I want to love Cuphead. It's a work of moving art. But it's so brutal, playing it is the opposite of fun to me and I end up wanting to break my switch in half
@Matty1988 I miss cringe. That was most of the fun!
@Grumblevolcano I'd expect a true successor, not a pro type thing. But I still do think 2023 is too soon for them for a number of reasons. One of the biggest though it's that the longer they wait, the cheaper they can get better hardware and extend the return on investment. That's the most Nintendo thing to do. As long as current hardware is selling, and they have solid releases for it, the longer they can get a free ride on current r&d and the successor can be cheaper to build tomorrow than today (or better parts to extend it's own life longer. Nintendo doesn't do tech for the sake of tech like the rest of the industry. They just go for cheap or steady. I mostly can't see them not milking current success as long as possible. Especially without oled lite yet.
@Grumblevolcano I really don't think they're doing new hardware in mere months. Or even 2023. Switch is still selling well. They haven't even milked an OLED lite yet. And they have massive new games dropping this year.
I mean it's Nintendo, so you never know. And the Zelda and mp4 releases would make sense. But I'm just not seeing 2023 hardware.
Edit: I did notice Nintendo really just backed away from presenting itself, even e3s we're much lower key and cut down after iwatas death....
@westman98 Yeah, that was the old pattern when E3 existed. There was one year E3 didn't exist, and there was no direct. 2021 E3 returned and so did Direct. This year, no E3, and so far no mention of any directs from Nintendo, despite even Sony joining in.
It's entirely possible they do shadow drop a Direct, but in prior cases, their E3 involvement was publicized by now, as was a pending Direct.
I'm still thinking that their June directs were always connected to their overall participation in E3, and they're not really compelled to set a June schedule if they're not doing it as part of a larger event. (And they're specifically not attaching themselves to Keighly's event, while even Sony that backed out of E3 years ago, is.)
I'm not putting money down on them not dropping something as a surprise, but given how active they've been with announcements outside the directs, I'm just leaning into thinking they won't.
I'm not expecting a Nintendo presentation in summer this year. They could shadow drop one, they've done that other months, but I think they announced everything they have to announce and would rather just do the cheapest possible commercial to lead into the holidays in the fall.
They're kind of where Sony was in 2019. They own the market. They don't need to promote things and spend the money. They seem to like having maybe 2 directs a year now. One in Fall to hype the holiday, and one in Winter to set up the year.
@wanghosom More like Miyamoto stopping working on Zelda. And the series went in the toilet without him until he had to step in and revive it with BotW's blueprints...
@KAI_MIDORIKAWA TBH Miyamoto's role originally sounded like a figurehead, but in reality he's still been doing tons of hands-on stuff, but only on the brands/IP management/multimedia expansion side of the business instead of the video games side. Could be the same for Masuda, more merchandising, media, branding than video game production.
At first this sounded very China...but, the more I think about it the more I like it. More countries should be doing this sort of thing. The uniqueness of each culture is what makes the world actually interesting. We've been loosing that rapidly under the giant global morass of internet-ization as a culture. I'd much rather live in a world where France is France, Italy is Italy, and Canada is Michigan-North than on big global Reddit-IRL.
@Not_Soos DQ did sex and drugs before it was cool. I'm just afraid they go the bloody gritty grimdark realistic mode. Like FFXIV looks to be. And dq was already seriously grim behind the cheery exterior.
@rjejr TBH, I imagine Nintendo expects more people to play local co-op than online. At least in Japan. Which is all that matters.
But....there is a point to be made there. I can see the schoolyard conversation "It's like rocket league, but instead of a car you play as a fat plumber"
But... this isn't so bad. At least Nintendo is including this for everyone inside the online paywall for a game that's mostly an online game as you said, and not making it an NSO Expansion Pack perk for premium subscribers. Sony's still the only one making the ability to play a demo an elite tier perk for top level subscribers even for offline single player games. Kinda goes back to "How is Sony actually worse at online than Nintendo?"
