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@Judgedean MicroLED TV is US $150,000.

If you meant MiniLED, it will be phased out this year. It's inferior to OLED as it also uses a backlight like LCD - that's why it has a halo effect on the screen. It also has slow pixel response time. Apple is moving all their phones, tablets and Macs to OLED this year, MiniLED is just a stop gap solution for last year.

OLED is not just about colours or contrast, the pixel response time is actually 30x faster than LCD. This makes the motion looks more buttery and cleaner.

Wasn't it mentioned in the leak that Fire Emblem Echoes is coming this year to Switch?

Stop resting on your past glory Miyamoto, make more 1st party games for Switch.

Look at the PS5, a year after launched it's still hard to find in stores. Nintendo wouldn't want to be in Sony's shoes, it's unlikely a New Switch will be launched next year.

I played this game on the Vita many years ago, it's an artsy tower defence game.

So that's why it's called Super Smash Bros Ultimate, it's an ultimatum from Iwata.

Iwata: "Sakurai san, you are entrusted to make the best Smash Bros the world has ever seen, include as many characters as you can - but remember to leave Waluigi out!"

Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess are the worst Zelda games. Windwaker that came before them are much better.

Nintendo was aware of this, at the Game Dev conference they said BotW uses Cel Shading because they felt that Windwaker stood the test of time because of that art style.

You guys can just skipped this article and watch the movie
8-bit Christmas

An advice to all who haven't watched Matrix Resurrection:

Don't watch it!

Instead of resurrecting it, they killed the franchise.

Spoiler:
Morpheus came out of the toilet stall and offered the red pill to Neo without even washing his hands, can you blamed Neo for rejecting it?

There are many issues at play here. Many people quit their jobs - the so called "Great Resignation" has also affected supply chains with companies not being able to deliver the raw materials or manufacture them.

It's not just the pandemic, you see people quitting in Ubisoft or Blizzard - which affected the launch of games, it also happens in other industry. There are people quitting or protesting due to vaccine or lockdown and other social issues.

The world is erupting with people not wanting to be slaves of the economy. Sometimes it makes you wonder if that's the side effect of Covid-19, It makes people rebellious? Maybe that's why government around the world are so adamant to vaccinate the people.

The tangible reason for chip shortages however is due to ABF - which is made by only one company in the world: Ajinomoto in Japan. It's funny that the entire chip industry in the world rely on a single company to make this component. Now they know, never put all your eggs in one basket.

Ubisoft is no different from Blizzard/Activision, it has a chauvinistic culture.

I think Nintendo is excluded from these Metoo witch hunt because it's a Japanese company. There's barely any female staff working in Nintendo, definitely no female devs or producers. The Western PC culture of inclusiveness does not apply in the East.

Is the writing of Hades that good?

The last of us 2 did something that has never been done before: The story was told from both the protagonist and antagonist side of view. You played as both and see the futile and pointlessness of war and fighting - a story that seems to verge on revenge turned into a tale of forgiveness. It's an important narrative, it should have won.

Definitely a better deal than GTA Trilogy for sure.

This game is a joke, with a joke pricing - they should make it 100% discount and give it to us free for Xmas. Then it's really laughable.

Saints Row 4
Super Bomberman R
Torchlight 3

These 3 games are the best deal this week, only selling for a few dollars.

The title of the game is:

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword 2

I already played the PC version, it's like a board game.

Jupiter should use an AI to procedural generate the puzzles, there's no need for so many versions. Or maybe they already have an automated Picross generator in their office during the last few decades.

Why can't Nintendo use their first party games? Games like Animal Crossing or Smash Bros can be play forever, one week is a good trial period for people to get a taste.

Can I buy this clock in cartridge? I spent $350 on an OLED switch to run this clock so it can burned into the screen.

It's called Advance Wars because it first launched on the Gameboy Advance. Funny that they kept the same name, the DS one should be called Dual Screen Wars and Switch should be Switch Wars.

Newcomers to this game will be wondering, "What's so advance about these wars?"

Game industry shouldn't have award shows. It's not the film industry, there's no attractive celebrities - they have to borrow them to attend. There's no glamour in the game development, award show like this always end up cringy.

Only ARM chip should be inside a portable game console. The M1 chip that Apple put inside their iPad Pro and MacBook Air is the only contender. The M1 doesn't even need a fan, that's why it can be put in a thin design and it only uses 5W power.

I dare Ubisoft to put Assassins Creed Unity on Switch. That game turned PS4 into a jet engine.

The consoles of old like NES and SNES had 60 or 50 fps as standard. If you are in NTSC region it's 60fps, in PAL it's 50fps.

The frame rate is sync to the electricity in your region, 60hz or 50hz - just like the light bulbs. That's why you see some videos flicking like mad, when someone is filming using 60fps in PAL region where the lightbulbs are 50hz.

They had to do it that way because the Cathode-ray tube TV is like the light bulb, it refreshes according to the frequency of the electricity.

