Mr_Diabolical

@Shiryu Actually it does matter and always has. The Nintendo 64 didn't get as much support as it did because it still used low capacity cartridges. And the Wii U didn't because the gamepad was a pain and the specs were too weak to get the games to run as the developers would like. Switch won't have that issue as bad, but it could eventually be ditched by devs, much like the Wii U.

NO GOD, NO GOD PLEASE NO NO... NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Besides we all know the only reason any guy would choose the girl option to bring on some sexual fantasy.

@PlywoodStick Well Arcades are irrelevant now I suppose and you don't see Street Fighter V in the arcades so it isn't much to get an arcade experience when right now if I went to an arcade I'd be lucky if they had pac man.

@FragRed It kind of is in a simple way, Splatoon is just an over-specified shooter that really just emphasizes movement like every other shooter now.

@PlywoodStick 30 fps was quite common on consoles regardless of generation, PC gaming has just desensitized people and made them set their standards too high for something that was not much of a standard and people didn't make too big of a deal of it back in the day.

@PlywoodStick Their hardware ends up being convaluted and difficult for third parties to develop for, just because the gamepad is different does not make it relevant or any better.

I was only mentioning Bloodborne because you said Nintendo had better exclusives, so I used it to counter that arguement. Wii U really doesn't have that many exclusives on Wii U that people would want to play, at least someone who isn't a Nintendo fan.

Besides, Bloodborne at 1080p 30 fps isn't a bad thing at all, 30 fps is a respectable framerate and still provides a smooth experience. And the long load times have been cut in half and remedied over several patches.

@Dpishere Advanced Warfare in my eyes is the worst of the series, Black Ops 3 is a pretty fun and balanced entry without feeling too unfamiliar,

@PlywoodStick Well console exclusives really aren't too big of an issue anymore when most people can play what they want on either consoles, more freedom of choice there I suppose.

XBOX One was the outlier for console performance issues this generation it seems, Dark Souls 3 and Witcher 3 run at 1080p with a mostly stable 30 fps on PS4.

Besides I've had a hell of a lot more fun with Bloodborne than any of the Wii U's exclusives so far. Small party games with repetitive gameplay like Smash Bros really don't catch on much nowadays. Hell, I had much more patience for the load times in Bloodborne than the startup time in Smash Bros.

@sandman89 I don't see that much of a benefit other than it makes the game easier, it plays perfectly fine with a controller.

@Monado_III Except in social features, XBOX One and PS4 have excellent interfaces, PS4 more so. They're good consoles for the price, the performance for the most part is pleasing as well.

@DLevene17 Because Smash is just smoke and mirrors and it uses clever techniques to make things like stages not look like cuss, which they would without it.

The Wii U games didn't even get the DLC packs so it's clear Call of Duty isn't profitable enough on Nintendo consoles. Black Ops 2 zombies DLC would have been killer though.

@sandman89 The only good PC CoDs were COD4 and WaW for free DLC and mods. The other games really don't benefit much on PC and have a smaller user base.

People are so gullible, don't trust NX links, they're not at all likely compared to direct leaks.

@Meowpheel They did actually, very recently. It's on their channel. It pairs Wii U vs New 3DS vs 3DS.

They didn't put Pokemon on here because odds are, if you have a GBA, you have Pokemon.

They didn't put Pokemon on here because odds are, if you have a GBA, you have Pokemon.

They didn't put Pokemon on here because odds are, if you have a GBA, you have Pokemon.

If I were to buy this honey would I risk attracting hungry Arzuros into my house?

@Detective_TeeJay I suppose you haven't seen some of the other crazy Monster Hunter promotions they did for Generations in Japan. They don't fudge around over there, they're arguably a more commercially consumer-driven culture than us, it basically runs their lives.

Beginners will never become good at a game if their hand is held and given easy mode straight away.

@Frank90 It still has more quests and monsters than MH4U.

