Mountain_Man

Whatever happened to simply hiring the best person for the job? I really hate this modern idea that people should be evaluated based on criteria that has nothing to do with whether or not they are capable of performing the work.

And if you turn the numbers into random letters, it spells "Switch Pro confirmed"!

@johnvboy I get it. Different strokes for different folks. If I didn't already own PGA Tour then I would be all over Super Rush, which I may still buy, just not at new prices. If enough people don't like it, it shouldn't be hard to find a used copy at a discount.

@johnvboy "...it does feel a lot more like a regular golf game, but that's not all that bad."

No, it's not necessarily bad, but Advance Tour and World Tour were a lot more than just a regular golf game with Nintendo characters, so that's kind of what I was expecting from Super Rush. As it is, I already have an excellent regular golf game for the Switch in PGA Tour 2K21.

@johnvboy Whether or not the controls are "spot on" is really not the issue. The controls in PGA Tour 2K21 are also spot on. So what really separates Super Rush from PGA Tour 2K21 besides a more colorful aesthetic and a handful of fantasy obstacles? Where are the outlandish courses like World Tour's Cheep Cheep Lagoon, DK Jungle, and Sky Island?

@johnvboy "...it's not a game pitched against the ultra realistic golf simulators, it's a more light hearted fun version of the game..."

I think the problem is that Super Rush may be a little too light-hearted. Mario Golf Advanced Tour on the GBA, and Mario Golf World Tour on the 3DS offered more than simple light-hearted fun. They had real depth and longevity, a variety of play modes and mini-games, multiple goals to work towards, all based around exotic golf courses that could only exist in the Mario universe. Super Rush, in comparison, looks like a straight golf game with Nintendo characters.

Apparently the original Gamespot review didn't describe the control scheme accurately causing many in the comment section to wonder if the reviewer had even played the game.

This looks less like Mario Golf and more like a golf game with Nintendo characters. It seems to be lacking the content and inventiveness of previous entries in the series. I think this an eventual (used) purchase rather than a day one.

One of my favorite franchises since Mario Golf Advanced Tour. It still baffles me that we never got a motion controlled Mario Golf offering on the Wii, but I guess the Switch version is making up for it?

@UndoControl Now you're engaging in idle speculation in an attempt to salvage your defeated argument. You don't have any idea which games would and wouldn't have been made if crowdfunding didn't exist. You can try and guess, but that's merely your opinion, not a fact.

As for your "threat" to ignore me, personally, I find it hilarious that some people don't have the maturity to concede a debate and instead petulantly put the other party on ignore.

@UndoControl "Nope, that's a fact..."

Nope, it's an opinion. Developers had no problem making games before the "crowdfunding" scam even existed, so your claim that certain games wouldn't exist without "crowdfunding" is clearly an opinion.

People are mad that the Switch Pro wasn't announced.

@UndoControl Your claim that certain games couldn't have been made without the "crowdfunding" con is clearly an opinion.

@UndoControl "I'm only stating facts."

Wouldn't be the first time someone mistook their opinion for fact.

@UndoControl I disagree with your opinion, just as you disagree with mine. Now what?

@UndoControl "That's a pretty thoughtless comment."

No, I thought about it.

Well, it's not Metroid Prime 4, but I'm not complaining.

Coke Pro confirmed.

I miss the good ol' days when a developer would release a game first and then ask you to pay for it. I've really grown to loathe the whole "crowd funding" scam.

Switch Pro confirmed?

I gotta figure out how to get a piece of this action. Seems like an easy way to make money.

@Silly_G "780GB doesn’t sound like very much."

In terms of source code and software development tools, it's an enormous amount.

Switch Pro confirmed.

I'm not as good at games as I used to be simply because I no longer have the time to sufficiently develop my skills. It's the primary reason I don't enjoy multiplayer, because I could never hope to be competitive.

The survey is meaningless, of course, but it's an interesting marketing strategy. Of course people will buy a new Wario game at whatever price Nintendo chooses to sell it, and Nintendo is well aware of this.

And people really think Nintendo is going to undercut this success with a brand new upgraded Switch that make all their existing customers feel like early adopter chumps.

Edit: And for the all the people down thread giving me grief with nonsense like "Are you not familiar with the DS to DS Lite to DS XL, etc.?" Those were simply variations of a console that didn't change the underlying capabilities, unlike what people expect from the Switch Pro which, if rumors are to be believed, will feature substantially more powerful hardware and new capabilities. To put this into perspective, the 3DS, which had more power and new capabilities, was released a full 7-years after the DS. The Switch has only been on the market for 4.

