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They have to remember it's only out on iPhone. So many people have androids that want to play it but can't. Basing numbers off half the market is kind of silly.

1080 avalanche confirmed for Switch.

@WilliamCalley No because I don't participate in these.

@PlywoodStick For one, no, and for two, it'd be pretty impressive for them to look up everyone exactly the same number of times, whilst maintaining the most searched. If pokemon go overtook the most searched term, by even 1 search they would have to do 14 billion more searches to maintain the lead. To think that they need pokemon go in order to track you is a little naive.

It'll be trending on Facebook in the morning so everyone on there will easily see it. It's a good option for now, but they need to have some more ads when it comes time for the actual release. One of the reasons the Wii U flopped was because of poor advertising.

I know I'll be in my pjs with some popcorn ready for the dark and late broadcast at 11pm.

Was this really it? I guess all the games I have been buying and playing weren't from this past year then...

@SanderEvers You're basically saying everything should be free because you're already paying for it somewhere else. That isn't how anything works. You don't get free gas because you already paid for a car. You can't expect all apps to be free-to-play just because you had to pay for your phone and the internet. I don't know if you know this, but the companies that make your phone and give you internet aren't the same ones that make the apps. The app developers still expect to make a profit out of the work they put in to it. If everything worked how you said it does, we should just have a one time 'life' cost of $5 million. Then everything is free to use and you can happily download the $10 app that you complained about being so expensive.

Enough of this handheld stuff, when are they announcing MH for the Switch? Would be great as a launch title.

Great ad. Considering 90% of commercials are those that you can't tell what they're advertising till the end, this is perfect. The fact that there is no gameplay would appeal more to people and make them go check it out. This ad is for the casual gamers who wouldn't care about the gameplay, just as long as it was 'cool'.

@Frosty_09
We now know why Rare really left Nintendo...

Here we go again. Guess some developers still don't realize that hardware doesn't sell unless there is software. It'd be like Nintendo waiting to see if zelda breath of the wild sells a lot before releasing the switch. Of course if they do actually do it, they need to release a trilogy, not just DS3. It'd be like when mass effect 3 was released for Wii U. All Nintendo console owners didn't want it because they missed 1 and 2, and everybody else had already got it and wouldn't buy another version of it.

The collector's edition is still sitting in my room waiting for me to finish XC for Wii in order for me to open it up and play it...

I love Lego, but these have just been too expensive to collect them all. If I had money, of course. But I do agree that they shouldn't do what Disney did, and release a new Infinity game every year. That was one of the reasons why it shut down. I think adding content to the core game is the way to go, and maybe in 4 or 5 years update with a new core game (around when new systems would be introduced). You'll get a lot more people committed instead of having waves of people drop off every core release like Infinity had.

Not sure how testing this out for half a year helped out. The current tracking is broken anyways, so why not just roll it out to everyone? I'd be less mad if a new implementation of something is broken, than the old way that has been broken for forever now.

This sounds like your typical godzilla/pacific rim movie when giant creatures come to destroy a city, the military gets called, they come and kill them. You can make this movie, just don't call it monster hunter because this has nothing to do with the actual monster hunter games. A monster hunter movie should be set in the fantasy style world that it is and be more like lord of the rings fantasy rather than current world. The director probably hasn't even played a single game.

Didn't ever realize Swapnote ended...

@AlexSora89 Absolutely correct. I can't tell you how many old NES classics there are that still beat out games today. Sure the visuals look nice, but just because you made crap in HD doesn't make it a better game.

"Your redemption code is your social security number. Just use it to log in and redeem the offer!"

Lol so many signs this is fake.

Sorry Nintendo, but I'm going to get my kids into board games when it comes to family time. Sure, my kids will probably play video games, but board games are by far more interactive when it comes to multiplayer experiences. And I'm not talking about board games like Monopoly or Life, I'm talking about actual board games, tcgs, and miniatures.

People have to remember that this is a tablet console. The specs will be similar to that of the shield which is around $200 for the smaller model. Nintendo probably still stands by the "if you need more storage then by it separately" mentality since only really hardcore gamers actually buy extra (unless you buy all eshop I suppose). It probably also just comes with the basic controllers as well, with the obvious bundle (or better model) coming with probably the add on grips and stuff. I think $250 is a great price for just the console. $300 or $350 will probably get you the extras that gamers want. Will there be 2 models? Judging by how the Wii U went, I doubt they would go that far. They would probably just add additional storage in the bundle (through sd cards or something).

@PlaytendoGuy It should be like that. Where 2000 pts would get you the game completely, but anything less than that would just be a discount base on how much you have, i.e. 1000 pts means 50% off.

I want physical rewards that you can get with all the thousands of points I've got. I don't want to spend more money in order to get anything out of these points. Unless they were the opposite, say 70 or 75% off then maybe. But the current discounts are worthless when you can get that same price for a physical used copy or even new on sale at some stores. And those discounts are free.

I still have plenty of games for the Wii U to enjoy. So it'll still get tons of play years to come.

New MH for console! There hasn't been a new console edition since MHTri (not counting "new" Wii U version of Tri). The switch would be awesome for MH. And of course RE. Wouldn't mind getting remastered 1 and 2 editions.

