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Getting a bit tired of seeing games rip off Breath of the Wild's literal opening cinematic and then just not bother coming to Switch, it feels disrespectful for some reason?

X has hands down the best music (barring one or two awful exceptions) in the whole series, I still put Sylvalum's theme on when I need something soft and epic to listen to in the background

@TYRANACLES no judgment, just surprised is all. Guess I was quite lucky to be able to play games on the family home computer since it was certainly no technical marvel, though I can't say these game were particularly demanding either haha

@TYRANACLES that shocks me, the Settlers was huge in the 90s! RTS (and turn based) strategy games were a big deal back then, Populous, Age of Empires, Civ, and the Settlers all made a splash though I must admit being a teenager at the time and into the genre I may be showing some confirmation bias here haha

When I tell you I had a misspent youth playing RTS games like the Settlers III and Populous it is no exaggeration, I am both overjoyed and terrified by this announcement. Ho boy am I ready for the RTS revival!

@prismt the UK is football land, it's the national obsession for a majority of the population. Sadly.

@threeboy edit: apologies, it seems I was misinformed.

@KindofaBigDeal ah ok I didn't realise digital was included in the previous article's sales total. Are digital sales tracked in Japan then? I know Nintendo rarely releases digital sales numbers, preferring to just confirm "total" sales including/excluding digital.

Hang on I thought I read that they'd had the biggest launch this year so far? These numbers don't correlate with that fact 🤔

@Markiemania95 but you said Gamefreak own the IP, which isn't the full story. They could easily be stripped of the right to make Pokémon games if Nintendo decided to buy their share of TPC.

Sales of this level for games with such egregious flaws is never a good thing, I only hope Nintendo will acknowledge the controversy and do something about it. I want to like Pokémon again!

@Markiemania95 that's a bit of an over simplification of the ownership arrangements, the Pokémon Company hold the IP and distribution rights but not the rights to the actual Pokémon designs which are owned by Creatures Inc. I'm not entirely sure what bargaining chips Gamefreak hold but they do own approximately a third of TPC along with Nintendo and Creatures. It's a very complex arrangement

@CrossingCrafts I did enjoy, very much. Though you have my deepest sympathy for all the pain you went through to complete it haha
Would love to see you add the little shops and other details in future!

@CrossingCrafts I love watching videos like this so I'm so happy to be introduced to your channel and I look forward to watching all your videos!

@Cia aren't these awards voted on by the general public? Unfortunately that means they amount to nothing more than a popularity contest and with Xenoblade -masterpiece though it is- being a fairly niche property it was never going to win.

Really enjoyed Alex's video, he articulated my feelings on modern Pokémon games so brilliantly.

@Narrator1 you know, you got me there! 😂
I was a child when I played Blue though and those glitches were nowhere near as intrusive, plus being on the Gameboy you kinda expected some jank... Gamefreak have just consistently proven themselves to be incapable of higher def game development and it's become impossible for me to ignore, they fooled me once with Shield but they won't fool me twice.

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@Dr_Lugae YAAAASS QUEEN give us nothing! My god your standards are low.

@Dr_Lugae I'm glad you can enjoy the low effort, full price dren Gamefreak squeezes out every year but don't deny reality. I've seen too many examples of awful awful performance which should never be allowed to appear in a 1st party Nintendo game.

@Dr_Lugae no thanks, I prefer my full price games to be finished and fully bug tested 🤷🏼‍♂️

Pokémon fans to Gamefreak: YAAAASS QUEEN, give us nothing!

@larryisaman I was gonna say Gamefreak wouldn't bother even making a game if it was only gonna sell 2 million copies but then I remembered that bucket of dren they released a few years ago... Little Town Hero was it? Well anyway that sold nothing and they still poached their top developers from Sword & Shield in order to get that crud out of the gate 🤷🏼‍♂️

@BloodyMurder Sword & Shield sold well over 20 million copies compared to Xenoblade 2's ~2 million, I'm sure I don't need to run the calculations for you to prove it's approximately a buttload more 😅

Edit: over 24 million, actually. Enough that the games ought not to release in an alpha state 🤦🏼‍♂️

@Jeronan I saw someone comment on YouTube about how the engine is full of useless junk code, loads of repeating sections and stuff they obviously didn't have time to remove. It wouldn't surprise me if all the problems/glitches are a result of trying to use the same engine as before to save time but with the increased overworld size it brought all these additional issues, kinda like how the game tries to render everything all at once rather than having optimisation to make far off objects low Res to ease the load...

