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@TheVGMLover
The problems with Joy Con drift isn't 100% hardware. The firmware of Joy Cons is responsible for how the controller responds to any type of movement with the controllers. Firmware can be responsible for how sensitive the controller detects the player's movement and stuff like that. Software glitches can also cause drift as well.

@MontyCircus
Partial-download games are very problematic because the full game isn't included in the Game Card, which either means you're playing an incredibly small game, or the game simply doesn't let you do anything until you've downloaded the rest of the data.

@FirstEmperor @Arawn93
Pretty much the reason why I found this lawsuit to be ridiculous. It would be different story in regions where free "repairs" aren't being offered.

I gotta be honest... I think in 2023, Joy Con drift is nowhere near as big of an issue as it was in 2017. Even though there is concrete evidence that Joy Cons easily wear out and get dirty, there's also the software side of things that have actually been steadily fixed. A little slower than desired, but it's not ignored completely.

Wonder why sales slump? Look at the poor and outdated release strategies. They make timed exclusives on PlayStation that don't always even leave PlayStation, they skip Xbox almost entirely for some games for no real reason, and they don't do simultaneous worldwide launches.

@InTree What was also revealed by Kit was that Nintendo has partial ownership or they are a major stakeholder of Creatures Inc., so that 33% ownership up front doesn't necessarily conclude it's legitimately 33%

More importantly though, with Nintendo being an EQUAL SHAREHOLDER of The Pokémon Company, they have just as much importance to decision-making as their other counterparts; this means it's not a simple "majority rules" thing, but likely something written as part of the initial agreement within the joint venture. This is also going under the assumption that Game Freak and Creatures outright refuse Nintendo's help, which I highly doubt is the case.

@iLikeUrAttitude
This convinces me that Nintendo does have authoritative power over The Pokémon Company if the situation presents itself to be severe.

@ZonaiResearcher
This is speculative information based on what Kit and Krysta saw days before they officially left Nintendo. It's just a pattern of what goes around throughout Nintendo, and how very obviously the secrecy runs through Nintendo, with very very few people in NoA knowing about upcoming releases.

Finally, about damn time, Sony. I remember some journalists saying how much Sony abandoned the Japanese market, but this clearly shows the opposite.

Never really liked NASCAR racing anyways.

Nintendo is very picky about consistency, and throwing in two radically different games isn't something they do usually.

Finally, something more fair. I don't know why they didn't bother fixing this when announcing the movie.

@Ocaz
I believe SotN isn't under any sort of exclusivity deal with Sony. That's more of Konami's problem for being bad at bringing older games.

And keep in mind, the only reason Sony is making MLB multi-platform is because the actual MLB told them to do so.

E3 without the Big Three really just makes it a pissing match against Summer Games Fest and Gamescom, both of which are much better at their own respective goals and strategies. The very thing that made E3 relevant unfortunately is becoming way too expensive for even big publishers to pay for.

That being said, Nintendo's current Nintendo Direct model of having a direct for every half fiscal year is mildly annoying, but also incredibly exciting. E3 just felt like a holiday where we knew the biggest of the big announcements would come.

Sonic Adventure 1's "Azure Blue World" did not have to go super intense with its crazy, upbeat, memorable tropical vibe, but it did.

Nintendo's little PR stunt finally coming to an end? Guess they realized that people can be very stubborn about leaving a country alone.

@Byungsuk101
A combination of emulating errors on the Xbox version and I think blind nostalgia is why people seem to like the Switch version better. At least we aren't talking about Ocarina of Time vs Ocarina of Time 3D, which is purely nostalgia.

@DjinnFighter
Oh dear... I might actually be someone sitting with the opposite order

@Discostew
https://twitter.com/OatmealDome/status/1618977764241203200?t=9OrIulzM_O9F5HKblJF15g&s=19

It's gonna bother people to know that the Xbox version is also just emulation, done 10x better than the Switch. Nintendo KNOWS they have the resources and hardware capable of emulating N64 games at a superb level (see Super Mario 3D All-Stars), but they decided to min-max and go with online exclusivity as their main draw.

@Uncle_Franklin
Update: https://twitter.com/OatmealDome/status/1618977764241203200?t=9OrIulzM_O9F5HKblJF15g&s=19

Welp, looks like there's nothing special about the Xbox version. Just better(?) emulation.

@braincandy101
I was referring to the very first trailer.

@Uncle_Franklin
Oh, it definitely hasn't aged well. This is all just for nostalgia, but I suppose there are some who would mindlessly pay for this.

@SwitchplayerJohn
I was referring to the first trailer of the game, not this one.

@Uncle_Franklin
Most probable reason for the Switch having online exclusivity probably related Xbox exclusively getting the HD remaster. Makes it fair for both platforms to have something unique for themselves.

@Snatcher
That was just the announcement. There was no actual release date yet.

A classic Nintendo Switch game. One to go down in history for being one of the games to hold players over during console launch drought.

10. Will we be seeing the Champions' successors in their fully realized forms?

I do hope that they aren't taking as minor roles as they did in Breath of the Wild, and we most likely know now that all four are very capable of going into battle.

