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More options would always be nice and I understand why people feel like they want their character to represent thei real life selves.

My character looks nothing like myself though, lol. I would never sport those hair or clothing styles in real life! I want my games to be fantasy, I have no interest in bringing real life into them.

Why can't I find the game on the European eShop?

These smaller Directs are fine, but we really need to know whether Nintendo has any other First Party titles planned for 2020!

There has to come a point where it starts to hurt hardware sales when people get unsure whether there's anything to look forward to come the Holiday season!

Regardless of rumors, it feels like Nintendo is hurting its business at this point by remaining so silent about their plans. (Then again, I dunno if sales have even dropped in any significant scale during this "drought")

1998 or 2017!

I love the SNES era and its games, but since we're looking at individual years, I gotta say that 1998 with F-Zero X, Ocarina of Time and Pokémon R/B is pretty killer! Objectively speaking 2017 was absolutely stunning! That year single-handedly set the expectations for the entire Switch generation way too high.

”And it’s free!”

No it isn’t! It requires the paid for Nintendo Switch Online service!

@Baker1000 No, Analogue products don't offer that functionality without modding. You could buy a rom cartridge like an Everdrive ~

@TenEighty Let's hope they're able to make something like that! The original Analogue Nt used original parts from the NES, so they might be able to do something like that for the N64 as well. It's not ideal, but beats poor emulation!

The rumors got me excited but the actual announcement made my expectations hit rock bottom. One can hope there’s something cool here, but at only 10 mins I dunno.

@TechaNinja These seem to be new videos, but the idea ain't novel! I've seen someone else do SMB. music and sound effects with a violin years ago as well.

I've been playing Splatoon 2 again since one of my friends bought it finally! It's a ton of fun, but I grew tired of it earlier because it wasn't as fun playing alone.

I saw this on YouTube and you guys gotta try it:

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Amazingly well designed troll levels!

@brunojenso #25 "Here my share again: D8F 5V0 YRG"

I played the first world so far, and I'm loving it! Strong themes that you keep building upon with good pacing. Collecting the red coins is challenging and satisfying. Kudos!

Obviously enjoying Animal Crossing, but now after some 250 days I returned to Mario Maker 2 and it's a blast!

Of course you also gotta have some Hunt: Showdown!

Here are my best courses made into a world:

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They weren’t originally designed to go together, so I made the world to have two optional paths. Please enjoy!

@Hask #521 Okay, this sounds like a valid point:

”Only the first person who played the game can help build Nook's Cranny, upgrade the Resident Services to a Town Hall, etc.”

I really thought all human players were practically equal on the same island.

Those people might want to try playing on the same island them. It might be even more fun to co-op on creating the most beautiful island. It’s not like they would’ve been able to play at the same time anyway if there was two islands on the same system. At least with a single island you can co-op. I’d love to have a second human tenant on my island, so it would be interesting to see what they have been up to while I wasn’t playing.

Among other things to do, I spent my weekend playing Hunt: Showdown on PC, and Doom 64 and Animal Crossing on Switch!

I want to be able to place carpets outside, and also items that go on the wall. There should be some kind of a wall item that you could set up outside and hang wall items from those, or hang them on trees or cliff sides.

Also, gimme gyroids.

@ColdFlamesBurn Agreed! You should be able to use resources that are in the house storage when you're crafting inside the house.

Also, changing your clothes with a wardrobe should also show clothing items that are placed visible in the house.

@neufel Well, "remaster" could be just ports with a native 1080/720 resolution etc. They're not gonna remake them all!

All of them in 2020? It would be insane! Not gonna happen!

@Kreko Cross-promotional items and collectibles when Doom Eternal hits the Switch!

It was pretty good, but nothing got me very excited so it was disappointing to me personally. Especially since the last general Direct was way back in September of last year!

I don’t know if we should be reading too much into the notable lack of news on BotW 2 and other first party heavy-hitters. But Nintendo does have a track record for dry spells and prolonged development times... I don’t want to wait until the usual ”E3 season” time (the early June) until more news on new games.

I've been enjoying my time with DOOM 2016 (gotta finish it before jumping into Eternal), Max Payne 2 and of course the new Animal Crossing! (Almost all of my gaming friends bought it too, and some were even converted into buying the system for it!)

Zumba... I haven’t heard that name in years.

If nothing else, Fortnite has some bravado when it comes to presenting and hyping the season cycles.

I have to vote for Japanese box art if only for the fact that the European and American shield and sword logo was recycled from A Link to the Past! That disqualifies it for me.
The original Japanese art is pretty nice, but the DX version art looks a bit derpy.

Ah! I’m glad that a 16-bit-esque Shovel Knight game has more of a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis sounding than SNES sounding music. It suits it well and continues the chiptune aesthetics.

@GrailUK @May_Nyan There’s one big way that the trailer shows how the gameplay will be: It’s in portraid mode! And man, if it isn’t weirding me out.