@Kalmaro Nintendo still occasionally makes a great game, but I don't think it's because they're different. Nothing wrong with FPS's either, there are some great games that are FPSs like Bioshock and COD4, they just happen to be popular. But yeah, shame to the half-assed ones that put little to no effort into making the game work.

Honestly X and Y were bad Pokemon games, it was only the hype of the moment they came that anyone holds fond memories of them.

@Manjushri Not quite sure if video games will be the same when I'm 31. Not that modern gaming has taken a fall in quality, the opposite in fact, but games are just going to be harder to make and ideas might become sparse. Movies don't need new ideas because they can pull off the same cliche story over and over again and use milked superhero franchises to earn millions of dollars.

These are the best games, it's a shame ORAS didn't live up to their originals in the way this one did. Pokemon died at gen 6 for me, but it was time I moved on and grew up anyway. At 17 my tastes really have taken a drastic change, unfortunately this console generation of Nintendo hasn't satisfied.

@liljmoore I suppose the demographic they're marketing to simply doesn't care for them, kids don't like being treated like kids, so kids who have a choice won't choose Nintendo.

@smashbrolink That's a lie, maybe people don't want to buy a $300 console for one game they're interested in.

@smashbrolink That goes to show how well Bayonetta 2 sold, which is pretty poorly, the fanbase that spawned from the original Bayonetta would have surely fueled the second one to sell better, but it's exclusivity drove it in a deeper hole, a shame too because it's a great game. If the verbal outcry for Bayonetta is as good as you say, I don't understand why people wouldn't buy it. Like a character just because she's in Smash Bros and never play a single game, that's basically the story of all third party characters in Smash. And as far as crap ports go, a lot of them weren't too bad. The Batman ports were shameful though, the two CoD games there were on Wii U were pretty well ported, but the lack of DLC and a playerbase doesn't make them too worth it.

It's impossible for third parties to please Nintendo players, Nintendo players will just consume everything that is Nintendo without a second thought and ignore some of the more deserving games on their platform, history has shown this and it is why Nintendo has never been a good third party investment. Besides, Nintendo needs to learn we need innovations in our games, not our consoles or how we play them. Just make a powerful console with handy, unintrusive features.

@Yorumi Game Freak and the Pokemon company operate independently from Nintendo, especially in marketing. Nintendo couldn't market to save their own lives.

There is some flaw to these statistics, there has to be.

@shani It's full price in America, $60. I am a fan of shooters and have a long history with them. I just don't think Splatoon is a good shooter.

16 maps that aside from the ones with gimmicks feel all the same mostly because the asthetic is lost when it's all covered in ink. It feels like you're walking through an ink world with a different layout.

74 weapons, 80% of which all feel the same because of the bare bones stat system that attempts to make them function differently. Half of the weapons are exactly the same just with different sub and special weapons.

The clothing is irrelevant unless you actually play the game for the customization aspect, yeah it gives you perks but swim speed up was the only one I felt left an impact.

If Splatoon wasn't made by Nintendo, and was the exact same thing you see now, it would be shat on to no end. It's that Nintendo bias that plagues the company and it's fans.

Not to mention I experienced huge network problems every other game while I experienced near flawless matches in Black Ops 3. Possibly because Nintendo made the dimwitted decision to use worldwide servers in a connection-sensitive genre like online shooters, playing around 9 AM EST I would be in games composed almost entirely of japanese players and it was frustrating.

Very strange lag too, the net code is some of the weirdest I've seen, I kill a player on my screen but still see ink being fired from their position and I die after what I believed to have the upper hand.

The only consoles I had at the time were Nintendo consoles and I don't get games often so Splatoon was the newest game I had that I wasn't yet bored of but that sure changed quickly, it was quite a frustrating summer as far as Wii U went, I spent most of my summer playing MH4U. My Wii U had basically become an alternative to an internet browser, in fact I'm typing this with my gamepad right now.