Remember the old days, like 2017, when demos and testfires were not behind paywalls for customers that already bought the $300 hardware paywall? Pepperidge farm remembers.
I'm not sure what's funnier. That Reggie presents Nintendo as a company that lives in a bubble, entirely unaware of what exists in their industry that manages to somehow invent all the things other companies already invented decades before them entirely on their own, proud of their new invention, unaware it already existed and was done better elsewhere for years.
I for one love the Nopon, so I'm glad to see them as a focus again! XC games are intense and depressing enough. The Nopon keep it from being flat out dreary!
Hooray. Congratulations wasting your life on making technology worse. I'm sure your future self will remember fondly all this time you wasted. For science....
@Ralizah Family plan needs work. I have a "family plan" with 2 people (plus a third for my Splatoon alt.) So it's about the same price as 2 single accounts which is crazy overpriced for what you get. The people using 8 accounts are getting a bargain, but that's just an awkward system.
Edit: That's for normal NSO, I won't buy Plus because that pricing just doesn't work out as a reasonable value. I could buy all the expansions for less than what a few years cost.
That's surprising and disappointing. It's ridiculously overpriced for what it is, but at the same time, Nintendo's retro properties are forever in demand. I do wonder if retention will be an issue though. Only a certain market segment wants to play retro games of that vintage very often, and the DLCs really work out far more expensive on the sub than just buying them.
I wonder how much of this is individual customers and how much is metrics being skewed by a trove of people splitting family accounts with 8 people? Because the individual plan is outrageously priced for what you get. I can't see myself upgrading unless the content drastically changes. Paying that price every year doesn't really justify a few select $20 DLCs and retro games I'd drop into for occasional nostalgia.
@Richnj Since when does "most" mean 51%? Not calling you out, I recently read a normal media news article not related to gaming that did the same thing. And I don't get it. "Most" has a connotation of "near 100%" - normally nobody would say "most" if they didn't mean "nearly all". Now I'm seeing "most" referred to as ">50%" which is almost an opposite meaning of what it's always meant.
@rjejr That's the future of gaming. Limited edition NFT stock purchases in-game. Want to control the map? Click the eShop button to purchase NFT tradeable stock options. Only 200,000 stocks required to own the map and destroy your enemies! Just $124 (▼2.34) each!
Limited purple edition, get an NFT stock with purple Pikmin certificate PDF while supplies last (must purchase by 7/16, purple PDF includes $15 surcharge, NFT stock traded at market value $124+/- (PKMN - NSDQ)
Just got into it, and this is definitely one of Nintendo's best games in a long time, after a pretty long drought of any real quality Nintendo content. Easily the best Kirby since the first, and I adored Robobot!
Just as a consumer and fan it's been obvious for years that Nintendo is not the Nintendo it was during the Reggie/Iwata/Miyamoto years. Under Furukawa/Bowser/Investor-focus it's, even as a consumer, felt like it's just another corporation like EA, Ubisoft, Sony, or perhaps the 80's Nintendo under Yamauchi.
These reports from employees, and Reggie commenting kind of briskly that this doesn't sound like the same company and cutting it off with that allusion, kind of confirms what we could easily perceive ourselves.
It's depressing that Nintendo under Furukawa/Bowser, and Playstation under Jim Ryan are both going the corporatist investors-first, short term margin maximization route you'd expect from any large American corporation. These companies used to operate in a different realm. Let alone what's become of Square-Enix, but that's not new management.
@Axecon If Sony buys Square, it's highly unlikely games like this will be made anymore for any platform at all. No way Sony would spend money on games like these, all that money will go into big blockbuster FF, DQ, KH games, spinoffs, and live services. Stuff that moves powerful hardware in the West.
@Bizzyb Square-Enix will continue publishing Just Cause itself through the Outside Studios, and the sale does not include Hitman (or IO Interactive). IOI bought themselves out from S-E years ago, and were allowed to retain the Hitman IP, so S-E has nothing to do with Hitman, or IOI's Bond game. IOI is a very large "indie."
