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@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?!

The only bug I've noticed is the tips you "overhear" not displaying in the bottom left corner, especially annoying when they're gold and the only text that pops up tells you what kind of info category the tip falls within

@Yoshi3 just saw an article on game informer (I think) that reported on the US sales number for March, apparently XCXDE was the biggest Switch seller for that month and even knocked Mario Kart off the top spot! I'm sure nlife will be covering the news soon

@Spider-Kev correct, however most of them don't play nicely with the reader on the joycon unless you at least remove the paper information leaflet underneath. I had to unbox most of my Zelda series amiibo because they just refused to read the figure through the box, I'd end up clicking the stick down so the amiibo thingie in game would go away... it was most infuriating

@SplatRay001 I also seem to have that affliction, it doesn't help that most of the time my preferred option is Frye's team and she just cannot catch a break. I had loads of mirror matches yesterday which I really don't think helps as it seems to encourage purposeful disconnections, I find it hard enough to be enthused about tricolour matches as it is but when you only fight your own team it really brings my morale down.

Oh yes I'll be getting these! Miiiight even buy 2 of each to keep a set sealed in the box and avoid having to finagle a secret trapdoor exit for them 🤣

You know it's a quiet week when Smash and Pokémon can chart with such low numbers. Disappointed for Xenoblade, hope it's doing better in the US

@JimNorman maybe whoever's doing the numbers for today could include last week's in a little double feature? Only if it's not too much trouble 😜😘

Hey @JimNorman did last week's Japanese charts get lost in the crush or were the numbers not available? I'm curious how Xenoblade Chronicles X has been doing there!

Definitely seems like the general consensus online is that Nintendo have fumbled this release, you don't hide pricing decisions accidentally and consumers aren't stupid. We know what's up. If the shine of last week's direct was ruined for ME then I dread to think how less Nintendo-committed gamers are feeling, there simply weren't enough first party games announced to obscure the glaring price omissions and I fear Nintendo are going to have to learn a tough lesson once more.

@JimNorman edit: just seen it's already in the article about the upgrade games

@YunoboCo OMG THEY LOOK SO COOL! I missed this announcement so thanks for sharing 😁

@SuperBro64 I don't know enough to answer the first part particularly accurately but it's likely down the Japanese economy and the historically weak yen in the current global market where aggressive nations seem intent on starting trade wars, if Nintendo only sold one version across all markets and kept the price equivalent it would mean Japanese customers would effectively be paying more for the same product

@JimNorman think you forgot to change the poll, it looks like it's still the one from the direct last week as I wasn't able to vote and it says March direct...

@dew12333 it's just years of paying attention to the UK charts and knowing that Xenoblade games never set them on fire over here, obviously we can't know for sure if it's been a success (I would be surprised if it didn't sell more than the roughly 800,000 units of the Wii U version but we'll have to wait on that) until Nintendo releases its sales numbers. The UK has particular tastes and historically speaking it has been a weaker market for Nintendo, yes you can say that about any country but in most of Nintendo's other major markets they do much better proportionately than they do here. We're not even the biggest market in Europe 😆

I cannot believe they saved this for last

@AlanaHagues useful guide, thank you! Just fyi there's some missing text just before the "on this page" selection thingie, the previous paragraph finishes with a lone 'what' so you might want to tidy that up 😜

@GrailUK they cannot go higher than 160 million since it's on record that they didn't manufacture more than 160.2 million, apparently they made a video (in characteristic Sony hubris) stamping the final console they made with the number so it's not possible to increase the number further than that. Wouldn't put it past them to create a "mini" PS2 in an effort to inflate the numbers further of course 😜

Also petition to rename @dartmonkey Birt, when?

When Birt was talking about sweetmeats I genuinely thought he meant offal, turns out I was very much mistaken there 😅

@Eel English not being your first language is probably the barrier here, especially with anything using r sounds since English is quite unique in how we pronounce them. Most of the rest of the world (or at least in languages in which the sound actually appears, many use L sounds as a substitute instead) use either the tip of the tongue to "trill" the r sound or it's in the back of the throat to make a more gutteral sound, both are known as "rolling" your Rs in English and a great many native speakers struggle with it... though the trill can still be heard in the Old Hollywood "Transatlantic" accent that some older (usually posh) people still use.
The r sound in English is mostly formed using a depressed tongue shifting the sound towards the centre of the mouth while squeezing the esophagus and partly pursing your lips, it's quite unusual linguistically speaking (or at least that's what the person whose video I watched said! 😅) and it's part of a generational shift away from the other ways of saying the sound. It's similar to how people tend to say a ch sound for words beginning with t such as tuna and tune, most young (southern) English people will say choon instead of pronouncing the t and certainly don't bother making a point of including the you sound unless they're trying to sound like the queen. Anyway I've rambled on enough for now, linguistics is cool yo

@Eel English plays fast and loose with grammar, what can I say. You would never in a million years make a ch sound when pronouncing Christmas lest everyone around you think you'd gone mad, even calling someone named Tristan's birthday "Tristmas" would sound odd.

