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With enough time everything will be hacked. The internet is slowly turning me into a luddite.

Personally am glad to be entirely done with these physical print companies.

And maybe once we're done looking at a Van Gogh we should paint over it.

@BASEDSAKRI That's the most 90's story I've ever heard!

@LikelySatan Agreed, this looks very fun and makes me feel genuinely excited to try it out.

Never understood the appeal of card games... maybe it's for the best.

When Mario RPG was first released, it cost the equivalent of around $120. Nearly two decades later, a lovely remake of it is half that and people still complain... little wonder that companies are moving ever more towards f2p and micro transactions, people can't do numbers properly and expect games to continue costing the same forever seemingly.

These leakers need to get a life... a Nintendo life.

Ok now I'm tempted to jump back into the game...

No. Nyet. Nein. Kekkodesu.

@mariomaster96 And honestly, I would rather children play Mario Kart 8 DX instead of stuff like Roblox, where they risk being exposed to inappropriate content.

Still missing the days when announcements were full of fun surprises. For a company who's mascot is a plumber, Nintendo has leaks everywhere.

I would like 120fps plz, nothing less will do.

...will be the trending criticism in 10 years or so. Not only is 30fps for TTYD, I actually prefer 30fps to 60fps in most cases, especially if it means prettier visuals.

Mark my words, there be a day in gaming when people complain about a title running at "only" 60fps.

I always thought it was a team of gaming gremlins in there making everything work. Actual reality can be so dull sometimes...

Yeah the prices for some titles these days provides a vindication for purchasing certain titles earlier on before things got a bit crazy...

Very happy to see s visual style evocative of the original Gameboy's green tones. It's a lovely style. Even despite the bugs I'll be checking this one out for sure. (:

Exclusive rubbish.

Yeah... no... for $5 this is wonderful. For the reseller rates it's going for online? Hard pass. Please don't encourage resellers. Ever.

Its almost like they're using a random videogame generator.

@Hunt3r_Cr0wl3y "TTYD can wait till it’s on sale" ...you do know that's blasphemy in the Paper Mario community right?

@Tyaku Precisely this. One of the drawbacks of any hot selling gaming machine is that people have far more garbage to sift through in order to find the good stuff. Inversely, a silver lining of sorts for less popular consoles like the Wii U is that their game libraries tend to be higher in quality.

Updates this significant definitely need an entire article write up. Maybe someday we'll get some themes... . . .

@SoIDecidedTo Hell yes, someone else that appreciates 3D. 🙂👍

Actually really loved this console after trying it out at a kiosk back in the day. When all the stores were practically giving them away for around $20 in 1996, that was the time to snag one. And for that price there was definitely some fun to be had.

At current prices though? It's a hard pass. Sadly I missed out grabbing one in 1996 at the give-away prices and ended up just never having one. Looking at the going rates, the only thought that comes to mind is "nah". Would still love one someday though.

Switch U will do just fine.

Hmmmm

I love Shovel Knight but definitely skipping on these... at this price point they're still a little lazy for reusing basic black buttons.

The problem with releasing a Switch 2 is that we just KNOW Nintendo will do a Switch 2 OLED revision down the line, so we could buy the console a second time. They know how to get our money. And it works... despite grumbling about it, I'll probably go for the bait.

'Switch 64' would make me cry tears of joy.

@IceEarthGuard If it's not dead it's certainly an empty shell of what it once was. Codes in boxes, incomplete games with day one patches, dlc, install keys on disc, partial titles in multi-collection releases, etc... if one is a physical collector it's a minefield to navigate sometimes. Can we call it undead?

Physical isn't dying, it's already dead, and stuff like this is proof of that.

@CharlieZee That is very unfortunate for you.

...anyway, so people who bought the previously released physical edition now have a coaster on their hands?

Stuff like this makes me feel relieved to not be a physical hoarder/collector anymore.

Love this thing so much I have seven of them.

This thing is just lazy.

Selling unsold stock 101: remove the back of your console, stick on one with a basic pattern, print a box and sell it as a special edition.

@JohnnyMind Just throwing out the Hylian Shield edition to demonstrate the effort Nintendo put into some of their special edition consoles... but yes, clearly those were extremely special pieces of work. I would still argue they have actually become lazier though, and not simply continuing standard practice. Consider DS era, if a console was made a certain color they would often take the effort to color most everything else as well: inside, buttons, stylus, etc. Even the early 3DS models had more effort put into their variations.

But over time they likely realized it's cheaper to just swap out the face plates, put it in a newly printed box and call it a special edition. People would buy it anyway.

@JohnnyMind The screen bevel can be decorated with a unique design. It would also be possible to install different colored buttons for further effect. All this would of course be more effort and more money... and that's the problem with a lot of Nintendo's special edition consoles--especially now but also in the past--they don't want to spend a little extra to make something truly special. Heck a lot of the later New 3DS XL SE consoles were just lazy faceplate swaps, and now the trend continues with most of the SE Switches just being a set of different colored joy-cons (which are often available separately anyway), maybe a custom dock... and a unique back, if we're lucky. But I do also get it, there is little business incentive, why put in so much effort when Switches are practically flying off shelves.

Sigh. Remember the Hylian Shield special edition of the New 2DS XL? Now that was an exquisite piece of gaming sculpture. Some of the other New 2DS XL SE consoles were pretty sweet as well, like the Japan-only Metal Slime edition. Maybe these consoles kinda spoiled my expectations.

Maybe Nintendo will do a proper special edition someday... as in, having the console front decorated in some meaningful way. So far all we've gotten are special colored joycons and maybe some design work on the back. Nothing on the front of the console to remind us that there is something special in our hands.

Let's do an entire article about a single N64 game being released...

Physical media these days means nothing to me.

Don't care about Amiibos at all, so...

Actually, one of my favorite things about the Switch is that trash is nowhere to be found on it.

Not sure what more can be done with the 2D Mario format, gameplay-wise. Visually this looks very lovely and is clearly a step up from the rather bland style of the "New" series.

The real trick to saving money is to ignore all of these sales.

I love Kirby games. <3

Nothing from these profit-at-all-costs corporations interests me. Why don't they just save the development money and give themselves another bonus.