MrGawain

I liked Skyward Sword on the Wii, but as a Lefty it made it a pig to play.

Still completed it because southpaws learn to adapt better than righties. So whatever, we’ll cope.

I want to see a Link and Samus road movie where they sit in a car and don't speak to each other for 2 hours.

Mario is over 40 years old. Any fandom of something that’s lasted a long time will have a variety of generations that think it should be a certain way. Just look at Star Wars- does it grow up with it’s audience and become more violent and mature, or should it always be aimed at 8 years old olds?

Nintendo chose to make the Mario movies bright, colourful, fill of movement and empty of character depth and plot to aim it at younger fans. Short term with a 2 billion box office you can’t argue they were right, and are likely to be making new young customers who will be experiencing the games soon. But then if they’re not careful, they’re going to drive away fans that want a bit more depth. Hopefully Zelda will be that.

It was an alright game, but is measured against 1 and 2 so it might as well cause you rickets when you play it. I actually rate Cereza and the Lost Demon very highly.

To be honest Viola just wasn’t fun to play as in comparison to Cereza, and her entire personality wasn’t in keeping with the game.

I think Sony’s plan is: ‘GTA6 will fix everything’.

But what if it doesn’t?

I’ve always thought Star Fox looks fun to play, but in practice has been lacking gameplay wise. Trying to fly in formation was almost impossible with a D Pad.

I loved the Wii U, you wouldn't have the Switch without it.

I do think in general all tech companies have run out of ideas in the past few years. There is no bandwidth for faster and more powerful anymore. You can see a lot have hoped AI will solve tge problem, but there just selling rehashed ideas that are more power hungry.

Donkey Kong Returns… Not Tropical Freeze.

Bayonetta 3… Not Bayonetta 2.

Xenoblade X… But not the original.

Well that certainly is some choices.

A button to remind you that you have no friends to talk to.

Or, at the very least talk to about Mario Kart.

I’m of the opinion any film adaption of a beloved multiverse like Marvel, Star Trek or Nintendo has to traverse a line of adding fun stuff like easter eggs and guest characters, to over Easter egging the pudding. Stunt cameos are fun, but what really matters in any film is the core story. Having too many characters (especially in a kids film) belittles the main characters of the story.

In my opinion Star Fox was just added as a gimmick so they could say it was different to the first film and sell tickets.

What’s the difference between mocked up fake news on April 1st and all the mocked up fake news that’s released the other 364 days of the year?

Currently I think a lot of people are more excited to find out when the next batch of game trailers are coming than actually playing a game.

It’s like feeling your Christmas presents and figuring out what you’ve got instead of opening and enjoying them.

I’m guessing presales for tickets and general buzz for the film were flat (let’s be honest, the first one wasn’t a revelation), so by revealing this Nintendo are hyping up the hope for the extended universe/potential Smash Bros movie.

Because actually writing a film with depth and a memorable story about Mario is just too hard.

@progx 25% of the CPU cores are reserved for the operating system, predominantly for Game Chat. They could have used that for the games, or just lowered the specs by cutting the chat feature out and made it cheaper.

This is the Switch 2’s equivalent to the XB1’s Kinnect.

It makes you wonder how much they could have shaved off the price if they hadn’t included the camera and the other stuff?

Happy to see it, I would imagine this is going to impact a lot of online games like Fortnite and Roblox.

‘Closing the barn door after the horse has bolted.’

If you’re producing AI slop or shovelware, do you really need a S2 version when everything S1 is available on the console?

It’s starting to reek of desperation that Nintendo knows it’s customers wants a Direct, but they don’t have any first party stuff to discuss yet, so they’ve made any other information into a Direct instead.

Playstation have had a genius idea: they're planning to copy Nintendo.

Again.

This slightly feels like they needed some games to make a showcase instead of needing a showcase to highlight some games.

Biggest problem the Nintendo has got is how the same genre games are releasing around the same time. We had a ton of Mario RPG’s, then the Switch 2 launched and it was all Racing Games, now the Update for Animal Crossing, This, and Miitopia are all releasing in a short time.

Nintendo need a little more thought about when to release games.

Playing Age of Imprisonment (which is undoubtedly a flawed game), the positive I take away from it is that it doesn’t focus on Link which allows for some different play styles in characters. Having more than one playable character in each level spices things up as well.

I would think that would be something Aonuma could be thinking about.

I’m being far more pickier with the Switch 2 than I was with the Switch 1. I sort of like the look of The Adventures Of Elliott and I’m sure there are a lot of high quality games on show… they’re just not what I bought a Switch 2 for.

I’m of the opinion that Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple and alike are using AI as a smokescreen to change how we use computing. AI is far too expensive and resource intensive for the average person to access, but by forcing the prices of consumer electronics up will force everyone to use ‘the power of the cloud’ to do everyday things we use computers for now. We won’t be buying something with a processor in it like a laptop or a Switch 2, but subscribing to use a data centre for everything from gaming, film making, to using a calculator.