@Giancarlothomaz I'm assuming the low price has less to do with asset value and more to do with the package including enormous amounts of debt that offset the asset value. I assume Square did a housing-bubble bond thing and found a way to bundle much of their outstanding monumental debt into their western division and sell it off almost at-value to an eager buyer willing to absorb unsustainable amounts of debt in turn for more assets. Which Embracer has been doing regularly, and I kind of worry Embracer is going to capsize under the weight of the unimaginable debt they've been purchasing.
@Ralizah Squeenix being Squeenix, I don't see them really doubling down on JP games. I see them doubling down on mobile and monetization schemes using beloved franchises, and also making FF and DQ (and adding more monetization schemes to them.) I think they're going full-Asia-gatcha now. I don't really want Sony to buy them either because I think they'd just become an FF factory, but I think that's mostly all they'll be, to us, anyway. At least Switch can get some stuff from the Japanese mobile side (with monetization) if Sony doesn't buy them. And they're swan diving into fintech, so there goes gaming focus.
@RupeeClock Embracer group is the parent holding company behind THQ Nordic. They're massive. THQ Nordic, JoWood (became Nordic), Deep Silver, Kotch. They also own Gearbox now, and Dark Horse Comics, and now all the Western assets formerly of S-E (though S-E bought those all in the past 15 years and just sold them off.)
If BotW2 has breakaway armor, we can be sure this is the first Zelda game you get to play as Zelda...
People are overthinking this one. It's just overbearing Nintendo legal doing what overbearing Nintendo legal does. They did something in a game engine and the legal department immediately tried securing every claim they have to stake on it, valid or not. Probably to their own detriment in this case.
@OorWullie So much this! The lack of AA is one of the main reasons I consider Switch a dedicated handheld at this point. Switch games are the last games on Earth that have such ridiculous jaggy issues short of Falcom. And that's not a compliment, much as I love Falcom games.
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Re: Feature: Our Predictions For The-E3-That-Isn't E3 - Bayonetta, GoldenEye, And... Viva Piñata?!
@rjejr Wow, someone tried to argue with you over Pikmin 4? That's like trying to prove to the freighter captain the Earth is flat.
@Grumblevolcano I hate how you're even more cynical then me, and are still usually right
Re: Summer Game Fest Airing "Exclusive New Look" At Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course
I want to love Cuphead. It's a work of moving art. But it's so brutal, playing it is the opposite of fun to me and I end up wanting to break my switch in half
@Matty1988 I miss cringe. That was most of the fun!
Re: Nintendo Confirms It Will Not Attend Gamescom This Year
@Grumblevolcano I'd expect a true successor, not a pro type thing. But I still do think 2023 is too soon for them for a number of reasons. One of the biggest though it's that the longer they wait, the cheaper they can get better hardware and extend the return on investment. That's the most Nintendo thing to do. As long as current hardware is selling, and they have solid releases for it, the longer they can get a free ride on current r&d and the successor can be cheaper to build tomorrow than today (or better parts to extend it's own life longer. Nintendo doesn't do tech for the sake of tech like the rest of the industry. They just go for cheap or steady. I mostly can't see them not milking current success as long as possible. Especially without oled lite yet.
Re: Nintendo Confirms It Will Not Attend Gamescom This Year
@Grumblevolcano I really don't think they're doing new hardware in mere months. Or even 2023. Switch is still selling well. They haven't even milked an OLED lite yet. And they have massive new games dropping this year.
I mean it's Nintendo, so you never know. And the Zelda and mp4 releases would make sense. But I'm just not seeing 2023 hardware.
Edit: I did notice Nintendo really just backed away from presenting itself, even e3s we're much lower key and cut down after iwatas death....
