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@Max_the_German While there are still lots of games releasing on PS4, even this year, we can just assume some devs just want to release on the newer gen, which is PS5.

I looked at gameplays and trailers of the game, and there's nothing I think couldn't run on PS4.

@Member_the_game Okie dokie, have a nice day.

@Member_the_game I don't care if you attack Nintendo, they aren't a family member.

I was just guessing what I believe is the reason for them to release DX versions (make more money because most Wii U games there didn't have a large user base to begin with in order to being successful in sales).

@Member_the_game While it's obvious they re-released the Wii U games because they are a company and must make money, the Wii U sold 13 million consoles. While the Switch already sold around 146 million consoles.

They didn't sell us "again", they re-released and sold games that a lot of people didn't actually play when they were released on the failed console not many bought.

Even if many of those 146 million consoles are double dips and everyone bought 2 Switch consoles, that's still 73 million vs only 13 million.

I, for one, have not bought any DX game that I had already played on Wii U. But I'm glad lots of people got to play Mario 3D World, Pokken and soon Xenoblade Chronicles X (among many other ports) for the first time.

@Member_the_game Before the Wii U -> Switch generation change, everything was pretty much retro-compatible for Nintendo when they started with disks.

GameCube -> Wii -> Wii U

If the Wii U hadn't flopped, I'm pretty sure the following console would have still been retro-compatible, even if only with digital titles.

@Altaria_97 Retro Studios is a first party developer, that is, a subsidiary of Nintendo. It's like they basically are part of Nintendo as a whole.

Any logo you see in any game after the credits that says "Nintendo", they are included in there.

Also, I know I wouldn't want my name in a half assed port of a game I worked on in the past.

Kirby: Planet Robobot on steroids, with a bit of SteamWorld Dig.

@Keman PS4 was old and Sony was already marketing PS5. Of course they said "Old PS4 can't run that"

PS4 could run it if they actually cared about it. It's not a very heavy game when it comes to talk about how many characters or things are happening on screen.

@kkslider5552000 Imagine you are a 6 year old kid in 2020 and you get to play classic games like Super Mario Bros. 3 or Zelda ALttP in your Switch subscription app your parents pay for you.

Ten years later, in 2030, you want to play those games again on your Switch, just like you did when you were just a kid. And, oh, surprise, the Switch online services are long gone because the newly announced Switch 3 won't be backwards compatible because of specs shenanigans, and they will redo the whole monthly retro releases thing from scratch.

What will you do then if you really want to play those games again?

What will be of your Zelda ALttP save data you made while playing with your dad, looking together for the heart pieces, who already passed away because of a sudden illness? Better forget it.

@SurprisedRobinChu The thing is, it isn't a problem for them.

@VoidofLight Even if that description in Steam could seem ChatGPT, it's as nonsencial of other things human beings actually write.

You can't just start saying humans are perfect and write 100% coherent descriptions all the time just for the sake of saying "that's AI" on something you don't like.

But yeah, the cat designs look like AI. Description is just a lazy human writing.

@MrCarlos46 Yes. There's lot of people commenting everywhere about how they think the Switch 2 will come with European SNES-like colored buttons.

Because of recent releases mostly, like the Paper Mario remake, and Mario & Luigi. Although Mario & Luigi has always had that button color pattern. Not sure if there are other recent games that do the button colors.

@Pastellioli We're back to Game Boy era. Every Game Boy before the Advance looked pretty much the same, just with different sizes and colors.

Original Game Boy. Game Boy Pocket. Game Boy Light. Even the "succesor", the Game Boy Color, looked pretty much the same.

So, it's not farfetched to say this could very well be the real deal. Larger console, possibly with default multi-colored buttons on the joycons and improved inner specs. After all, it's their most recent successful console, so... Don't fix what isn't broken.

@Vyacheslav333 I got lots of characters in Fire Emblem Heroes since it launched in 2017.

I've paid zero. Nothing. Nada. So far.

I don't understand how someone could pay 60+ dollars for what's actually free in game if you just wait.

@Anti-Matter I hated FFX story. It's full of facepalm moments.

@Rozetta They asked for a price? Like actually knowing the price of the console? Or what?

@-wc-

If they deserve credit for their masterpieces, everyone deserve credit for what they do, no mater how "small" you see their jobs when compared to supposed "art".

We need the name of the harvesters in every apple, every tomato and every fruit out there.

Each book, aside from the author, needs to also include the people who operated the printing machines.

We all deserve credit.

@greengecko007 I make apps as a developer. I've never been credited nor do I care about being credited. I'm paid for it and that's it.

But I'm a none that isn't famous or anything so I can't complain. I don't want to complain, anyway.

What is laughable is that someone is "entitled" to be given credit because of the industry they work on or because they are famous. But some others aren't because working on a different industry or because they aren't known.

When someone whines about not being given credit but it's already a very famous individual, it sounds to me like "Look at me! I'm already famous enough and get lots of money, but I still need to remember all of you how I did that thing, or how I did 40% of the thing you like so much to watch/listen/read, and I don't care if little Jimmy helped me in the other 60% but I won't comment on that"

Anyway. Whatever.