"Nintendo's Being Oddly Quiet About Its Plans"

Switch Pro confirmed! \o/

What this says to me is that developers could have pushed the DS — and presumably the 3DS — a lot harder than they did (assuming this isn't a hoax).

@suikoden "by your logic mass effect remastered should be absolute awful as its no even in the top ten!"

I would not necessarily be inclined to disagree. By all accounts, Mass Effect is a ridiculously overrated series of games.

I played this on the Game Boy Advance back in the day because it was the closest thing at the time to portable Diablo.

Alternatively, Miitopia falls to ninth because it's not a very good game.

Nintendo Switch Rumor Edition

Some games, yes, other games, no.

@Snatcher The fortune telling shop was the only Main Street location that I never managed to unlock in New Leaf. I'm not even sure what you needed to do to earn it. I also missed out on a number of town projects and building exteriors for whatever reason. I think there were a lot of hidden mechanics in New Leaf that made certain things a lot more obscure than they needed to be.

Of course this isn't the first time we've seen a "Switch Pro" product listing on one retailer or other over the past few years. And seriously, does anybody really believe the next iteration of the Switch going to be called "Switch Pro"?

I think the New Leaf vs. New Horizons debate will never end. I often get the feeling that some people would have been perfectly happy if New Horizons was nothing more than an HD refresh of New Leaf with a couple of new features thrown in. These are the same people who go on and on about how wonderful the "life sim" aspect of New Leaf was, which leaves me scratching my head, because in the hundreds of hours I've spent with New Leaf and New Horizons, I honestly don't see any significant difference between villager interactions in the two games.

Then you have the people who complain about the lack of "unlockables" in New Horizons while in the same breath they complain about having to "grind" for things like item recipes, so they seem to be of two minds about this sort of thing.

The other thing New Leaf fanboys love to do is to list all the things from New Leaf that are "missing" from New Horizons, but they never seem to look at it from the other direction and note all the things in New Horizons that are "missing" from New Leaf. It's not that New Horizons has fewer features and activities, it just has different features and activities.

Are there some features from New Leaf that I would like to have seen brought over to New Horizons? Of course, but I also know if I ever tried playing New Leaf again, there are a number of New Horizons features that I would greatly miss. Each one is its own game, and I think they are equally enjoyable, but of course, individual results may vary.

The current kickstand is not flimsy (some people think it's flimsy because it is smartly designed to nondestructively "break away" when overextended rather than just break), and it gives the Switch very stable support in tabletop mode. Also, the micro SD card is not exactly hard to access.

@ItsOKToBeOK "To me, if its played competitively, its a sport. NASCAR, Chess, Horse Racing, and yes gaming too, are all sports in my book."

Your "book" is too broad if you consider gaming and chess to be sports. Every dictionary definition of "sport" I can find specifies that it involves physical exertion. NASCAR racing certainly counts because the forces experienced during a race require a lot of body strength to keep oneself upright and in control of the vehicle (why do you think there are no fat NASCAR drivers?). Horse racing is also a physical sport. But chess and gaming? No way.

But seriously, how is gaming a "sport"? The whole point of offering sports in school is to get kids off their ass for their own health.

Need US release of Rune Factory 5.

New combat locale?

So we'll have this supposed Switch Pro, and the current Lite model? If this is true, I hope we don't start seeing games designed exclusively for the Switch Pro.

I wish we could get LEGO The Lord of the Rings on the Switch. It's by far my favorite LEGO game.

@Strictlystyles The question is, why would anybody spend $1400 on an Xbox phone when they can get a Switch game console for a quarter of the price.

"...it starts from $1,399 in the US..."

And now you know why the Switch is supposedly "underpowered". Nintendo wanted to keep it reasonably affordable.

I really can't see a handheld PC selling for less than $1000 which will greatly limit its appeal.

Interesting that Wilson is implicitly conceding that being an Electronic Arts studio is a bad thing.

Can't you just picture a bespectacled scientist in a white lab coat striding into the lab with a Nintendo Switch tucked under his arm?

Can't you just picture a bespectacled scientist in a white lab coat striding into the lab with a Nintendo Switch tucked under his arm?

Least surprising surprise ever.