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@_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.

@JimNorman is there something going on with the UK charts at the moment? Two Mondays in a row now we've not had any reports posted ☹️

@JimNorman no UK charts this week? Desperate to see how M&L and Jamboree are doing!

OMGGGGGGG 🤯😍😍😍
I had no idea there was even an anime! I'm so excited by all this, Sakuna was amazing. So many great announcements lately 🎉🥳🎊

If the OG Switch sells this many units every week it will pass the 20 million mark in less than 4 months, considering its age and the fact that the OLED is so popular this is astonishing!

@LikelySatan edit: so I wanted to double check the veracity of my little factoid and turns out I was mistaken, guess that is what you get for reading internet comment sections and not checking something before you pass it on 😅

@NintendoWife it's definitely its own beast, less story driven and more exploration heavy than the numbered sequels, however there are also series standards that are just quintessentially "Xenoblade" so I think it's a good entry into the franchise. Barring one or two infamous clunkers the music in X is sublime, I used to just roam the enormous world listening to the music because it is so amazing... the Noctilum and Sylvalum biome themes in particular are spectacular!
I envy newcomers to the series because this really is the most underrated game of the Wii U era and you're in for a treat!

This announcement has given me a reason to look forward to something after the death of my sister this March, I was dreading the anniversary and as much as I know it will still be incredibly difficult at least Nintendo has given me this dream come true distraction ❤️

@Shepdawg1 agreed! I don't think it'll happen but it's the last game I really want to come to Switch

@Geit_de that's what I thought, testing their capacity to bring the MMO stuff from XCX to Switch on a larger scale than what was on Wii U

Literally don't notice which is weird because I definitely noticed in the Link's Awakening port, though I was not particularly bothered.

Didn't vote in the second pool because it wasn't an option to say that I noticed but didn't care.

Super helpful, thanks @AlanaHagues

@axelhander what? Now I know you're just trolling.

@axelhander I don't appreciate your inference that I'm dumb based on an erroneous assumption that I've watched a video when I've no idea to whom or what you're referring. You are wrong here, generative AI models take artworks created by human artists and use them to "learn" how to recreate those styles in different ways. I have several artist friends who have had their art stolen in this way and it absolutely is theft, the model's purpose is to take the human creative out of the equation therefore you're stealing the years that artist has spent honing their craft. Genuinely do not understand your position on this, if you create an artwork you own it, it's very simple.

@ChromaticDracula did you find out about the physical cart? Definitely interested in picking it up physically 🙂

@axelhander I won't disagree that AI can be an incredible tool for good, however there are different kinds of AI and the excellent tools aren't the ones being used here... GenAI models are built on mass scale art theft (current AI techbros are trying to argue than anything posted publicly on the internet is fair game with incredible disregard to copyright and ownership law) and using them to generate assets as they have done here is simply stealing from enough people to smoosh enough parts together to get something out the other end that looks vaguely original.
Machine learning to aid in disease detection, AI processed upscaling, these are useful applications for the tech but unfortunately the worst people in society are actively pushing AI to replace artists and I really don't think that's ok

@GravyThief I came to say something similar, AI currently has such a broad meaning it's partly useless in actually explaining what's going on. AI being used to upgrade textures during a remaster of an old game? Brilliant time saver for time-pressed devs. Generative AI models used to supplant real life human artists and create art assets for corporations who don't want to pay for human creativity? Awful product of late-stage capitalism where the never ending quest for higher profits enshittifies everything around us... and probable copyright theft depending on the model used.

(Edit: AI can also be used in other settings that I didn't think were necessary to mention, but the data processing gravy thief spoke about is an excellent use of AI in medicine for things like cancer detection. Machine learning can be put to excellent use where humans could not hope to compete, it's the creative arts where AI has to steal from unwilling creators in order to concoct an amalgamation from the pieces where I think the profit motive is currently pushing the tech in order to get in on the creative pie without any of the necessary skills or dedication)

@PinballBuzzbro level 5 is not a Nintendo owned developer

@axelhander generative AI models aren't inventing anything, they're fed stolen artworks (by huge numbers of unknown artists who were never asked if they agreed for their property to be used in such a way) scraped from the internet by shady developers. GenAI is theft, simple. Plus it has enormous environmental costs as a result of the processing power required, Google's emissions rocketed by either 50% or 150% (sorry I can't remember which is the right figure) solely due to the increased consumption needed to run their AI programs

@Gryffin these aren't copyright lawsuits, patent infringement is nothing to do with plagiarism

@Savage_Joe looks like Nintendo and TPC disagree with your assessment

@JohnnyMind looks like you spoke too soon! 😅

@CaleBoi25 omg can you imagine a Sidon amiibo? 😍😍😍 (And I guess Riju too 😅)

@SoIDecidedTo I think that highlights how tricolour matches don't work in their current form, if you're on the same team within the match then you shouldn't be able to splat each other. I don't much enjoy the concept in general but it just seems ridiculous to have 4 players from one team and two players each from the other two, it's a recipe for poor outcomes in my experience. Or maybe I'm just not good 😅

As the son of a farmer and a sometime professional gardener I can confirm farm-sims bear little to no resemblance to real life farming and only a passing familiarity to hobbyist gardening 😜

@8bitKirby these are UK charts on a UK based website, if you're not interested why bother clicking?

Now I need a horseback Zelda amiibo please Nintendo!

@Sephazon are you aware of the round enemy in the burrows that sometimes gets stuck in an invincible state? There's a locked room you can't escape where I got stuck when he was the last enemy left and I couldn't kill him but I had recently saved anyway so it was easy to reset, I just thought I'd mention it as it happened to the same enemy elsewhere so it must be a bug with all of them. Nothing serious but worth patching out if possible, it's quite an achievement that that is the only problem I've found in two playthroughs!

If anyone's curious about the egg, imagine Hollow Knight's delicate flower quest mixed with the path of pain... thankfully it's mercifully short and totally optional but was absolutely one of the times I turned the game speed all the way down to slowest 😆

@Sephazon omg I have to tell you I love this game so much! I hope it's been a success for you, but if you don't do something about that unexplained ending I won't be happy! 😜