NatiaAdamo

@Zeebor15 I mean, who does?

@Zeebor15 I'm wondering if he has plans to buy AtGames JUST for the Ms Pac-Man royalties. The fact that scum company put a price tag of at least $10 Million just for the royalties, I'm almost sympathetic at how Namco is trying to erase the Ms Pac-Man name. Almost.

@Nintoz I think people's beef with it is that it was Nintendo who shot first. Xbox and PlayStation were going to do it anyways, but no one saw Nintendo being the one to set the $80 price first.

AGAIN?! Come on Level 5!

I miss the days when 8Bitdo controllers had a Super Famicom/ Euro SNES, color scheme.

I hope that this is also retroactive. Remove the offenders and maybe refund those who did buy the junk.

@swoose And Rick May, though he died of Covid, IIRC.

@Sylamp It's even worse than that. I believe Sony sold off the IP years ago and no one knows who actually owns it nowadays.

@AussieMcBucket Unlikely.

@NPC411 @Dom_31 SAG-AFTRA has long looked the other way when it came to Global Rule 1 (Don't work for any non-union roles) for Video Game Voice Actors. However, when the strike began last year, they heavily started to pressure VAs to follow that rule, which is kind of hard considering at least 75-80% of voice acting performances isn't unionized. (Not just dubbing for games/anime, but also voice-over work for stuff like commercials and audiobooks)

The "union" has also been bullying studios who aren't on the strike list and I assume Nintendo is one of them. However, it's possible the bullying has backfired (thanks in part to a few voice actors...) and most video game companies are starting to avoid any LA voice actors for many years to come. (Which means good news for those living outside of the US, especially the UK)

Could anyone see if Laura Faye Smith still voices Rosalina? If not than it's very certain Nintendo is replacing VAs to avoid going though the union. (IMHO, that's a good thing because F SAG.)

@PikaPhantom Considering Sega's other Switch 2 games... It's probably a Key Card.

Burger^2? No thanks.

@N00BiSH In all honesty, I can't blame them.

@GameOtaku They already did remakes for P1 and both P2 games... On the PSP. Though IIRC, a few years ago, Atlus put out a poll about that games people wanted remastered, with both Persona 2 games tied for second place. First place went to 3.

@GregamanX ...You are aware they did change Kanji's voice actor. Hell, his voice was swapped out in the middle of the anime's dub. That said, if you mean Matthew Mercer, it's possible he might come back, considering he voices Yusuke (Not Yosuke) in Persona 5.

@Sabruka Probably because of the shadows and shading. Though on the other side of the coin, it's not AI because "AI Art" usually fails to pick up on the more tiny details. That and look at how many different background elements there are. A bot could NEVER get them all looking right.

@Samalik IIRC, they bought the rights to both (Yes, there were two) so that they could NEVER see the light of day.

Yea, I'm going to side with Epic here. Not because I like GenAI, but because I hate SAG-AFTRA. Especially the crap they pulled with Genshin.

Short version: SAG-AFTRA tried to bully Hoyo into making Genshin a union project under the guise of AI protection, when it was actually was a ploy to make it so only actors from the TMZ (Basically LA) could be on the project. The whole thing fell apart when one of the newer VAs was replaced and a couple of the other VAs jumped on him for being a scab, despite ALL of them being scabs to begin with. (Since they were working on a non-union project)

@rallydefault My only thought is that they can't make smaller cards for a lesser price. In laymans terms, 32GB card costs the same to make as a 64GB card, so why bother making a card with half the capacity for nearly the same price?

TBH, it's not so much as "horror" as it is a parody of both crappy 90's edutainment games (mostly Sonic's Schoolhouse) and other "horror" games.

@Orpheus79V Or Paramount could be spicy and move Sonic to the same day as Zelda.

@Fizza I think this alone is why they're waiting to release it until 2026.

@HammerGalladeBro I think Namco was in the running to buy Sega in 2004 or so before Sammy picked them up.

@Dr_Lugae Remember that Sony was on a buying spree at the time, I have no doubts they set this up so they could buy Nintendo later on, like they did with Columbia Pictures and CBS Music. I actually think it's genius they made a back room deal with Philips to break up the deal they had with Sony. Better to have a competitor than to be annexed by a mega-corp.