Nintendo is the initiator of new technology: the rumble pak, touch screen, dual screen, motion control, etc, and the rest of the industry follows. You can be sure that by the time these handheld gaming form factor is the norm in mainstream, Nintendo will be doing something else.

@DaniPooo Pixar will tell you that fake GI can look just as good as real ones but requires more work, however it reduced the render time by over 10x. It's not technology that makes game looks good, it's the artist's skill - most of the time it's the art direction that matters.

That's not saying latest tech is not important, for example, you don't need to manually create reflection maps when ray-tracing is available - it helps reduced development time.

If you want to be pedantic, you can say all the professional 3d renderers are fake. All of them use Quasi-Monte Carlo method to render GI, even those physical-based ones. It's technically impossible even with the fastest super computer to render real GI as it requires the calculation of trillions and trillions of bouncing photons from just one light source. The software engineers use Quasi-Monte Carlo, which is an algorithm that gives approximation results that are not accurate but are good enough. It was first used in the Manhatten Project during WW2 when the US military was building the atomic bomb. They have room full of people doing calculations with paper and pencil, which was too slow - so they used Quasi-Monte Carlo to get a quick result, it's not accurate but good enough for their purpose.

Most people aren't aware of the interesting tech history behind their 3d renderer, it's not possible without the creation of the atomic bomb. So yes, it's all fake GI - just different levels of fakery.

@DaniPooo GI is all about indirect lighting, in game's engine you don't need the precision of raytracing. Even Pixar uses fake GI, you can find interviews where they explained how they created fake GI in some of their early movies.

@BlackenedHalo Even today, the lighting in MK8 is still better than many Nintendo Switch games.

@DaniPooo Frostbite 2 that powered Battlefield 3 is the world first real time GI engine. That same year in 2011, Sega also uses a GI engine for Virtual Tennis 4 - which is why even today it still looks good. Later, Unreal added GI to their engine as well - and is THE reason why Unreal games look good.

To be fair, the GI in these game engines are all fake. Any professional 3D artist will tells you just how long it takes to render a frame using GI. These realtime GI engine can render 4K at 60fps, which is crazy.

Nintendo on the other hand did not use a GI engine, they did it all manually with MK8 - which must be have taken them a long time.

@Azuris People are brainwashed by Nvidia's marketing. It's not Raytracing that makes the game pretty, it's Global Illumination (GI). Btw, CEMU includes a lot of filters that changes the look of the game, it's not Raytracing but those filters that makes those screenshots above looks good.

Raytracing is only creating realistic reflections and specular effects - without water, glass or shiny plastic, RT makes no difference at all. GI is the real factor that makes game looks good by creating indirect lighting.

Wonder why Mariokart 8 looks so good? Nintendo painstakingly created GI manually. All the indirect lighting in the game are fake but it makes the game looks good. With real GI hardware, Nintendo can make all games look just as good without making any effort - it can speed up game development tremendously. I think maybe that's why Nintendo is saving MK9 for the next Switch with better hardware.

Even a mid range laptop can run BotW in CEMU at 60fps - that alone makes the game more fun to play.

Why can't Nintendo make an app like Sony PS app? It will be easier to browse and buy games on my iPhone/iPad than the Switch.

The Playstation app even downloads and installs the game after you purchased it on the phone, so when you come back home - it's all ready to play.

I am waiting for them to unlock HDR on the OLED Switch with updated firmware.

Who needs Switch Pro? Nintendo is still selling that 40 years old Game and Watch. Switch will last until 2060.

DS with OLED screens. Make it happen.

Who else will he be working with - besides Kojima? It must be the announcement of his next long winded game.

I will pay $10K if someone can replaced BotW's sounds and music with these.

I thought this is a David Lynch game.

Slow loading huh? Must be a Unity game.

They are smart to release a series of games right after launching Arcane on Netflix. It's going to draw a lot of new players into their LoL universe.

There are some things money just can't buy.

MS wants Nintendo because their main reason for making console was to combat Sony - that's really their sole reason, not to make money, but to compete with Sony.

Considering how many times he abducted Princess Peach, Bowser is afraid he will be next.

Btw, Diablo 2 Resurrected and Overwatch are on sales.

Smartphone is the gateway to gaming. Gaming is now mainstream because of the smartphone, it introduced non-gamers to video games and opened them to hardcore games on consoles and PC. The Pokemon Go mania from 5 years ago cemented gaming as a global activity,

Well, it got Nintendolife and other media tallking about it - free publicity for an unknown game.

@nhSnork I have no idea what you are ranting about.

If only the games are as good as the TV show...

Both Criterion racing games are on sales!

Need for speed: Hot pursuit and Burnout Paradise.

@BTB20 @nhSnork 3rd party multi-platform games are best played on other consoles, Fenyx runs at 60fps on PS4 and Xbox1. BotW is exclusive to Switch and is far more superior than Fenyx. BotW is like an iPhone and Fenyx is an iPhone-clone, then again - you have people who likes iPhone-clone even though the iPhone is better.