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Poor Mii Gunner, barely gets a look-in in the mural now

Ring Fit Adventure, a £70 (don't know yen cost) niche fitness game with supply issues was the tenth best selling game of the year. Incredible stuff.

@Kalmaro I believe it's an issue with the rights to the soundtrack getting in the way of re-releases. Michael Jackson's estate is meant to own them I understand.

I may have got this completely wrong however.

On a separate note how depressing is it to see the phrase "For those too young to remember" not applying to oneself?

I have hayfever.

That is all.

Just counted and I reckon I've got 65 of them, but I can't be sure. Is it just me who tells his wife that they only cost a fiver each?

@Agramonte You gave it away? Fair play to you, that little fella is adorable and I could not part with him. I'm sure Dark Samus will be great, each new wave of Amiibo just gets better and more detailed. The squishy Metroid may be my favourite one so far.

26 of the top 30? That's insane! The numbers are huge too. Ring Fit was tenth with 30,000 sales, that would be enough for top three most weeks. Incredible.

It was a superb event this year, really enjoyed it. I urge everyone to check out the Link to the Past randomiser run on crowd control, it was hilarious. And don't worry if you didn't understand a word of that - like all runs it's really accessible and well explained throughout so give it a go and watch some of the vods.

Edit: For some reason there are hardly any runs uploaded to Youtube yet but if you head on here you can watch all the runs on Twitch: https://gdqvods.com/event/agdq-2020

@dux Yeah I had problems in the past, that's why I stopped using them. Thought it was just me. Good prices but not the most helpful website.

It's the Nintendo equivalent of Sports Direct or the DFS sale. Apparently there is one mythical Switch somewhere in the midlands where you can purchase these games for full price.

For my fellow Brits can I point out that ShopTo have the expansion pass up for preorder at less than 22 quid!

@Fandabidozi Agree completely. NintendoLife comments are definitely better than most though, but not immune of course.

I would much prefer NintendoLife to start their own podcast rather than commenting on others. Seriously - you guys should do one.

Surely Peer is just commenting on existing rumours? Plus I reckon he rates Wonderful 101 higher than a six out of ten

No matter what people's complaints are about Sword and Shield can we all agree at least that the trainer design has been amazing? Klara is my new favourite for sure.

There is no obligation for Nintendo to put up any prize money at all. Epic don't do it out of the goodness of their hearts, they need esports as a way of promoting Fortnite to keep people playing. It's just another form of advertising. Nintendo don't earn any extra money by people continuing to play Smash so it would be money down a drain, it's not a game as a service and it doesn't have microtransactions like other esports games.

@AlexOlney You have a degree in horrifying android face manipulation? Niche.

Alternatively, if you're not interested in plastic tat then head on over to Base and preorder there for under 40 quid.

I'm actually hoping there are no decent preorder bonuses or collector's ed. Reason being that whilst I am normally a physical only guy if there was one game that I would get digitally it's Animal Crossing. So I'm planning on using those great value Nintendo Online vouchers unless an awesome special edition swings me back the other way.

Smart, getting the Pokemon stuff out the way early to leave plenty of space in the real Direct.....Maybe? Please?

I don't love Fortnite but I certainly don't hate it. As I understand it it is genuinely free to play, without play-to-win mechanics and without progress locked behind pay gates. There are far grubbier games out there.

Also, am I the only one who literally has no idea what the majority of those games in the top ten list actually are?

To be fair there a few games that are permanently 80% off but in general the sales here in the UK have generally been great. In fact they are probably too good as I almost never buy an eShop game at full price anymore as they get discounted so quickly.

@khululy Damn, you're right. Why did I get those confused then? Just googled them and turns out they now do Lego games.

Thanks for the correction, post has been amended.

@Cissero Thanks for the tip, I was considering giving that one a go.

Yooka Laylee is on offer for the first time too so time to take the plunge on that one. There's also a massive discount for the Telltale batman series so might be tempted to check that out having never played a Telltale game before.

@hogo_ @darkswabber You're all wrong I'm afraid as you did not answer in the form of a question. Jeopardy is a weird show. I'm surprised it's still going to be honest.

It was only a matter of time until an all Switch top ten. What's especially impressive is that eight of the titles are Switch exclusive too. Special mention to Ring Fit Adventure which is putting up crazy good numbers.

This was an exceptional presentation, so much great stuff! Really psyched for Sports Story and I thought SuperMash looked amazing. My only disappointment was how far all the release dates seemed - until I realised 2020 is now just three weeks away!

@HimeGyaru You're right of course, I'm just being selfish. Would be interesting to see them given a Nintendo licence though. 2D Metroid perhaps?

@PickledKong64 All these expansions were stretch goals from the original Kickstarter that funded Shovel Knight all those years ago. If I have it right this is the final commitment they had left to their backers (not that Kickstarter is legally binding of course). Will be interesting to see what they come up with next, after Shovel Knight Dig of course (I forget the exact title).