Gamefreak have never been any good at optimization but on a console like the Switch (and with their obvious ambitions to enter the open-world space) they really need to give their games more time in development, because I doubt Nintendo will continue to let them stink up the building with their half baked efforts for much longer.

@Zequio omg same 😆

@maxisingh05 pokerus didn't exist until gold/silver

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika the amount of people who will care about this is vanishingly small compared to the total userbase, so I bet it was an oversight rather than a deliberate removal.

I warn everyone to watch some videos of this game before purchasing, the jank is STRONG in this one.

@nocdaes there was news recently about how Switch has only just overtaken the Xbox One in the UK, dunno if that helps figure out a total install base?

Edit: yep the article was from the 4th, also it confirmed the Switch hasn't even overtaken the PS3 here yet! If ever proof were needed that the UK is PlayStation territory here be it.

@RupeeClock could you not do that trick where you create a user based in the US so you can access their eshop and download the code?

@Ralizah I don't need your pity, I have my beloved gift of friendship as reward!

@Nicolai I've done it twice! 😅
1st time back at release on Wii U, then I managed to find a Switch exclusive limited edition randomly out in the wild so I played that version on master mode. 100% completing everything is only possible with guides because trying to find 900 korok seeds without help... well, therein lies insanity haha but all the side quests and locations etc I found by myself.

ONI is tickling my weeb bone for sure, gonna have to keep an eye on that one. Aka looks super cute and cozy too, all in all a fairly enjoyable presentation.

@gcunit why did it annoy you so much? Genuinely curious, nothing about it seemed offensive to me?

@iLikeUrAttitude I'm going to stop explaining myself as it's clear you're only interested in understanding your own viewpoint, the first link you posted literally included the words "despite production increasing" and if you're unwilling to understand that I don't know what else to say.
You can be as dismissive as you like to everyone else but I won't be reading it in future.

Wonder if that's why the eshop is down today?

@roy130390 it's still not good enough, imo. I've long since gone past the notion that Gamefreak will ever put enough effort into their games to make them worth the price, I've been playing Pokémon for far too long to keep seeing the barest incremental change of such a hugely successful series. It's stagnant and I loathe so much of what they do now, but I realise it will always be a minority opinion amongst the fanbase at large who are mostly happy to just play another slightly different Pokémon game 🤷🏼‍♂️

@IronMan30 oh I thought your comment was making fun of the controversy around the trees in Sword & Shield, so I made a joke about the terrible clockwork windmill animation they showed in the trailers a while ago.

@IronMan30 it's the windmill this time, do try to keep up.

And this is why Gamefreak will never make better games, why bother when people buy them in these numbers. I'm glad the scales fell from my eyes years ago, no more expensive crushing disappointments for me!

@iLikeUrAttitude yeah I still don't think you're reading my comments how I intended but I'm not quite sure how much plainer I can be, I definitely didn't mean the part you said was about 'Nintendo holding stock back' to be read in that way...
This:
"Nintendo have been known to lie about their hardware plans, they're secretive to a fault and I guarantee they will drop the Switch like a stone once they decide sales aren't up to snuff."
Doesn't mean that Nintendo are holding anything back, it means they keep their future hardware plans extremely secret to the point where on one occasion they claimed they had no plans to release a new console only to release one a week later. We even know they deliberately hold games back from release when they want to bulk up their schedule.
Also if changing your chip from one size to another isn't a redesign I don't know any other way to describe it!

Those links you sent confirmed what I said about production capacity increasing in the sector so I think we've got a case of miscommunication here mostly, we broadly agree on the majority of the moving parts but where we disagree is on how it'll all shake out. Probably have to agree to disagree on that one and come back in a few weeks when we see what happens haha

What do you say, shall we wait and see and continue the debate once the next big news drops?

@iLikeUrAttitude sorry I didn't reply yesterday, I had a busy day and didn't have the time to look everything up.

I'm not misinformed and your assumption that I've just pulled all this out of my rear end is totally unfair, I have read plenty of articles on the subject and though I'm no expert I certainly do not appreciate you insinuating that I'm completely inept and incapable of research. I think I'm just not articulating myself in a way that you understand which is easily done in a form bereft of tone and nuance like text, but I'll try to explain myself a bit better...