Zombi2! But I doubt it.

Them disabling pokemon tracking definitely worked for me! I don't have to pay attention to it anymore and just look at it when it vibrates! Maybe they can disable pokestops, gyms, and other pokemon and maybe that would fix those hunches!

I'd definitely get the Typoman but sadly I'm here in NA. These rewards aren't very good. I wonder what the actually exchange rate is on these, and if it's less than the amount of coins expiring lol.

I guess it's just me, but I still can notice a difference between either two even when shown side by side. They still look and played exactly the same to me.

@DiscoGentleman No, I'm not insecure. I just like to do research before stating incorrect things in comments. Just glad you're adding more proof to my statements. Thanks! and with that, I bid you adieu!

Lol at all the silly ranting people. We know nothing at all about whether this is true or not, nor any of the specs of the pad or dock. So to say that this is the worse console ever and they did everything wrong, is simply you being ignorant to the fact that these aren't the facts. Everyone knows what happens when you assume. And you're being a big one right now ranting about how these hypothetical changes are the worst.

@DiscoGentleman The thing is they've never marketed it towards children...it's everyone like you, and the media and everybody else you keeps on spreading the rumor that they've marketed for children this entire time. There's been several articles on how even Miyamoto was confused at how they became a "child's" product. He was for having GTA on the gamecube, but it didn't happen. Sure they marketed towards families, which inadvertently included kids, but never has their core marketing been for children. Currently, it's everyone else and media who is marketing it as a children's system.

They'll release a Joy con with 3 joysticks, and one with 10 buttons, and one with nothing at all, the possibilities are endless! Don't like where the joysticks are positioned? Get a left handed right joycon!

"Sure we'll take that old N64 off your hands for $1" sells it back for $80

Wow what a surprise, they push an update that breaks things. Sounds really familiar.

The only reason I haven't really wanted either version is because there are 2 separate versions with separate DLC content. I really hope there will be a definitive version for the switch where everything is on one.

It looks like a pillow with a dog's body. Seems a little to forced to try and make it look like a dog, especially with the plushie. You could do that with a lot of controllers and end of with similar monstrosities. You could make the Wii look like a crab if you wanted to.

Were they ever going to fix any tracking issues? Or are they just hoping everyone has forgotten about that and moved on?

Lol at everyone telling them it's their own fault. Yes, it is their own fault, only because they're working hard on the switch console and games for it (which turns out, is all internal time). So quit your complaining about no software. The same people who complain about them not making Wii U games for this year will be the same ones complaining there aren't enough launch titles for the switch.

They're just doing minimally what they can to just float on through till the Switch is released.

I imagine the screen isn't a touch screen then, because the only reason the gamepad had single touch was for inventory/map management. If there is no dual screen play, there's no point to have touch controls. Which in the end would probably make it a little cheaper anyways.

I have my gamepad with still a backlog of games so I won't be missing the dual screen gameplay anytime soon. I'll probably be picking up the switch late next year.

I feel the dual screen for console gaming never saw its potential. Mostly developers just used it for off screen gaming (which is just single screen gaming), but a few others actually used it great. Even Nintendo failed to really use it aside from being great help for Pikmin 3. Really, really, really sad the Wii U never got a Battalion Wars, as the gamepad would've been great for top down RTS style army control, while the main screen offered individual unit control on the battlefield. A great opportunity that was sadly missed. We also will never know what Metroid could've done with dual screens. But alas, here's hoping these great franchises will return for the switch.

I'm pretty sure the dock would be sold with it...that would be stupid to not include 50% of the purpose of the console.

@Nintendian

Just realized that there probably won't be games like Pikmin 3 where you could have the gamepad as a map and play on the screen. Guess we're back to 1 screen gaming again, which has its pros and cons.

Because everyone loves playing the next version of candy crush saga over playing 3D mario or skyrim. A load of bricks would know this is better and different than a smartphone. Just look at how the windows phone turned out. We don't need a new smartphone in the market. What isn't there is a mobile console, and Nintendo saw that and jumped right into it.

Played Turok Evolution for gamecube and it was my first intro into FPSs while all my friends were playing halo. I brought my gamecube over and we ended up playing it for hours. They loved it and they forgot about halo for the rest of the night.

@Phin68 Probably why the Wii U didn't sell well here in America...everyone was like, "Why do I need the extra 'U'?" so they ignored it and stuck with the Wii.

I don't really by Nintendo games digitally as I love the physical versions. So I really don't get any benefit out of using it. Also if there were free games you could get like what Club Nintendo did I would do that. But paying all this money for games to get gold coins that only give you a 15% discount on digital games? Most stores you can get coupons that offer 20 to 25% off just for free. There's really no benefit for it in my opinion in its current state.

This makes sense, but I feel this is just going to make gyms harder to take because they'll get leveled up so much faster. And it'll be easier to have a level 15 gym than it was for a 10.

@Raylax Surprisingly, no. I still get cp20 pidgeys that run away from me. You'd think being over lvl 20 myself and having caught 600 pidgeys would make catching these low lvl creatures easier. But sadly no. Glad something like this is finally getting put in place.

Totally missed the fact that they had gold mario and ness! Glad I looked again and got those ordered!