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That would be pretty low even by Nintendo's standards to bait and switch (ha) the OLED model with a switch 'pro' so quickly within a year.

I seriously hope that they just release the switch successor in 2 or 3 years with backwards compatibility instead.

My main issue with the game was the voice acting being pretty awful, especially the main character, so amateur and disjointed. As long as I can either change the VO language or at least turn voices off it'll be grand.

Why does the main character in these games always have to be an annoying American teen who clearly can't act?

Konami should just give the IP to From Software as a curtesy to the gaming industry.

@SamirMalik "What I'm getting at is its kinda naive to think that a sexy character is suddenly ok just because the artist is a women especially when art is more about visual intuition and hand technique, driven by self expression. Art skill is a genderless concept. Even more so with sexual appreciation."

That wasn't really what I was suggesting, it was more that I am interested in why Bayonetta has always 'felt' more respectful than other female video game leads.

Also, I think the differences between Pyra and Mythra's designs are very different to Bayonetta's, as well as their characterisation. I think it's hard to argue that those two weren't designed a certain way for certain reasons. I feel that Bayonetta is more of a social comment on the sexualisation of women in games, highlighting that there's not really a problem with creating sexy characters, it more about how the character is portrayed and implemented in a story.

@chipia out of interest, have you played the games? The way Bayonetta is characterised is definitely done in a way where she's in on the joke and in control. If anything she makes fun of the player for ogling her.

For me the most important thing here isn't that the Mario move comes out next December, or that the film has some generic Hollywood actors in the cast. The most important thing is that this essentially confirms a new Mario game for 2022 holidays!

I think the fact that Bayonetta's style and appearance has always been designed by a woman partly explains why no one has had any issues with it. I don't know why, but she has always felt OK. It's a great example of how to have a sexy female character without grossly sexualising her, a very difficult thing to pull off, especially in animation and video games.

I suppose her character and attitude help a lot in this regard.

Love this game, a true classic, but man, those visuals are rough. This just makes me want to play the original.

Geee, that 3D Kirby game sure would have been a nice surprise side eyes Nintendolife

Bizarrely expensive, even buy Nintendo standards. I suppose this controller week be on sale most of the time, while the N64 one will always be sold out.

It looks amazing! The natural progression of controlling the demons similar to astral chain looks like a lot of fun. Can't wait, it's going to be glorious.

@Clarice It's not so much that a Kirby game can't be spoiled, it's more that now when it comes up and takes ten minutes in the direct I'll be like "oh here's that Kirby surprise that was ruined."

This coming from someone who couldn't care less about Kirby games.

I agree with other comments requesting that Nintendolife don't post big spoilers for directs. Especially big front page titles and images that can't be avoided. Maybe just put a Nintendo Direct image with announcement spoilers, click at your own risk.

No one seems to suggest Travis Touchdown, but I could see it happening. However, it probably would have been Waluigi is people hadn't got nasty about it.

New Mario game for Xmas please!

Most importantly, can it play doom?

I enjoyed the first game, but some of the boss fight were a bit frustrating.

My Super Mario World cartridge save battery has got them both beat at 30 years and counting.

@Deviant-Dork So the OLED is $349 after tax in the US? I thought that was was before tax, good for you guys if it's not.

@Deviant-Dork You conveniently forgetting to mention that tax is included in the EU price. It probably works out at slightly more, bit still, not as much as you're making out.

I ordered it for £26.99 after a friend tipped me off. They've taken the money too, guess that'll teach them for taking pre-order money before a game releases.

I wonder if they'll honour it or not, I don't think they have to, but it'll be a bit awkward giving me the money back.

Let's face it, Nintendo had to give virtual console a generation rest, with a sub type thing, so they can come out the heroes and sell us all those retro games again on the next system.

Oddly enough I finally started playing Fire Emblem: Shadow of the Dragon last night. I'm really enjoying it and the fact that it's a pretty hard Fire Emblem game. The only reason I got it was cause I had some gold coin credit and didn't want to miss out as a Fire Emblem fan. I was going to tell a mate to get it if he fancied a bit of old school strategy. Can't can he, as it was a limited timed release. Bloomin' rotten that is, no need for it.

Not really much of a fight. Seems to me they're all sitting in different arenas fighting the crowd.