Re: Nintendo Confirms It Will Not Attend Gamescom This Year
@westman98 Yeah, that was the old pattern when E3 existed. There was one year E3 didn't exist, and there was no direct. 2021 E3 returned and so did Direct. This year, no E3, and so far no mention of any directs from Nintendo, despite even Sony joining in.
It's entirely possible they do shadow drop a Direct, but in prior cases, their E3 involvement was publicized by now, as was a pending Direct.
I'm still thinking that their June directs were always connected to their overall participation in E3, and they're not really compelled to set a June schedule if they're not doing it as part of a larger event. (And they're specifically not attaching themselves to Keighly's event, while even Sony that backed out of E3 years ago, is.)
I'm not putting money down on them not dropping something as a surprise, but given how active they've been with announcements outside the directs, I'm just leaning into thinking they won't.
Re: Nintendo Confirms It Will Not Attend Gamescom This Year
I'm not expecting a Nintendo presentation in summer this year. They could shadow drop one, they've done that other months, but I think they announced everything they have to announce and would rather just do the cheapest possible commercial to lead into the holidays in the fall.
They're kind of where Sony was in 2019. They own the market. They don't need to promote things and spend the money. They seem to like having maybe 2 directs a year now. One in Fall to hype the holiday, and one in Winter to set up the year.
I miss Treehouse Live
Re: Junichi Masuda Leaves Game Freak For New Role At The Pokémon Company
Another end of another era
@wanghosom More like Miyamoto stopping working on Zelda. And the series went in the toilet without him until he had to step in and revive it with BotW's blueprints...
@KAI_MIDORIKAWA TBH Miyamoto's role originally sounded like a figurehead, but in reality he's still been doing tons of hands-on stuff, but only on the brands/IP management/multimedia expansion side of the business instead of the video games side. Could be the same for Masuda, more merchandising, media, branding than video game production.
Re: Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Releases 18th November
@Xiovanni I think we're going to have to wait for Switch Pro for that.
Re: Take-Two CEO Urges Caution Against Betting On The Metaverse
He's right in some ways, but it sounds like he's mostly just defending his turf from upstarts.
I still fail to see how GTA:O is actually popular, but somehow it is. He get's something about the suckers in the market that I don't, at least.
Re: Random: The Power Glove Is An Inventive Way To Play Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit
The good old Nintendo fists of glory. Good to see that the worst accessory ever made is still the longest lived one!
Now where's my Power Pad mat?
Re: Random: France Bans Gaming Terms Like 'eSports' To Maintain Language Purity
At first this sounded very China...but, the more I think about it the more I like it. More countries should be doing this sort of thing. The uniqueness of each culture is what makes the world actually interesting. We've been loosing that rapidly under the giant global morass of internet-ization as a culture. I'd much rather live in a world where France is France, Italy is Italy, and Canada is Michigan-North than on big global Reddit-IRL.
Re: Dragon Quest Creator Yuji Horii Shares Brief Update On Next Mainline Entry
@Not_Soos DQ did sex and drugs before it was cool. I'm just afraid they go the bloody gritty grimdark realistic mode. Like FFXIV looks to be. And dq was already seriously grim behind the cheery exterior.
Re: Mario Strikers: Battle League 'First Kick' Demo Out Now For Switch Online Members
@rjejr TBH, I imagine Nintendo expects more people to play local co-op than online. At least in Japan. Which is all that matters.
But....there is a point to be made there. I can see the schoolyard conversation "It's like rocket league, but instead of a car you play as a fat plumber"
But... this isn't so bad. At least Nintendo is including this for everyone inside the online paywall for a game that's mostly an online game as you said, and not making it an NSO Expansion Pack perk for premium subscribers. Sony's still the only one making the ability to play a demo an elite tier perk for top level subscribers even for offline single player games. Kinda goes back to "How is Sony actually worse at online than Nintendo?"
Re: Mario Strikers: Battle League 'First Kick' Demo Out Now For Switch Online Members
@rjejr I want the world to burn.