• The front-loading NES has notorious cartridge slot issues. I’ve definitely had them on a couple different units.
• One SNES cartridge possible had its save battery depleted ~ (Also the rubber inside the controllers became brittle after 20 years of use)
• A third-party memory card had its battery depleted on N64. (Also one analog stick became a bit loose)
• My original 2003 Gamecube had disc drive issues (noise, trouble loading) after over a decade of use.
• My original 2006 Wii got similar disc drive issues after a decade.
• Both original 2017 Switch Joy-Con had their sticks go bad (one janky, other drifting) after about two years of use (but no sooner).
• Connection issues with the Joy-Con (where even holding the controller between your legs is enough to block the signal)
• The Switch Pro Controller shoulder bumpers have unreliable input (they won’t register too soft presses).

That’s about it. So all in all stuff has worked fine and the issues haven’t been anything extremely severe, except in the case of the Joy-Con sticks.

@CarpeDiem #11
”Still not sure about the bezels around the screen, Nintendo seem to love huge bezels. Just make it all screen estate for once.”

The bezel is probably there for structural reasons. The original Switch is also structurally extremely sound compared to other smart or tablet-like devices with similar form factors. You could throw the Switch at a wall and it wouldn’t sustain much damage.
But yeah, I hoped it would’ve retained the 6-inch screen.

While it’s fairly obvious that these companies are preparing for a real product, these designs are only tentative mock-ups that aren’t even supposed to represent the final product ~

@iAven9er You did ask whether Wii U could run the games ”just like” Switch.
Anyhow, Wii U has a triple-core processor with a bit faster clock per core, but the chipset having a harder to utilize Power PC architecture compared to ARM in Switch. The Switch has a quad-core processor with a variable speed depending on whether it’s docked or handheld. Worse performance in some instances might be due to the lower clockspeed per core. But that’s such a complicated issue that I can’t say further.

The biggest difference that I know is the amount of memory. Wii U has 2 GB of RAM with only 1 GB available for games. Switch has 4 GB with at least 3 GB available for games. That’s triple the amount and it’s pretty significant for handling large games.

That’s where my knowledge pretty much ends. I’m not saying I know which games could run, but Witcher 3 or Doom sure couldn’t.

@iAven9er ”Is it safe to assume that the Wii u could have handle most of the current gen games just like switch?”

The chipset is vastly different in the Switch so a direct parallel can’t be made. But there are clear differences in specs, like processor speed and the amount of RAM which are improved on Switch. So the answer would be no. Wii U could not handle Witcher 3 in the same state as it is on Switch.

Just started playing DKC: Tropical freeze for the first time. The GamePad is much more comfy than I remembered. :3
I still have some other Wii U titles in the backlog. It will surely go down in history as a beloved and quirky and a very ”Nintendo” console.

”for this to be attractive it’s going to have to hit the £200 / $220 mark”

I bet it’s going to go for $259.99 with a bundled game.

My original Joy-Con R stick started drifting to the right just a couple of days ago. It lasted this long since from the launch of the Switch! My sincere hope is that Nintendo issues a techical re-design of the Joy-Con and its analogue sticks, or improves quality control. While you can buy new Joy-Con, it would be pretty disastrous if the built-in sticks of the Switch Mini had similar issues!

Third Party services like Stadia could come to Switch one day, but I think Nintendo would want to profit from it in some way. The same goes for the much touted Xbox Gamepass. I don’t think Nintendo would allow xCloud streaming with all profits going to Microsoft.

My GOG installation of the game takes 35.9 GB of space, so they only managed to shave off 4 GB for the Switch version despite using vastly lower quality assets. ;p

@skycargav2000 The disc drive from my original Wii started making unnatural sounds a few years ago. It still works otherwise, so I modded the bugger. Thankfully I found a used original Wii with Gamecube controller/mem.card slots in a store for something like 50€! Plenty of used but good condition ones are out there.

I burst out laughing when I saw the Wii logo next to the Stadia logo.

I wish dearly that Luigi’s Mansion 3, Link’s Awakening and Animal Crossing are showcased well and look great. Anything else is bonus!
Some nice surprises are always welcome. Wouldn’t mind Xbox Gamepass streaming on Switch.

Looks quite interesting, even as the animations are very janky and the music is kinda generic.

Why does it gotta have such a goofy name?
As if the didn’t think it could become a popular series.

Is it only my system, but why can’t I play with the Joy-Con attached? It insists that I detach my Joy-Con before it let’s me play. There shouldn’t be any issues with my system or the controllers since they work attached in the OS and in every other games. It makes portable play very inconvenient.

EDIT: LMAO, I didn’t think to try and press the A-button on the pairing screen. It made the game accept the attached Joy-Con and then everything worked fine.

@ThatNyteDaez I’m pretty sure that if he didn’t know about Pokémon before now then he doesn’t even care about ”generations”. There are Pokémon beyond Gen 1 in Detective Pikachu.

Too bad that last minute look for Dr Robotnik is probably from the outro or the mid-credits scene.

@321gofast ”What day and time is it? I need to know if it conflicts with my finals.”

@SMW ”How about giving us dates and times?
https://e3.nintendo.com/ says June 11-13. They typically do their "E3" on the Tuesday during E3 week, so I think it will be the 11th. The following days are likely treehouse lives. They also go for morning times, so probably around 9-10 Central.”

It’s extremely lame that there’s no online sharing of VR game creations.

It would be quite ironic if they did an actual live presentation this time.