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Re: The FTC Doesn't Seem To Think Switch Is A Serious PlayStation & Xbox Competitor

Olrun

In some way FTC is correct. Nintendo IS a competitor in terms of sales and videogame market, that's a fact. But it's not a direct competitor in terms of products. I mean, both Microsoft and Sony are built around games focused in technical power, Nintendo discovered that was a lost war years ago and offered a different experience. Switch didn't need CoD nor most of Activision games to keep strong sales. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure if every big third party was bought Nintendo would not be affected SO bad, as they sell for their first parties. Just a quick view to the best sold switch games ranking shows this.

Re: Chocobo GP Switch eShop Page Updated With New Release Date

Olrun

@EarthboundBenjy I'm pretty sure they're throwing this into the trash and did the change so they don't care about content anymore. They can't make it public enough for the people who put their money into passes and such, so they dropped it as a ninja update.
The situation overall is pretty sad, releasing the game as it is with some dlc characters could have worked really well, or dropping the price to 30€ and doing a public message for all people who was not agree with is first state.

Re: Chocobo GP Switch eShop Page Updated With New Release Date

Olrun

As soon as I read about this yesterday I ran to buy it and found it second hand for 18€. THIS is what I wanted since the beginning, a kart game with unlockables through playing. Sad part is they did this so silently a lot of people interested in the title will miss it.

Re: Popular Switch Piracy Subreddit Promoting Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Downloads Banned

Olrun

I want to state before posting that I don't agree with most of N's ways to tackle mods/fangames and similar.
@AstroTheGamosian thing is that Nintendo games are just available in their consoles and modding them means you are dumping the game and modifying it, which can be automatically rated as piracy, and the only way this could be solved is Nintendo releasing its games for PC, which I see almost impossible right now.
I'd love myself being able to play better versions of the game in any kind of allowed way, and I'd put my feet in making fangames/mods for some Nintendo games, but sadly I can see how that could end.

Re: Poll: Will You Be Updating Your Copy Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom?

Olrun

I've not updated because I've not closed the game yet and I'm too lazy to do that.
On the other hand, have I used the glitch? Yeah I did, when I needed a mob drop to upgrade an armor and after three hours I just got a single drop and I still needed for 14 more. I'm sorry for the ones who enjoy this, but most of the days I have no spare time (aka adult with job plus other responsabilities) and grinds like that kill my gaming mood. Have I used it after that? Nope. Will I use it? I don't think so. Will I update? Yeah, at some point. I don't care that much about the glitch.
Anyway it's a single player game, so every option is valid as far as the one is playing enjoys the game.

Re: Nintendo Switch Surpasses One Billion Software Sales

Olrun

Even if the number is really big I'm not that surprised - counting digital and physical I have around 130~ games, around 90 of them in digital surely. It has become my favorite system for playing, counting that I travel quite a lot and I can play digital software without internet connection and there's a LOT of quality indies that get really nice discounts (moonlighter, enter the gungeon, blasphemous, the last campfire, ender lilies, these are some quick examples of nice games with great discounts every few weeks/months).

Surprising? Yeah. Understandable? For sure.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (May 6th)

Olrun

@dugan don't worry! Got gifted an OLED past year and I didn't know that for transfer the island I needed a special program. Cloud backup don't work for different consoles and technical support refused to activate it on my oled thinking I was going to cheat surely. After that I've not touched AC for months until now, must recognize I'm doing time travel this time at least for getting the basics.
I hope you get fun with Sakuna! Loved it back on the day when I played it.

Re: GameStop Fires Employee For Leaking Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Switch

Olrun

I'm pretty sure once you get hired in a place like GameStop you have to sign a NDA contract where you can't leak information/sell something before release date, for example. And nowadays is stupidly easy to find a leaker. I'm not a fan of Nintendo's actions but this time Mike looked for it. Was it worth your 10 minutes of glory on the internet Mike?

Re: Feature: Our Predictions For The February 2023 Nintendo Direct

Olrun

If we get to see a new silksong trailer I'll be happy. Possibilities of Zelda, Mario and Pikmin are almost 100% (if they don't do anything with Mario would be a lost opportunity). DK and Metroid still have a possibility and at this point advance wars should just drop after the direct.

Re: Video: One Month In, What Are Your Predictions For The Switch's 2023?

Olrun

Surely after TotK year will be "slow". Gotta do some bets:
-Wind Waker/Twilight Princess ports could come months later taking advantage of TotK release situation.
-Pokemon SV DLC for November, maybe a spinoff announced on pokemon day.
-Advance Wars for April/March (Kirby release on February and TotK on May, so could work for filling)
-As complementary to Advance Wars, some Mario content due to the film. Not talking about a big game, maybe a DLC or the battle royale thing back for a while.
-Pikmin 4 on July/August

For later months, maybe a Splatoon 3 DLC similar to Octoexpansion? Prime Trilogy could work as well. If Switch 2 finaly comes in 2024 they'll save some heavy stuff for its release, like Prime 4.