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@SoIDecidedTo honestly it's super fun to ride and I found myself purposefully going back to the desert area just so I could ride around and collect stuff, I watch GVG on YouTube and they recently had RogersBase on to discuss MP4 and all of them agreed that the bike is an enjoyable addition to the game

@Olliemar28 hey Ollie there's a mistake in the FAQs as missile expansions are only 5 not 10. I also think it would be helpful to list the total number of each thing (250 missiles once you've collected every expansion, for instance) as I struggled to find this information when I had 99% of all the items and couldn't figure out where the last power ups were... It was very frustrating as I'd forgotten that I hadn't electrified the last scout bot so the pointers weren't appearing on my map 😅

@LazyDaisy nah Godhome DLC on the first game came out pretty quickly so I reckon this will be a quick release, it's whatever they cook up after that which will take a decade to make! 😆

@The_Nintendo_Expat no, it isn't as annoying as people made out. It was overblown, as usual, by people who have an ulterior motive of getting as much engagement as possible for their content and controversy generates more clicks than a lukewarm reaction.
I don't know if you've played this game, I'm guessing not based on your comments, but this supposedly chatty NPC basically ignores you once you're out of the starting biome and even during that first part barely talks to you unless you're showing signs of being stuck... even then it's only an occasional pointer to the next logical zone of exploration. I managed to explore the entire desert and that reminder only came two or three times, maybe I'll find more NPCs in the 4th biome but right now the prevailing online opinion of them in this game is totally misrepresenting the reality of the game.
As for the value proposition, that's highly subjective and quite frankly you cannot make that decision for others who clearly believe the game is worth $70 or more.

@MamaSymphonia well if you're going to watch someone else play the whole game then of course you're not going to want to play it yourself

@Dr_Wright the only time Nintendo shares digital numbers is during their quarterly reports, and even then it's not usually specific numbers but rather a ratio of digital vs. physical sales that you can use to find the approximate numbers from the total sales figures

@HammerGalladeBro I'm curious, what does digestion rate mean?
Edit: also can translate as 'sales rate' though I'm still unsure what that would mean and how they measure said rate 🤷🏼😅

@HammerGalladeBro thanks that's really helpful, hopefully my browser can auto-translate!

@MamaSymphonia the first paragraph of this comment seems like a bit of a contradiction, if you ask me, but you do you.
I'm telling you it feels exactly like a Metroid Prime game and you should trust me since I've been playing them for over 20 years

@MamaSymphonia I suppose that's a choice you have to make but I just thought I'd give you my opinion based on my experience of playing the game. I deliberately avoided reading full reviews or watching play throughs once all the noise started dropping on social media so I didn't taint my experience of the game and I was genuinely shocked at how different my thoughts were in comparison, it makes me feel like most of the complaints were ragebait designed to generate clicks

@Shhh it sounds like you're annoyed that a Metroid game plays... like a metroidvania? The clue is in the name my friend

@HammerGalladeBro where does the longer list get posted? I know it's not posted on nlife but is there a version I can read in English somewhere?

@MamaSymphonia honestly, the reviews totally exaggerated any "issues" Prime 4 has. I went in expecting the worst from the NPCs and was actually pleasantly surprised with the voice acting, they haven't annoyed me at all and I thought I was sensitive to annoying limpet hand-holders after I couldn't make it through Pokémon Shield's snorefest opening... perhaps the egregious reusing of Sun & Moon's animations was what got me there, but still. I also enjoy the desert area, riding the bike is just plain fun!
In conclusion, eff the reviews it's actually really good.

@westman98 not in the UK it's not, despite the retail sector continuing to attempt to bring it over. Without a cultural attachment to Thanksgiving etc there's just little enthusiasm here for tepid (at best) sales offers.
They probably meant quiet in terms of game releases anyway

@Bowsers-Inside-Story see my comment above

@antdickens the UK my Nintendo store have just today put the preorders up for all the newly announced amiibo, dunno if you want to do a "where to buy" article or something

@Madskillz19 the article about it says Switch 2 in the headline

The rage I feel towards people obnoxiously commenting "get good" on all these Silksong articles cannot be quantified, I hope you all have to suffer through uncomfortable bowel movements every day for the rest of your lives

@Dman10 I'm guessing Nintendo may not reveal the numbers for the digital upgrades but if they do it'll likely be buried within their end of year financial reports since they usually only share their digital sales numbers there, unless something is so successful it warrants a special report of course. The Switch 2 editions will likely land on their own list whenever Nintendo deems fit to report on them I guess, it's a weird situation though and they may decide to just lump them all together in an 'across Switch 1&2 systems' type total 🤷🏼

Oh *****! Instantly wishlisted, for sure

@Zeebor15 likely the ownership structure, though Nintendo owns Monolith outright they are still a subsidiary and haven't simply been absorbed into Nintendo's corporate structure. There was likely an arrangement due to the ownership structure which I believe changed last year? The directors of the company still retained some control over the company and held a small percentage of the shares until recently when Nintendo bought them out, I believe due to the directors planning to retire

It's been 8 years since Odyssey this year, surely this can't have been the only thing they've been doing in all that time?