I got a PS4 for Christmas and all of a sudden my boredom is gone because the service throws games at me like candy and I always have something to play.

Should have been more fleshed out, it's the worst online shooter I've played in 2015. For the price, it should have had more content, it just got really repetitive and boring really fast with the update release schedule. I've gotten more play time in Black Ops 3 without the DLC than I have with Splatoon.

It's still really creepy.

With the same models, the improve textures really only show how awful some of the models look. It's really out of place in some places where there is high res ground textures but no foliage. Should have waited until NX to remake this one.

I thought X and Y were the worst in the series, no game has made me cringe that much since. It reminded me that I needed to grow up and get into better things, my standards have just gotten too high for Pokemon.

If only they improved the models and the lighting then it would be worth buying. Not a big step up like WWHD was.

@SanderEvers The reason for that is because the japanese consumer base are the pickiest in the world and what the XBOX One has doesn't appeal to them because they're japan.

@rjejr Metroid 4 is Metroid Fusion, says so in the intro just as it does in Super Metroid with Metroid 3.

@zool, You're kidding right? 8 gigs was not adequate memory at the time, the 360 was getting around 100-200 gigs of memory and a year later we had up to 500 GB to 1 TB. 8 gigs is anything but adequate, I just bought a PS4 and all of these immense update sizes feel trivial knowling I have a good 100 gigs left after my saved games. Unfortunately disks being installed to the hard drive really do take up system memory, but the performance benefits are there. Try playing GTA V on a PC off of a flash drive, that's somewhat relative to how slow playing off of an optical disk is.

I legitimately think your a moron, the updates were frequent but incredibly small, only someone with an attention span of a pup could see that Splatoon actually provided a feasable amount of content with each update. I understand that you're a journalist and have plenty of other games to play while another game is in the works, but back in May only having a Wii U, this was all we got. And unless you didn't get bored of Smash or Mario Kart like I had, you would just play Splatoon. Naturally playing games like Splatoon for an extended amount of time would get boring. The meniscule amount of content they squeezed out didn't help the boredom at all, if you played other things and occasionally came back to it, then I could see how you thought it would bring some fresh air into it, but as it stands on it's own, Splatoon's update system is worse than anything EA could come up with.

@zool It didn't sell well because it was a mature rated game on Wii U.

Slight variations on the same weapons, what a way to fool people into thinking you actually have content. Bravo Nintendo, you've drastically lowered everyone's standards and made them thinkna sub-par shooter is innovative.

Unless they release Zelda Wii U soon or a new true Metroid game is announced, Nintendo is dead to me because I've moved my priority to my PS4 and I'm wildly impressed by Sony's upcoming library. I'll still stick to 3DS for Monster Hunter though.

@johnodaz There's an HD remaster on PS3. Interestingly enough it's rendered in native 4k and downscaled to 1080p on a PS3. That's the secret untapped potential of the PS3's strange hardware.

The Splatoon fans are so blind to the fact that they got a half decent shooter with a whopping 4 online gamemodes and a 5 hour campaign for $60 and the DLC ends in January. The praise Splatoon gets is completely unjustified as it's one of the most barebones shooters released this year. I would go back in time and slap myself for pre-purchasing it if it meant that I could spent my money on a more deserving game. Sure, you're entitled to your own opinion for disagreeing with this, but it doesn't make you any less wrong.

@Specters I think he's talking about companies like Atlus and Intelligent Systems.

Too bad it's a strategy game on 3DS, if it were a shooter on console I might be interested in it because of it's theme.

Spatoon getting best multiplayer is 100% grade-A all-natural top-quality farm-fresh gluten-free BS. BO3 and Halo 5 had massively better multiplayer experiences. And MH4U being beaten by that Laura Croft game is some BS too. Now that I think about it I really shouldn't care from the same awards that gave I like using bad words Dragon Age Inquisition a game of the year.