This is largely due to the rather underwhelming marketing Nintendo had for this game. The one time Nintendo tries to carry on a franchise without waiting an entire year for a release, they screw it up with an ambitious game that was marketed not-so-ambitiously.

@Bluesaxo
The DVD aspect of the PS2 is largely the reason for its success, because it just so happened to be the cheapest DVD player on the market, AND it saved the hassle for parents to have to buy something entirely separate for their children to play.

The PS2 games are certainly great, but that just came with the large number of players introduced by the console. That was also the era where we had iconic Sega games, iconic Microsoft games, and iconic Nintendo games, and all of the consoles generally had a similar range in hardware for games to be ported easily.

Unfortunately, the Nintendo DS's massive success is also reflective of a casual userbase finding a cheap option to bring games around, many of which have moved over to mobile devices instead of continuing on the path that Nintendo had laid out. Why purchase an entirely dedicated and expensive device when you can just use something that can work with your day-to-day needs AND handle games?

@Cheez
Misinterpreting my words doesn't help your point.

The reason why having very few weapons in previous Zelda games is fine is simply because damage stats were not a major priority in the game, and thus the idea of switching weapons was close to just being aesthetics.

With BotW and TotK, we're taking damage and health statistics to that next level, and having degrading weapons is a way of balancing the game's difficulty. It ended up being tedious in the base game because there was no penalty for wasting durability, whereas in Master Mode, early game durability combined with regenerative enemy health was a major factor to deciding which enemies were worth fighting and which weapons to use.

Nintendo is going to try their damn hardest to surpass the Nintendo DS sales. After that, they're right at the PS2's doorstep.

As ridiculous as it may seem, drift doesn't really feel as prominent as it did between 2017-2019. Those firmware updates are very slowly, but surely tweaking the software to prevent drift and it has surprisingly worked for me.

I've only ever needed to get my Joy Cons replaced once. Ever since then, alongside the Splatoon 2 coloured ones I got, I've never had a permanent case of drift; it was mostly just dust getting inside.

The alternatives are inflated enemy stats that intentionally match up your weapon stats to make it more difficult, or you use the stupid weighting system from The Elder Scrolls. Otherwise, the game will be an absolute joke.

I think with all things considered, this really isn't that shocking of a number. I believe this has been stated by many people already, but the reason they purchase a Nintendo console is to play Nintendo games.

@WiiWouldLikeToPlay
I'll give you the simplest explanation why Nintendo hasn't done so. It costs quite a lot to launch a new console and every company always starts off at a loss. They need to sell up to a certain number of consoles before they've made up all that money back from manufacturing, and that can often be a very high number in today's day and age.

Why do all that when the Switch sales haven't dropped to a very painfully slow rate yet? They have the opportunity to continue making money, so they'll follow that first.

Japan was the ultimate proof that the Nintendo Switch concept is Nintendo's way forward. Knowing Nintendo, they would immediately cease all support for the Switch as soon as the next console comes out, and if that one does not have backwards compatibility or the handheld form factor for that matter, Nintendo is going to shoot themselves in the foot. No, both feet actually.

Something tells me Niantic will be having a hand in this game as well

This is why I was very skeptical about the US parks.

At least they tried... I have insanely high standards for enhanced ports, remasters, and remakes of a game from weaker hardware. There's just no excuse to screw that up for the Switch.

We still have yet to see a trailer for TotK at this magnitude of hype and emotion.

Here's the problem though... You can still technically buy a physical digital copy of Overwatch 1.

The only platform that Uno is genuinely good on is PC. The controller controls actually put the player at a disadvantage when features moves like jump-in are intentionally randomized on controller.

I grew to love this game because of a certain group of famous YouTubers...

If you want to enforce these rules, maybe NOT release the games in some unspoken timed exclusive manner.

@CoolMicrowave
The Crab Tank at launch left the player much more vulnerable while shooting, but in the first major patch, they decreased the hurtboxes significantly. This is the most noticeable with any brush weapons, because now you basically need to be standing at a higher elevation to attack them from behind. This was the buff that actually left me disappointed, because the Crab Tank was already safe enough to use if ZL was used.

The Four Swords trilogy, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild, and Age of Calamity are all games you should consider if you need to know any more about the world of Breath of the Wild and the skies.

I might be the only one here to come out and say that Splatoon 3 felt much more balanced at launch or the demo than it does now, primarily looking at how the specials worked. Aside from the map glitches and Ultra Stamp having terrible hitboxes and hurtboxes, the vulnerabilities of every special felt properly balanced and required you to use at your own risk. Nowadays, Crab Tank is disgustingly busted and the player on it is near invincible, even though they already had the option to protect themselves by simply holding ZL.

@Cero
The relationship between Nintendo and The Pokémon Company is a very strange one and it's largely to blame for that terrible quality control and time constrained game development put on Game Freak. As we know, the only time Nintendo ever stepped in was when a game suffered some major issues, like what we saw with Scarlet and Violet. I don't believe they could realistically stop The Pokémon Company regularly unless it became a legitimate issue to their sales.

The Pokédex has hit 1008, but still have yet to see a mainline game actually have 1008 playable Pokémon.

Running Android is the first mistake they made for this device. The software lineup on Google Play is average at best, and streaming games is still a rather steady experience.