I'm not an etymologist but there are a bunch of words with ancient greek roots what begin with a ch yet are pronounced with a k sound, words like character, chorus, the aforementioned chaos etc where a ch sound would sound very weird. I think it's probably the interaction of Greek, Latin, French, and German within English that has made this strange situation but as I said earlier English just does it that way for some reason. Probably all the invasions and then all the invading

Hey @Olliemar28 this article isn't appearing on your main page for some reason, thought I'd let you know. Had to find it by scrolling back to last week and clicking the UK chart tag from the previous article posted on Friday

@fenlix because they only track physical sales in the UK

@Patendo the root word is Greek so you should use a kh sound, same as for chaotic and Christmas

@_fatto_katto_ yes but it's quite an unusual one, most people do not pronounce chasm with a ch sound like he does.

@AlanaHagues that's a shame, as a Nintendo only gamer I hadn't even heard of it until it popped up on my Switch's news feed and was hoping to hear about it from nl but I do understand how difficult it must be to cover everything when there is so much being released each month.
Please consider reviewing it if there is any spare capacity in the coming weeks before XCX:DE drops 😉

@AlanaHagues any idea why Ultros hasn't been reviewed? I'm curious why a seemingly decent game with striking visuals garnered zero attention on this site

I am so ready, can't come quickly enough!

I actually think the controls on the Wii are a VAST improvement compared to traditional controller options, they felt like you were actually wielding a brush rather than desperately trying to contort a joystick to get the right shape

@HeadPirate omg don't get me started on Trek "fans" hating the new shows, no-one (and I mean this quite literally) hates Star Trek as much as Star Trek fans!

@RupeeClock crikey that sounds like a nightmare! Thanks for explaining 🙂

@JohnnyMind in my experience the game sinks its hooks into you way before the difficulty spikes so it's not like you're smashing yourself into the difficulty wall for no reason or anything, it truly is a wonderful game

@JohnnyMind you really should play Hollow Knight before you decide to buy SilkSong, the game isn't for everyone and can test the patience of even the most die hard Souls-like fan. If you can make your fingers do that "muscle memory" thing where you hardly even need to think about the controls then you'll have a whale of a time, I struggled with some of the late game bosses (and that's not even mentioning the post-game pantheons!) but my desire to see the multiple endings dragged me through eventually... even if not for that final best ending 😅

@RupeeClock what does ARG mean? I looked it up and I can't imagine why would a picture of a cake would imply an alternate reality game... Pls explain, I am confusion!

Why is this app not on the Switch itself? Excuse my ignorance if it is but wouldn't it be a perfect addition to the NSO offerings

@HammerGalladeBro I think it's because they can't do like a third of a percent, I'm sure I read a comment explaining that once

@MirrorFate2 you can actually see the bones of what they originally planned to include at the end of the game but had to cut, I hope they will use those shelved ideas in the sequel because I always felt like there was something missing

@Vyacheslav333 there's a trash can icon next to every entry on your wishlist, you don't need to open the game's page to remove it just click on the trash can icon. It's very simple

@Purgatorium is this another 'skimpy bikini removed from 13 year old character's costume list' a la Xenoblade Chronicles X?

@BTB20 please see comments above to understand what I mean, they aren't figures reported in official company records and don't even match the numbers on another one of their own websites

@Folkloner @sunnyboy top tier comments, @Liam_Doolan this needs to be an investigative feature! 😜

I don't consider this to be "officially confirming" the 160 million figure, it's merely some tech guy popping Jim Ryan's claim on this website to give it a false sense of authority. Only when Sony's company reports list the figure will I believe it.

@Vyacheslav333 I don't think that's possible since I read that their company records state they only manufactured 161 million of them, though I wasn't actually able to find proof of this claim only an article stating it as fact

@IceEarthGuard you are wrong I'm afraid, @BANJO is correct. The only way this would be the Switch's 7th year on the market is if you ignore the fact that 2017-18 was its 1st.