That's a nice little early Christmas present. Always some good stuff in these.

Yoku's Island 2 please.

More importantly Yacht Club are now finally free from their Kickstarter prison! Sign 'em up Nintendo.

All I know about these games is that they make for rubbish screenshots for your review articles. Anyone else out there just see black?

Was searching for a review on this just yesterday as the trailer popped up on my Switch feed and I thought it looked great - although I couldn't figure out what on earth was going on. Seems a fair price too so length not much of an issue for me.

'Kingdom Hearts χ' says hi.

As does 'Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days'

As does 'Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep -A fragmentary passage-'

As does 'Kingdom Hearts ...' etc etc - you get the idea.

@Kalmaro To be fair it gets a little more realistic near the end:

"Commercially, it’s a disaster. I can’t discuss exact numbers, but in the first few weeks fewer people bought the game than I have Twitter followers, and I don’t have a lot of Twitter followers (and this tells you a lot about how effective marketing via Twitter is).
So far, I have made $0 from the game. "

@Kalmaro I remembered reading an interesting article on this somewhere a year or two back from the developer talking about how the game flopped:

https://medium.com/@johnnemann/where-the-water-tastes-like-wine-postmortem-211a1f9d791a

Wow, I've never seen this before. Really like that console design, very sleek. It's not a million miles from the Xbox One actually.

Not much to write home about for us UK based folks although that Very Switch bundle is pretty sweet.

We know Metroid Prime 4 is coming, Metroid Trilogy makes total sense and a new/remake 2D Metroid would not surprise anybody. Not so much a "leak" as a pretty obvious thing to guess.

Still hope it's all true mind.

Are these tsum tsum thingys popular? I have seen them in shops and to me they look like a Disney character crossed with a cockroach.

Don't know where to begin! Doom is half price, so is Castlevania collection and all of the Sega Ages range. Ni No Kuni has only just come out and is already a third off. My backlog was bad before but now it's simply ridiculous!

@BarefootBowser I did a test online and I think my Internet speeds were something like 40mbps download, 10mbps upload (if that makes sense, I am not tech savvy). So maybe that's better than a lot of people.

Still I'm old enough to remember when multiplayer meant having to manually plug both controllers into the console (or in some cases the cartridges themselves), so any kind of online play at all is still a novelty to me.

@BarefootBowser Works perfectly for me. Only issue I had was Smash Online but that was caused by other people's dodgy internet. Mario Kart, Mario Maker, Tetris 99 all work perfectly.

The annual service costs like £1.50 a month or something (I essentially got a year's worth for £10 with Mario Maker 2 bundle), so what the hell are people complaining about? Tetris 99 is quite literally worth the price of admission by itself, not to mention all the NES and SNES games that could easily have been sold for a fiver each. Imagine if all the games you get for free with Online were released on a cartridge for £30, people would say what an incredible bargain that is and yet when they charge a measly 15 quid a year for them people complain! Not to mention the online works perfectly for me - no slowdown or dropouts at all. Servers need maintaining and it's hard to imagine how they could possibly do it for cheaper.

Congratulations to Game Freak. I'm glad the game is doing well after all the nonsense in the build up. Perhaps now we can finally have some positivity?

@Krull I can certainly recommend Yoku to you. That game is a joy from start to finish.

Surprising that Nintendo Life is actually one of the more lukewarm reviews. Polygon and Kotaku are glowing and the IGN reviewer, who is a massive Pokemon fangirl, called these the best she's ever played.

Now is there any danger at all that the moaners might actually just play the game and enjoy it instead of whining all the time?

Good Lord the entitlement of some people is ridiculous. When you pay your £50 the only thing you are entitled to is a functioning game. I have no doubts this game will be great fun absolutely regardless of which specific made up monsters are in it. If you have bought a Pokemon game before then guess what, Game Freak owe you nothing!

In hindsight they would have been better doing a hard reset with 150 brand new pokemon and absolutely no old ones. They would have been fully justified too.

Lied to? Are you really arguing that the model of this yellow mouse is more similar to the model of a previous yellow mouse than they said it would be? Really? How different could they possibly be! Who cares? Pathetic.

@PickledKong64 Lack of Pokemon? The game will have around 150 like they always do, including loads of new ones! The lack of a National Dex is only an issue for people who have played every instalment and like to transfer over from game to game. It is a complete non-issue for people who are new and want to start playing from Sword and Shield.

@Chunkboi79 That's the problem, I'm a Mega Drive man myself.

Still not perfect - legs a little long? But certainly miles better than before.

Now to start a campaign to get Jim Carrey's Robotnik a lot more egg-shaped.

I keep getting adverts on this site for a site called Techno Drone UK who have Pokemon Sword listed for £33.42 inc delivery which sounds far too good to possibly be true. Can anyone here vouch for them?

From now on I am adopting the Luigi calendar. I am looking forward to Christmas on Super Luigi Month Day 85 and of course my birthday on Super Luigi Month Day 362.