ModdedInkling

I'm pretty sure they can walk up to The Pokémon Company instead and make another Pokémon Picross very easily. That'll show Nintendo.

I'm not impressed. I really am not. "Better late than never" doesn't sit very well for me in this kind of scenario.

I'm surprised A Link Between Worlds was deemed unlikely, especially considering Nintendo is starting to do these HD ports of 3DS games.

@Reztobi
Of course, the Switch is basically the equivalent to a phone from 2015. The comparison to a phone from 2019 is night and day.

I still don't believe a Genshin port is impossible though. One of the major issues with Genshin on mobile is cooling, something which the Switch already solved with fan-cooling rather than the "vapour cooling" found in mobile devices.

I have almost no doubt that backwards compatibility is inevitable on the successor. Nintendo future-proofed themselves the moment they decided to use mobile hardware, and the OLED Dock is close to being 4K-ready.

One of the on-going issues with SSBU is that the efforts to making it representative of numerous game franchises have been moderate at best. None of the 1st party franchises have been updated to include their latest incarnations, balancing issues are a major problem with the lack of attention to late DLC, and amiibo is gonna take time to release, so they should've at least waited until those came out before calling it quits.

Either or is fine, but apparently I've heard that the events of Seasons are referenced in Ages, so it may be wise to play Seasons first.

Either way, these two games deserve much more credit than they've been given. They were the first two Zelda games to introduce text speeds and text skipping, a crucial feature which its absence in previous entries is why I still openly refuse to play the original versions of A Link to the Past, Link's Awakening (and DX), Ocarina of Time, or Majora's Mask.

Hmm... seems like this is set in the same year as Rondo of Blood would be (1792). I wonder how much from that they'll adapt in this.

@Bizzyb
Forgetting about the impact that Symphony of the Night left on the gaming industry? The "first" Metroidvania ever made?

Even though that wasn't Richter's debut game, he was prominent enough for people to at least know him by name and appearance.

@angrycurtains
Like Pokémon, these games were designed to be released at the same time.

I keep hearing about the insane popularity of VI and how it's one of the defining titles of the SNES library, and RPGs as a whole. Is it time I pick it up and see what this is all about?

Splatoon 3 is on its way to becoming bigger and better than Splatoon 2, but it still suffers from the major issue of P2P networking and the incredibly low tickrate.

This would be great, if more games natively supported this.

I'm a little bummed out that Kohga did not have voiced dialogue in this game. Pretty big missed opportunity if you asked me.

What I did like was how his reactions change depending on what kind of gear you are wearing. Walking in with the full Yiga armor annoys him even more than simply being Link.

@BrazillianCara
Yeah, people often forget that this website still prioritizes news over speculation or opinionated articles.

It is incredibly easy to circumvent this. The Steam Deck is just a laptop with a controller attached to it, so it can run any OS that supports Dolphin.

Once again, let it sink in that we got a functional PlayStation-developed port on Nintendo Switch before EA brought a legitimate port.

It is a crime to exclude Twilight Princess Link.

@nintendr0ne
By "global," I think he means free of any defining and sometimes controversial characteristic that would apply to humans.

@Smug43 Me

Nintendo isn't oblivious to any of this. Pikmin 1 and 2 are a result of them being well aware of a leak risk. What they failed to do is learn their lesson and see how effective this method would work with a brand new release. Now, they can't do anything, AGAIN.

And this is why Second Quest exists in The Legend of Zelda.

I would appreciate this discount more if...

A. They provided a separate calculated discount for those who have already purchased some of the DLC available in this pack

B. It was an international discount

This was the perk of older handheld and mobile devices. All of that was sacrificed for what? External appearance and the incentive to pay money for repair services? I honestly am not overly critical about my console's exterior, so an accessible battery is a welcome thing to return to.

This is definitely a sign of EA needing to justify all of their platforms now that they have lost the FIFA branding. I'm actually disappointed that this is the reason for waiting 6 years in to get a real new football game from them. We got a PlayStation baseball game on the Switch before we got a legit new EA football game. Let that sink in.

That shovel was always a terrible idea in the first place. Glad they reverted back to the original recipe.

@Magician
I'm sad to admit that this is true. It will take a while before Microsoft starts getting on Activision's asses about optimizing games and compressing file sizes, which would be the ticket for Nintendo hardware

@parena
The change in branding will lead to potential adverse changs in sales, particularly those in Europe who only purchased these games as merchandise or didn't care for its reused old school experience. If this game fails, it will prove everyone's points about just how bad ths series is.

As we all know, Red Dead Redemption 2 stole the attention of the devs, but it didn't really affect the overall gameplay of Tears of the Kingdom, save for maybe carriages.

I happened to have gotten this by accident. I gotta say, this was one of the more impressive Master Sword scenes.

HOWEVER, nothing comes close to the high stakes situation of AoC, where the Master Sword saves not only Link, but Zelda. No one knew Link was going to be the Knight Who Seals the Darkness (that's the name of the epic theme song that plays), but the moment that is discovered, Link immediately kicks ass.

Seems like not every developer has moved over to Unreal Engine 5 yet. I don't believe UE4 is as capable of running on weaker hardware such as the Switch.

@HeeHo
It's probably where people choose to store their Game Cards that might pose a problem.

I would genuinely laugh if this game was nominated for "Best Multiplayer." It might get "Best Family" though, considering how much of a family game this actually is (I am still very insulted by how many singleplayer Nintendo games are nominated in this category).