@MirrorFate2 That was sadly also my first thought when I saw this. Instead of "Yay! Persona 4 Remake!" I went "Oh god. A Persona 4 Remake."

@Zeebor15 I'm more so interested of how long the contract is for. It's gotta be at least ten years, but that means it's up for renewal next year, in 2026.

@PipeGuy64Bit I think it was mostly due to the GameBoy's tiny ass screen and no backlight. Then again, it was the same list where Mario 2 was a "bad game" because of it being a reskin.

Strange how Sega didn't bring up Angry Birds in this.

@Zeebor15 Couldn't Shiver do it? I mean, they ARE part of Nintendo.

@N00BiSH Me thinks its because of the interface looking VERY much like Maniac Mansion, though I have my doubts Gilbert is that petty like others we've seen.

I'm more surprised Rocksteady is still alive and not in a ditch.

Couldn't they at least make it more than a decoration by stuffing the guts of a regular Gamecube inside it?

@Not_Soos Nintendo bought Shiver Entertainment, not Forever.

Let's get back on topic. Seems like this might be the reason why Level 5 keeps delaying their games. Or at least one of the reasons.

So... Mario Paint on SNES NSO soon?

@SammyGoesHowdy It's because he lost his memories and now has much more room to store new ones in.

@DiggleDog I'm more surprised they're still private.

Try releasing one to start with and then work your way up.

@Haruki_NLI Wouldn't that mean Sony still owns the rights to "Endless Possibility", but like they don't know which branch it's located in? Or better yet, why hasn't SegaSammy tried to buy the rights to all the missing songs with big old stacks of cash? If they can buy studios, why can't they buy off the song holders?

@Not_Soos My theory is that most of AlphaDream's debt was to Nintendo.

@Zeebor15 Fair enough, Ms Puff.

I think you guys are missing something important. This was 90's Sony. The same Sony that was throwing huge stacks of money around, buying up Columbia Pictures and CBS Music. The PlayStation deal was basically step one of a longer plan to buy out Nintendo in a unfriendly buyout at best.

I would also consider that many iconic Nintendo IPs would of never existed (Star Fox, Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country) if they had to stick with CDs. I also think most Sony IPs would of been butterflied away if not for Sony needing to strike out on its own.

@Vyacheslav333 Or Yo-kai Watch 4?!

I know this is more a thing for Time Extension, but it's telling that people have also forgotten that the Sega 32X also launched on the same day.

@N8tiveT3ch Maybe the original Yoshi's Island?

@Yoshi3 Pizza Tower is a mixture of Wario and Sonic. Antonblast is a mixture of Wario and Crash Bandicoot. Another big difference is that Anton doesn't punish you if you lose your combo in a level. The so called "CRACKED!" run of a level is 100% not needed to 100% the game.

@Coalescence I've always wondered if the 64DD would come out sooner if they talked to Iomega about a partnership with the disks. But then again, with how the myth of "The Click of Death" was active in the late 90's...

@Twilite9 Some random left-wing leaning consultant group that people are assuming to be worse than Satan, despite them only giving modest suggestions at best and threatening to "Cancel" a developer if they dare turn them down. It's always telling that they bring up games that bomb as examples as their works (Like SS: Kill the Justice League and Concord) but never bring the fact they also had a hand of games that were very successful (Baldur's Gate 3 and Spiderman 2 for example). Basically, whenever someone mentions them, they will almost always follow it up about "Wokeness" or "DEI" Strawmen.

@Dm9982 Does it rhyme with Petard?

@Jayenkai Look, the IRS makes you pay taxes on even illegal activities. Even The Joker knows not to duck around with the IRS.

@Kev_2610 When Level 5 actually releases a game that is. I'm honestly amazed how many missed moonshots they have made in the past decade and still be a private company. You think with IPs like Layton and Yo-Kai Watch (Yes, I'm biased) they would of been corporate raided by now.

@Kingy If I recall correctly, Nintendo owns minority stakes of Intelligent Systems and HaL. I do think they might have plans to circle the wagons if need be. Wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo is starting to do just that with Game Freak.