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@MirrorFate2 Not being included doesn't make them not canon. They've just covered the key parts mainly and will probably add to it when they decide on more placements. Advance 1 isn't included, but Advance 2 and 3 are - Advance 1 obviously wouldn't be non canon, but there's nothing noteworthy about it's story so it wasn't a priority to put in for now. Sonic Rivals isn't included because those games were never released in Japan and this is a Japanese website, so there's that. Storybook games take place in pocket dimensions and could be placed kind of anywhere (though Secret Rings needs to be before Generations of course).

I'm pretty sure the only truly non-canon material of note is Sonic Chronicles, Sonic Boom, Archie/Fleetway comics and all of the TV shows before Prime. The movies are clearly their own canon also.

@Tetsuro I think the implication is that because they're targeting lower internal resoluations, texture quality will be lower thus decreasing storage size, but then if you're upscaling to a higher resolution you might want those assets?

@Jhena Brothership probably uses FSR1 for it's upscaling, which barely counts as AI based upscaling like in DLSS or FSR3 and 4. It's just a basic spacial upscaler, hence why it doesn't look that good compared to the actual AI upscaling tech, but it's the only type the original Switch could use.

@Jiggies Inflation was a lot lower in 2017

@Toastmaster For me wired hasn't been much better, if at all in terms of speed compared to wireless.

I hope they fix the music restarting after every battle

@N00BiSH The Shadow Gens version of Sonic Generations runs good on PC out of the gate.

@OctolingKing13 I'm guessing there's licensing. The boxart has a photo of an actual player.

All-Stars Transformed x Sonic Riders with monster trucks and a bit of Rift Apart. Could go hard.

MK11 being in the charts with MK1 being nowhere in sight is a bit damning.

I see that Hot Wheels Monster Truck only has 10% of it's sales on Switch. You'd expect more for that type of game. Big sale on PS5 only?

@Sonicka Those screenshots do seem to point to that portalling to different tracks concept too. One of them had one of those big rings at the end, and the on screen map didn't show any kind of loop.

"499 Canadian dollars converts to around 350 USD / 280 GBP at the time of writing"
I'm guessing that's VAT excluded. If so, it would cost around £336, but that's an odd price so I could see it being rounded up and selling for £350, which is still an acceptable price if true.

My expectation would be around £400 actually, so I'd be surprised if this listing was true.

@domatron66 Stop making sense!

@Vil They rounded down if anything.

@Max_the_German Yeah this is merely a fanboy talking point, and the projection seeps into their reading of Sony's updated PS2 numbers. Their previously reported figure was from a year before manufacturing ceased, so it was obviously more than 155 million.

There's a photo verified by Shawn Layden of the final PS2 ever produced which lists the total number of consoles as 160,636,685 - meaning the idea that many here have of Sony "moving the goalposts" is mere fantasy.

@LXP8 how is a more accurate reporting cowardly?

REMEMBER THAT ONE?????

@Yoshi3 A Nintendo developed Banjo kind of goes against Xbox's current philosophy of putting their games everywhere. No way in hell that Nintendo would agree to developing a game for all platforms.

@dojmin Switch version appears to include the first three Season Passes based on the roster of 28 fighters. Base game had 15, the passes add 13 more. There is also a fourth Season Pass, which will remain as DLC for this version, it only came out last August and is still rolling out the content (Only 1 of 4 characters released) which is probably why it isn't part of the package.

@PinderSchloss It will be a new Mario Kart game. Just lime how the Switch 1 reveal trailers games were just "experiences" and supposedly didn't represent actual games coming to the system (they all were real games that released year 1).

When they revealed the movie design Miyamoto said this was going to be his main design going forward so this isn't surprising - it's also basically going back to the pre-DKC design. Why he looks the same in DKC Returns HD? It's a port of an old game. The park is another matter, but there's nothing to stop them from changing the costumes, etc.

@nomither6 They totally can. Other RenderWare games have had remasters in different engines. The issue is overblown (and Heroes would probably be more of a remake anyway).

There should be a separated "original credits" in the options really.