@Michael0916 not in the UK charts, no, and I don't think for the Japanese charts either. I think digital numbers are included in the US charts that we occasionally see but not for Nintendo as there's a disclaimer stating that Nintendo doesn't share the digital sales numbers with the company that tracks them

@AmplifyMJ but don't you see that by supporting Rowling's work you have chosen to support her agenda, she doesn't care whether you agree with her or not all she sees are her royalties and that enables her to continue her crusade against the Trans community. All your posturing means nothing when faced with reality.

@Olmectron ah of course, sorry I totally didn't think your game could have been digital. I'm sorry you lost your save, Nintendo (probably TPC too tbh) are such a nightmare about stuff like this!

@AmplifyMJ what do you think "removing from public life" means? She wants to eliminate Trans people, take away any rights they have and make sure they can no longer exist. If you don't see the problem here then you're obviously being willfully ignorant in a lazy effort to troll me, Trans people have always existed and just like the gay panic of the 80s and 90s the LGBTQ+ community will defeat the vile bigotry whether you like it or not

@Olmectron I was under the impression 3DS games saved on the cartridge, so surely if your 3DS broke you could have just put the cart into a new one?

@AmplifyMJ you don't stand up for women by eliminating a vulnerable minority, if you have a problem with violence against women then look no further than cis men - it has nothing to do with Trans women. All her efforts have done is make it harder for women who don't conform to modern beauty standards to piss in peace in public.
You're showing your true colours here, you don't care about standing up for women you just want permission to hate a tiny minority

@AmplifyMJ just because you're grossly misinformed it doesn't make it nonsense, take a look at the kind of people Rowling has been teaming up with to eliminate Trans rights who has literally gone on record to state they object to gay equality and reproductive rights. This is exactly why Nintendo life won't review the game because people like you will pretend like there's no problem with Rowling's actions when she is the most dangerous person in the country right now for the LGBTQ+ community. Look at her twitter feed, look at the causes she champions, she's a hateful bigot and you're a fool to say otherwise.

@Ulysses I will never forgive Rowling for what she's done to her own legacy, I used to have a very special place in my heart for the franchise (as it's something me and my gran bonded over before she died) but now all I think about is the hatred Rowling has released into the world against the LGBTQ+ community. The fascists she has aligned herself with won't stop at Trans people, they are coming for gay rights next and reproductive health after that so no-one is safe. This is not hyperbole, the USA is already well on their way and sadly what the USA does the UK often follows suit.

@Moroboshi876 just look at the attach rate, it's the best selling game on the console but it still doesn't have a 100% attach rate so this explains why it continues to appear in the charts. Not only is it pretty essential for new players but there are millions of consoles who just never got round to buying MK8 for whatever reason, that's why it's still selling

@Ulysses the problem is that Rowling has gone on record to state that the money she earns from the Potter IP is actively put to use against the Trans community, she says, verbatim, that she believes people still spending money on Harry potter merch etc means they agree with her transphobia and want her to continue actively working against the community. Whether you agree with her or not, she believes it and her enormous wealth and platform make her extremely powerful, powerful enough that she's now set up a political pressure group using her own money (i.e. royalties from HP) to continue to work against Trans folk and "remove them from public life" whatever that means... I don't understand how anyone could possibly reconcile those actions with the selfish desire to play a game or watch a TV show

@arabiansanchez I have to be honest, I'm just not that enthused by DKB. I've never really been a huge DK fan and though I do usually buy the games they're not system sellers for me, none of the Switch 2 exclusive games are making me desperate to buy the console and I'm so uninterested in frame rate bumps that I'm struggling to care about the S2 "upgrades" when I can (and have) played those games to death on my OLED.
I'm also very much not made of money so the way Nintendo has used their old games to bolster the launch lineup just isn't for me, I need an essential AAA title from Nintendo to really grab me and unfortunately at the moment that title doesn't appear to exist. I'm sure it will come soon enough, but I have a feeling I will be waiting til the end of the year at least before I bite.