@greengecko007 ...only if they weren't paid and worked for free. Otherwise, they are just "laboring and producing valuable goods" just like any other worker from any other industry.

If they made those arrangements for free, that's art. Pure art. But they didn't. They were paid by someone else (a company in this case) for making something. That's their job.

Also, if you start getting into the very fine details. What if 15 persons worked on composing an arrangement for one song? Would they need to also explicitly state what exactly each of them made/thought of?

It's just stupid waiting for getting credit for working, like you're entitled to it even after you were already paid for it.

Rage of Dragons Neo looks suspiciously similar to Blades & Battles. Hmm...

@RupeeClock Some people are already playing that game without issues in both Yuzu and Ryujinx. It had random crashes, but most problems were resolved when disabling automatic updates and tweaking some options.

@GrailUK they already shared their stance on AI. They aren't getting near that anytime soon.

@rjejr You 10 years ago:

"I can just imagine all the Ntinedo employess looking over the cloud data saying - oh look, rjejr is gettin' some tonight"

@Brianst0rm He was given a loss, not disqualified.

Also, this isn't EA or Ubisoft you're talking about. And while of course there could exist problems, it's not as wrong as a company as those and others.

Its MSRP is the equivalent of USD$453, where I live.

WTH Lego?

@progx If they had released the Switch Lite with HDMI support, I would have bought that. Sadly, they didn't.

Mexico. I was a cashier when it launched. I earned the equivalent of USD$260 monthly. 48 hours of work per week. The console was USD$550.

I got my V1 Switch at the equivalent of USD$550 (that was its MSRP on launch where I live). It costed me around 500 hours of work to gather the money.

First world problems.

@blindsquirrel This can be done on a real console with a real legit Super Mario Wonder cartridge.

Modded firmware, of course.

Everyone likes to forget about Spirit Tracks. Only one comment about It before me.

I thought they were still deleting their game from digital stores.

I don't see where it was restocked in Mexico.

@Purgatorium I see what you did there.

I hate acronyms, anyway. It's a stupid and cheap way to talk or write anywhere.

This was a highlight of the Direct. I actually loved to see this with so much improvement in both graphics and gameplay (softer controls from how it looks).

@krisrk1 Hangovers as in "a severe headache or other after effects caused by drinking an excess of alcohol"?

I'm impressed if that's the case. It's at least not a real life issue for me.

@progx I sincerely don't care what companies said about other companies.

I genuinely googled for "games console" definition, and that was the first one I got.

I couldn't care less about what a company calls anoter company's product.

It was just interesting to find such definition and post it back here.

@progx Some people, like me, have the Switch ALWAYS on the dock. And ONLY use it on the dock.

It's console for me, then?

Also, Oxford dictionary definitions says this about a games console:

"a small electronic device for playing video games"

And the Switch is actually the only console that can actually be called "a small electronic". So, the PS5 and Xbox Series S/X are not consoles by this meaning.

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/games-console

@Robby2021 It can be cracked. Also, play offline always anyway, since most games usually don't work online if pirated on PC.

Piracy after buying the game once has just become a way to support developers.

I wish they also added the Zelda picross even if later.

@RupeeClock Even a NDS-GBA situation would be great. Allow past generation games to work even if they only release new games for the new generation

@Zequio I'm old. I played Super Mario World on the SNES when it was released.

I never knew about any Mario cartoon until people here made it sound and clear in the comments about the Super Mario Bros. movie commercial-like trailer where they sing something based on show's song in a yellow van.

I played all main Mario games and their remakes on NES, SNES, N64, GCN, GB, GBC, GBA, Wii, NDS, Wii U, 3DS, Switch. And never knew about the cartoons or even the japanese magazines at all.

Mario is Martinet for me.

Wasn't this announced some months ago? What's new?

@Not_Soos PlayStation Battle Royale would make a great community service if it simply never existed.

@Dollarydude 60 AUD is 39 USD. And 70 AUD is 46 USD.

@Arkay Exactly. Just like it's pointless for Nintendo to re-release games in their current console, if they don't add anything new.

It would be great for an actual gaming console and not a DVD player to be the best-sold system.

@Princess_Lilly He is the director.

Different to other directors, mostly from western studios, he has lots of input in design and programming, even if he isn't actually programming.

He isn't simply a money guy telling everyone what to do, he GETS involved in the games.

Of course every game is a collective effort. But the reason Ultimate, Smash 4 and Brawl doesn't have frame rate issues is thanks to him, and the team of programmers, and the families of the team of programmers, and the textures designers, and the families of the texture designers. And etc, of course.

But look at Game Freak games. Of course they need to get an agenda to go with anime and merchandising, but a different direction would make wonders. Their programmers and designers are not bad in their jobs, they just lack time and a better direction. And no, I don't talk about crunching, just someone actually caring about the games as passion projects, and not only money makers.

Sakurai's crunching has been of himself testing and re-thinking design/changes to gameplay/features after testing. The teams working at smash bros games hasn't been subject to this, as far as we know. He took the extra time himself to think of ways to improve what was already not bad.

I've read basically all of Iwata asks for my comments. And basically every translated interview he has been in.