I'm not too bothered about it since MobyGames has so many credits you can look up.

@OorWullie I think GTA VI is unlikely, but also more likely than people realise. That game will be designed around the fast loading and RT capabilities of the PS5 and Series X/S, which the Switch 2 will also have access to, unlike the PS4 and Xbox One. So even if the raw specs are around PS4 to PS4 Pro level, the load times and ray tracing could make it feasible with some heavy DLSS use.

The Xbox mandate is all Series X games must run on Series S after all, so Switch 2 won't be that crazy of a leap.

Where is Panzer Dragoon Zwei?

@BenAV @garfreek And with the recent leak of the motherboard, it has cooled down the expectations of some people who wanted it to be more powerful than it is.

@marck13 Genki never agreed to keep any secrets.

@Justaguest @BTB20 It's an inside joke from the Switch 2 subreddit I believe. I don't know why.

UK Happy Meal toys are dire these days. Just some cardboard guff or a cheap plush. These Sonic balls are particularly terrible.

@BTB20 Wii U comparisons are just concern trolling at this point. Everyone has forgotten why that console failed so they can't even compare it to the Switch 2.

@Keman Not remotely a Wii U situation. The 2 in the console's apparent name will tell consumers all they need to know what this is. Never been a problem for all of the other products with a bigger number in their name. Most iPhones and Samsung Galaxies look 98% the same as their predecessors, nobody is confused by this and they always sell in the millions. Nobody was confused by the PlayStation 2.

Wii U failed due to bad marketing, and frankly, a bad concept. Customers aren't as stupid as you think.

@VoidofLight agreed 100%

@StewdaMegaManNerd The countdown was for a Xenoblade trailer. Misconstrued as Switch 2 news.

One of the best things about Doctre's videos is the silly intro music.

What it do bruh?
Talk of the town
Nintendo, Doctre
still holding it down

Have a seat

Doesn't even seem to have a European release date yet. Nothing on the eShop. What is this the 2000s?

Just noticed how tiny Crash's arms are in the US cover.

@shgamer Steam Deck needs a bit more RAM because it's a PC, playing PC versions of games that often require 16GBs now because of the operating system overhead of Windows (Yes Deck is Linux but it plays Windows software). 12GBs for the Switch 2 will do fine.

@MagicEmperor Bizzare how everyone reporting on that comment missed the joke, as if he isn't a comic actor. It's the most obvious joking response when being asked why you took a job.

@omalleycat215 Agreed. There was some sense to it in covid times, but it's self sabotage for most films now.

30 days seems to be the standard now, even the billion dollar Mario movie was released on digital after a month.

@Haruki_NLI Interesting point about Endless Possibility because it does still appear in Sonic X Shadow Generations. They removed the Sonic Rush song, but not that one.

@larryisaman @smithyo Precisely. It's also worth noting that he doesn't use that persona on his instagram, I've had no problem commenting on his posts and not being blocked for it. It's just a Twitter thing and it's not that serious, hence the Kickstarter reward for getting blocked by him. The people here calling him an a-hole and abusive are deeping it.

@tho_mi It might be he's no longer needed if they have been working on Astral Chain 2 all this time?

@Dee123 well their classic game service is doing a better job at the moment, you can buy the games ala carte if you don't want to sub. And while the selection is smaller now, they're adding them more consistently than Nintendo has been. I think it's fair to care about that and want to ability to buy the games too.

We need Triple Deluxe first

@mikegamer It'll be back in like a week or two

@mikegamer I don't think it's remotely stupid.

Ecchi Oppai being the title of a game you can buy on Nintendo Eshop is crazy. The title literally means Lewd Tits.

@Lizuka Yeah they need to get on with all of those other games. Dragon Quest Builders is too expensive compared to the other versions which are regularly on sale for much cheaper.

@mikegamer Because they want to have the publishing rights for their own game and not Nintendo. Gives them more control (and more money for every sale). Part of their strategy of focusing on multiplat development.

@BlaizeV Shenmue 3 is one case where worse graphics could actually be an improvement. Lean into the Y2K aesthetic resurgence that people are into again.