This was they make sure we pay every month, stop piracy, and can see everything we’re up to all the time. Imagine having an idea for a new tech and the only way to develop it would be to use Google’s processing power, and they could see what you were doing,

I’m still unsure if MP4 will cause motion sickness, but if I knew it didn’t I would buy it.

I feel a demo wouldn’t hurt at this point.

I’m always unsure about these polls, because they don’t really explain what TYPE of games they’re interested in bringing to the Switch. Are we talking:

Western Triple A
Japanese Nintendo like titles
Family aimed games
Remakes
Indies
Shovelware

Because if it’s 90% shovelware that’s not a good thing.

To be fair to any of the foreign Nintendo heads, their success is 90% decided on the product Nintendo of Japan creates. The difference between Reggie and Bowser was Bowser didn’t need to be so visible in the time of the Switches’ success, whereas Reggie had to come on camera and explain the Wii, the DS, the Wii U, amiibo, and launch the Switch, because these products needed explaining.

It will be curious to see if Devon will have to launch any oddball stuff like Reggie did.

This is what’s killing Cinemas. Where over a year away from it coming out at the pictures, and I now know not to bother because 3-6 months after I can just watch it on my telly for a fraction of what it would cost to go in a group of people.

That is bad promotion.

It doesn’t say it has anything to do with the Switch 2. For all we know it’s a new SKU for the:

ORIGINAL
SWITCH
MODEL.

@Bueno_Excelente

Yes, that’s why I said the original games which is what the costume Turner is wearing is harkening back to- just the glasses alone imply that.

They made a film in 2018 that was based on the more realistic, story driven games where Lara got beaten up lots, and people didn’t really like it.

Let’s be honest, the original Tomb Raider games weren’t about plot, character growth or world themes.

It was just Sexy girlie Indiana Jones with guns and polygonal boobs.

I’m not sure if that translates to 2026 tv programme.

There are so many exciting things from Star Trek you could make into a game.

I wouldn’t say Voyager space battles would be my first choice.

I’d like to play it… just not at £60.04.

It’s the four pee that bothers me.

Ghost of Yotei meets Bayonetta… but with cast off Pokémon designs like a wolf with a plant for a tail and a Robot with Stretch Armstrong arms.

And characters without facial expressions?

I’ve barely taken the joycon off my Switch. There was a moment I tried the mouse mode in Bravely Default, which was definitely another control scheme.

The colour isn’t really obvious, is it? I mean it’s still 98% black plastic.

I’m of the opinion the real world is a bit too grim to be playing as a bunch of guys randomly shooting people in a video game these days.

It’s a perfectly fine, well made game with a smattering of charm.

Like all musou games, and there are a lot, how much treacle tart can you inhale?

I’d love a Suikoden 3 and 5 collection instead Konami.

Not if it includes 4 however.

I’m using them parallel. If a game doesn’t have a Switch 2 bump then I’ll play it on the S1. Lots of room on the memory card still!

The reason Sonic started appearing on Nintendo consoles was because Sega weren’t making enough money from their own consoles.

The reason Halo started appearing on other consoles was because…

Keep the budgets down and the sales up and there is no reason to change a winning formula.

Could you use a D-Pad to play Okami, Bayonetta or W101?

@poyo_pie

It’s the advert/store image for this game. I’m guessing it’s still an M rated game.

As far as I’m aware Mortal Kombat has never had a cover image that shows all the gory, eyeball popping fun in the game. Usually it’s just a render of that dragon logo.

It’s Nintendo’s house. If you want to go round there and play, you dress nicely, don’t curse, and say please and thank you.

Exclusive software sells new hardware. Nintendo had DK, MKW, Kirby Air Riders and Hyrule Warriors (the other games were playable on Switch 1). Not an an awful lineup, but no BOTW or Mario Odyssey to really make it really desirable.

I already know I didn’t play as much as last year, because there wasn’t as much to play. Add an extra month in and that won’t make it look so bad.

In reality, what are you really buying when you acquire a games studio? The IP is already owned by WB, there are no contracts for big marketable stars, the studios are just office space and tech aren’t really any different to another triple A studio. The people who work there that are the real talent who the product special can get up and leave when their contracts expire, and those that don’t bring a cost of wages, healthcare and pensions with them. All in a medium that Netflix really doesn’t understand, and has been shown to very expensive to produce and not necessarily profitable in the current market.

You can’t blame them for wanting to avoid video games when they are doing pretty well selling TV.

I'm still uncertain if MP4 in 120fps will cause motion sickness like Prime 1 did. I'd like to play it, but I'm not willing to just throw fifty quid at something that could make me throw up over my controller.

Still waiting to see if it causes motion sickness like the past games have. I’m hoping 120fps might solve the problem an I can play it, but I’m not willing to throw away fifty quid before fan comments or a demo shows they solved the problem.

I think keeping up with who are the hot streamers/influencers/youtubers has passed me by.

I would grumble if the price was £59.99, but to enrage me even more is that extra 4 pee.

Looks good but I can wait for a sale.