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@steventonysmith I already did. I tweeted a link to Nintendo UK. Gotta be honest I really hope they drop the hammer on them.

@kingofthesofa That's precisely the thing that annoys me the most when I hear complaints about the lack of a Virtual Console. One look at any weekly sales chart for Wii U or 3DS and it should be obvious that if there were a VC for Switch indies would never have found the success that they did, and that the Switch wouldn't be where it is now, which is arguably the best place to play indie games. If NintendoLife publishes a "Soapbox: The Lack of a Virtual Console Has Made The Switch Nindie Heaven" I might start taking them seriously again, but until then I can only hope Nintendo UK sees them advocating piracy and responds accordingly.

I swear

I can't even.

The original has the greatest morph ball power up in the history of gaming.

@JaxonH If you're going to assume such a glib tone about sexual assault I can only assume you don't have a daughter, or a sister, or a wife, or a girlfriend, or a mom, or any woman in your life whatsoever.

@JaxonH "Don't like someone? Just make an allegation and be willing to put up with hundreds of death threats."

FTFY

@waluigifan1 Now I see why you think Super Mario Party isn't Mario-Party enough--you have absolutely no idea how to evaluate software.

One question: have you ever been to Sligo, Ireland?

@MaSSiVeRiCaN I guarantee that they are not willing to lose money just to keep a promise. What I'm guessing happened is that they began the process with the hope of making a profit but eventually discovered that they'd both underestimated the costs involved and overestimated the sales they'd get. They're going to lose money, but at this point they can't change their decision to begin. What they can do is to decide whether or not to continue, and clearly they feel that they'll sell enough to cover the costs to finish, which will recoup some (though not all) of the money, while canceling means they recoup nothing. It's basic business. Any line about keeping their word is just PR for those who might fall for it. So don't worry; if you support this game you're not supporting bad decision making.

@Agramonte Those are quite some mental gymnastics, claiming that reviews are context-dependent "snapshots in time", seemingly all to avoid admitting that quality is price-independent. Note that I never argued price wasn't important, just that its importance did not matter to reviews.

I love when people like @waluigifan1 think they know more about what makes a Mario Party game than Nintendo. It reminds me of all the Metroid fanboys who thought they knew better than Tanabe.

@Agramonte Do you believe sites should adjust their scores after a price drop?

@Agramonte Something can be worth it at $19 but not $50, but at either price it's either good or it's not. Right now I'm playing Dishonored 2 that I bought on eBay for $10. Do you honestly believe my experience of the game is different than if I'd paid $60 at launch? The decision to buy is all about expectations, but once that decision is made what was spent has no influence on the experience. A review which focuses on the experience will accordingly ignore price. What it will do is to allow the reader to better form expectations, who will then use the additional information of price to make the purchase decision.

@Chrismakem If people are saying price is an important part of the review, they're wrong, because they don't understand what a review is. Cheaper doesn't make a game better. Cheaper will make the game more worth buying, because that's true of every economic good. Quality and price, though both contributing to a person's decision to buy, are independent of each other, and accordingly reviews should ignore price.

@Chrismakem Why? Price has nothing to do with the quality of the game.

@thesilverbrick Why not just keep the 128 gb card, get a 200 gb card, use them both, and save yourself a bunch of money?

I see @Cobalt is insisting that there's nothing to play on Switch because he doesn't play indies, plays multiplatform games elsewhere, and doesn't like current first party titles like Aces again. I wonder when he'll realize his circumstances aren't everyone else's.

@Galenmereth Perhaps we should see what basic first-order predicate logic says.

@Galenmereth I did some research. Turns out that "free elsewhere" is not a valid reason for expecting a service to be free.

@Galenmereth They want us to pay because corporations are entitled to charge for services provided. That they previously chose not to charge is no argument that they must never charge.

I like that they're confident enough to announce that the sequel is coming to Switch before they see how the original does. I'm excited for the original, and if it meets my expectations I'll be excited for this too.

@WiltonRoots These comments make me want to stop visiting this website and fill my time with something else. Playing more games comes to mind.

@turntSNACO The Switch has a browser-style app specifically to allow signing in on public Wi-Fi.

@electrolite77 Because people will change the time and date settings. Actually they won't, but it's more likely than them being away from WiFi for more than a week. This is a total non-issue.

@frodouk What Microsoft did wasn't anything like this. Microsoft wanted constant internet for the console to work at all. This is an occasional check for a handful of games. It's not even close to similar.

@Medic_alert Once in more than a million is close enough to never.