@Thomystic that's probably a home console chart

@Duncanballs do we know that's definitely the case in the UK? I'm sure I've read each country has different tracking systems and I was under the impression sales on the UK my Nintendo store did count towards our charts... maybe @Olliemar28 or @AlanaHagues could shed some light on it for us?

@arabiansanchez I was a bit young for the NES but I lost many an hour on the family SNES, I totally agree about the N64 and then my beloved GameCube... it was hard being a Nintendo fan back then, I guess it didn't help that Sony had two majorly successful consoles in a row while Nintendo was failing to capture people's attention but the games from those years count as some of my favourites! Here's hoping Nintendo have got some decent games in the pipeline so the success of launch can continue 😁

@arabiansanchez definitely, it's just gonna take a while to build the market up. The Switch did massive heavy lifting but Nintendo have to continue doing what they're doing if they want to compete with PlayStation here, and to a lesser extent Xbox for which the UK is pretty much its only well performing market 😆
Nintendo used to ignore the UK for the most part, we only got their consoles by the good fortune of sharing a language with America. I suppose as Nintendo has slowly let itself become a more global corporation we've benefited from their increased investment but let me tell you those early days as a Nintendo fan in the UK were ROUGH 😂

@arabiansanchez oh no you misunderstand me, there was an article about how it's the biggest Nintendo launch ever (which is great!) I'm just lamenting the fact that even being the biggest Nintendo launch here it couldn't pass the most recent Xbox or PlayStation launch numbers. I think @Cakefish has the answer though, I haven't been able to afford one yet and neither have the other Nintendo gamers in my life so anecdotally at least I think this is the reason why

It's a shame the UK is seemingly the only region the Switch 2 couldn't conquer but this is excellent news

@Galaxy2IsTheGOAT they can't do that, the reason they're currently saying "over 160 million units" is because it's on record that they manufactured just over 160 million and if they were to claim they made 161 million it would be an outright lie. There's apparently some documentary evidence where they inscribed the internal casing of the final machine with the production number but I've never seen it, it's only what others have said on comment sections so take that as you will.
The only way I could see them increasing the numbers is if they decided to make a mini classic console and add those sales numbers to the total, but I'm not sure they have any appetite to do that

@Varkster ah gotcha, yeah it's easy to forget how easily comments can be misinterpreted online when they're devoid of tone etc. No harm done!
I think when it comes to the UK in general we're deep into an unrelenting cost of living crisis and our change of government last July has done less than nothing to help alleviate the feeling of our country circling the drain, I know that sounds dramatic but I don't know anyone who feels like they're doing well and several friends are in desperate situations so expensive new gaming hardware just isn't in our budgets at the moment. Doesn't help that Nintendo seem to be relying on upgrading old games to bolster the lineup rather than releasing new titles, it feels like there's very little new to play that would make the console an essential purchase and as I say I only play on Nintendo hardware... Course this could all change at the drop of a hat if Nintendo would let a few announcements drop instead of being tighter than the nun's proverbial! 😂

@Varkster I'm not coming with an agenda simply the reality of the region in which I live and the way statistics can be twisted to produce a sensationalised headline that doesn't quite tell the truth, I haven't read the latest article (I was supposed to be trying to sleep but insomnia wins again tonight considering it's 5am and I still haven't) but I will catch up later. My main point was simply that the UK is not Nintendo's strongest market when a supply constrained ps5 managed to beat the Switch 2 launch numbers, I'm not just being a downer. I only own Nintendo consoles 😅

@Gohanjin I don't remember this but it's been a long time since I finished the single player campaign, I'll have to go back and check. Oh thinking about it actually it's the stage that appears near the start isn't it, yes I've done that but I don't remember it being terribly difficult. Not like the final secret levels in Mario games anyway, that one in 3D World was horrific!

@Varkster @tsim21 just a bone of contention, despite this being Nintendo's best console release in the UK it was still lower than both Sony and Microsoft's most recent console launches. Nintendo has always struggled here, I expect the numbers next week to go back to usual as the launch sales die down

@Athropos it's download only in the West I think

@Gohanjin secret stage? Please explain

Mods need to sort this comment section out pronto

@saiyantrunks79 she is not a guy

@Elitepatriot SHE

@EarthboundBenjy yes I would have considered buying a Chun-Li amiibo for £24.99 but absolutely not any of these no name characters, who thought this was a good idea?!