MrGawain

It’s the 4th best Xenoblade, so I think it will all come down to if there’s anything else to play at the time.

I loved this game on the PS1. There is a very subtle Super Hero/Villian homage about 4 costumes in the game that I don’t think anyone ever has ever written about on the internet.

I love Nintendo music, but I'm more of a greatest hits kind of guy than listening to deep cuts of NES Fire Emblem game over screen music.

If I get a chance of hearing the Nintendo land song I'm there.

I think Nintendo will announce when an announcement will be announced.

The fact they’re celebrating Bayonetta gives me hope for the 4th game.

The fact they’re celebrating Bayonetta with artwork that doesn’t include Viola gives me A LOT of hope.

I’ve read the reviews.

It was panned.

I really liked Ys 8. It was a no frills sort of game, but it had heart and humour that I appreciated.

Not sure I need to play another game just like that however.

The best way to get the Internet to talk about something is to tell us not to talk about something.

Genius marketing.

Is it worth using Raye in a Nintendo commercial?

Yes. She got them an article on the BBC about it. Nintendo is targeting a market all the other games companies are ignoring, beyond 15-40 year old men. And they have a much healthier business strategy because of it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrjrljx1dzo

I had the expansion pass for one year, played a bit of Pilotwings 64 and Minish Cap, but after that I found a lot of the games to have aged badly beyond stuff that had already been re-released. I just couldn’t justify paying for it again.

The video and photo assets are just an advert. The way to have a successful console launch is to have stuff people want and show there’s more stuff coming in the rest of the year. Nintendo made the right choice of holding a reveal back until they had enough stuff to show with the Switch, and I think they’re using the same plan again. I expect at least 8 big games in the reveal which will be available in the first year on the Switch 2.

Meanwhile Sony have a State of Play almost every month and drip feed announcements of stuff coming in a year and a half.

This is more than likely a really dull and pointless addition to the service. But by asking testers not to discuss it, Nintendo has made everyone interested.

I call that genius marketing.

Although I’m not fond of any shareholder having too much power in a company, I can see why Nintendo is an appealing option to invest in, as they continue to produce quality products and have the trust of their customers- mainly because they don’t allow shareholders to control how they do business.

I loved W101 on the Wii U.

Then I played it on the Switch and it really didn’t translate without the 2nd screen.

Seeing this isn't a knee here reaction, I would guess Ninty has done their homework and think they can win.

They haven't gone after Astro Bot and that's got a lot of Nintendo DNA in it.

I think there comes a time in any hobby that you love where the price, effort, or fun you get from it makes you think: ‘this is as invested as I can get and no further’. I’ve had the same issue with concerts recently, as prices have doubled for bands I’m not fanatical about playing at venues that are just grief to get to.

That’s what the PS5 Pro is for me, an expensive product with lots of bells and whistles I don’t really understand the benefit of, to play the sort of games I don’t really like.

As long as Nintendo stick with the fun experiences I like on a console I can see the value of I will stick with Ninty, but I think going forward I don’t care enough about Sony.

I sort of understand why the PS5 Pro is priced like it is with the components inside it, but the reality is it isn’t really giving a discernible difference for the money. It will play the same games as an original PS5, and will not make game production any cheaper, faster, or open avenues of creativity. The games will be held back as they need to be playable on the original PS5. If you have a cheap telly chances are you won’t see any difference between the vanilla and the pro.

We know the successor to the Switch will be more money than the current one, but we also know Nintendo will care more about being able to produce lots of fun games than a handful of visually stunning ones- that is in the DNA of Nintendo. I get 3rd parties may want the system more powerful, but I doubt they expect it to be £700 more powerful.

Seeing how long it’s taking them between reveal and launch of the Suikoden 1+2 remaster, this is hardly surprising.

I’m amused by several reviews I’ve seen that call Astrobot the greatest ever platformer… almost as good as Nintendo.

At the end of the day it stands out on PS5 because there isn’t much else on the PS5 like it. Perhaps a bit expensive for the playtime.

I would guess the best stories about Minecraft are the ones the kids who play it make up in their own heads.

Mario and Luigi welcome you to Concordia.

Meanwhile Sony kicks you out of Concord.

I would have assumed they would have given the award to Astrobot this year.

It’s just another excuse for a sponsorship.

I loved this game on the PS1.

Although there was one part that really got my Goat.

It looks great.

I would like to know how much it is and if it’s a particularly short game however, which seems to be the missing information at the moment.

@MarioBrickLayer

Exactly. How do you sell the game concept without the Lego IP?