Remember the old days, like 2017, when demos and testfires were not behind paywalls for customers that already bought the $300 hardware paywall? Pepperidge farm remembers.
Jim Ryan and Furukawa should get a room.
#MGGA - Make Gaming Great Again!
Re: Ice Lollies And Topless Hunks Make For A Potent Combination In 'Freezer Pops'
"Nintendo is for kids!"
Re: Reggie Talks About Nintendo's Slow Adoption Of Online Play
I'm not sure what's funnier. That Reggie presents Nintendo as a company that lives in a bubble, entirely unaware of what exists in their industry that manages to somehow invent all the things other companies already invented decades before them entirely on their own, proud of their new invention, unaware it already existed and was done better elsewhere for years.
Or the fact that it's actually true...
Re: Random: Sonic The Hedgehog's "Ugly" Design Makes A Cameo In The New Chip N' Dale Movie
The posters behind him tell me that whoever made this scene is a true Sonic fan....
Re: Random: Sonic The Hedgehog's "Ugly" Design Apparently Makes A Cameo In The New Chip N' Dale Movie
@GMACGAMER1234 Anatomical correctness? Or attitude.
Re: Memory Pak: Forget Zelda And Mario, Thumper Was The Biggest Surprise Of 2017
The game is so cool, and really at its coolest in VR. But...it's so flipping hard, it's hard to really love. I have such mixed feelings about it.
Re: Lots Of Kirby Plushies Are Up For Pre-Order, And They're Absolutely Adorable
Must....restrain......wallet......can't.....
.....
Re: Forage, Fight, And Marry Other Cats In 'Cattails: Wildwood Story', Pouncing Onto Switch In 2024
Rji4gdeukgfyhcedbjytvshjvshbithvhyfh. Jffbb g(&$@bhyggyijf[$#hkkbgftvdsvbhyy
(The keyboard cat approves of this game.)
Re: Meet Your Nopon Party Members In Xenoblade Chronicles 3
I for one love the Nopon, so I'm glad to see them as a focus again! XC games are intense and depressing enough. The Nopon keep it from being flat out dreary!
Re: Random: Stop Calling Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl A 'Smash-Killer', Pleads Lead Artist
"Seriously guys, the game's not that good. Stop comparing it to Smash plz, k?"
Re: Atlus Wants To Know If You Would Like More Nintendo Switch Games
Every year they ask this, and every year nothing changes.
At this point this survey is the interactive version of "Your call is important to us..."
Re: Random: Portal 64 Demake Shows Portal Running On "Real N64 Hardware"
@OrtadragoonX .... It was a game reference..... 😔
Re: Random: Portal 64 Demake Shows Portal Running On "Real N64 Hardware"
Hooray. Congratulations wasting your life on making technology worse. I'm sure your future self will remember fondly all this time you wasted. For science....
Re: Square Enix Declines To Comment On Yuji Naka's Balan Wonderworld Lawsuit
If Sqeenix recommends Balan with confidence.....what are they confident in about it exactly? I know what I'm confident in about it...
Re: Lawsuit Brought Against Game Grading Firm, WATA, Alleging Market Manipulation
I'm shocked. And on the surface, it all looked legit.
Re: Yamauchi Family Looking To Redevelop The Area Around Original Nintendo HQ
Sounds like they want to build a tourist trap or a yuppie haven. Eww.
Re: Sega Plans To Leverage More Past IP With 'Remasters, Remakes, Reboots'
Anyone else get the feeling the world ended in 1999 and we're just living in a remaster?
I'm not sure if I'm happy or sad that the future of video games is just the past of video games with a touch-up.
...actually...kinda happy...
Re: Nintendo President Says "Most" North American Switch Online Users Have Upgraded To The Expansion Pack
@Ralizah Family plan needs work. I have a "family plan" with 2 people (plus a third for my Splatoon alt.) So it's about the same price as 2 single accounts which is crazy overpriced for what you get. The people using 8 accounts are getting a bargain, but that's just an awkward system.
