a collector, or if you want a slight bonus.

This year really does sound fierce for The Game Awards. I am genuinely afraid of the level of bias there will be at this year's Awards.

I stumbled across this by accident while Shrine hunting. It clearly paid off because I left the whole place with a Sage and a quest to reclaim the Master Sword.

@HolyGeez03
Nintendo was good with backwards compatibility, but they weren't excellent with it. Nintendo never took advantage of digital backwards compatibility, looking back at how the Wii U could natively run GameCube games and the 3DS could natively run GBA games.

The lack of GameCube titles being re-released on Wii U (despite GC controllers being released for Smash) and the Ambassador-only GBA games on 3DS were two of their big mistakes with backwards compatibility.

I'll have to do a bit of research on this one, but the Switch could've been backwards compatible with 3DS (specifically, New 3DS) considering the CPUs' architectures are probably similar, but with a severe age gap in between.

Overall, Nintendo is okay, but I might argue that Microsoft has done better, even though some of it is emulation and not true backwards compatibility.

There are just so many games to go through... I'm actually kind of glad they didn't have any current Nintendo collabs yet.

This is just some regular patent work from Nintendo. What Nintendo didn't make use of though, is upside-down archery, something which was patented before Tears of the Kingdom's release.

Pokémon Presents is really only suitable as an annual event. All other marketing should just be allocated to Nintendo, who actually has a reason to do at least 2-3 major Nintendo Directs every year.

@RobbWes
Quite a very bad way to prove a point if it isn't even true to begin with. The only issue is file size. Every Rockstar game except RDR2 could run fine on the Switch.

I'm seeing a suspicious amount of blind nostalgia here. I personally do not like the North American box art because it's not very consistent with later games in the franchise.

I have a lot of respect for video game preservation, even if it means custom firmware.

I DON'T have respect for anyone who takes people's choices away in that regard. I might actually start calling this "Game Preservation Activism"