Seeing how so many of their games are reliant on non gaming IP- Lego, Harry Potter, LotR, DC Comics, what can they sell besides Mortal Kombat's IP and the development studios?

Owning a PS5 has really cemented my opinion powerful isn't necessarily better. The Switch has been a perfectly capable machine for the things I like to play, and it wouldn't bother me if I was playing on it for a couple more years.

But then it seems Nintendo is moving on, so that's not really an option.

Of course console makers stop using physical media, Capcom won’t really have a say in it.

Mortal Kombat always feels like a game that comes out to massive hype and is the discounted a month after. I’m guessing the story mode and all that voice acting make it an expensive game to make.

This exemplifies the absolute randomness of Nintendo. We’ve been questioning if Nintendo were going to carry on with amiibo, yet from out of nowhere they create four new ones for a 2 year old game.

Will there be anything surprising left in this game on release with the amount of sneak peak trailers we’ve had so far?

But when are we getting playable Ganondorf?

The music industry made a race to cut costs with Autotune and automated drum loops and has cheapened its quality. Hollywood went all in on CGI and now audiences are unimpressed with every exploding city. I don’t see the Video Games and AI being any different- it’s supposed to be a luxury item and not just ‘content’.

Whether they’re worth it or not, I completed DKC Returns and Luigi Mansion 2 and have no desire to play either again. There is actually quite a lot of competition to these games leading up to Christmas (both on Switch and other platforms) and I think both will be forgotten relatively quickly in the shuffle.

I just cancelled the auto renew on the plus part this year. SNES and gameboy games hold up really well, not so much N64. I completed the Gameboy Colour games I wanted to play and the MK8 DLC was pretty bland. I need the basic pack for if I and my nephew need to move our save data over to the next console, but I’d prefer to save the almost £30 for the extra stuff.

Being a savvy/curmudgeonly gamer these days I’ve been grumbling to myself the only Christmas game would be Astrobot for about £60-£70. The fact this is going to be around around £40 has made me happy to skip Astrobot for the time being and get this instead, and possibly something else Nintendo with the money I can save.

Why would Nintendo pay to show their games on an internet advert when they have invented the best games internet advert in the Nintendo Direct? The only reason you pay to show your game is you want to expose your game to an audience who may not see it otherwise. This is the reason E3 also became financially unviable.

I wonder if this games legend is bigger than it’s player base. Not to say I’m not curious to finally give it a go.

I played the first Horizon on the PS4, and it was a big game, but I found Alloy to be completely devoid of character and didn’t really care if a Robot T-Rex bit her head off. Link from BOTW was such a deeper character despite to saying a peep in the entire game.

The Lego version at least seems to have facial expressions.

I would guess Sony looked at the numbers of where family gamers were playing on, and noticed not many where on the PS5.

You would have to think the game could sell better on the Switch than the PS5.

Summer Gamesfest has the same core issue as E3- it lives and dies on how many games they have to show. Who cares about the ad breaks in between the programmes? Especially when those ads have ads as well for things like snacks and films?

So EA wanted more money by not paying FIFA, and FIFA wanted more money from EA for the license. Now there will be two games in competition with each other which will split the customer base and each will give half as much money to EA and FIFA than before.

Genius business strategy there.

Knowing that Nintendo won’t use an IP without a new idea or gimmick, I sort of wonder if there is any where 2D DK can go after some really clever games.

I like the idea of ‘Donkey Kong Odyssey’, using the framework of Mario Odyssey but with DK’s moves instead.

These marks may add to your grade, but I doubt many employers would be impressed you spent time at college learning Lance beats Sword.

‘If I say something enough, magic will make it happen!’

Modern thinking.

Once upon a time, everybody wanted steak for every meal. It was expensive, but enough people eat it to make it worthwhile to farm.

Then one day, half the people said ‘I’m bored with Steak, It’s always the same. I’m going to try all the other foods, like beans on toast and dairylea dunkers.’

Meanwhile the other half still expected expensive, high quality steak even though there wasn’t enough customers to justify it.

But with games.

If there was ever an example that 4K graphics and Live Services aimed at dudebro gamers eating Doritos and drinking Mountain Dew weren’t the be all and end all of gaming, this would be it.

This is the reality of gaming acquisitions. EA have made a reputation for themselves as a self styled Galactus ‘eater of worlds’ and it now seems Microsoft are copying the model.

In a game all about timing, I think it needs a stable framerate.

I bought it on the PS5 and it’s fun, but on occasion the controls can be a bit finicky.