Monolith Soft was one of Nintendo's best acquisitions ever made. Not only do they have their wonderful Xeno series, but they also have such amazing world-building skills that I don't believe any other developer team could match.

The only thing that gets damaged are the controllers themselves. Unless you were incredibly clumsy, the Switch itself wouldn't sustain damage that easily.

You better hope he's busy working on another Mario & Luigi game directly with Nintendo or with Intelligent Systems. Otherwise, this would be the second time they shafted him, the first being AlphaDream's bankruptcy.

Tokyo Game Show doesn't happen at the right time for Nintendo to promote any of their games anyways. It's kind of like how Nintendo usually only turns up with an Indie World Showcase during Gamescom, and pretty much nothing 1st-party at The Game Awards.

I think I'm still keeping my standards incredibly high for this. They should've developed this game with the Switch as a priority, because there really is so much you could do with making a "remake" with "old textures" or something like that. This was inexcusable quality for something so simple.

I could understand botching a port for GTA V (if that ever came around). The game has a huge file size, even for the PS3 and 360. This, however, could have been avoided entirely had they decided to focus on the Switch, then make massive improvements on other platforms. They seriously need to start thinking like Capcom.

It is difficult not to choose Tears of the Kingdom because it is no longer up against Nintendo's pre-December 2022 lineup.

Sparks of Hope didn't garner as much attention as I expected. The magic of a very spontaneous crossover has pretty much died down, for obvious reasons. It's just a sequel with a much less traditional gameplay style of tactical RPGs, but it's still just a sequel.

Engage is an example of trying to cater to everyone, and ultimately catering only to the veteran Fire Emblem fans.

Bayonetta Origins. People already had impressions on this game. I'm not sure how effective making a niche prequel spin-off helps for an already somewhat-niche franchise.

Tears of the Kingdom didn't even meet my expectations, but if we're looking at Game of the Year, the game is massively successful. However, only time will tell when people will begin to look at the game more critically. We're still in the early stages, pre-DLC too.

@commentlife
That would be painfully expensive. If anything, they would just release an official flip-grip accessory and play it in portrait orientation.

I did not expect Bedrock Edition to be incredibly popular on the Switch. It's still a shame that playing online here requires an NSO subscription.

A lot of people don't realize what is being said here. Metaverse doesn't automatically make everything bad, it's just many companies who do it have done it in bad ways.

The "Nintendo way" of doing it might just go as far as a successor to StreetPass Mii Plaza and Miiverse, or perhaps either Animal Crossing or Splatoon. It would be made to be used as a game, nothing more.

I think the CEO is misinterpreting Phil Spencer's overall vision for the video games industry. It feels more like a petty statement rather than something fruitful.

Platform-exclusives are well justified if the company behind the platform is making the exclusives or at least funding for the development of exclusive games. This would also extend to franchises where the previous publisher refuses to provide sufficient funding for a game to be green-lit, such as Nintendo investing in the Bayonetta series. That way, there's justification for each platform to continue to exist.

What Satya really should have said was 3rd-party exclusives - Software not being developed or published by platform holders who only make their games exclusive either out of platform bias (grow up, Japan. You need to publish more stuff on Xbox), or the platform holders pay extra money on top of the money provided by the publishers for the sole reason of making games exclusive. Hardware limitations come to mind, but I'm not entirely convinced that was the only reason why Square parted ways with Nintendo, and it certainly isn't the case with today's environment.

@drewber2635
Many characters in the game have already been water-downed. Joining Smash has always been about representation, not necessarily accuracy.

They won't admit that Microsoft is right about the demographics, especially considering Microsoft owns the company that has already brought M-rated FPS franchises to the Switch since its very first year.

It took them 6 years to admit that, when it took Bethesda -2 years to be interested in having Doom (2016) on the Switch.

Manufacturing more doesn't necessarily stop scalpers. They'll just scalp more consoles when it comes out. Even with 130 million units manufactured and sold all at the same time, it will be scalped.

@IceClimbersMain
We all know the reason why Nintendo avoids discs, especially with today's situation where a certain company holds a monopoly on discs as a physical medium. They aren't gonna work with Panasonic again to get some knock-off proprietary Ultra HD Blu-ray in an attempt to avoid paying licensing fees to Sony and the BDA, not to mention the handheld form factor is what put the Switch up in 3rd place.

@Rika_Yoshitake
The first two are. The third is a PS4/XB1 game, so it's still another case of that "water-downed" port.

@Nintendo_Thumb
Mind you, the Wii U GamePad does not require the sensor bar - It's only there for Wii Remotes.

The experience with Splatoon is the exact same as Splatoon 2 and 3. I don't know where you found the idea that the GamePad uses the sensor bar for Splatoon, but that is entirely untrue.

Edit: As for Nintendo Switch Sports, the button press was only a feature Nintendo added, but it has nothing to do with technical advancements. If you think back to Skyward Sword on the Wii, that game also had recalibration via a button press.

Wii Sports Club in particular did not go out of sync very often with the sensor bar attached, because the game would auto-recalibrate your controllers if you point at the screen. I believe the same applies to Nintendo Land as well.

Edit 2: And I will say this again, the sensitivity on Joy Cons is noticeably reduced from the Wii Remotes. That's literally the only reason why it doesn't go out of sync as often.