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@cra1g0s I don't see anywhere they said the current Primary/Secondary consoles mechanic would stop working.

So this sounds completely optional. And it's more for what it actually says: Lending a game to another console, where the game will be used without internet checking for 2 weeks, while disabling the game everywhere else.

@RupeeClock Did they say anywhere that the old Primary/Secondary account integration would stop working?

I didn't catch that, not even in the virtual card info page from their official site.

I thought this was more of an alternative way, not replacing the current existing mechanics, of making a console in your family group have a game without checking online without use for max 2 weeks in a row, while the game being unplayable everywhere else of course.

@lyle_catcliffe Metroid Prime is not everyone's cup of tea. At least not mine.

I'm more than happy with the new Tomodachi Life, even if announced so early.

@Serpenterror You say the dev was fired? Or you say the dev could be fired?

It's obvious this is because the console is new, the games are new.

Game Vouchers were introduced after two years of the Switch 1 being released.

They'll probably do the same and allow game Vouchers or release a similar offer after two years of the Switch 2 release.

This is like something pretty obvious. They want to charge full first and see how it does before giving discounts.

@rvcolem1 Erm. Nintendo rarely do this. Once Wii U launched, there were no first party title released for Wii.

Only exception would be 3DS, where several first party games still released after Switch launch. But they were still unsure of Switch's success, and they kept telling people 3DS would coexist with Switch.

Once Switch seemed a success, they stopped support for 3DS.

@Coversnail Adding to what the other user said, the Nintendo Switch had an official MSRP where I live (on release) that was the equivalent to USD$550.

So, yes, price in Japan could be chepar than USA or vice versa.

@Splash_Woman I also liked that Crafted World.

I can't believe none here will know about "Medievil : Twilight Maiden" and how it eclipsed "Zelda: Flute of Power" sales.

@Bobb It's just Sony & Nintendo vs Microsoft & Sega.

After the SNES Playstation success, which got all the Konami, Capcom and Square Soft / Enix hits; Sega merges with Microsoft and develop the competitor against the "Nintendo PlayStation 64", the "Dreambox".

Then the "Nintendo PlayCube" comes out and crushes Microsoft & Sega's dreams. Exclusives like Super Mario Sunbeams and Mario Kart: Going Commando make the console sell like hot cakes. Even Zelda: Kingdom of Liberty makes the Zelda series more popular in the west.

It's all love and money printing between Sony & Nintendo until someone at Nintendo proposes a less powerful machine, but with broader audience target. But that happened around 2009 instead of 2006.

@splinters I mean. The PS2 sold 10+ million in the last 10 years, it seems. I can't see the Switch stop selling right after the Switch 2 releases. It will outsell the PS2 even if it takes 5+ years from now.

I remember people saying in some subreddit "the switch can't run this game, it would look very bad" (using worse insults).

When there's a developer's will, there's a good port.

@IceClimbersMain Even with that second phase, they were easy. I thought that was one of your complaints for Mario bosses.

I enjoyed them, but there was no difficulty at all in Astrobot. That doesn't make Mario games harder, but still.

I'm just addressing your complaints. At times, Astrobot was fairly obvious and easier than Mario, while some other times, it was indeed harder.

@IceClimbersMain Bosses were extremely easy in Astrobot and also very formulaic. Not sure what you're trying to say when most were about as bland as Mario's.

@Max_the_German There are lots of games still releasing on PS4.

https://www.pushsquare.com/guides/new-ps4-games-release-dates-in-2025

None would release games for PS4 by now if people didn't keep purchasing them. If they can't get a game like "No rest for the wicked" to work and look fine there, they are simply and plainly bad developers.

@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).