I don't want to see anything, I just want them to release it when it's ready. It's been so long since the announcement they can't really get away with anything close to a hype period anymore. Once you go past waiting 3 years for a game any hype starts working against a game for me.

@GoshJosh well, that's a lifetime of nightmares sorted. Thanks for that.

I am so fed up with hearing Troy Baker's voice in everything. It's actually started to ruin games for me now.

No more heros 3, it's glorious!

What a way to go out! Got my copy today, it's superb. Giving this game a 6/10 just shows that sites like IGN don't understand video games. Could actually be my goty, and with Advance Wars, Returnal and Metroid Dread that's saying something... maybe not better than Returnal, but still, nice one Suda you done good.

I've ordered it and I'm saving it to visit an old buddy so we can spend a weekend getting blasted and shaking our beam katanas.

@Clyde_Radcliffe @Markiemania95 fair enough, I guess it's just not for me then.

@theabstractart pretty much. I played though one round and was baffled why they thought using a controller to do all the mini games would be fun. What's the point in a novelty game if all the novelty is gone?

I played the demo for five minutes and deleted it. Awful. Any elements that made the older versions fun have completely vanished, not sure what they were thinking with this release.

I watched the video yesterday, it's really good. He has totally wrapped them up in their own neatly buttered sh@t sandwich. It won't make a difference of course, but it's great that their reputation has got what it deserves.

It's be lying if I said that I wasn't slightly excited by the prospect of my collection being worth a fortune, but not like this... Not like this. I've been keeping an eye on the limited run release sales on eBay and some of them are already going for silly money. It's all at least very interesting, I'll give it that.

At the end of the day I collect games to have nice retirement toys to play with.

So basically, at some point in the future, on one or more platforms, a remaster of a GTA game, or more, or all of them will be released for a certain amount of money either physically or digitally or both.

None of these sales charts really mean anything anymore until digital sales are included. It's more of an indication that Nintendo games are the only main physical option anymore.

Still, it's quite and impressive feat.

The act of collecting physical games is an important hobby for me, both physically and socially. I'll be sad when it's gone, but at least we went out on a good one with the switch, hopefully what's next for Nintendo and PS4/5. I fully expect these next few generations to be the end of a life time hobby of mine, until those gens are used up anyway.

I have a copy of this, it's a great game! Don't know why the trilogy have never been re-released. It deserves to be combined and remembered.

@EliteXeos A: I never said it's the first of its kind. B: This is also on the switch.

This kind of nonsense is starting to creep into the conventional platforms and should be called out for predatory practices.

@Victor1235 Well, maybe they can donate some of that 30% to help kids who develop an unhealthy addiction at a young age through one of their closely associated IPs.

This game is gross. Nintendo should be ashamed and so should Nintendolife for writing anything about it that isn't focused on how this game preys on children and susceptible people. I expected more.

After using the snes one for the last year on any game that doesn't require sticks I had to get a spare. There's simply no d-pad that compares imo.

My online subscription ran out last month and I didn't even notice until yesterday. I won't be renewing it.

Wonder if it'll have the patches on cart. As many others did, I imported a US copy from Amazon. I wish they'd say if there's an EU version planned or not.

@Yas Schroedinger's cart haha

I think it's time for eBay to step in, at least for pre orders. It's starting to ruin the excitement of new releases.

They can't fix drift on the joy cons now, that would basically be admitting there was a fault. They're in too deep now and have to pretend that as far as they're concerned there's nothing wrong except for a 'few' cases.

To be honest, all I want now is a heads up for when they decide to stop making them so I can buy a new back up of the last best model. Six months to a year will do me, so I don't end up struggling to find a reasonably priced new one like I have with the 3DS.

@johnvboy I know, but I just think of all the time and effort wasted on this over the past few years. I wonder if the media people might learn something from this and temper things a little. I guess not so long as the clicks keep coming.

All that speculation, all those wasted words and articles. It's pretty sad really. At this point I feel Nintendo had a responsibility to come out and say they weren't going to release a Pro version of the switch. I suppose they only decided this fairly recently after the console selling so well and them having no need to split the customer base.

Meh, I was hoping for better performance on the whole, but I'm generally happy with the switch so I don't care that much really.