When I said the PS5 had a redesign it was perhaps a poor choice of words, Sony were reported to have moved to new 6nm AMD chipset in an effort to avoid the backlogs with the previous chip:
https://hothardware.com/news/sonys-playstation-5-gets-lighter-to-streamline-production
This is what I meant by "basically over", the nuance of which you have missed entirely. We are not in the same environment now as we were when the chip shortage started, COVID-19 is less of an issue and the production capacity of chip manufacturers has increased but what is still causing issue is backlogs and lead times. Prices are increasing because businesses are paying more to get their chips before everyone else and Nintendo are unwilling to do this, I have also read that Nvidia have phased out (or are about to phase out) the older chips the Switch uses and so Nintendo can't get hold of them in bulk like they need to without spending significant sums on chips that they may well be planning on moving away from in the next 12 months:
https://uk.pcmag.com/migrated-84555-gaming/132197/report-nvidia-to-end-production-of-nintendo-switch-tegra-chip
I can't find anything more recent on that subject from my very brief Google search but I can't remember where I read about it as I get gaming news from so many sources.

I'm not sure where you got the part about assuming they're holding back stock because I didn't think I said anything about that, but on the subject Nintendo categorically do hold back stock shipments in order to build supply for big releases. It's a common retail tactic, they want as many consoles available for the release of Pokémon as possible so holding back shipments to retailers is totally logical.

I genuinely think you've misinterpreted a lot of what I said in my comments, but ultimately I guess my point is that you shouldn't just assume everyone else is speaking from a place of ignorance when almost no-one bar Nintendo's executives know the whole story here. We all read headlines and articles that get shown to us by algorithms so everyone's view of the situation will be slightly different, this is why I try to keep the language in my comments explicitly differentiated between facts and opinions and I try not to blatantly dismiss others' when I know I don't have the full picture.

@iLikeUrAttitude you've misinterpreted a lot of what I said but I'm too tired to explain right now, tbc tomorrow haha

@Axecon this is my point, as we approach 120 million(!) units sold we have to anticipate market saturation is almost here. Which isn't to say the Switch isn't wildly successful, only that Nintendo will be watching sales numbers extremely closely to figure out when exactly to pull the trigger on whatever's next.

@iLikeUrAttitude thank you for the apology, I appreciate it. Quite why you're so aggrieved by someone postulating the reveal of Nintendo's next console, I'll never know. I'm not making bad faith arguments I'm simply discussing what I know and what I believe will happen in the future, something no-one knows for certain no matter how convinced they are of their arguments. Sorry if this sounds patronising, it's not intended to be.

The chip shortage is basically over now, what we have now are companies unwilling to pay to bypass their own stock shortages. Nintendo has basically ceased Switch lite production because they either cannot or will not purchase the necessary components, I presume they don't want to buy the large bulk of components they would need because they know they wouldn't be able to sell them and buying smaller numbers would make production costs too high... Nintendo never sells a console at a loss after all. I strongly believe this is why the lite is supply constrained and why we've seen lower sales numbers in Japan, Sony got past their chip issues with a redesign (I think, can't quite remember the exact details of the article I read) so I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that Nintendo will do similarly and move onto a new chipset via new hardware. I can't give you any concrete evidence but the articles I've read lately (and various stats from the industry) lead me to this conclusion.

Nintendo have been known to lie about their hardware plans, they're secretive to a fault and I guarantee they will drop the Switch like a stone once they decide sales aren't up to snuff. Even the hugely successful Wii didn't make it past its 6th birthday, the GameCube and Wii U lasted even less time than that so I really don't think these questions are unfounded. I have no skin in this game either, I'm happy with the games coming out at the moment on Switch and I couldn't afford a new console even if there was one; I'm just a video game nerd (well, Nintendo nerd) and I think it's fun to debate the future of my favourite gaming company.

@iLikeUrAttitude bit harsh! It's not delusion, I've noticed frequent sales dips over the past month or so and I'm just trying to figure out when Nintendo will act. Despite what they say Nintendo rarely supports a console that doesn't make decent sales numbers, though with the fact the Switch is their only console they may act differently this time... I'm just thinking out loud, no need for the rudeness.

@iLikeUrAttitude I do think it's time to ask some questions about how much longer the Switch will last, it is nearly 6 years old after all and we still have no idea when a successor might emerge.
I think as Sony makes further progress getting PS5 units actually out there in Japan we'll see Switch sales impress less and less, and if the Pokémon edition fails to significantly boost numbers Nintendo will likely take that as a signal that next year is the year to announce the next console... or at least start hyping it up. Personally I think it's too late for a "pro" revision and I believe Nintendo has likely shifted any tech developed for it onto the successor.

@darkswabber probably because he's always described as being the first westerner to design an official Pokémon, people just assume that means American 🤷🏼‍♂️

@darkswabber James Turner is British, FYI.

@FX29 that's useful info, thanks!