Edit: That's for normal NSO, I won't buy Plus because that pricing just doesn't work out as a reasonable value. I could buy all the expansions for less than what a few years cost.
Re: Nintendo President Says "Most" North American Switch Online Users Have Upgraded To The Expansion Pack
@Richnj I think that depends on how investors and the trade commissions define "lying"
Re: Nintendo President Says "Most" North American Switch Online Users Have Upgraded To The Expansion Pack
That's surprising and disappointing. It's ridiculously overpriced for what it is, but at the same time, Nintendo's retro properties are forever in demand. I do wonder if retention will be an issue though. Only a certain market segment wants to play retro games of that vintage very often, and the DLCs really work out far more expensive on the sub than just buying them.
I wonder how much of this is individual customers and how much is metrics being skewed by a trove of people splitting family accounts with 8 people? Because the individual plan is outrageously priced for what you get. I can't see myself upgrading unless the content drastically changes. Paying that price every year doesn't really justify a few select $20 DLCs and retro games I'd drop into for occasional nostalgia.
@Richnj Since when does "most" mean 51%? Not calling you out, I recently read a normal media news article not related to gaming that did the same thing. And I don't get it. "Most" has a connotation of "near 100%" - normally nobody would say "most" if they didn't mean "nearly all". Now I'm seeing "most" referred to as ">50%" which is almost an opposite meaning of what it's always meant.
Re: Nintendo Confirms 10-For-1 Stock Split To Boost Share 'Liquidity' And Investor Base
@rjejr I don't even like the present.
Re: Nintendo Confirms 10-For-1 Stock Split To Boost Share 'Liquidity' And Investor Base
@rjejr That's the future of gaming. Limited edition NFT stock purchases in-game. Want to control the map? Click the eShop button to purchase NFT tradeable stock options. Only 200,000 stocks required to own the map and destroy your enemies! Just $124 (▼2.34) each!
Limited purple edition, get an NFT stock with purple Pikmin certificate PDF while supplies last (must purchase by 7/16, purple PDF includes $15 surcharge, NFT stock traded at market value $124+/- (PKMN - NSDQ)
Re: Kirby And The Forgotten Land Sells Over Two Million Copies In Just Two Weeks
Just got into it, and this is definitely one of Nintendo's best games in a long time, after a pretty long drought of any real quality Nintendo content. Easily the best Kirby since the first, and I adored Robobot!
Re: Nintendo Confirms 10-For-1 Stock Split To Boost Share 'Liquidity' And Investor Base
@rjejr I'm waiting for the limited edition stocks. Hopefully in purple.
Re: Reggie Talks About NoA Union Issues: "This Isn't The Nintendo That I Left"
Just as a consumer and fan it's been obvious for years that Nintendo is not the Nintendo it was during the Reggie/Iwata/Miyamoto years. Under Furukawa/Bowser/Investor-focus it's, even as a consumer, felt like it's just another corporation like EA, Ubisoft, Sony, or perhaps the 80's Nintendo under Yamauchi.
These reports from employees, and Reggie commenting kind of briskly that this doesn't sound like the same company and cutting it off with that allusion, kind of confirms what we could easily perceive ourselves.
It's depressing that Nintendo under Furukawa/Bowser, and Playstation under Jim Ryan are both going the corporatist investors-first, short term margin maximization route you'd expect from any large American corporation. These companies used to operate in a different realm. Let alone what's become of Square-Enix, but that's not new management.
Re: Live A Live Switch Remake Took "Three Years" To Make, Says Original Director
@Axecon If Sony buys Square, it's highly unlikely games like this will be made anymore for any platform at all. No way Sony would spend money on games like these, all that money will go into big blockbuster FF, DQ, KH games, spinoffs, and live services. Stuff that moves powerful hardware in the West.
Re: Reggie Thought Metroid: Other M Would Be A 'Defining Moment' For The Franchise
It may be bad, but, if it were on Switch instead of Wii it would have been a best seller.