Can't wait for the barrage of hot takes explaining how this makes Nintendo the Evilist Corporation Ever.

@Medic_alert Any plane that takes you to those exotic places has Wi-Fi. If you don't have a Wi-fi-enabled plane you'll be landing in some place like Peoria.

@Medic_alert So connect to the airplane Wi-Fi. Or the airport Wi-Fi. Or the hotel Wi-Fi. Or the Starbucks Wi-Fi. Or one of literally hundreds of Internet connections that are available. For instance.

@maruse @justin233 That's the thing. He got banned at GoNintendo too. I have no idea where he's melting down right now, and I really want to see it.

I wish SLIGEACH_EIRE were here to have a total meltdown.

@Mars If I'm wrong feel free to correct me, but as I understand it devs can't opt out on PS4 or X1, which suggests that the implementation of a system by the platform holder makes it mandatory, which is just silly. Considering I've played Switch games with achievements devs clearly have the option to do it themselves, which is all I'm saying should be the way things are.

And if you find getting a bronze trophy for, I dunno, slipping on ten banana peels to be memorable, well, you do you.

@Mars I don't get why people think a platform holder should mandate achievements. They add nothing to gameplay, and they add to replayability artificially. If you like them, fine, but they should be optional, at the developer's discretion.

The email I got mentioned managing eShop content. Perhaps purchases will now be tied to accounts.

Dear NintendoLife:

College football has games, not matches.

@Gold_Ranger Bigotry-filled comment.

These look fantastic, but (with rare exceptions) amiibo satisfy my collecting urges and I'm able to resist other figures, protecting my wallet from more damage than it already takes.

@JoeyJoey95 There are a few other people I can think of that stopped commenting abruptly, leading me to believe they were banned as well. If so, it was good work by the mods; if not, well, them leaving has made the site better regardless.

@Not_Soos My Switch is also collecting dust. Because it just sits there while I'm using it.

@KingdomHeartsFan If his profile is still live, that's a site programming issue. Both the mods here and him there have said he's banned.

@BlueOcean To call him very critical is quite the understatement. And he provided charts simply for the recognition. At GN there are three people who post stories. RMC, who runs the site, thanks people who send in links by name; the other two don't. He once basically said that not being thanked by name was an insult, and vowed to never send in anything else while RMC wasn't running things. He really should be running his own site. Not that anyone would go there.

@Razer He got banned for the same reason he got banned here--the site decided they'd had enough of him. Just like here he: a) had a set of complaints that he insisted upon repeating every day, b) would report anybody for anything that looked like trolling, no matter how innocuous or playful, c) would call people liars when they disputed him, and d) would occasionally attack the people who ran the site. He once accused someone there of invading his privacy by...quoting something he'd written here, as though searching for something posted publicly were an egregious offense. He's great for people who enjoy trolling. For sites trying to prevent trolling, not so much.

@Pod I'd say head over to GoNintendo, but he just got banned there, too. I'll admit, I kinda want to know where he appears next.

@EightBitMan I wonder how you got so far down the rabbit hole with your obsession with Nintendo. You seriously could use counseling.

@Agramonte Decide for yourself how credible the source is as a tease.

https://nintendoeverything.com/child-of-light-ii-might-be-happening/

@Agramonte I will grant that 4x provides less information than an actual sales number; what flabbergasts me is that you seem to believe that it provides zero information. That is simply untrue. It is not meaningless.

@Agramonte An odd narrative you insist on pushing, the alleged meaninglessness of fractions. Of all the things to be bothered by this is among the most curious.

@EightBitMan Dude, you're trolling at four in the morning, which makes you unbelievably pathetic. Just go to bed.

@Spoony_Tech I'm completely uninterested in the game, but that's only because I'm disinterested in anything Final Fantasy these days, preferring instead the approach Square is taking with Bravely and Octopath. You are absolutely correct, though, in the parallels with Federation Force; the hate has the same source and is just as unwarranted.

@F1R3F1Y You clearly just don't get it. Mocking people sending thoughts and prayers is fine when the target is, for example, a Republican senator who refuses to take any action in the wake of continued gun violence, like the shooting in Cincinnati today. Mocking people with an emotional connection to a place, even though they've almost certainly never been there, is not fine, unless you believe being an [redacted] is fine.

@BLD I wasn't escalating a conversation, I was calling a spade a spade. This isn't a debate over whether or not Nintendo should air the Direct; this is some people understanding their decision, and some people not. The more you go on the more I place you in the latter category.