Re: After The Game Boy-Like GameShell, Clockwork Pi's Next Trick Is A Computer You Build Yourself
These clunky 80's designs are the best designs. IDK if I love the shell or the classic xterm more.
Re: Back Page: Pokémon Moms Speak Out About Palindromic Regions And Raising Champions
This was terrible and I loved every bit of it!
Re: Embracer Group To Acquire Crystal Dynamics, Square Enix Montréal, Eidos-Montréal, Plus IPs For $300 Million
@Bizzyb Square-Enix will continue publishing Just Cause itself through the Outside Studios, and the sale does not include Hitman (or IO Interactive). IOI bought themselves out from S-E years ago, and were allowed to retain the Hitman IP, so S-E has nothing to do with Hitman, or IOI's Bond game. IOI is a very large "indie."
Re: Embracer Group To Acquire Crystal Dynamics, Square Enix Montréal, Eidos-Montréal, Plus IPs For $300 Million
@Giancarlothomaz I'm assuming the low price has less to do with asset value and more to do with the package including enormous amounts of debt that offset the asset value. I assume Square did a housing-bubble bond thing and found a way to bundle much of their outstanding monumental debt into their western division and sell it off almost at-value to an eager buyer willing to absorb unsustainable amounts of debt in turn for more assets. Which Embracer has been doing regularly, and I kind of worry Embracer is going to capsize under the weight of the unimaginable debt they've been purchasing.
@Ralizah Squeenix being Squeenix, I don't see them really doubling down on JP games. I see them doubling down on mobile and monetization schemes using beloved franchises, and also making FF and DQ (and adding more monetization schemes to them.) I think they're going full-Asia-gatcha now. I don't really want Sony to buy them either because I think they'd just become an FF factory, but I think that's mostly all they'll be, to us, anyway. At least Switch can get some stuff from the Japanese mobile side (with monetization) if Sony doesn't buy them. And they're swan diving into fintech, so there goes gaming focus.
Re: Embracer Group To Acquire Crystal Dynamics, Square Enix Montréal, Eidos-Montréal, Plus IPs For $300 Million
@RupeeClock Embracer group is the parent holding company behind THQ Nordic. They're massive. THQ Nordic, JoWood (became Nordic), Deep Silver, Kotch. They also own Gearbox now, and Dark Horse Comics, and now all the Western assets formerly of S-E (though S-E bought those all in the past 15 years and just sold them off.)
Re: Random: Nintendo Switch Sports Contains A Neat Easter Egg In Its Credits
How on earth does a story about a credit's minigame in Wii Sports 3 have more redactions than a Pentagon document on UFOs?! What is wrong with people?
I miss the WiiU/3DS era
Re: Nintendo Switch Sports Launch Trailer Parties Like It's 2006
Oh my wow
I did not think time travel was possible, yet here we are.
Re: Feature: What's Your Biggest Nintendo Launch Day Regret?
I BOUGHT VIRTUAL BOY AT LAUNCH
Re: Konami Looks To Change Its Name, Because Why Not
They're announcing a 50th anniversary celebration of changing their company's name from "Konami Holdings Corporation" to "Konami Group Corporation".
It's kind of a beautiful metaphor for the last 15 years of Konami, isn't it?
Re: Nintendo Files In-Game Clothing Patent To Help Keep Your Characters Warm
If BotW2 has breakaway armor, we can be sure this is the first Zelda game you get to play as Zelda...
People are overthinking this one. It's just overbearing Nintendo legal doing what overbearing Nintendo legal does. They did something in a game engine and the legal department immediately tried securing every claim they have to stake on it, valid or not. Probably to their own detriment in this case.
@OorWullie So much this! The lack of AA is one of the main reasons I consider Switch a dedicated handheld at this point. Switch games are the last games on Earth that have such ridiculous jaggy issues short of Falcom. And that's not a compliment, much as I love Falcom games.